Oct. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2941

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section two of the Urewera District Native Reserve Amendment Act, 1910, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the Chief Judge granting the applicants leave to appeal, in so far as and in terms of the recommendations aforesaid relating to the lands set out in the Schedule hereto; and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.

Ierenui-Ohaua. Maraetaha.
Purenga. Paraeroa.
Ranga-a-Ruanuku. Tarapounamu.
Taneatua. Tukuroa.
Tauwharemanuka. Wairiko.
Otairi. Pukepohatu.
Karioi. Ruatahuna.
Parakohe. Matawhero.
Ruatoki South. Tauwhare.
Tauranga. Paraeroa B.
Waikarewhenua. Hikurangi Horomanga.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Consenting to closing Road in Block XIII, Tutamoe Survey District, Hobson County.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of October, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three (a) of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county road or district road to be stopped until the consent thereto of the Governor by Order in Council gazetted is obtained:

And whereas the Hobson County Council has applied for such consent in respect to the road described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, 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 consent to the Hobson County Council closing the road described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

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

Classification Regulation.—Appointment of Expert Mechanic at Higher Age than Thirty-five Years.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of October, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, regulations were made, under the authority of the Acts therein recited, for the purposes of the classification and regulation of the Post and Telegraph Department of the Civil Service, and it is expedient to amend such regulations in the manner hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke regulation numbered nineteen in the Schedule to the aforesaid Order in Council, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, and doth order that such regulations shall be read as part of the regulations first hereinbefore mentioned, and shall have effect on and after the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

19. No person, except as hereinafter provided, shall be eligible for appointment in the Non-clerical Division unless he is of the full age of fifteen years and not more than thirty-five years of age, nor until he has produced to the Secretary certificates of good health and good moral character in the same manner and to the like effect as required from persons entering the Clerical Division, and also of having passed the examination hereinafter mentioned.

19A. Persons of exceptional skill in the mechanical arts who have proved their qualifications to the satisfaction of the Minister may be appointed at a higher age than thirty-five years, upon production of the like certificates of good health and good moral character.

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

Declaring an Additional Disease under the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, and extending the Second Schedule of the Act to include the said Disease.—Notice No. 1657.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this sixteenth day of September, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, 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 declare that on and after the date of the gazetting hereof—

Hairy-root, Crown-gall, or Root-knot (Bacterium tumefaciens)

shall be a disease within the meaning of the said Act; and, with the like advice and consent, doth hereby extend the Second Schedule of the said Act by including the aforesaid disease therein.

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

Declaring Portion of the Kohatu-Westport Road, in the Murchison County, to be a County Road.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this seventh day of October, 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 Nelson Land District, Murchison County, known as the Kohatu-Westport Road, on the