JUNE 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2119
howsoever, for any public work, is not required for such
public work, the Governor may, by an Order in Council
publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold
under the conditions therein mentioned:
And whereas it is further provided by section five of the
Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case of
any land so taken, purchased, or acquired for a Government
work and not required for that purpose the Governor
may. on the recommendation of the Minister, and without
complying with any other requirements of the aforesaid
section thirty, by Proclamation declare such land to be
Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and thereupon
the land may be administered and disposed of under that
Act accordingly:.
And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto
was taken for the purposes of roads : And whereas such
roads have been stopped, and it is desirable to declare the
land contained therein to be Crown land : And whereas a
plan has been prepared, and the Minister has recommended
the Governor to declare such land to be Crown land :
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred upon me by the above-in-part-
recited Acts, and of all other powers in anyway enabling
me in this behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl
of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby declare the land described in the Schedule hereto
to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and that
such land may be administered and disposed of under that
Act accordingly.
SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land declared to be Crown
land : 2 roods 21-8 perches.
Being stopped road adjoining or passing through Section 1.
Situated in Block IX, Cape Campbell Survey District.
In the Marlborough Land District ; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 33770,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon coloured red.
Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian
Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea-
land and its Dependencies; and issued under
the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern-
ment House at Wellington, this twenty-first day
of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen.
W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.
GOD SAVE THE KING!
Authorizing the Auckland Harbour Board to reclaim Land at
St. George's Bay, Auckland Harbour.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of June, 1915.
Present:
His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS it is provided by the one-hundred-and-fifty-
eighth section of the Harbours Act, 1908 (herein-
after called "the said Act"), that where a Harbour Board
is desirous of executing or constructing upon lands vested
in such Board or upon lands of the Crown any harbour-works
of such a nature that the same could, but for this section,
only be carried out and executed under the authority of a
special Act, the Board may apply to the Governor in Council
for a special order, and, if the Governor in Council thinks
fit, such order may be made and granted :
And whereas the Auckland Harbour Board (hereinafter
called "the Board") is desirous of reclaiming from the sea
certain land at St. George's Bay, in Auckland Harbour, and
the said harbour-works are of such a nature as aforesaid,
and the Board has applied to the Governor in Council for a
special order authorizing the execution of the said harbour-
works :
And whereas the conditions precedent to the granting of
a special order prescribed by the said Act have been duly
performed and observed, and it appears expedient that such
order should be made:
And whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor
in Council that the proposed work will not be or tend to the
injury of navigation:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize and empower
the Board to reclaim from the sea in Auckland Harbour
all the lands shown edged in red on plan marked M.D. 4420,
and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at
Wellington, such reclamation to be carried out and con-
structed in accordance with plan marked M.D. 4420, subject
to the provisions of the said Act.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Directing that the Valuation Roll for a certain Special
District shall be revised.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of June, 1915.
Present:
His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in him by the Valuation of Land Act, 1908, 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 direct
that the district valuation roll for the special district named
in the Schedule hereto shall be revised by the Valuer-General
as at the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred
and fifteen.
SCHEDULE.
CHATHAM ISLANDS COUNTY.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Extending Close Season for Oysters between Albatross Point
and the Urenui Stream.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of June, 1915.
Present:
His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS it is enacted by the fifth section of the
Fisheries Act, 1908, that the Governor may from
time to time by Order in Council make regulations for, amongst
other things, prescribing a close season for oysters for a term
not exceeding three years, and for further extending such
close season:
And whereas by Order in Council dated the twenty-second
day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-fifth
day of the same month, a regulation was made prescribing
a close season for oysters for a term of three years from the
date of the order within all the bays, estuaries, and tidal
waters on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand
lying between Albatross Point on the north and the mouth
of the Urenui Stream on the south:
And whereas it is desirable to extend such close season:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and acting by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations:—
REGULATIONS.

1. THE close season for oysters within all the bays, estuaries,
   and tidal waters on the west coast of the North Island of
   New Zealand lying between Albatross Point on the north
   and the mouth of the Urenui Stream on the south, which
   was made by the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of the
   22nd July, 1912, is hereby extended until the 22nd July, 1917.
2. Any person taking oysters within the area mentioned
   in clause 1 hereof during such close season is liable to a fine
   of not less than £1 and not more than £20.
   J. F. ANDREWS,
   Clerk of the Executive Council.