Aug. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2891

enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby vest the management of the wharves at Paparoa, Raupo, Pahi, Matakoe, Point Curtis, Tokatoka, and Whakapirau, in Kaipara Harbour, as shown on plans marked M.D. 2378, 4485, 1940, 459 and 460, 432 and 433, and 4072, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington, in the Council, subject to the conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

CONDITIONS OF MANAGEMENT.

1. ALL His Majesty’s subjects shall at all reasonable times, and upon payment of the proper dues, have free and full liberty to use the above-mentioned wharves, and rights of ingress and egress thereto and therefrom.

2. His Majesty or the Governor, and all officers in the Government service acting in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress into, over, and out of the said wharves without payment.

3. The Council shall maintain and keep the above-mentioned wharves, and all erections on or in connection therewith, in good order and repair; and shall at all times exhibit therefrom and maintain at its own cost suitable and necessary lights for the guidance of vessels; provided that no light shall be exhibited until after it has been approved by the Minister for the time being having charge of the Marine Department (hereinafter called “the Minister”).

4. Any person authorized by the Minister may at all reasonable times enter upon the said wharves and erections on or in connection therewith, and view the state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at or posting to the last known address of the Council a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such wharves or erections, requiring it within a reasonable time, to be therein prescribed, to repair the same, it shall with all convenient speed cause such defect to be removed or such repairs to be made.

5. The Council shall not erect, or suffer to be erected, on the said wharves any buildings or structures whatsoever, except with the consent of the said Minister.

6. The Council shall appoint all officers necessary for the working and management of the wharves.

7. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Council to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of the Minister of Customs, or any provisions of the Harbours Act, 1908, or its amendments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that are now or may hereafter be in force.

8. The rights, powers and privileges conferred under or by virtue of this Order in Council shall continue to be in force for fourteen years, computed from the date of this Order in Council, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority.

9. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or under this Order in Council may be at any time resumed by the Governor, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the Council six calendar months’ notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Governor or the said Minister, or by any person acting under his or their instructions, and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the Council, its successors, or assigns.

10. The Council shall be liable for any injury which may be caused by the said wharves or any of them to any vessel or boat through any default or neglect on the part of the Council.

11. In case the Council shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them; or
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharves or either of them for a period of thirty consecutive days,—
    then and in either of the said cases every right, power, and privilege hereby conferred may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without notice to the Council or other proceeding whatsoever, and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the Council, and to all persons concerned or interested, of the facts stated in such Order in Council.

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

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Opossums absolutely protected in Wellington Acclimatization District.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that, from and after the date hereof, opossums of every variety shall be deemed to be absolutely protected within the Wellington Acclimatization District as described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north-west and north generally by the Counties of Wanganui, Waimarino, and East Taupo from the mouth of the Wangaehu River to the Rangitikei River at the north-eastern corner of the County of Rangitikei; thence towards the east generally by the County of Hawke’s Bay and the summit of the Ruahine Range to the Feilding and District Acclimatization District as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 38, of the 4th May, 1899; thence towards the south-west, south-east, and north-east generally by that district and the Counties of Woodville, Dannevirke, and Weber to the sea at the mouth of the Waimata River; and thence again towards the south-east, south, and west generally by the sea to the mouth of the Wangaehu River, the place of commencement: including adjacent islands excepting Kapiti.

The aforesaid area comprises the Counties of Hutt, Makara, Masterton, Featherston, Castlepoint, Wairarapa South, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Akitio, Horowhenua, Kai-ranga, and Rangitikei, and parts of the Counties of Manawatu, Oroua, and Kiwitea, together with the City of Wellington, the Boroughs of Miramar, Karori, Onslow, Petone, Lower Hutt, Eastbourne, Foxton, Masterton, Greytown, Carterton, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Levin, Palmerston North, Marton, and Taihape, and the Featherston, Hunterville, Johnsonville, Otaki, Martinborough, Upper Hutt, and Mangaweka Town Districts.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in Southland Land District.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth section of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

HENRY DOUGLAS MORPETH HASZARD,
WILLIAM JAMES ANNAN McGREGOR, and
JAMES FLEMING

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural lands in the Southland Land District known as Runs Nos. 198c, Centre Hill and Takitimo Districts; 394a, Eyre District; 536, Anglem and Mason Districts; 352a, Eyre District; 420a and 6, Eyreside, Eyre North, Kingston, and South Wakatipu Districts; 302c, Eyre District; and 5, Eyre North and Eyreside Districts, as provided by the said section two hundred and twenty-five.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

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Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in the Town of Foxton, Wellington Land District.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS a notice of the intention to change the purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a post-office and telegraph-station to a reserve for railway purposes has been duly gazetted for four consecutive weeks, and also laid before Parliament in accordance with the provisions of section seven of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908: And whereas no resolution of either House of Parliament has been passed that such House does not assent to such change of purpose:

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 Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, do hereby change the specific purpose of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a post-office and telegraph-station to a reserve for railway purposes.