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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 8

7. Any person authorized by the Minister may at all reasonable times enter upon the said wharf and view the state of repair thereof; and upon such Minister leaving at or posting to the last known address of the licensee in New Zealand a notice in writing of any defect or want of repair in such wharf, requiring him, within a reasonable time, to be therein prescribed, to repair the same, he shall with all convenient speed cause such defect to be removed or such repairs to be made.

8. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the licensee 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 made thereunder, and that are now or may hereafter be in force.

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

10. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the licensee three calendar months’ previous 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 licensee in New Zealand.

11. The licensee shall be liable for any injury which the said wharf may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any default or neglect on his part.

12. In case the licensee shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them;
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for a period of thirty days;
    (3.) Become bankrupt, or be brought under the operation of any law for the time being in force relating to bankruptcy; or
    (4.) Fail to pay the sums specified in clause 3 of these conditions,—
    then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council, and every license, right, power, or privilege may be revoked and determined by the Governor in Council without any notice to the licensee 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 licensee, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

13. The erection of the said wharf shall be sufficient evidence of the acceptance by the licensee of the terms and conditions of this Order in Council.

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

Approving the Napier Patriotic Societies’ Fund under the War Contributions Validation Act, 1914 (No. 2).

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section two of the War Contributions Validation Act, 1914 (No. 2), (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is enacted as follows:—

Contributions, whether in money or kind, may be made by any local authority or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, other than private trustees under a settlement or will,—

(a.) For the relief of distress occasioned by the war in which His Majesty is at present engaged, whether such distress exists in New Zealand or elsewhere in the British Dominions, or in any country allied to His Majesty;

(b.) For any patriotic objects approved for the purposes of this Act by the Governor:

Provided that every such contribution is paid either—

(i.) Into a public fund established by the Government, or by any local authority, for the purposes of such relief of distress, or patriotic objects; or

(ii.) Into a fund established by persons other than the Government or a local authority, where such fund and the conditions of control and expenditure thereof are approved for the purposes of this Act by the Governor:

And whereas certain persons in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay have formed themselves into an association known as the Napier Patriotic Society for the following purposes—namely, to receive subscriptions and contributions towards the purposes of a War Fund as defined by section two of the War Funds Act, 1915, and to strictly apply all such subscriptions and contributions to the various War Fund special objects as mentioned by the subscribers and contributors when subscribing or contributing, and to otherwise administer all other moneys received, where no special object is mentioned, on any object, at the discretion of the society, coming within the definition of a War Fund:

And whereas the society has established a fund for the promotion of the objects hereinbefore expressed, and has submitted the said fund, and the conditions of control and the expenditure thereof, for approval, as required in the hereinbefore-quoted provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby approve for the purposes of the said Act—

(i.) The fund hereinbefore referred to, established by the Napier Patriotic Society; and

(ii.) The conditions of control and expenditure of the said fund, as set out in the rules adopted by the said society.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Certain Land in New River Hundred declared a Sanctuary for Imported and Native Game.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

PURSUANT to 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 the area described in the Schedule hereto, the property of Mrs. S. Beavan, of Oporo, shall be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Animals Protection Act, and that no imported game or native game shall be taken within the said area.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, being Section 11, Block XIV, New River Hundred, bounded towards the north and west by the Oreti River, towards the south by a public road, and towards the east by Section 10.

Also all that area, being Sections 20, 21, 30, and part of a road, bounded towards the north by Section 31, towards the west by a public road, again towards the north by a public road, towards the east by the Oreti River, towards the south by Sections 22 and 29, and towards the west by Section 43.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Auckland Land District for other Land.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908, as amended by section seventeen of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive by way of equality of exchange any sum not exceeding twenty-five per centum of the estimated value of the Crown land so granted:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land of equal value described in