MAR. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 815

Board of the said Havelock North Town District has made application that the said town district shall not form part of the County of Hawke’s Bay, being the county within the boundaries of which it is situated :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Town Boards Amendment Act, 1908 (No. 2), and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that, on and after the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, the Havelock North Town District shall not form part of the County of Hawke’s Bay.

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

Regulations fixing Travelling-expenses of Councillors under Section 13, Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1910.

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 under section thirteen of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1910, the Council may out of its District Fund pay Councillors travelling on business of the Council, and on the authority of the Council, such travelling-expenses as may be fixed by regulations made by the Governor in Council : And whereas it is desirable that such regulations be made :

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, doth hereby make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS.

(1.) THE Council may out of its District Fund reimburse to every Councillor the actual travelling-expenses incurred by him in travelling a distance exceeding three miles (counting one way only) to attend to any business of the Council to which he has been authorized by the Council to attend.

(2.) No expenses shall be reimbursed to any Councillor incurred in travelling for the purpose of attending any meeting of the Council or any committee thereof.

(3.) No expenses shall be reimbursed under this regulation to the Mayor of any borough to whom an annual allowance is paid under section 30 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908.

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

Seal-fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1912 (Imperial).

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 it is enacted by section five of the Imperial Act entitled the Seal-fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1912, that His Majesty may by Order in Council extend the provisions of sections three and four of that Act to, amongst other places, the Dominion of New Zealand, provided that these provisions shall not be so extended except with the consent of the Governor in Council of the Dominion :

And whereas it is desirable that such consent should be given :

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, doth hereby consent to the provisions of sections three and four of the hereinbefore-recited Act being extended to the Dominion of New Zealand.

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

Allocating Cost of taking Poll under Section 19 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1910.

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.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in him by section nineteen of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1910, 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 direct that the Milton Borough Council shall defray all the costs incurred in connection with the taking of a poll under the said Act on the eleventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, on the proposal to include in the Borough of Milton a part of the County of Bruce.

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

Williams Memorial Trust declared a Leasing Authority under the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

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 Henry and William Williams Memorial Trust is a body of persons having power to lease lands held in trust, reserved, or set apart for religious purposes, and has requested the Governor in Council to declare it to be a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908 :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in compliance with such request, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred by the above-mentioned Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the Henry and William Williams Memorial Trust is a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

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

Authorizing the Ekatahuna Borough Council to erect Electric Lines within the Borough of Ekatahuna.

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 by section two of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided that no person shall lay, construct, put up, place, or use any electric line except under the authority of a license issued to him by the Governor in Council under that Act :

And whereas the Ekatahuna Borough Council (hereinafter referred to as “the said Council”) desires to erect electric lines within the Borough of Ekatahuna, and it is expedient accordingly to issue a license in respect thereof under the said section :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the said section and of all other powers 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, subject to the conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto, hereby authorize the said Council to lay, construct, put up, place, or use electric lines for lighting and power purposes within the Borough of Ekatahuna along the routes shown by means of white and dotted-white lines on the plan marked P.W.D. 31268, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.