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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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poses: And whereas such land is situated in the Picton Road District, the local authority of which has assented to the issue of this Proclamation:

And whereas His Excellency the Governor is of opinion that the said local authority can conveniently construct and maintain the said road:

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 vested in me by section one hundred and ninety-seven of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall, upon the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, become a road, and that the said road shall be under the control of the Picton Road Board, and shall be maintained by the said Board in like manner as other public highways are controlled and maintained by the said Board.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land: 19·6 perches and 1 rood 10·7 perches.

Portions of railway reserve (R. 284).

Situated in Block XV, Linkwater Survey District, Picton Road District.

All in the Marlborough Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked W.R. 22217, deposited in the office of the Minister of Railways at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Amending Regulations for the Election of Members of Harbour Boards.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1915.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 25, of the thirtieth day of the same month, regulations were made for, inter alia, the election of members of Harbour Boards by the electors of combined districts:

And whereas it is desirable to amend the said regulations in the manner hereinafter described:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section seven of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby amend the said regulations of the twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, by adding the following proviso to clause three thereof:—

“Provided that in respect to the combined district of the Counties of Tawera, Malvern, Paparua, Heathcote, Halswell, Ellesmere, Selwyn, and Springs, and the Borough of Spreydon, the poll shall close at seven o’clock p.m. on the day of the election of members of the Lyttelton Harbour Board by the electors of the said combined district.”

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

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Declaring a Native to be a European.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1915.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

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

And whereas Tamati Mahera Kerehi, otherwise Thomas Percy Marshall Grace, of Wellington, 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 Tamati Mahera Kerehi (Thomas Percy Marshall Grace) to be a European: And whereas it is expedient that such declaration should be made:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion 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 Tamati Mahera Kerehi (Thomas Percy Marshall Grace) to be a European.

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

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Declaring Roads in the Heatherlea Settlement, Horowhenua County, to be County Roads.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this sixth day of February, 1915.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING 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 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, doth hereby order and declare that the roads described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become county roads.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Fairfield Road, in the Wellington Land District, Horowhenua County, Heatherlea Settlement, commencing at its junction with Rosslyn Road, and proceeding thence in a north-easterly direction to the south-eastern corner of Section 59, all in Block II, Waiopehu Survey District, being a distance of 24·50 chains, more or less.

Also all that portion of Rosslyn Road, in the said land district, county, and settlement, commencing at its junction with Fairfield Road in Block II, Waiopehu Survey District, and proceeding thence in a north-westerly direction to the south-western corner of Section 62, Block I, Waiopehu Survey District, being a distance of 52·91 chains, more or less.

Also all that road in the said land district, county, and settlement known as Sorensen Road, commencing at its junction with Heatherlea Road (East), and proceeding thence in a south-westerly direction to the north-western corner of Section 25, all in Block XIV, Mount Robinson Survey District, being a distance of 24 chains, more or less.

As the said roads are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37077, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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