3878
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 162

Declaring Lots 2, 3, and 4, Section 535, City of Wellington, to be vested in His Majesty, in pursuance of Section 31 of the Valuation of Land Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of December, 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 three properties described in the Schedule hereto 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 properties to be reduced to the sums of eight hundred and seventy-five pounds, one thousand one hundred and fifty-five pounds, and nine hundred and eighty pounds respectively, or the lands to be acquired on behalf of His Majesty at those sums :

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 lands at the sums of eight hundred and seventy-five pounds, one thousand one hundred and fifty-five pounds, and nine hundred and eighty pounds respectively, and doth declare the said lands to be vested in His Majesty.

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SCHEDULE.

(a.) PART Lot 4, Section 535, City of Wellington, having a frontage to Molesworth Street of 25 ft., and a depth of 100 ft. to Wingfield Street.

(b.) Lot 3 and part Lot 4, Section 535, City of Wellington, having a frontage of 33 ft. to Molesworth Street and a depth of 100 ft.

(c.) Lot 2, Section 535, City of Wellington, having a frontage of 28 ft. to Molesworth Street by a depth of 100 ft.

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

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Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Ohinewai Domain.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of December, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, with respect to any public domain, appoint such persons (not exceeding nine) as he thinks fit to be a Domain Board having, subject to Part II of the said Act, control of such domain :

And whereas by an Order in Council made on the thirteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, a Domain Board was appointed to control the Ohinewai Domain :

And whereas the period for which the said Board was appointed expired on the twelfth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen :

And whereas it appears expedient to again appoint a Domain Board to control the said domain :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

ANGUS MCKINNON, sen.,
ALEXANDER MUIR,
THOMAS NEIL,
JOHN MALCOLM MACKINNON,
WILLIAM BIRSS,
GEORGE PARKER, and
CALEB HILL,

as from the thirteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, to be the Ohinewai Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the said Act ; and doth hereby appoint Saturday, the twenty-fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, at half past seven o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Ohinewai School as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

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SCHEDULE.

OHINEWAI DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 62 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Allotment No. 49, Parish of Taupiri (Block VIII, Rangiriri Survey District). Bounded towards the north-east generally by a public road 100 links wide, 926·3, 685·5, 825·5, 840, and 1039·5 links respectively ; towards the south-east generally by Ohinewai Lake and by a reserve 100 links wide along Ohinewai Lake aforesaid, and a miscellaneous lease to E. J. Ralph, No. 787, 651 links ; and towards the south-west by Allotments Nos. 39, 40, and 41, Parish of Taupiri, 4004 links : be all the aforesaid link-ages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/442, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan No. 4554.)

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

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Directing that the District Valuation Rolls for certain Districts shall be revised as at the 31st March, 1919.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of November, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the Valuation of Land Act, 1908, 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 direct that the district valuation rolls for the districts enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be revised by the Valuer-General as at the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

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SCHEDULE.

OTAMATEA COUNTY.
Drury Riding and portion of Pukekohe East Riding, Franklin County.
Waipa County.
Waitomo County.
Ohura County.
Ohura Town District.
Thames County (part).
Ohinemuri County (part).
Tauranga County.
Whakatane County.
Waiapu County.
Waikohu County.
Wairoa County.
Waikare, Petane, Puketapu, and Okawa Ridings of Hawke’s Bay County.
Stratford County.
Waimate West County.
Hawera County.
Waimarino County.