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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Assignment.

55. This license and the benefits and obligations hereunder shall not be assigned by the Council without the express consent in writing of the Minister first had and obtained, but such consent shall not be withheld if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Minister that the transferee is financially able and suitable to carry out the works specified in this license.

Default and Penalty.

56. If the Council fails to comply with any of the conditions of this license the Minister may, by notice in writing, require the Council within thirty days to remedy the default specified in that notice; but it shall not be held to have committed default for any failure to maintain power continuously if such failure is due to the breakdown of machinery or other accident, unless such breakdown or accident is proved to be due to negligence on the part of the Council; and if the Council fails to comply with the terms of the notice within the said period it shall be liable to a penalty of £20, to be recoverable by or on behalf of the Minister as a debt due to the Crown. The recovery of a penalty under this license shall not affect the liability (if any) of the Council to pay or make compensation in respect of any damage or injury which may be caused by reason of the default.

Revocation of the License.

57. Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding clause hereof, if the Council 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.

Public Works Compensation.

58. Nothing herein contained 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, or the Minister, or any other person under any Act of the General Assembly authorizing the construction, management, or working of any public work, nor shall His Majesty, or the Governor, or the Minister, or any other person be liable to pay to the Council any compensation 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.

Commencement of License.

59. This license shall come into force on and after the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £500 proposed to be raised by the Manunui Town Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of July, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Manunui Town Board lately proposed to raise a loan of five hundred pounds (£500) under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of the completion of forming and metalling roads within the Manunui Town District:

And whereas the provisions of section nine of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, were not complied with, inasmuch as the notice of intention to raise the loan required to be given by that section, although published four times, was not published once in each week for four successive weeks:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the aforesaid proceedings:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred 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 declare that the said public notifications of the intention to raise the loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had been properly published, and that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Variation of an Order in Council prohibiting all Private Alienation of certain Native Lands.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of July, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that any Order in Council made under that section may at any time be varied or revoked:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council as set out in the first column of the Schedule hereto, only in so far as it affects the land mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

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

Declaring a Road-line through Land in the Ardlussa Settlement, Southland Land District, to be closed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General from which it appears that the road described in the Schedule hereto is unformed and unused, and that the said road intersects land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and is not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of section eighty of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the road hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ARDLUSSA SETTLEMENT.

In the Southland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-second day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Lands set apart for a Municipal Endowment in the Town of Rangataua, Wellington Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of the Land Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the reserves to be made by the Governor for any exist-