JULY 18.

posed work will not be or tend to the injury of navigation,
and the said plan has, prior to the making of this Order
in Council, been approved by the Governor in Council:
And whereas it is expedient that a license under the said
Act, for the purpose aforesaid, should be granted and
issued to the company on the terms and conditions herein-
after expressed :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in him by the said Act, 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
approve of the purpose or object for which the said license
is required by the company as aforesaid; and, in further
pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, and
by and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth
hereby license and permit the company to use and occupy
that part of the foreshore and land below low-water mark
which is particularly shown and delineated on the plan so
deposited as aforesaid, for the purpose of constructing
thereon timber-booms in accordance with the said plan,
such license to be held and enjoyed by the company upon
and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the
Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. In these conditions the term "Minister" means the
   Minister of Marine as defined by the Shipping and Seamen
   Act, 1908, and includes any officer, person, or authority
   acting by or under the direction of such Minister.

2. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order
   in Council shall extend and apply only to the part of the
   foreshore and land below low-water mark necessary for the
   construction of the timber-booms, as shown on plan M.D.

4. In consideration of the concessions and privileges
   granted by this Order in Council the company shall, on
   being supplied with a copy thereof, pay to the Minister the
   sum of £2 10s., and thereafter an annual sum of £1 in ad-
   vance, such annual payments to date from the date hereof,
   the first of such annual payments to be made on the com-
   pany being supplied with a copy of this Order in Council.

5. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Order
   in Council shall continue in force for fourteen years from
   the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers,
   and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by com-
   petent authority; and the company shall not assign, charge,
   or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the
   previous written consent of the Minister first obtained.

6. His Majesty or the Governor, and all officers in the
   Government service acting in the execution of their duty,
   shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress
   into, through, over, and out of the said timber-booms
   without payment.

7. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any
   time resumed by the Governor, and the company may be
   required to remove the timber-booms at its own cost,
   without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving
   to the company three months' previous notice in writing.
   Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister,
   and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the
   company in New Zealand.

8. The company shall maintain the above-mentioned
   timber-booms in good order and repair; and shall at all
   times exhibit therefrom, and maintain at its own cost, any
   lights that may be required by the Minister; provided that
   no light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved
   of by the Minister.

9. Any person authorized by the Minister may, at all
   reasonable times, enter upon the said timber-booms, and
   view the state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister
   leaving at or posting to the last known address of the
   company a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair
   in such timber-booms, requiring it, within a reasonable
   time, to be therein prescribed, to repair the same, it shall
   with all convenient speed cause such defect to be removed or
   such repairs to be made.

10. The company shall be liable for any injury which may
    be sustained by any vessel or boat in passing the timber-
    booms, or by contact therewith, and which may be
    occasioned by any default or neglect on the part of the
    company.

11. In case the company shall--
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions herein-
    before set forth, or any of them;
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said timber-booms for a
    period of thirty days;
    (3.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 3 of these
    conditions; or

(4.) Be in any manner wound up or dissolved,--
then and in any of the said cases this Order in Council,
and every right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and
determined by the Governor in Council without any notice
to the company or other proceedings whatsoever; and pub-
lication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council
containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the
company, and to all persons concerned or interested, that
this Order in Council, and the rights and privileges thereby
conferred, have been revoked and determined; and upon
such revocation the Minister may cause the said timber-
booms to be removed, and may recover the costs incurred
by any such removal from the company.

11. The construction of the timber-booms shall be deemed
    to be an acceptance by the company of the conditions of
    this Order in Council.

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

Extension of Time for Preparation of County Rolls, &c.,
County of Rangitikei.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth
day of July, 1912.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor in Council.
WHEREAS it has been made to appear that the pre-
paration of the rolls for the County of Rangitikei,
and the taking of certain steps consequent on such prepara-
tion, cannot be made and taken within the times men-
tioned in the Counties Act, 1908, and it is expedient
to extend the said times respectively:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers conferred upon him by the said Counties Act, 1908,
and acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order
and declare that the several dates mentioned in the Schedule
hereto shall be the respective dates for taking the several
steps set out in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

1. For preparing the defaulters list and the rolls for the
   ridings within the County of Rangitikei: Until the 12th
   day of July, 1912.

2. Time for which such list and rolls shall be open for in-
   spection: From the 17th day of July, 1912, to the 5th
   day of August, 1912.

3. Time for appeals against the said rolls: Until the
   20th day of August, 1912.

4. Revision Courts may sit for hearing applications with
   reference to the said rolls, and adjourn: Until the 9th day
   of September, 1912.

5. Time when the said rolls, having been duly corrected
   and signed, shall come into force: On the 19th day of
   September, 1912.

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

Allocating Cost of taking Poll under Section 19 of the
Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1910.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
fourth day of June, 1912.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor in Council.
Pursuant to the powers vested in him by section
twenty-nine of the Municipal Corporations Amendment
Act, 1910, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion
of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth
hereby direct that the St. Aubyn Town Board shall
defray all the costs incurred in connection with the taking
of a poll under the said Act on the twenty-sixth day of
March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, on the
proposal to include in the Borough of New Plymouth a
part of the St. Aubyn Town District.

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