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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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links respectively; again towards the north-east by Allot-
ment 93, Hikurangi Parish, 452·4 links and 524·4 links; to-
wards the south-east by the aforesaid allotment, 229·1 links;
and towards the south-west by the aforesaid allotment,
998 links, to the place of commencement: be all the afore-
said linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on
the plan marked L. and S. II/289, deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington,
and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan 18381, blue.)

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

Declaring a Native to be a European.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this first day of
November, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section seventeen of the Native Land
Amendment Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Go-
vernor may by Order in Council, on the recommendation
of the Native Land Court, declare any Native to be a
European:

And whereas John Ormsby, of Otorohanga, being a
Native within the meaning of the Native Land Act, 1909,
applied in the prescribed form for a recommendation of
the Court that he might be declared a European: And
whereas the said Court, having duly inquired into the said
application, has recommended that an Order in Council be
issued declaring the said John Ormsby, to be a European:
And whereas it is expedient that such declaration should be
made:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authority conferred on him by section seventeen
of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912, and acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare the said JOHN
ORMSBY, of Otorohanga, to be a European.

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

Directing Sale of Railway Land under the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth
day of October, 1915.

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, cause the same to be sold under the conditions set
forth in the said Act:

And whereas the piece of land described in the Schedule
hereto has been, inter alia, taken for the purposes of the
Kaipara–Waikato Railway:

And whereas the said piece of land is not now required
for the purposes of the said Kaipara–Waikato Railway, and
the Minister of Railways has recommended that this Order
in Council should be issued directing such piece of land to
be sold:

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 order and direct
the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land: 18 acres 3 roods
21 perches.

Portion of railway reserve (S.O. 18129, blue).

Situated in Block I, Maramarua Survey District, Franklin
County.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 23005,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at
Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon coloured red.

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

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Casnell Island Domain.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this first day of
November, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty-seven of the Public Reserves
and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the
said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may from time
to time, by Order in Council gazetted, appoint any local
authority to be a Domain Board having, subject to the said
Act, control of any public domain:

And whereas by an Order in Council made on the twenty-
eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eight,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirtieth
day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eight, a Domain
Board was appointed to control the Casnell Island Domain:

And whereas the period for which the said Board was
appointed expired on the twenty-seventh day of July, one
thousand nine hundred and fifteen:

And whereas it appears expedient to again appoint a
Domain Board to control the domain:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers con-
ferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby appoint

THE RODNEY COUNTY COUNCIL

to be the Casnell Island Domain Board, having control of the
land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of
and subject to the provisions of the said Act; and doth
hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-fourth day of Novem-
ber, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, at half past one
o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Council Chambers,
Warkworth, as the place where, the first meeting of the
Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

CASNELL ISLAND DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing
by admeasurement 16 acres 3 roods, more or less, being
Section 196, Mahurangi Parish, Rodney County, and known
as Casnell Island, bounded on all sides by high-water mark
of the Mahurangi Harbour¹; as the same is delineated on
the plan marked L. 57091, deposited in the Head Office,
Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon
bordered pink.

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

Declaring Tauranga Road Deviation through Te Ahiroa Bush, in the Tauranga County, to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this first day of
November, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in
him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other
powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Ex-
cellency 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 order and declare
that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on
and after the date of this Order in Council, become a
county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that road in the Auckland Land District, Tauranga
County, known as the Tauranga Road deviation through