JUNE 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1913

defendant or defendants, or, if the costs of the successful defendant or defendants shall be awarded against the plaintiff or plaintiffs, may order such costs to be paid by the unsuccessful defendant to the plaintiff or plaintiffs. This rule shall not in any respect limit or qualify any other power which the Court has or may have to award costs.

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

Setting apart Land under the Workers' Dwellings Act, 1910.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE GEO. LAURENSON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by section three of the Workers' Dwellings Act, 1910, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby set apart the Crown land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of the Workers' Dwellings Act, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 1 rood 27·8 perches, more or less, being Crown land at Westshore, Block IV, Heretaunga Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a road-line, a distance of 200 links; towards the north-east by a road-line, a distance of 711·8 links; towards the south-east by a road-line, a distance of 200 links; and towards the south-west by Charles Road, a distance of 711·8 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

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

Validating an Irregularity in the Procedure taken by the Pukekura Road Board to raise a Loan of £2,625 to pay the Board's Share of the Cost of the High-level Bridge at Cambridge.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE GEO. LAURENSON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Pukekura Road Board lately proposed to raise a loan of £2,625 for the purpose of paying the Board's contribution towards the cost of constructing the high-level bridge over the Waikato River at Cambridge under the New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act, 1909:

And whereas the special orders authorizing the raising of the loan and levying a special rate in respect thereof, although published once in each of four weeks, were not published once in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the day on which the subsequent meeting to confirm those special orders was held, as required by section seventy-two of the Road Boards Act, 1908:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the district have not been misled by such irregularity:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and twenty-one of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, as amended by 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 validate the said special orders as though they had been properly published; and doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings relative thereto shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Vesting Land in a Maori Land Board under the Provisions of Part XIV of the Native Land Act, 1909.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1912.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE GEO. LAURENSON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and fifty-two of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that, on the confirmation of any such resolution as is referred to in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of section three hundred and forty-six of that Act, the Governor may, if he thinks fit, by Order in Council vest the land affected by the resolution in the Maori Land Board of the district in which the land is situated: and the land shall thereupon become subject to Part XIV of that Act, and all the provisions of that Part shall apply thereto accordingly in the same manner as if all of that land had been set aside for leasing in the case of a resolution within the said paragraph (a), or for sale in the case of a resolution within the said paragraph (b):

And whereas by a resolution within the said paragraph (a) of the said section three hundred and forty-six, passed by the assembled owners and duly confirmed by the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board, it was resolved that the land set out in the Schedule hereto be vested in the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board under Part XIV of the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that the said land should be so vested:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in him by the aforesaid section three hundred and fifty-two, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby vest the land specified in the Schedule hereto in the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board for leasing, under the provisions of Part XIV of the Native Land Act, 1909.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land, situate in the Wainuioru Survey District, containing 626 acres, more or less, being part of the land known as Oruatamore Subdivisions 1 and part 2, being part of Lot 1 of Original Sections 2 and 3, Block XII, Wainuioru Survey District, and being part of the land contained in Land Transfer Title, Vol. 141, folio 10. Bounded towards the north by other portion of Lot 2, 14310·8 links; towards the east generally by Sections 3 and 6, Block VI, Kaiwhata Survey District, 4870·9 links; towards the south by Pachuia Subdivision 3, being part of Lot 1, Original Section 3, Block XII, Wainuioru Survey District, 12771·8 links; and towards the west generally by the East Coast Road: be all the aforesaid linkages a little more or less.

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

Authorizing the Auckland Harbour Board to reclaim Land between Hobson Street Breastwork and Nelson Street Jetty, Auckland Harbour.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eleventh day of June, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by the one-hundred-and-fifty-eighth section of the Harbours Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that where a Harbour Board is desirous of executing or constructing upon lands vested in such Board or upon lands of the Crown any harbour-works of such a nature that the same could but for this section only be carried out and executed under the authority of a special Act the Board may apply to the Governor in Council for a special order, and, if the Governor in Council thinks fit, such order may be made and granted:

And whereas the Auckland Harbour Board (hereinafter called “the Board”) is desirous of reclaiming from the sea certain land between Hobson Street Breastwork and the Nelson Street Jetty, in Auckland Harbour, for the purpose of constructing the reclamation hereinafter described, and the said work is of such a nature as aforesaid,