Aug. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2945

Validating the Public Notifications in connection with Proceedings taken for the Raising of a Loan of £800 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Opotiki.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of August, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Opotiki County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of eight hundred pounds for the purpose of widening the Pakihi Track to a dray-road from the end of the present dray-road formation to Section 17, Block XIII, Waiawa Survey District (stock reserve), 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 last week 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 in 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 £10,000 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Opotiki.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of August, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Opotiki County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of ten thousand pounds for the purpose of constructing the roads and bridges mentioned in the voting-paper submitted to the ratepayers on the above proposal under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913:

And whereas the public notifications of the proposal to raise the above loan, although published four times, were not published once in each week for four successive weeks in the manner required by section nine of the above-mentioned Act:

And whereas the first public notice setting forth the date on which the poll of ratepayers was to be taken was published thirteen days instead of not less than fourteen days before the said date, as required by section ten, subsection two, of the said Act:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularities, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in 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 proposal to raise the loan and of the date of the poll of ratepayers shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the said public notifications 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 irregularities aforesaid.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £90 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Stratford.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of August, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the Stratford County Council lately proposed to raise a loan of ninety pounds, under the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of forming, grading, culverting, and metalling Kelly Street, Midhirst:

And whereas the special roll, though deposited for public inspection, was not deposited seven days prior to the obtaining of the written consent of the ratepayers as required by section seventeen of the said Act:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in 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 proceedings shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the said roll had been deposited at the proper time, 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.

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this sixteenth day of August, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in Council gazetted, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908:

And whereas the Land Board of the Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the portion of the Poroti Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

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 power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the portion of Poroti Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall, from the nineteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 7 acres, more or less, situated in Block IX, Purua Survey District, Whangarei County, and being portion of Poroti Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated 25th September, 1899, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 79, of 28th September, 1899. Bounded towards the north generally by a public road, 1134 and 350 links; towards the east, south, and west by the Poroti Kauri-gum Reserve, 656, 838·2, 129·8, 672·6, and 332·3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/6 (28), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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