Dec. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3727

Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing registration district known as the Nelson District, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said district is hereby divided anew into two registration districts, the names whereof shall be the Nelson and Richmond Districts, and the boundaries whereof shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the marriage districts bearing the same names, as are set forth in a Proclamation of even date herewith, made under the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908.

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

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 Wellington, this eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Districts constituted under the Marriage Act, 1908.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in the Governor by the Marriage Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the existing marriage district known as the Nelson District, and do proclaim and declare that the territory heretofore comprised within the said district is hereby divided anew into two marriage districts, the names and boundaries whereof shall be as follows:—

NELSON DISTRICT.

All that area in the Nelson Land District bounded towards the north-west, north, and south-east by the sea from the road forming the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 77, Block VII, Waimea Survey District, to Elaine Bay, in Pelorus Sound; thence again towards the south-east generally by the Marlborough Land District to the northern boundary of Block VIII, Maungatapu Survey District; thence towards the south by Blocks VIII and VII, Maungatapu Survey District, to United Creek; thence by that creek to its confluence with the River Roding; thence by that river to the easternmost corner of Section No. 61, Block VIII, Waimea Survey District; thence by that section to the road at its northernmost corner, across that road, and by Section No. 67, Block VII, Waimea Survey District, and Sections Nos. XIX, 99, and 76, to a public road; thence by the road forming part of the north-eastern boundary of Section No. 76, and forming the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 75 and 77, Block VII aforesaid, to the sea, the place of commencement; including D'Urville Island and adjacent islands.

RICHMOND DISTRICT.

All that area in the Nelson Land District bounded towards the north generally by the sea from the mouth of the Waimea River to the road at the northernmost corner of Section No. 77, Block VII, Waimea Survey District; thence by the north-eastern side of the road forming the north-eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 77, 75, and 76 to Section No. 74; thence by that section and Section No. X, Block VII aforesaid, and Sections Nos. VIII and 66, Block VIII, Waimea Survey District, to and across a public road, and by Section No. 5 to the River Roding; thence by that river to its confluence with United Creek; thence by that creek to the southern boundary of Block IV, Maungatapu Survey District; thence by Blocks IV and V, Maungatapu Survey District, to the western boundary of Marlborough Land District; thence towards the south-east by Marlborough Land District to a point due east of the southernmost corner of Section No. 3, Block V, Rintoul Survey District; thence towards the south by a right line to that corner, and thence by a right line running in the direction of the south-nmost corner of Section No. 9, Block IV, Gordon Survey District, to the Wairoa River; thence towards the west generally by the Wairoa River to its confluence with the Waimea River; and thence by the Waimea River to the sea, the place of commencement; including Rabbit Island and adjacent islands,

And I hereby declare that this Proclamation shall come into operation on the thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

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 Wellington, this eleventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Bringing certain State Coal Employees under the Provisions of the Civil Service Act.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of November, 1913.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty-five of the Coal-mines Act, 1908, it is provided that the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council make regulations applying any of the provisions of any Act for the time being in force, affecting or regulating the Civil Service, to any of the persons or classes of persons appointed under section one hundred and twelve of the said Act:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that certain officers appointed in respect of the State coal-mines should be brought under the provisions of Part III of the Civil Service Act, 1908:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and of all other powers him thereunto enabling, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby make the regulation set out in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

REGULATION.

The provisions of Part III of the Civil Service Act, 1908, shall apply to all managers, agents, and officers in the State coal-mines offices appointed under section 112 of the Coal-mines Act, 1908.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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Directing Sale of Railway Land under the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of December, 1913.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by the thirtieth section of the Public Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that if it is found that any land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or 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 set forth in the said Act:

And whereas the piece of land described in the Schedule hereto has been, inter alia, taken for the purposes of the Kaipara-Waikato Railway by a Proclamation dated the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 73, of the tenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, a copy whereof was duly deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland:

And whereas the said piece of land is not now required for the purposes of the said Kaipara-Waikato Railway, and the Minister of Railways has recommended that this Order