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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 100

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £1,000
proposed to be raised by the Manunui Town Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this ninth day
of July, 1918.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE W. H. HERRIES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Manunui Town Board lately proposed
to raise a loan of one thousand pounds under the
Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of reforming,
widenin, and metalling Maukauroa Road and Maire Road
and a portion of Totara Street and other streets within the
Town District :

And whereas an irregularity or defect occurred both in
the notice published in pursuance of section nine of the said
Act and in the voting-paper used at the poll upon the said
proposal in that though the proposed security for such loan
and the provision for repayment thereof were stated to be
an annual-recurring rate on the annual value of all rateable
property within the Town District, the amount of such rate
(namely, sixpence in the pound on rateable value, on the
basis of the annual value, of all rateable property within the
said district) was not set forth in such notice and voting-
paper :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been
misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is expedient to
validate the same :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one
hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913,
and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that
the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall be
valid to all intents and purposes as though the said amount
of such special rate had been stated in the said notice and
voting-paper, and that the proceedings shall not be called
into question by reason only of the irregularity or defect
aforesaid.

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

Public Trust Office.—Bonus to Beneficiaries.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this second day
of July, 1918.

Present :

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

WHEREAS the net surplus profits of the Public Trust
Office for the financial year ended the thirty-first
day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen,
after retaining twenty thousand pounds, were forty-eight
thousand six hundred and two pounds :

And whereas the total amount of the bonuses hereafter
mentioned will not exceed thirty thousand pounds :

Now, therefore, in exercise of the power in this behalf
conferred upon him by section sixty-one of the Finance Act,
1916, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, acting by and with the consent of the
Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby direct that
out of the said net surplus profits a sum equal to one-tenth
of the total amount of interest received during that year
from the common fund by each estate or account (other than
investment agencies) that was not finally closed and distri-
buted before the end of that year shall be credited as a bonus
to such estate or account, provided that the total amount
of all the said bonuses shall not exceed thirty thousand pounds.

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

Special Regulations for Deer-shooting, Wellington.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito
Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following
regulations prescribing the conditions under which certain
red-deer may be destroyed in the following parts of the
Wellington Acclimatization District, namely :—

All that area commencing at the Onoke Lake, thence
northward along the west side of the Wairarapa Lake to
Featherston, thence along the railway-line to Eketahuna,
then eastward in a direct line to the sea at Castlepoint,
then northward along the coast to the Waimata River,
then in a direct line westward to Mangatainoka, then
westward to Palmerston North, then along the railway-
line to Paekakariki, then south-east to the sea at Petone,
then along the coast to the point of commencement at the
Onoke Lake.

Also all that area within a line commencing at the mouth
of the Kawhatau River, then westward along the river to
its source at the summit of the Ruahine Ranges, then
northward to Motopuha, then westward to Te Rotoiti,
then southward to Moawhango, then to the point of
commencement at the mouth of the Kawhatau River.

Also the Counties of Featherston and Wairarapa South,
excepting therefrom all that part of the said counties lying
to the westward of the Wellington-Napier Railway line,
and excepting also all that area of land in the Huangarua
Survey District, being Sections 29 to 41 (inclusive), 59, 71,
72, 75, 79, 83, 90, 93, 97, 98, and part of Sections 70, 74,
78, 82, 86, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 87, and 84 (in the occupa-
tion of Mr. John Martin and Mr. Featherston Johnston,
and known as the Puruatanga Estate or Station).

REGULATIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the regulations
   made under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, the secretary
   of the Wellington Acclimatization Society at Wellington, or
   any person or persons duly authorized in writing by such
   secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned,
   kill within the said areas red-deer of either sex and of any
   age which in the opinion of the said secretary or of the said
   authorized persons should be destroyed either by reason of
   age, deformity, or other physical imperfection.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid during a
   period of two months from the date hereof.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal
   Affairs by the said secretary within one calendar month
   after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return
   shall state the number and sexes of all red-deer so destroyed
   as aforesaid, the dates, and name of the person by whom
   and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing
   any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

5. Any person who commits a breach of any of the pro-
   visions of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty not
   exceeding £20.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this thirteenth day of July, one thousand
nine hundred and eighteen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Opening Land in Otago Land District for Selection 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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open
for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the tenth
day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen,
at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule ; and I do also
declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject
to section one hundred and thirty-five of the said Act, as
it contains, or is supposed to contain, metal, mineral, or
valuable stone.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Maniototo County.—Naseby Survey District.—Otago Mining
District.

SECTION 54, Block I : Area 49 acres 3 roods 35 perches ;
capital value, £100 ; half-yearly rent, £2.

Weighted with £135, valuation for improvements consist-
ing of three-roomed dwelling, outbuildings, shelter belt of
trees, and fencing (netted).