Oct. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3419

case where the local authority having control of a road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor in Council:

And whereas by subsection two of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, and clause (b) of subsection one of section thirteen of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided that such approval may be either absolute or subject to such conditions with respect to the building-line as the Governor in Council thinks fit to impose, and may refer to one or both sides of the road or street:

And whereas the Wellington City Council, being the local authority having control of the portion of the street described in the Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as “the said portion of street”), did, on the twenty-second day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, pass the following resolution—viz., “That the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to the portions of Moxham Avenue and Goa Street on which Section 39 on the plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Wellington as No. 65 fronts and abuts”:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved, in so far as it refers to the western side of the said portion of street, subject to the condition hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Acts, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution to the extent hereinbefore mentioned, subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall be erected at any time on the western side of the said portion of street within a distance of thirty-three feet of the centre-line of the said portion of street.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Moxham Avenue, in the Wellington Land District, City of Wellington, adjoining Lot 39, D.P. 65 (C.T. 19/87), being part of Section 4, Evans Bay R.D., Block VII, Port Nicholson Survey District. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37869, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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

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Recreation Reserve in Otago Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fourth day of October, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for recreation in the Otago Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act; and such reserve shall hereafter be known as Coal Creek Flat Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 9 acres 3 roods 38 perches, more or less, being Section 44 and part of Sections 37 and 54, Block II, Teviot Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by part of Section 52 of aforesaid block, 940·7 links; towards the south-east by Section 56 of aforesaid block, 457·2 links; again towards the north-east by said Section 56, 1161·9 links; towards the east by the public road, 287 links; towards the south-west by a line bearing 287° 51′, 2152·6 links; and towards the north-west by a public road, 694·5 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1912/929B, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

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Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £850 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Piako.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of September, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Piako County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of eight hundred and fifty pounds, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of land drainage in the district known as the Piakoiti Special-rating District: And whereas the special roll of the ratepayers interested was not deposited for public inspection before any steps were taken to obtain the written consent of those ratepayers, as required by section seventeen of the above-mentioned Act: And whereas it appears that the said ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity or defect, 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 proceedings shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had been carried out in the proper manner, and that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

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Validating Public Notifications in connection with Proceedings taken for the Raising of a Loan of £500 to be raised by the Council of the Borough of Otahuhu.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of September, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Otahuhu Borough Council lately proposed to raise a loan of five hundred pounds, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of constructing sanitary works for the disposal of nightsoil: And whereas the public notification of the special order authorizing the raising of the above loan, although published four times, was not published once in each full week intervening between the two meetings, inasmuch as no public notice was given in the week immediately preceding the date of confirmation of the special order, as required by the provisions of section sixty-five of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908: And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the said proceedings:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in 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 proceedings; and doth hereby order and declare that the said public notifications of the special order authorizing the loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had been published in the proper manner, 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.