MAY 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1819

the said Board as a representative of the said combined district, and it is desirable to validate such election :

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 the said section twenty-four of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, 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 validate the election of the said John James Graham as a member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, as a representative of the combined district hereinbefore described.

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

Validating the 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 Waimarino.

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 the Waimarino County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of five hundred pounds for the purpose of felling, clearing, and forming the Matahiwi-Ohotu Road into a dray-road within the Ohakune Riding of the County of Waimarino, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913 :

And whereas the public notifications of the special order authorizing the raising of the above loan, although published four times, were not published once in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the day on which the subsequent meeting was to be held, inasmuch as no public notice was given in the week immediately preceding the day 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 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 the Public Notifications in connection with Proceedings taken for the Raising of a Loan of £950 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Waimarino.

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 the Waimarino County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of nine hundred and fifty pounds for the purpose of trimming, forming, and metalling the unmetalled portions of the Parapara–Raetihi Road from the boundary of the Raetihi Town District to the south boundary of Section A, Mairekura Block, Block X, Makotuku Survey District, within the Parapara Riding of the County of Waimarino, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913 :

And whereas the public notifications of the special order authorizing the raising of the above loan, although published four times, were not published once in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the day on which the subsequent meeting was to be held, 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 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 the Public Notifications in connection with Proceedings taken for the Raising of a Loan of £670 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Waimarino.

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 the Waimarino County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of six hundred and seventy pounds, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of felling, clearing, and forming Field’s Track into a dray-road from its junction with the Tokiahuu Stream southwards to the Ohotu–Karioi Road, within the Karioi Riding of the County of Waimarino :

And whereas the public notifications of the special order authorizing the raising of the above loan, although published four times, were not published once in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the day on which the subsequent meeting was to be held, 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 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 the Public Notifications in connection with Proceedings taken for the Raising of 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 tenth day of May, 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 unmetalled