Oct. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2835

recoverable by any person authorized by the Minister in
that behalf as a debt due to the Crown; but the said
Corporation shall not be held to have committed default
for any failure to maintain power during the hours that it
has determined to supply energy if such failure is due to the
breakdown of machinery or other accident, unless such break-
down or accident is proved to be due to negligence on the
part of the said Corporation.

53. The recovery of a penalty under this license shall not
    affect the liability, if any, of the said Corporation to make
    compensation in respect of any damage or injury which
    may be caused by reason of the default.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Patea Hospital and Charitable Aid Board declared a Local
Authority for the Purposes of the Public Health Act.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section eighty-three of the Hospitals and
Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, it is provided that,
on the recommendation of the Inspector-General of Hospitals,
and with the consent of the local authorities concerned, the
Governor may by Order in Council, upon such terms and con-
ditions as he thinks fit, combine for such of the purposes of the
Public Health Act, 1908, as are mentioned in the Order the
districts of any two or more local authorities situate within
a hospital district, and declare that for those purposes the Hos-
pital and Charitable Aid Board of the district shall be deemed
to be the local authority within the combined districts :

And whereas the Inspector-General of Hospitals has recom-
mended that the following districts, situate within the Patea
Hospital District, namely :—

WAITOTARA ROAD BOARD,
MOMOHAKI ROAD BOARD,

should be combined for such of the purposes of the Public
Health Act, 1908, as are hereinafter mentioned, and the local
authorities concerned have consented thereto :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities above recited, and acting by and with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby combine the above-mentioned dis-
tricts for such of the purposes of the Public Health Act as
are mentioned in the Schedule hereto ; and doth hereby
declare that for these purposes the Patea Hospital and Chari-
table Aid Board shall be deemed to be the local authority
within the combined districts.

SCHEDULE.

SECTIONS of the Public Health Act, 1908, containing the pur-
poses of that Act for which the said districts are combined,
and for which purposes the Patea Hospital and Charitable Aid
Board is to be deemed to be the local authority :—

Mortuaries or morgues .. Sections 46, 49, and 50.
Privies, ashpits, and drains Sections 53, 55, and 56 (to apply
only to the districts of those
local authorities in which no
sewerage systems exist).
Scavenging and cleansing.. Sections 61 (1), 61 (2) (to apply
only when so recommended
by the District Health Officer),
and 63.
Nuisances .. Sections 70–75 and 77–84.
Offensive trades .. Sections 85–88.
Inspection of food .. Section 89.
Insanitary buildings .. Sections 90 and 91.
Miscellaneous provisions .. Sections 94, 98, 100, 104, 106,
107, 109, 112 ; 108 only in so
far as it relates to making
by - laws for the purposes
specified in aforesaid
sections.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of
a Reserve in the Canterbury Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act,
1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the
Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange,
or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or here-
after vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the
purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said
Act, whether the same be granted or not ; and in the case of
any reserve made under the authority of section three hun-
dred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall,
in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the
purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the pur-
pose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any
other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor,
be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such
reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one
or more of the purposes named in the said Class II, the
Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change,
exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such
notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is
intended to be so made :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron
Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities vested in me by the Public Reserves and Do-
mains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change
the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described
in Part II of the Schedule hereto from that named in
Part I of the said Schedule to that named in Part III of
the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Description and Purpose of Original Reserve.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing
by admeasurement 264 acres 1 rood, more or less, being
reserve numbered 1923, situated in Blocks XIII, Ashburton
Survey District, and XVI, Westerfield Survey District,
and bounded north-eastward by Section 4905, the Borough
of Ashburton, and Reserve 2668 ; south-eastward by a line
in continuation of the south-eastern boundary of the Ash-
burton Borough ; south-westward by Sections 4354, 23096,
and 6422 ; and north-westward by a line in continuation
of the north-western boundary of Section 6503 : save and
excepting thereout Reserve 1952 and Sections 6503, 21018,
and 22128, which are included in the above - described
boundaries : as the same is delineated on the plan marked
L. and S. 1912/467A, deposited in the Head Office, Depart-
ment of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon
bordered blue.

Reserved for railway conservation purposes by notifica-
tion in Gazette No. 84, of the 11th October, 1877.

PART II.

Description of Portion of Reserve the Purpose of which
it is intended to change.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, contain-
ing by admeasurement 70 acres, more or less, being reserve
numbered 3905 (formerly portion of Reserve 1923), situated
in Block XIII, Ashburton Survey District, and bounded
north-eastward by Reserve 2668, south-eastward by a line in
continuation of the south-eastern boundary of the Borough
of Ashburton, south-westward by Rural Section 4354, and
north - westward by the north - western side of the main
South Road ; as the same is delineated on the plan marked
L. and S. 1912/467r. deposited in the Head Office, Depart-
ment of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon
bordered blue.

PART III.

Intended Purpose.

For bridge-protection purposes.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this seventh day of September, one thousand
nine hundred and twelve.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of
a Reserve in the Town of Ormondville, Hawke’s Bay
Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act,
1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Go-
vernor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter
the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested