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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 146

9. The Board shall appoint all officers necessary for the working and management of the wharf.

10. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Board 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 with any provisions of the Harbours Act, 1908, or its amendments, or any regulations thereunder, and that are now or may hereafter be in force.

11. The rights, powers, and privileges hereby conferred shall continue in force for fourteen years, computed from the date of this Order in Council, unless in the meantime altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority; and the Board shall not assign, charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege without the previous written consent of the Minister first obtained.

12. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred under or by virtue of this Order in Council may be at any time resumed by the Governor-General on giving to the Board three calendar months’ notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister and delivered at or posted to the last known address of the Board. No compensation or allowance shall be payable in such case.

13. The Board shall be liable for any injury which may be caused at the said wharf to any vessel or boat through any default or neglect on the part of the Board.

14. In case the Board 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 wharf for a period of thirty consecutive days,—
    then and in either of the said cases every right, power, or privilege hereby conferred may be revoked and determined by the Governor-General in Council without notice to the Board 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 Board, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the rights and privileges thereby conferred, have been revoked and determined.

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

Declaring a Road-line through Land in Cricklewood Settlement, Canterbury Land District, to be closed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the road described in the Schedule hereto is unformed and unused, and that the said road intersects land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and is not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of section eighty of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the road hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon become subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

CRICKLEWOOD SETTLEMENT.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road required to be closed: 7 acres.

Passing through Sections 11608 and 18306, Block XI, Tengawai Survey District.

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/41, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening Land in Southland Land District for Selection by Discharged Soldiers on Optional System.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and fifty-four of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto, which has been set apart for selection by discharged soldiers, shall be open for selection by discharged soldiers on Wednesday, the twenty-first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the prices at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased, as mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND COUNTY.—
CAMPBELLTOWN HUNDRED.

Second-class Land.

SECTION 66, Block VIII: Area, 119 acres 3 roods 16 perches. Capital value, £75. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £1 17s. 6d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 10s.

Weighted with £5, valuation for fencing.

Situated four miles by level road from Woodend Railway-station. Level land, wet and swampy, the northern half being all bog, but is capable of being drained.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening National Endowment Lands in Southland Land District for Selection by Discharged Soldiers on Renewable Lease.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the national endowment lands described in the Schedule hereto, which have been set apart for selection by discharged soldiers, shall be open for selection by discharged soldiers on renewable lease on Wednesday, the twenty-first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Southland County.

SECTIONS 98, 99, and 100, Block XXIII, Invercargill Hundred: Area, 203 acres 3 roods 1 perch; capital value, £210; half-yearly rent, £4 15s.

Weighted with £10 16s., valuation for improvements.

Originally bush land, chiefly totara. Commercial timber removed; now fire-swept. Parts are open, and producing a little rough feed. About half is fair sound land, balance wet and peaty. Situated about a mile and a quarter from Waimatua Railway-station.

Wallace County.—Otago Mining District.

Section 5, Block XII, Longwood Survey District: Area, 246 acres; capital value, £250; half-yearly rent, £5.

Broken forest land, about four miles from Orepuki, by gravelled road over portion and formed clay road over balance. Soil of clay formation, with a fair amount of peat.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.