3576
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 143

viz., “The Christchurch City Council, being the local authority having control of Barbour Street in the City of Christchurch, hereby declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to the west side of the said street”:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved in so far as it refers to the western side of the said street:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Acts, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution to the extent hereinbefore mentioned.

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SCHEDULE

THE western side of all that portion of street, situated in the Canterbury Land District, City of Christchurch, known as Barbour Street, commencing at its junction with Ferry Road, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly direction to its termination in the vicinity of the Lyttelton Railway line. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 44821, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

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Declaring Portion of the Marakopa River to Mahoenui Road, in the Awakino County, to be a County Road.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-second day of October, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 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.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of road in the Auckland Land District, Awakino County, known as the Marakopa River to Mahoenui Road, commencing at its junction with the Te Kuiti–Mokau Road, and proceeding thence generally in a northerly direction, adjoining or passing through Mahoenui No. 1B Block, Sections 2, 3, and 4, Block II, Awakino East Survey District, and part Section 1, Block XIV, Maungamangero Survey District, and terminating at peg marked 4 miles 14 chains near the south-eastern corner of the said Section 1, Block XIV, Maungamangero Survey District; being a distance of 4 miles 14 chains, more or less. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 44988, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

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Declaring Portion of a Road in Block VII, Oteramika Hundred, to be a Government Road.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fifteenth day of October, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 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 Government road.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road declared a Government road: 2 acres 2 roods 29·5 perches.

Adjoining or passing through Crown land situated in Block VII, Oteramika Hundred (Southland R.D.).

In the Southland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 44960, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

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Declaring Section 2, Block III, Te Mata Survey District, Raureka Settlement, Hawke’s Bay, to be vested in His Majesty in pursuance of Section 31 of the Valuation of Land Act, 1908.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-second day of October, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section thirty-one of the Valuation of Land Act, 1908, it is provided that if the owner of any land (other than the owner of a leasehold interest therein) is not satisfied with the value of such land as fixed by the Assessment Court, he may, within fourteen days after the hearing by the Assessment Court, give notice to the Valuer-General that he requires the capital value to be reduced to the amount specified in the notice, or the land to be acquired on behalf of His Majesty at the sum specified in the notice:

And whereas it is further provided by the said section thirty-one that the Valuer-General may either reduce the capital value or may refer the matter to the Governor-General in Council, and that if the Governor-General in Council approves of the acquisition of the land at the sum specified in the said notice, then the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, declare the land to be vested in His Majesty:

And whereas the owner of the fee-simple of the land known as Section 2, Block III, Te Mata Survey District, Raureka Settlement, Hawke’s Bay, containing an area of 23 acres 2 roods 29 perches, gave notice to the Valuer-General in terms of and within the time specified by section thirty-one of the Valuation of Land Act, 1908, that he required the capital value of the said land to be reduced to the sum of two thousand one hundred pounds, or the land to be acquired on behalf of His Majesty at that sum:

And whereas the Valuer-General has referred the matter to the Governor-General in Council:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section thirty-one of the Valuation of Land Act, 1908, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, 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 approve of the acquisition of the said land at the sum of two thousand one hundred pounds, and doth declare the said land to be vested in His Majesty.

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

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

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-second day of October, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section ninety-six of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Governor-General 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