May 20.]

(2.) By substituting the following words for the words in
the sixth line of clause 15 of the said conditions :—
“Earthed neutral conductors may in all cases be bare.”

5. By adding the following to clause 16 of the said con-
   ditions:—
   “Where high and extra-high pressure lines are supported
   on the same poles or supports, both lines shall be bare, and
   means shall be provided for automatically and effectively
   earthing the high-pressure line in the event of the extra-
   high-pressure line making contact with the high-pressure line.
   “Where low-pressure and high-pressure lines are supported
   on the same poles or supports, the high-pressure line shall be
   insulated with vulcanized rubber of at least 600-megohm
   grade, and the low-pressure lines as provided in clause 15.”

6. By inserting the following paragraph after the fourth
   paragraph in clause 18 of the said conditions :—
   “Where electric lines and telegraph lines (other than lead-
   covered cables) intersect, high-pressure lines shall be insulated
   with not less than 600-megohm grade of vulcanized rubber."

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

Consenting to Stopping a Road in Block VII, Whangara
Survey District, Cook County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth
day of May, 1915.

Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three (a)
of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that a
local authority shall not declare any county road or district
road to be stopped until the consent thereto of the Governor,
by Order in Council gazetted, is obtained:
And whereas the Cook County Council has applied for
such consent in respect of the road described in the
Schedule hereto:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the above-
in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers in anyway
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 consent to the Cook County
Council stopping the road described in the Schedule
hereto.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road permitted to be
stopped: 11 acres 0 roods 16 perches.
Adjoining or passing through Whangara B No. 1, Block VII,
Whangara Survey District.
In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37614,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon
coloured green.

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

Consenting to a Mortgage of Native Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day
of May, 1915.

Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section two hundred and thirty of the
Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided that no instru-
ment of alienation of Native land by way of mortgage or
charge, other than a mortgage or charge in favour of a State
Loan Department, shall be confirmed by a Board or the
Court without the precedent consent of the Governor in
Council:
And whereas application has been made for the consent of
the Governor in Council to a mortgage of the block or parcel
of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto: And whereas it
is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor in
Council should issue:

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,
doth hereby consent to the confirmation of an alienation
by way of mortgage of the block or parcel of land set out in
the Schedule hereto. And it is hereby declared that this
Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf
of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly
as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings
hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE.
RUANUI 2B No. 2 Block: Approximate area, 1,165 acres
Wellington Provincial District.

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

Declaring a Native to be a European.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day
of May, 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 Go-
vernor may by Order in Council, on the recommendation of
the Native Land Court, declare any Native to be a European:
And whereas Richmond Davies, of Winiata, near Taihape,
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 Richmond Davies to be a European:
And whereas it is expedient that such declaration should be
made:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion 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 Richmond
Davies, of Winiata, near Taihape, to be a European.

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 Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day
of May, 1915.

Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
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 Waikukupa B Block, is now, by virtue of an
Order in Council made on the thirteenth day of August,
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 accord-
ingly:
And whereas the Governor is satisfied that the said land
is not subject to any lease, license, contract for 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