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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 21232, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured green.

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 March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Additional Land near Conical Hill taken for the Purposes of the Waitaki–Bluff Railway (Waipahi–Heriot Burn Branch).

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable for the use, convenience, and enjoyment of the Waitaki–Bluff Railway (Waipahi–Heriot Burn Branch) to take further land near Conical Hill, in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of the said railway:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by sections twenty-nine and one hundred and eighty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 21169, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured green and red.

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 March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Altering Messrs. Archibald Bros.' License to use and occupy a Part of the Foreshore on the Whau Creek, in Auckland Harbour.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this third day of March, 1914.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twentieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 9, of the twenty-ninth day of the same month, Messrs. David Archibald, James Alexander Archibald, John Archibald, Alexander Ernest Archibald, and Frank Herbert Archibald, of Auckland, trading under the style or title of “Archibald Bros.,” were licensed to use and occupy a part of the foreshore on the Whau Creek, in Auckland Harbour, shown on plan marked M.D. 4205:

And whereas it is desirable to alter clause three of the conditions contained in the Schedule to the said Order in Council, by altering the annual rent to be paid:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the power conferred upon him by the Harbours Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the annual rent to be paid under the said Order in Council shall be reduced from £10 to £5 as from the date of such Order.

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

Certain Species of Birds indigenous to New Zealand not to be deemed protected.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of March, 1914.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, as amended by the Animals Protection 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 suspend the operation of section ten of the said Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1910, for the period ending on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, with respect to the species of birds indigenous to New Zealand mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Kea, or mountain-parrot.

Hawks of all species.

Shags of the following species: Black shag (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris), white-throated shag (Phalacrocorax brevirostris), sea-shag (Phalacrocorax novae-hollandiae, Phalacrocorax carbo).

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

Kaikoura County Council declared a Leasing Authority under the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of March, 1914.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Kaikoura County Council is a body of persons having power to lease land held in trust set apart or reserved for public 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,