APRIL 19.)
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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lies back from the street may be required at any time by
the Chief Postmaster to provide a box on the street-line
for the reception of mail-matter. Failing compliance such
person may be excluded from the letter-carrier's delivery.
In the case of rural deliveries, settlers off the road-line must
either meet the mailman or provide a suitable box on the
road-line in which their correspondence can be deposited.

PURCHASE AND REPURCHASE OF STAMPS.

2. Postmasters in charge of money-order offices are per-
   mitted, though not compelled, to purchase from the public
   within New Zealand postage stamps of New Zealand (other
   than official stamps) of value not exceeding 5s. and not less
   than 2s. (provided the stamps are not soiled or otherwise
   damaged), at a discount of 5 per centum. Official stamps
   shall not be repurchased from Government Departments.

Stamps will not be repurchased from a Government De-
partment unless the person offering them produces an
application in writing from a responsible officer of the
Department.

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

Declaring Portion of Roud in Block III, Mangawai Survey
District, to be a Government Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day
of April, 1917.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him
in anywise 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 order and declare that the por-
tion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and
after the date of this Order in Council, become a Government
road.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road declared a Govern-
ment road: 5 acres 1 rood 20 perches.
Adjoining or passing through Sections 247 and 254, Block
III, Mangawai Survey District.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more par-
tioularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 42028,
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.

Declaring Portion of Hukanui-Mangamaire Road, in the
Pahiatua County, to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day
of April, 1917.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him
In the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers
in anywise 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 order and declare that the
portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on
and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county
road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Hukanui-Mangamaire Road, in the
Wellington Land District, Pahiatua County, commencing at
its junction with Pukewhai Road, and proceeding thence
in a south-westerly direction, adjoining or passing through
Sections part 68 and 79, Block XIV, Mangahao Survey
District, and terminating at the boundary between Sections 79

and 80, Block XIV aforesaid; being a distance of thirty-one
chains and a quarter, more or less. As the said portion of
road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
P.W.D. 41991, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public
Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District,
and thereon coloured red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Directing Sale of Land in Block XII, Purua Survey
District, under the Public Works Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth day
of April, 1917.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by the thirtieth section of the Public
Works Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed "the said
Act"), it is enacted that if it is found that any land held,
taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this or
any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise how-
soever for any public work, is not required for such public
work, the Governor may, by an Order in Council publicly
notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold under the
conditions set forth in the said Act:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto
was taken under the Public Works Act, 1908, for the pur-
poses of a drill-shed and defence offices in Block XII,
Purua Survey District:

And whereas the said land is not now required for the
public work for which it was taken, and it is desirable to
sell the same:

And whereas a plan has been prepared, and the Minister
has recommended the Governor to issue an Order in Council
directing the sale of the land described in the Schedule
hereto:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and
authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth hereby direct the sale of the
said land.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of land directed to be sold: 1 acre.
Portion of Section 1 (Whangarei Parish), Block XII, Purua
Survey District (S.O. 16750).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 32363,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon edged red.

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

Declaring Land to be no longer subject to Part XIV of the
Native Land Act, 1909.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tenth
day of April, 1917.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS by section ninety-six of the Native Land
Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the
Governor in Council may from time to time by Order in
Council declare that any land subject to Part XIV or XV
of the Native Land Act, 1909 (hereinafter referred to as
"the said Act"), and vested in a Maori Land Board, shall
no longer be subject to such Parts of that Act, and shall be
revested in the Native owners thereof:

And whereas the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto
is at present subject to Part XIV of the said Act, and is
vested in the Tokerau District Maori Land Board, which
Board has recommended that such land be no longer subject
as aforesaid and that it be revested in the Native owners:

And whereas the Governor is satisfied that the said land
is not subject to any lease, license, contract for sale, or other
alienation, and that no moneys are charged on the said land
or on the revenue thereof in accordance with the said Act
or under any other authority: