remedy the fault specified in that notice; and if the said
Board fails to comply with the terms of the notice within
the said period it shall be liable to a penalty of £10, to be
recoverable by or on behalf of the Minister as a debt due to
the Crown.

12. Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding
    clause of these conditions, if the said Board fails to comply
    with the terms of any such notice for ninety days after the
    receipt thereof, the Governor in Council may thereupon
    revoke this license without further notice.

13. For the purpose of ascertaining whether the conditions of this license are being faithfully complied with by
    the said Board, the Minister, or any person appointed by
    him in that behalf, may at all reasonable times enter on the
    said works and inspect the same.

14. Nothing in this license shall be deemed in any way
    to interfere with, affect, or abridge any rights or powers
    vested in His Majesty the King, or in the Governor on his
    behalf, authorizing the construction, management, or working of any public work; nor shall any compensation be
    payable to or on behalf of the said Board for injury done
    to the works herein authorized by the construction, management, or working of any such public work as aforesaid, or
    for the loss occasioned thereby, or for the exercise of any
    such right or power as aforesaid.

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

Portions of the Western Side of York Street and the Northern Side of Hornbrook Street, in the Heathcote County, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to certain Conditions as to the Building-line.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of May, 1913.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
WHEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply in any case where the local authority having control of a road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor in Council:

And whereas by subsection two of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, and clause (b) of subsection one of section thirteen of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided that such approval may be either absolute or subject to such conditions as the Governor in Council thinks fit to impose, and may refer to one or both sides of the road or street:

And whereas the Heathcote County Council, the local authority having control of the portions of streets described in the Schedule hereto, did by resolution declare that the provisions of the said section one hundred and seventeen should not apply to the said portions of streets:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved in so far as it refers to the western and northern sides of the portions of streets described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution to the extent hereinbefore mentioned.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that portion of the western side of York Street, situated in the Heathcote County, Canterbury Land District, commencing at its junction with Hornbrook Street and proceeding thence in a northerly direction to its junction with Opawa Road, adjoining R.S. 48A, being a distance of 4 chains 36·1 links, more or less.

Also all that portion of the northern side of Hornbrook Street, situated in the said county and land district, commencing at its junction with York Street and proceeding thence in a westerly direction adjoining Allotments 3 and 4 of R.S. 48A, being a distance of 2 chains 31·7 links, more or less.

As the said portions of roads are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 32976, 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!

Prescribing a Close Season for Seals.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of May, 1913.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
WHEREAS by section five of the Fisheries Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations which shall have force and effect either throughout New Zealand or only in such waters or places as are specified in the regulations for, among other things, prescribing a close season for seals: And whereas it is desirable to prescribe such a close season:

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 the hereinbefore recited section of the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.
The period from the 1st of October in one year until the 31st of May in the following year is hereby prescribed a close season for seals throughout New Zealand:
Provided that the close season for seals for the years 1913-14 shall be for the period from the 1st of July in the former year until the 1st of October in the latter year.

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

Regulations regarding Seals.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of May, 1913.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
WHEREAS it is enacted by the fifth section of the Fisheries Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), that the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations which shall have force and effect either throughout New Zealand or only in such waters or places as are specified in the regulations for, among other things, generally regulating sea fishing in New Zealand: And whereas it is desirable to make regulations regarding the taking of seals:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore recited power and authority, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations, and doth order that they shall have force and effect throughout New Zealand.

REGULATIONS.

1. No female seals shall be killed or taken.
2. No bull seals under twelve months old shall be killed or taken, and a sufficient number of full grown bulls shall be left for breeding purposes.
3. All skins taken in contravention of the said Act or of these regulations shall be forfeited to the Crown.
4. Any person committing a breach of these regulations or either of them is liable to a fine of not less than five pounds and not exceeding five hundred pounds.

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

Recreation Reserve in Wellington Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act., 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of May, 1913.
Present:
The Honourable W. F. Massey Presiding in Council.
BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl