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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

was provided that any settler in the said village settlement
could apply for and acquire more than one allotment there-
in, but not exceeding a total area of thirty acres :
And whereas it is expedient to allow one person to hold
forty acres in the said Rakau-toru Village Settlement :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pur-
suance of all powers and authorities enabling him in that
behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand,
doth hereby cancel and revoke the Order in Council of the
sixth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and
three, and amend the Order in Council of the thirtieth
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five,
in so far as it affects the number of allotments that may
be held in the Rakau-toru Village Settlement, and doth
by this present Order declare that on and after the date
hereof any settler may apply for and acquire more than
one allotment therein, provided that the total area ac-
quired does not exceed forty acres. And it is hereby
further declared that all the provisions of the Order in
Council of the thirtieth day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-five, aforesaid, shall apply, except as
regards the number of allotments that may be held, to the
Rakau-toru Village Settlement aforesaid.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Mauriceville
County Council Loan of £110.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day
of September, 1912.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Mauriceville County Council lately
proposed to raise a loan of one hundred and ten
pounds, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, and the
amendments thereof, for the purpose of erecting two bridges
on the Mangatainoka Valley Road, situated on a section of the
said road within the boundary of the Eketahuna County :
And whereas the special roll of the ratepayers interested
was not deposited for public inspection before any steps
were taken to obtain the written consent of those rate-
payers, as required by section five of the Local Bodies'
Loans Amendment Act, 1910 :
And whereas it appears that the said ratepayers have not
been misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is expedient
to validate the aforesaid proceedings :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers conferred 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 declare
that the said proceedings shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as though the same had been carried out in the
proper order, 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.

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Upper Hutt
Town Board Loan of £300.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day
of September, 1912.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Upper Hutt Town Board lately pro-
posed to raise a loan of six hundred pounds, under
the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, and the amendments
thereof, for the purpose of purchasing a site for a water-
works, and all water-rights thereon :
And whereas the voting-paper used for the purposes of
the proposed loan at a poll of the ratepayers of the said
town district was in the form set out in the Local Elections
and Polls Act, 1908, and not in the form numbered one
in the Second Schedule to the Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1908, as prescribed by section eleven of that Act :

And whereas it appears that the said ratepayers have
not been misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is
expedient to validate the aforesaid proceedings :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers conferred 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 order and declare that the poll of the ratepayers
hereinbefore recited shall be deemed to be as valid as if
the voting-paper used at that poll had been in the form
numbered one in the Second Schedule to the Local Bodies'
Loans Act, 1908, and that the proceedings relative to the
said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of
the irregularity aforesaid.

J F ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Validating Proceedings with respect to a Loan of £150 pro-
posed to be raised by the Eketahuna County Council.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day of
September, 1912.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Eketahuna County Council lately pro-
posed to raise a loan of one hundred and fifty
pounds over the Milne Street Special-rating Area, under
the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, and the amendments
thereof, for the purpose of forming and metalling Milne
Street, in the Township of Hukanui :
And whereas, as the last notice of intention to raise the
above loan was advertised on the seventeenth day of
October, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and the
poll was taken on the thirteenth day of November, one
thousand nine hundred and eleven, there was an interval of
twenty-seven days instead of not more than three weeks :
And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the said
Milne Street Special-rating Area have not been misled by
such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the said
proceedings :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred by section one hundred and
twenty-one of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908, as amend-
ed 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
declare that the said poll shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as though the same had been taken within the
proper time, and that the proceedings relative to the said
loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the
irregularities aforesaid.

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

Vesting a Reserve in the Kumeroa Public Library
(Incorporated).

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth day
of September, 1912.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
has been duly set apart as a site for a public
library and reading-room :
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is ex-
pedient to vest the said reserve in the Kumeroa Public
Library (Incorporated) :
Now, therefore, 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,
and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves
and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from
and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described
in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Kumeroa
Public Library (Incorporated), in trust, as a site for a
public library and reading-room.