JUNE 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2041

(g.) Upon the condition of all books and documents in
which any transactions respecting the receipt,
custody, issue, and stocktaking of stores are re-
corded, and whether all such books and documents
are kept in a place of safety and systematically
arranged.

(h.) Any other matters not hereinbefore included affecting
either the purchase, receipt, custody, or issue of
stores which it may be considered necessary to
include in the aforesaid report.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £1,000
proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of
Castlepoint.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventh day
of June, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Castlepoint County Council lately pro-
posed to raise a loan of one thousand pounds for the
purpose of metalling a portion of the Tinui-Annendale Road
under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913:

And whereas the public notice of the day on which the poll
of ratepayers on the above proposal was to be taken was
published twice only, instead of not less than four times as
required by section ten, subsection 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 said proceedings:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the
powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hun-
dred 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 declare that the said proceedings
shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the full
number of notices required by the Act had been properly
published, and that the proceedings in connection with the
said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of
the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Validating Special Order of Wellington City Council accepting
surrenders of certain Leases and granting a new Lease.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventh day
of June, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS pursuant to powers vested in it in that
behalf by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,
the Wellington City Council lately proceeded by way of
special order to accept from Joseph Dwyer, of Wellington,
hotelkeeper, surrenders of registered deeds of lease num-
bered 112977 and 112976 respectively, and to grant to the
said Joseph Dwyer one new lease of the lands comprised in
the said registered deeds of lease:

And whereas the resolution to accept the said surrenders
and to grant the said new lease was passed at a special meeting
of the said Wellington City Council held on the thirtieth day
of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen (hereinafter
referred to as “the said year”):

And whereas in accordance with the provisions of section
sixty-five of the said Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,
public notice of such resolution and of the intention of the
said Wellington City Council to confirm such resolution at an
ordinary meeting thereof to be held at the Town Hall, Wel-
ington, on Thursday, the sixth day of May in the said year,
was duly given on the first, eighth, fifteenth, twenty-second,
and twenty-ninth days of April in the said year:

And whereas, owing to the result of the general election of
members of the said Wellington City Council not having been
declared until the seventh day of May in the said year, the
meeting to confirm such resolution could not be held on the
said sixth day of May:

And whereas a special meeting of the said Wellington
City Council was held at the Town Hall, Wellington, on the
twelfth day of May in the said year for the purpose of confirm-
ing such resolution, and the resolution was confirmed at that
meeting:

And whereas the special order so made by the passing and
confirming of such resolution was irregularly made—firstly,
in that it was not confirmed on the said sixth day of May in
the said year as publicly notified was to be done; and,
secondly, in that public notice of the place and date of such
special meeting and of such resolution was not given once in
each full week up to the said twelfth day of May in the said
year; and, thirdly, in that the meeting at which such re-
solution was confirmed was held later than the forty-second
day after the special meeting held on the said thirtieth day
of March in the said year:

And whereas it is expedient to validate the said special
order and the proceedings in connection with the making
thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred on him by section three hun-
dred and sixty-eight of the Municipal Corporations Act,
1908, and of every power and authority 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 said special order and the proceedings in con-
nection with the making thereof, and doth declare that the
said special order and the said proceedings shall not be called
in question by reason only of the irregularities aforesaid.

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

Vesting a Reserve in the Whakatane Town Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this seventh day
of June, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
has been permanently reserved for a cemetery:
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient
to vest the said reserve in the Whakatane Town Board:

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,
and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and
Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and
after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in
the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Whakatane
Town Board, in trust, for a public cemetery.

SCHEDULE.

WHAKATANE PUBLIC CEMETERY.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 2 acres, more or less, being Allotment No. 267,
Waimana Parish (Block II, Whakatane Survey District).
Bounded towards the north by Allotments Nos. 268 and 269,
Waimana Parish, 800 links; towards the east by Allotment
No. 269 aforesaid, 250 links; towards the south by a public
road 100 links wide, 800 links; and towards the west by
Allotment No. 268 aforesaid, 250 links: be all the aforesaid
linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan
marked L. 1701, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.
(Auckland Plan 476, blue.)

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

Land temporarily reserved as an Endowment for Primary
Education in the Nelson Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first
section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that
the Governor may from time to time, either by general or
particular description, and whether the same has been
surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwith-
standing that the same may be then held under pastoral
license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required
for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned;