APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1011

Bringing certain Provisions of the Mining Act into Force within certain Parts of New Zealand.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section two of the Mining Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided that the Governor, by Order in Council, may from time to time declare that any of the provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, shall apply to prospecting and mining for and the storage of petroleum and other mineral oils and of natural gas, and also define the districts within which any such Order in Council shall take effect:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act, 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 declare that the provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, set out in the First Schedule hereto shall apply to prospecting and mining for and the storage of petroleum and other mineral oils and of natural gas within the district described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

The Mining Act, 1908.—Part II: Section 11, subsection (a); sections 76 to 85, both inclusive; and section 165. Part V: Sections 261 to 276, both inclusive.

Regulations under Mining Act, 1908.—Nos. 1, 33, 91, 102, 147 to 150 (both inclusive).

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Westland Land District contained in the Survey District of Waiwhero.

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

Declaring Land to be no longer subject to Part XIV of the Native Land Act, 1909.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section ninety-six of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to time by Order in Council declare that any land subject to Part XIV or XV of the Native Land Act, 1909, and vested in a Maori Land Board, shall no longer be subject to such Parts of that Act, and shall be revested in the Native owners thereof:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto, and known as Ruapekapeka No. 7d Block, is now, by virtue of an Order in Council made on the third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and by virtue of the provisions of section two hundred and thirty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, subject to Part XIV of the said Act, and vested in the Tokerau District Maori Land Board accordingly:

And whereas the Governor is satisfied that the said land is not subject to any lease, license, contract of sale, or other alienation, and that no moneys are charged on the said land or on the revenue thereof in accordance with the said Act or under any other authority:

And whereas it is expedient that the said land should cease to be subject to Part XIV of the said Act:

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 ninety-six of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall no longer be subject to Part XIV of the Native Land Act, 1909.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 77 acres 1 rood 3 perches, more or less, situated in the Hukere-nui Survey District, in the Land District of Auckland, and known as Ruapekapeka No. 7d Block. Bounded towards the north by Section 38 of the Parish of Ruapekapeka and a road, towards the east by Ruapekapeka No. 5 Block, towards the south by Ruapekapeka No. 7g Block, and towards the west by a road.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Declaring Portion of Retaruke Valley Road, in the Kaitieke County, to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of March, 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 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 portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of road in the Wellington Land District, Kaitieke County, known as the Retaruke Valley Road, commencing at a point 16 chains north of the boundary between Retaruke No. 1 Block and Section 6, Block IX, Kaitieke Survey District, and proceeding generally in a south-westerly direction adjoining or passing through the said Retaruke No. 1 Block, Section 6, and scenic reserve, Block IX, Kaitieke Survey District, Sections 8, Scenic Reserve, 7, and 9, Block XII, Retaruke Survey District, and terminating at the Taurimu Stream, being a distance of three miles or thereabouts; as the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37396, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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

Declaring Portion of Kokako Road, in the Kaitieke County, to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of March, 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 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 portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of road in the Wellington Land District, Kaitieke County, known as Kokako Road, commencing at its junction with the Kouturoa Road, and proceeding generally in a southerly direction fronting Section 10, Block IX, Kaitieke Survey District; thence fronting Section 10 and part Section 2, Block XIII, Kaitieke Survey District, and terminating at a point 25 chains north of the boundary between Sections 2 and 3, Block XIII aforesaid, being a distance of 1 mile 40 chains, more or less: as the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37389, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

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