Nov. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3829

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Hawera County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of five hundred pounds, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of constructing Princes Street South from the Manawapou Road to its terminus at Section 217, Block IX, Hawera, and George Street from Princes Street to Tawhiti Road: And whereas the public notification of the special order authorizing the raising of the above loan was not published once in each 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 ninety-seven of the Counties 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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £4,000 proposed to be raised by the Hikurangi Town Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Hikurangi Town Board lately proposed to raise a loan of four thousand pounds for the purpose of metalling, channelling, and kerbing streets and footpaths, including construction of a traffic-bridge in reinforced concrete over the Mangawhero Stream in King Street, under the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913:

And whereas the above proposal was duly submitted to a poll of the ratepayers of the Hikurangi Town District on the twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen:

And whereas three days intervened between the last publication of the notice of intention to raise the loan prescribed by section nine of the said Act and the date on which the above poll of the ratepayers was taken, instead of a period of not less than seven days as required by section ten, subsection two, of the above-mentioned Act:

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

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon 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 poll and all matters in relation thereto, and doth declare that the said poll shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though it had been taken within the time prescribed by the above-mentioned section ten, subsection two; and, further, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings relative to such loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £600 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Manawatu.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Manawatu County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of six hundred pounds, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of providing the cost of constructing Bainesse Road: And whereas the special roll of the ratepayers interested, though deposited for public inspection, was not deposited 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 deposit of 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 aforesaid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Vesting the Control of a Public-hall Site in the Trustees of the Domett Public Hall and Mechanics’ Institute.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was heretofore duly set apart as a site for a public hall: And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve should be vested in the trustees for the time being of the Domett Public Hall and Mechanics’ Institute:

Now, therefore, 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, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section two of the Public Reserves and Domains Amendment Act, 1914, doth hereby constitute the trustees for the time being of the Domett Public Hall and Mechanics’ Institute a special Board for the purpose of controlling and managing the reserve described in the Schedule hereto as a site for a public hall; and doth hereby vest the control and management of the said reserve in the said special Board, who shall hold the said reserve in trust for the purposes of a site for a public hall.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Reserve 3848, situated in Block V, Domett Township, and bounded on the north-east by Lot 2, Block V, Domett Township, 250 links; on the south-east by Lot 20, Block V, Domett Township, 100 links; on the south-west by a public road, 250 links; and on the north-west by the Waipara Road, 100 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1911/1219, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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