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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for recreation in the Canterbury Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act; and such reserve shall hereafter be known as Sheldon Park Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain.

SCHEDULE.

SHELDON PARK DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres, more or less, being part of Rural Section 243A, and now Reserve 3881 (in red), situate in Blocks III and VII, Christchurch Survey District, commencing at a point on the east side of the North Road, the same being distant 1850 links south-west from the north-west corner of Rural Section 243A, and being a rectangular block of land 1250 links by 650 links, having a frontage of 650 links to the aforesaid road; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1493, and deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Order in Council fixing Dues and Rates for Wharves in Waipu River, and fixing other Dues in lieu thereof.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of May, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE T. MACKENZIE, F.R.G.S., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 99, of the sixteenth day of the same month, dues and rates were prescribed for the wharves in the Waipu River which are vested in the Waipu River Board (hereinafter called “the Board”):

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the said dues and rates, and to prescribe others in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the thirteenth section of the Harbours Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the dues and rates set forth in the Schedule to the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of the fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and five, and doth hereby prescribe that the dues and rates set forth in the Schedule hereto shall be charged and taken by the Board for the use of the said wharves or either of them.

SCHEDULE.

1. THE owner, master, consignee, or agent of every vessel other than oil-launches trading regularly to the port and shipping or discharging cargo shall pay the sum of fifteen pounds (£15) quarterly, in advance.

2. The owner, master, consignee, or agent of every vessel other than oil-launches not trading regularly to the port for the shipment or discharge of cargo shall pay the sum of two pounds (£2) for each and every trip made by such vessel.

3. The owner, master, consignee, or agent of every oil-launch trading to the port for the shipment or discharge of cargo shall pay the sum of ten shillings (10s.) for each and every trip made by such oil-launch.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £20,000 proposed to be raised by the One-tree Hill Road Board.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of May, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE T. MACKENZIE, F.R.G.S., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the One-tree Hill Road Board lately proposed to raise a loan of twenty thousand pounds under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its amendments, for the purpose of drainage-works within the said road district: And whereas the notice of intention to raise the loan, although published once in each week for four successive weeks, was not published in one and the same newspaper for each of the said four successive weeks as required by section eight of the above-named Act:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularities, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers conferred by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and section seven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Amendment Act, 1910, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the said public notifications of the intention to raise the loan shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as though the same had been properly published, and that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting Foreshore at New Brighton in the Corporation of the Borough.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of May, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE T. MACKENZIE, F.R.G.S., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section seventy-eight of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1910 (hereinafter called “the said Act”) that the Governor in Council may vest the land described in the said section in the Corporation of the Borough of New Brighton, subject to the condition set forth in the said section:

And whereas the Borough Council has agreed with Charles Havelock Agar that, upon the said land being vested in it, it will grant him a renewal for a period of seven years of the license for the site on which the New Brighton Pier stands:

And whereas this meets the requirement of the condition hereinbefore recited:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby vest the land described in the Schedule hereto in the Corporation of the Borough of New Brighton, its successors and assigns.

SCHEDULE.

So much of the area covered by the tidal waters of the estuary of the River Avon as lies between the actual channel of the River Avon at low water and the road fronting Reserve 224, Sections 3954, 30462, 23574, and Reserve 1579, together with all the foreshore extending from the southernmost boundary of said Reserve 224 to the northernmost boundary of Section 17573; all in Blocks II and I, Sumner Survey District, and Blocks XII and VIII, Christchurch Survey District, in the Land