Aug. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3083

Adding an Office to the Administrative Division of the Public Service.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of August, 1918.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section eighteen, subsection two, of the Public Service Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Commissioner may, whenever it appears advantageous to the Public Service so to do, certify to the Governor-General that it is expedient to add any office to or to abolish any office in the Administrative Division; and the Governor-General in Council may, upon such certificate, add any office to the Administrative Division or abolish any office therein:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby add the office of Director-General, Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce Department, to the said Administrative Division.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Abolishing an Office in and adding an Office to the Administrative Division of the Public Service.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of August, 1918.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section eighteen, subsection two, of the Public Service Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Commissioner may, whenever it appears advantageous to the Public Service so to do, certify to the Governor-General that it is expedient to add any office to or to abolish any office in the Administrative Division; and the Governor-General in Council may, upon such certificate, add any office to the Administrative Division or abolish any office therein:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby abolish the office of Secretary, and add the office of Assistant Director-General, Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce Department, to the said Administrative Division.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revocation of an Order in Council under Section 296 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twentieth day of August, 1918.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section two hundred and ninety-six of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that any Order in Council made under Part XVI of that Act, or under Part II of the Native Land Settlement Act, 1907, may be at any time revoked, either wholly or as to any part or parts of the land included therein, by the Governor-General by Order in Council:
And whereas a parcel of land known as Nuhaka 2 E 3 D 4, became subject, by virtue of an Order in Council dated the eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eight, to the provisions of Part XVI of the Native Land Act, 1909:
And whereas the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board has recommended that such land be no longer subject to Part XVI aforesaid:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the said Order in Council dated the eighteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eight, in so far as such Order in Council affects Nuhaka 2 E 3 D 4.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twentieth day of August, 1918.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the Hungahunga Drainage Board, acting under and in pursuance of paragraph (e) of section sixteen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, lately proposed to raise a loan of one thousand pounds for the purpose of constructing drainage-works in the Hungahunga Special Rating Area:
And whereas the ratepayers' consent given under paragraph (e) of section sixteen aforesaid is irregular, in that one of the subscribing ratepayers has attested the signature of another subscriber thereto:
And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularity, 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 Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the ratepayers' consent to the raising of the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had been properly witnessed, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Vesting the Control of a Reserve in the Raurimu Public Hall Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of August, 1918.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was by Warrant published in Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, permanently reserved for a site for a public hall:
And whereas it is expedient that the control of the said reserve should be vested in a special Board as hereinafter provided:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section two of the Public Reserves and Domains Amendment Act, 1914, doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto, for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously amended or revoked under the said Act), in the undermentioned persons, namely,--
JOHN CONNORS,
WALTER CLARK,
JOHN WILLIAM HUTSON,
FRANCIS JOSEPH KARAM, and EDMUND SMITH MERRIKIN,
who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by the name of the Raurimu Public Hall Board (hereinafter referred to as 'the Board'), with the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:-

1. The Board shall meet for the transaction of business on the last Saturday in each month at 7.30 o'clock p.m. at the Raurimu Public Hall, or at such other time or place as may from time to time be fixed by the Board. The first meeting shall be held on Saturday, the 31st day of August, 1918.
2. The members of the Board shall at their first meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting hereinafter mentioned, elect one of themselves to be Chairman, who may join in the discussion and shall have an original as well as a casting vote. The Chairman shall hold office until the election of his successor.
3. Special meetings may be convened by the Chairman, provided that two days' notice of any such meeting is given