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liability in respect of such loan among the respective local authorities affected by such merger or inclusion: And whereas parts of areas over which special rates were made by the Taranaki County Council as security for loans amounting to two thousand pounds and one thousand six hundred and fifty pounds, which were granted by the Minister of Finance for the construction of bridges within the County of Taranaki and for forming Devon Road respectively (the former having been raised by the said Council and the latter by the Barrett Road Board prior to the road district being merged in the Taranaki County), have been included in the St. Aubyn Town District: And whereas the inscribed amounts of such loans are respectively fourteen thousand five hundred and fifty-four pounds seven shillings and elevenpence and one thousand six hundred and seventy-five pounds nine shillings and eightpence: And whereas the notices of the proposed apportionment of the liability in respect of each of such loans between the Taranaki County Council and the St. Aubyn Town Board were duly given as required by the said section ninety-one and the regulations under the said Act, and no objections thereto were made: And whereas written applications have been made to the Governor in Council to apportion the liability in respect of each of such loans:

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 the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby apportion the liability in respect of each of the above-recited loans as follows: The sums of thirteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight pounds nineteen shillings and fivepence and one hundred and seventy-five pounds nine shillings and eightpence respectively shall continue to be liabilities of the Taranaki County Council, and the sums of six hundred and sixty-five pounds eight shillings and sixpence and one thousand five hundred pounds shall be liabilities of the St. Aubyn Town Board. And I do hereby declare that the provisions of this Order in Council shall take effect as from the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

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

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Street in the City of Wellington of a Width less than 66 ft. but not less than 40 ft.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of September, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and seventy-eight of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, provided that where the configuration of any borough is such as that within any particular area or areas thereof it is difficult or inexpedient to construct streets of a width of sixty-six feet, as required by the said Act, the Governor may, by Order in Council defining the limits of such particular area or areas, authorize the Council to permit within such area or areas the construction of streets or private streets of a width less than sixty-six feet but not less than forty feet:

And whereas the configuration of the City of Wellington is such that within the area described in the Schedule hereto it is inexpedient to construct streets of a width of sixty-six feet:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 permit, within the area described in the Schedule hereto, the laying-off of a street within the said area of a width less than sixty-six feet, but not less than forty feet.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece of land in the Wellington Land District, situated in the City of Wellington, being portion of Sections 2, 4, and 24, Block XVb, Polhill Gully, and having an area of 1 rood 13·85 perches; as the said land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 32100, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured pink.

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

Declaring Portion of Thompson’s Track, in the Tauranga County, to be a County Road.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of September, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 order and declare that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of road in the Auckland Land District, Tauranga County, known as Thompson’s Track, commencing at its junction with the Tauranga-Waihi Road at the south-eastern corner of Section 56, Block II, Aongatete Survey District, and proceeding thence in a south-westerly direction generally along the south-eastern boundary of Sections 56, 61, and 67A, Block II, Aongatete Survey District, through Section 66, Block I, Aongatete Survey District; thence through Blocks I and IV, Aongatete Survey District, to the Tauranga County boundary, being a distance of six miles and a half, more or less: as the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 32380, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Licensing the Hobson County Council to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore of Wairoa River, Kaipara Harbour, as a Site for a Hopper.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of September, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, there being no Harbour Board empowered to grant the license hereinafter mentioned under the Harbours Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Hobson County Council (hereinafter called “the Council”) has applied to the Governor in Council for a license under the said Act to occupy a part of the foreshore and the land below low-water mark adjacent thereto at Green Hill, in the Wairoa River, Kaipara Harbour, in order to erect and maintain thereon a hopper; and, in accordance with the one-hundred-and fiftieth section of the said Act, has deposited a plan in the office of the Marine Department, at Wellington, marked M.D. 3914, showing the manner in which it is proposed to construct such hopper, the place where it is intended to erect the same, and the area of foreshore and land below low-water mark intended to be occupied for such purpose: And whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor in Council that the proposed 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 without modification or addition: And whereas it is expedient that a license under the said Act, for the purposes aforesaid, should be granted and issued to the Council on the terms and conditions hereinafter 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 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 Council as aforesaid; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby license and permit the Council to use and occupy that part of the foreshore and of the land below low-water mark immediately contiguous thereto which is particularly shown and delineated on the plan so deposited as aforesaid, for the purpose of constructing such hopper, such license to be held and enjoyed by the Council upon and