Mar. 16.]

Boundaries of Borough of Gisborne altered.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventh day of March, 1916.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS a petition has been presented to the Governor, under section fourteen of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, praying the Governor to alter the boundaries of the Borough of Gisborne by excluding therefrom the area described in the Schedule hereto, and including the said area in the Mangapapa Town District: And whereas a notice showing the proposed alteration in boundaries of the said borough has been gazetted and publicly notified, and no objections in writing against such alteration have been lodged:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, 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 declare that, as on and from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be excluded from the Borough of Gisborne and shall be included in the Mangapapa Town District.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Borough of Gisborne bounded by a line commencing at a point on the left bank of the Taruheru River in line with the north-western side of Lytton Road; thence along the north-western side of the road being the north-eastern extension of Lytton Road north of the Taruheru River, for a distance of 400 links; thence along a line parallel to and 400 links distant from the left bank of the said Taru-heru River to the south-eastern corner of Mangapapa Town District; thence along a line being the production of the south-eastern boundary of that town district to the Taruheru River, and along the left bank of that river to the place of commencement.

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

Consenting to stopping Roads in Blocks II and VI, Drury Survey District, Karaka Road District, Franklin County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventh day of March, 1916.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three $(a)$ of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county road or district road to be stopped until the consent thereto of the Governor, by Order in Council gazetted, is obtained:

And whereas the Karaka Road Board has applied for such consent in respect of the roads described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers in anyway enabling him in this behalf, 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 consent to the Karaka Road Board stopping the roads described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of roads permitted to be stopped:

A. R. P.
1 1 18 Section 14; Block II. Plan P.W.D 39597.
1 2 14·8 Secs. 13 & 14; Block II. Plan P.W.D. 39597.
3 3 24·5 " 42 & 51 " VI. " 39598.

Situated in Drury Survey District (Karaka Parish; S.O. 18666/7).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured green.

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

781

Constitution of a Drainage Area under the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventh day of March, 1916.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS section two of the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, enacts that the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, declare any area of land described in the Order to be a drainage area to which the said Act applies: And whereas it is deemed expedient to declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a drainage area within the meaning of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in section two of the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby constitute and declare the area described in the Schedule hereto to be a drainage area to which the said Act shall apply, and to be called by the name of the “Kaitaia Drainage Area.”

SCHEDULE.

KAITAIA DRAINAGE AREA.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, in the Mangonui County, commencing at the north-west corner of W. Maxwell's Old Land Claim, part of No. 6. Bounded towards the north generally by the northern boundary of the said Maxwell's Old Land Claim No. 6 to high-water mark of Rangaunu Bay; thence by high-water mark of said bay to the Pairatahi River; thence towards the east generally by said river to the northernmost corner of Maimaru “D” Block (390A, red); thence again towards the north by northern boundary of Kareponia 1A Block (7322, red); thence towards the north-east by Allotments 129, S.W. 111, across a public road, by Allotment 99, across public road, and again by aforesaid Allotments 99 and 94 of the Parish of Mangatete; again towards the east generally by a public road intersecting Kareponia Blocks 2B and 2A to the Oinu Stream; thence towards the north-east generally by said Oinu Stream, Kareponia Block No. 2A aforesaid, and by a public road forming the north-east boundaries of Allotments 44, 45, 37, and N.W. 36, across a public road, and by Allotments S.W. 38, W. 34, across a public road, and by a public road forming north-east boundary of Allotment 23, across a public road, and by road forming north-east boundaries of Allotment; 21, 22, all of the Parish of Mangatete; and thence across a public road and by the road forming the north and north-east boundaries of Sections 6 and 3, Block III, Takahue Survey District; and thence by Section 5, Block IV, Takahue Survey District: thence by Allotment 122, Kaiaka Parish, to the public road through Allotment 75, Kaiaka Parish; thence by that road to the Te Puhi River, across the said river, and by that river to Allotment 115; thence by Allotment 115, 113, Kaiaka Parish, across a public road, and by the said road forming the northern boundary of Allotments 101 and 88 of said parish; thence by the Mangatoitoi Stream, across said stream, and thence to northern corner of Allotment 69 of said parish; thence by the road forming the north-east boundary of said allotment and Allotment 131 of the said parish; thence towards the south-east by the public road forming the south-east boundary of the last said allotment and Allotment 69 aforesaid; cross the public road and by middle portion of Allotment 17, Maungataniwha Parish, and by the south boundaries of Allotment W. 17 and Allotment 16 of the last said parish; thence towards the east by a public road forming the eastern boundary of Mangatiore Block, across a public road, and again by a public road; thence again towards the south-east generally by Allotments 144, 147, and 146 of aforesaid parish, across a public road, and by that road forming the south-east boundaries of Allotments 82 and 83, across a public road, and the road forming the south-east boundary of Allotment 106 of said parish, and a road forming the south-east and south boundaries of Sections 7A, 6B, 5A, 4B, 3A, and 2A, of Block XI, Takahue Survey District; thence towards the west by the Takahue-Kaiaka Road to the Takahue River, across said river, and again towards the east by a public road through Section 30, Block XI, Takahue Survey District; thence again towards the south by a public road to the Waikawa Stream and a road at the southern boundary of Section 13, and by the continuation of said road to the western boundary of Section 22; thence in a northerly direction by that road through Sections 22 and 10 of said block, and across a public road; thence again towards the