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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

control of the said land should be vested in the South Rakaia Road 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 section two of the Public Reserves and Domains Amendment Act, 1914, doth hereby vest the control of the portion of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto in the South Rakaia Road Board for a period of five years from the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 0 roods 22 perches, more or less, being Lot 3 of Rakaia Suburban Lots (part of Reserve 2446), and bounded as follows : towards the north-east by Lot 4, Rakaia Suburban Lots, 400 links ; towards the south-east by Lot 5, Rakaia Suburban Lots, 1024 links ; towards the south-west by Hardy Road, 400·6 links ; and towards the north-west by Lot 1 (part of said Reserve 2446), 1046·5 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less : as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/1 (14A), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Amending the Conditions of Control in respect to the Summit Road Scenic Reserves.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and published in Gazette of the first day of October last, the control of certain lands in the Canterbury Land District known as the Summit Road Scenic Reserves was vested in seven persons who were by the said Warrant constituted a Special Board by the name of the Summit Road Scenic Board in pursuance of section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 : And whereas by clause three of the conditions contained in the said Warrant it was provided that any four members of the said Board should form a quorum at the meetings of the said Board : And whereas it is expedient that the number to form a quorum should be altered from four to three members :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, do hereby amend clause three of the conditions contained in the said Warrant by substituting the words “three members” for the words “four members.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Approving the Marlborough Patriotic Fund under the War Contributions Validation Act, 1914 (No. 2).

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section two of the War Contributions Validation Act, 1914 (No. 2), (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is enacted as follows :—

Contributions, whether in money or kind, may be made by any local authority or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, other than private trustees under a settlement or will,—

(a.) For the relief of distress occasioned by the war in which His Majesty is at present engaged, whether such distress exists in New Zealand or elsewhere in the British Dominions, or in any country allied to His Majesty,

(b.) For any patriotic objects approved for the purposes of this Act by the Governor :

Provided that every such contribution is paid either—

(i.) Into a public fund, established by the Government, or by any local authority, for the purposes of such relief of distress, or patriotic objects ; or

(ii.) Into a fund established by persons other than the Government or a local authority, where such fund and the conditions of control and expenditure thereof are approved for the purposes of this Act by the Governor.

And whereas certain persons in the Provincial District of Marlborough have formed themselves into a body for the following purposes, namely :—

(a.) To provide comforts and necessaries for the members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces ;

(b.) To provide horses, equipment, and moneys for the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces ;

(c.) To provide for the care and comfort of sick or wounded members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces and other military forces engaged in the present war ;

(d.) To assist maimed and injured members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces in commencing business ;

(e.) To provide for the dependants of those members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces who die or are killed during service with the colours or as the result of such service ;

(f.) To assist in equipping military hospitals, hospital ships, and to support red-cross work generally ;

(g.) To assist any cases of distress arising directly or indirectly out of the present war ;

(h.) To compile a Roll of Honour of Marlborough men serving with the colours ;

(i.) To assist in recruiting for the Expeditionary Forces ;

(j.) To take all such steps for the securing, collecting, obtaining, and providing of such moneys and relief, and to expend the same in such manner for any of the above or similar objects, as the Executive may think fit :

And whereas the said body of persons has established a fund, known as the Marlborough Patriotic Fund, for the promotion of the objects hereinbefore expressed, and has submitted the said fund and the conditions of control and expenditure thereof for approval, as required by the hereinbefore-quoted provisions of the said Act :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby approve for the purposes of the said Act—

(1.) The Marlborough Patriotic Fund hereinbefore referred to, established by the said body of persons ; and

(2.) The conditions of control and expenditure of the said fund, as set out in the rules adopted by the said body of persons on the fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Auckland, Taranaki, and Nelson Land Districts.

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, notwithstanding 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 :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 13 acres 0 roods 8 perches, more or less, being Section 57, Block XVI, Kawakawa Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section 54, Block XVI, Kawakawa Survey District, 1234 links ; towards the east generally by a public road 100 links wide, 274, 365·8, and 406·4 links ; towards the south-west by a public road 100 links wide, 108·4 and 240·9 links, and by Section 58, Block XVI aforesaid, 1459·5 links ; and towards the north-west by Section 56, Block XVI aforesaid, 867·9 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less : as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. XXII/1057, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan 16252, blue.) For a sanitary reserve,