Nov. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3693

completing the formation of the No. 4 Road from No. 8 Road to the Waiharakeke Creek: 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 validate the omission to deposit the said roll; and 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 afor. said.

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

Lands permanently reserved.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas by the sixty-ninth section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, it is further provided that the Governor may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of land acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

• Survey district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands