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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings hereby authorized.

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

Upper Mangapiko Drainage District, County of Waipa, constituted.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1914.

Present:

THE RIGHT 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 land described in the Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Waipa, 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 “Upper Mangapiko 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 of the said district shall consist of seven persons to be elected as members of the said Board, and under and in accordance with the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

UPPER MANGAPIKO DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, bounded towards the north-east generally by Allotment No. 311, Puniu Parish, and part of Allotment No. 225, Pukekura Parish, and the road forming the eastern boundary of Allotment No. 346, Puniu Parish, to the Te Awamutu–Cambridge Road, and the crossing of that road; towards the north-west generally by the Te Awamutu–Cambridge Road aforesaid to the north-western corner of Subdivision No. 2 of Allotment No. 225, Pukekura Parish aforesaid, as shown on plan No. 3109; towards the north by the northern boundary of the last-mentioned Subdivision No. 2 and the northern boundary of Subdivision No. 1 of Allotment No. 225, Pukekura Parish aforesaid, shown on plan No. 6698; towards the east by the eastern boundaries of the last-mentioned Subdivision No. 1 and Subdivision No. 2 on plan No. 6698 aforesaid, and the crossing of a road; again towards the north-west by a road forming the north-west boundary of Subdivision E No. 1 of Allotment No. 225, Parish of Pukekura, shown on plan No. 2423; towards the north-east generally by the road forming the north-east boundary of Subdivision E No. 1 aforesaid, and the continuation of the same road to the north-eastern boundary of Puahue No. 2 Section 1 Block—the aforesaid plans Nos. 3109, 6698, and 2423 all being deposited at the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland: towards the south-east by Puahue No. 2 Section 1 Block aforesaid, Puahue No. 2 Section 9, and No. 2 Section 10 Blocks; towards the south generally by Puahue No. 2 Section 13 Block to the road intersecting Puahue No. 11 Block, and by that road to its intersection with the road forming the south-western boundary of Allotment No. 173, Puniu Parish; towards the south-west generally by the road forming generally the south-western boundaries of Allotments Nos. 173 aforesaid and Allotments Nos. 172, 171, 170, 174, 175, 183, 184, 185, and 186, all of Puniu Parish aforesaid, to the southernmost corner of the last-mentioned Allotment No. 186; and towards the west generally by the road forming generally the western boundaries of Allotments Nos. 186, 186A, 187, 188, 189, 190, 339, 338, 352, 317, 317A, 316, 315, 314, and 313, all of the Puniu Parish aforesaid, to the point of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan marked 199A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged pink.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Whangarei Borough Council Special Loan.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1914.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Whangarei Borough Council lately proposed to raise a loan of thirteen thousand pounds under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), for the purpose of constructing the necessary plant to supply electric lighting and power both for private use and street lighting within or without the borough, and of acquiring in connection therewith lands, easements, rights and appurtenances, materials and machinery, and for any other purpose incidental or in relation thereto respectively:

And whereas irregularities or defects have occurred in the procedure to obtain such loan, inasmuch as the date of the poll of ratepayers on the proposal to raise such loan was not stated on the voting-paper used at such poll as required by the said Act, and the method of voting set forth on the said voting-paper was not such as is prescribed by the said Act:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularities or defects, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the said voting-paper, and also the poll of the ratepayers on the said proposal to raise the said loan, and doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings relative to such loan shall not be called in question by reason of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

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

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1914.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor, by Order in Council gazetted, may, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the Omapere Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the portion of the Omapere Kauri-gum Reserve, described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from the twelfth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Blocks VI, VII, X, XI, Omapere Survey District, containing 875 acres 1 rood 5 perches, more or less, being part of