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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 39

ment 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 make the following provisions as to the election of members of the Wanganui Harbour Board to be held in accordance with subsections two and three of section thirteen of the said Act.

PROVISIONS.

1. THE first elections under subsections (2) and (3) of section 13 of the said Act shall be held on the 29th day of April, 1914.

2. The County Council of the County of Wanganui shall be the principal authority and the Returning Officer of the Wanganui County shall be the Returning Officer for the purposes of all elections to be held in the combined district constituted under subsection (2) of section 13 of the said Act.

3. The regulations made by His Excellency the Governor in Council in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by sections 7 and 13 of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, gazetted in the New Zealand Gazette of the 2nd day of March, 1911, as amended by the further regulations made and gazetted in the New Zealand Gazette of the 30th day of March, 1911, shall regulate the first election to be held in the combined district constituted under the said subsection (2); but the further amending regulations made and gazetted in the New Zealand Gazette of the 3rd day of April, 1913, shall not apply to such first election.

4. The County Council of the County of Waitotara shall cause to be prepared from the electors rolls of the several ridings of the County of Waitotara an electors roll for those portions of such ridings included in the Wanganui Harbour District.

5. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 7 of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, public notice of such two first elections shall be given not less than ten days before such elections, and the date for nomination of candidates shall be not less than five clear days before such election.

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

Fixing Royalty for Shingle, Sand, &c.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of April, 1914.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Harbours Act, 1908, 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 by-law, viz.:

BY-LAW.

Every person removing stone, shingle, boulders, or sand from any portion of the shore lying between high- and low-water marks at ordinary spring tides, or from the bed of any harbour, or of a navigable river, or of the sea immediately adjacent thereto, under the authority in writing of the Minister, shall pay a royalty of 6d. per cubic yard in the case of stone, shingle, or boulders, and 3d. per cubic yard in the case of sand.

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

Granting Railway Land under the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of April, 1914.

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 Order in Council publicly notified and gazetted, grant the same to any Education Board:

And whereas the piece of land described in the Schedule hereto has been, inter alia, taken for the purposes of the Otago Central Railway by a Proclamation dated the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 18, of the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, a copy whereof was duly deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Dunedin:

And whereas the said piece of land is not now required for the purposes of the said Otago Central Railway, and the Minister of Railways has recommended that this Order in Council should be issued granting such piece of land to the Education Board for the District of Otago:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby grant to the Education Board for the district of Otago the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 21254, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon bordered green.

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

Making Provision with respect to the Representation of the Borough of Takapuna and the County of Waitemata on the Auckland Harbour Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day of April, 1914.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section twelve of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1912 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that the creation, abolition, merger, division, or other alteration of any constituent or combined district shall not in itself have any operation so as to affect the then existing membership of the Board, and that the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council, whenever in his opinion it becomes necessary or expedient so to do, make such provision with respect to the representation of any part of any constituent or combined district as he thinks fit:

And whereas by the said Act the Waitemata County was made a constituent district for the election by the electors thereof of one member of the Auckland Harbour Board:

And whereas part of the said county has been created a borough, by the name of the Borough of Takapuna, and it is necessary to make provision with respect to the representation of such borough and the County of Waitemata on the Auckland Harbour Board:

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 said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that one member of the Auckland Harbour Board shall be elected by the electors of the County of Waitemata and the Borough of Takapuna, instead of one member by the electors of the County of Waitemata; and that the said borough and county shall be deemed to be a combined district within the meaning of the said Act; and doth hereby select and appoint the Takapuna Borough Council to be the principal authority for the purpose of such election; and further doth hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, to be the date of the election of the said member, to be held in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and the regulations made thereunder relating to the election of members of Harbour Boards for combined districts.

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