746 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 33 SCHEDULE. MARAMARUA SURVEY DISTRICT. Approximate Area. A. R. P. Onewhero. Lot 58B No. 2 : 543 3 34 " 58c 275 1 21 " 58e 170 0 0 " 58A NO. 1 90 0 27 " 58A 2 57 3 37 " 55 315 0 6 " 23B 199 3 0 " 78A 49 0 0 " 78B No. 1 40 3 0 " 78B 2 65 0 32 " 78B 3 89 2 24 " 78B 4 97 3 8 " 78B 5 195 2 16 " Native reserve 608 0 0 J. F. ANDREWS. Clerk of the Executive Council. Prohibiting the Importation of Boots, Shoes, Slippers, and Sandals the Sale of which in New Zealand would be an Offence against the Footwear Regulation Act, 1913. LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty- sixth day of February, 1915. Present : THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Customs Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council prohibit the importation into New Zealand of any goods the sale of which in New Zealand would be an offence against the law : And whereas it is an offence against the Footwear Regulation Act, 1913, for any person to sell any boots or shoes (including slippers and sandals) the soles of which consist wholly or partly of leather, or any imitation of leather, or of any material having the appearance of leather, unless— (a.) The soles thereof are of leather without admixture or addition other than of materials used for filling spaces, shanks, or rubber outsoles ; or, in the case of ladies' fancy or evening footwear, of heels of wood or celluloid : or (b.) A statement of the material or materials composing the soles thereof is conspicuously and legibly stamped upon or impressed into the outer surface of the sole of each boot or shoe : Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section forty- six of the Customs Act, 1913, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby prohibit the importation into New Zealand, on and after the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, of the following goods, that is to say : Boots and shoes (including slippers and sandals) the sale of which in New Zealand would be an offence against the Footwear Regulation Act, 1913. J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council. Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £2,000 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Waimarino. LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty- second day of February, 1915. Present : THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS the Waimarino County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of two thousand pounds for the purpose of trimming, forming, and metalling the un- metalled portions of the Parapara-Raetihi Road from the Taukoro Stream northwards to Section 1, Block V, Ngamatea Survey District, and to metal the Raupiu Road from the Mangawhero River to the Waipapa Road Junction, within the Parapara Riding of the Waimarino County, under the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913 : And whereas the proceedings taken in respect of the above loan are irregular, inasmuch as the notice of the date of the poll of ratepayers was published only three times in a newspaper circulating the district instead of not less than four times as required by section ten (two) of the above-named 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 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 poll of ratepayers shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the prescribed number of notices of the date of the poll had been given, 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. Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908. LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty- second day of February, 1915. Present : THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council gazetted, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908 : And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the Wayby Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation : 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 power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the portion of Wayby Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall, from the fourth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908. SCHEDULE. All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 47 acres 1 rood 4 perches, more or less, situated in Block VIII, Pakiri Survey District, Rodney County, and being part of Wayby Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated 11th September, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 76, of 14th September, 1899, page 1763. Bounded towards the north-west and north generally by the Wayby Kauri-gum Reserve, 972·7, 974, 573·8, 658·3, 452·6, 1120·7, 924·8, and 863·3 links ; towards the east by a public road and a closed road, 285·5 links ; and towards the south- east and south generally by a closed road and a public road, 1001·2, 277·1, 457·2, 359·8, 95, 151·6, 520·5, 472·9, 520, 230·3, 82·7, 142·4, 403·7, 146·2, 367·9, 374·7, 530·6, 330·8, 331·2, and 281·9 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less : as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1913/1016, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan 16030, blue). J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council.