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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise howsoever, for any public work is not required for such public work, the Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the conditions therein mentioned :

And whereas it is further provided by section five of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case of any land so purchased, taken, or acquired for a Government work and not required for that purpose, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Minister, and without complying with any other requirements of the aforesaid section thirty, by Proclamation declare such land to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and thereupon the land may be administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly :

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was taken for a road : And whereas such road has been closed, and it is desirable to declare the land to be contained therein to be Crown land : And whereas a plan has been prepared, and the Minister has recommended the Governor to declare such land to be Crown land :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the above-in-part-recited Acts, and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the land described in the Schedule hereto to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and that such land may be administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is 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.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Auckland, this seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING !

Buckley Drainage District, County of Horowhenua, constituted.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourth day of March, 1913.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the third section of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, a majority of the ratepayers in the area of the land described in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Horowhenua, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, praying that the said area be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the third section of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby constitute and declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part I of the said Act, and to be called by the name of the “Buckley Drainage District”; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fourth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall consist of five persons, to be elected as members of the said Board under and in accordance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

BUCKLEY DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, commencing at the intersection of the left bank of the Otaru Stream with the south-eastern side of the road reserve along the south-eastern side of the Manawatu River, and being bounded thence towards the north-east by other part of Section No. 704, Suburbs of Shannon, 8450 links; thence towards the south-east by Sections Nos. 479, 480, the abutment of a road, and by Sections Nos. 481 and 482, 1682·8 links; thence again towards the north-east by the said Section No. 482, the abutment of a road, and by other part of Subdivision No. 12 of the Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 2E Block, 3296·8 links, and by the crossing of the Wellington-Napier Railway line; thence towards the north by the southern side of the said railway-line to the Township of Shannon; thence again towards the north-east by that township, 400 links; thence again towards the south-east by other parts of Subdivisions Nos. 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, and 5 of the Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 2E Block aforesaid, 6875 links; thence towards the south-west and east by part of Section No. 6, Block XI, Mt. Robinson Survey District, 3610·6 and 1650 links respectively; thence again towards the north-east by other part of the said Section No. 6, 1700 links, the crossing of a road, by other part of Section No. 5, Block XV, Mt. Robinson Survey District, 2320 links, the crossing of a road, and again by other part of said Section No. 5, 1800 links; thence again towards the south-west by other part of said Section No. 5, 1200 links, and its production to the western side of Buckley Road; thence again towards the south-east by other part of Section No. 4 of the said Block XV, 775 and 1200 links, to the north-eastern boundary-line of the Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 3 2D Block; thence again towards the north-east and south-west by part of that block, 1775 and 1750 links respectively, to the Arapaepae Road; thence towards the west by that road; thence again towards the south-west by the crossing of Arapaepae Road and by part of Section No. 4 of the said Block XV, 2060 links; thence towards the north-west by the north-west boundary-line of the said Section No. 4, 1900 links; thence again towards the south-west by other portion of Section No. 3 of the said Block XV, 2340 links, across a public road, and by the other portion of Section No. 2 of the said Block XV, 1210 and 750 links, to the southern side of Buckley Road; thence again towards the north-east by the said side of that road and the crossing of same to the western boundary-line of Section No. 4 of Block XI aforesaid; thence again towards the west by the last-mentioned section, 1775 links; thence towards the south by other portion of Section No. 3 of the said Block XI, 4275 links, to Buckley Road; thence again towards the west by the eastern side of that road, the crossing of the railway, and by the western side of Buckley Road to the north-east corner of Section No. 2 of Block X of the said district; thence again towards the south-west by that section, 2375 links; thence again towards the north-west by other portion of Section No. 1 of the said Block X, 1050 links, by the Koputuroa Stream to the southern side of the road reserve running along the southern bank of the Manawatu River aforesaid, and by the said road reserve to the place of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1913/115, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

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

Havelock North Town District not to be Part of County of Hawke's Bay.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourth day of March, 1913.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Governor is satisfied that the population of the Havelock North Town District, in the County of Hawke's Bay, exceeds five hundred, and the Town