Dec. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3879

Mangawhero and Mangamahu Ridings of Wanganui County.
Ruanui Riding of Rangitikei County.
Kiwitea Riding.
Pohangina County.
Kairanga County.
Pahiatua County.
Eketahuna County.
Collingwood County.
Picton Road District.
Awatere County.
Motueka Borough.
New Brighton Borough.
Cheviot County.
Amuri County.
Springs County.
Ellesmere County.
South Rakaia, Upper Ashburton, and Wakanui Road Districts in Ashburton County.
Timaru Borough.
Waitaki County.
Outram Town District.
Outram Riding outlying of Taieri County.
Clarendon, Mount Stuart, and Waihola Ridings of Bruce County.
Clutha Riding of Clutha County.
Tuapeka County.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Portions of Lee Street and Bridle-path Road, Heathcote County, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

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 subsection one of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply in any case where the local authority having control of a road or street by resolution declares that the provisions thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street, or any specified part thereof, and such resolution is approved by the Governor-General in Council:

And whereas by subsection two of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, and clause (b) of subsection one of section thirteen of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided that such approval may be either absolute or subject to such conditions with respect to the building-line as the Governor-General by Order in Council thinks fit to impose, and may refer to one or both sides of the road or street:

And whereas the Heathcote County Council, the local authority having control of the portions of roads described in the Schedule hereto, has passed the following resolution, viz.:

“That, pursuant to section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, the south-east side of Lee Street, Heathcote, bounding Lot Nos. 21/26, D.P. 26, R.S. 254, and the west side of Bridle-path Road bounding Lots Nos. 21, 22, and 27, D.P. 26, R.S. 254, be exempted from the provisions of the said section relating to setting back the frontage to 33 ft. from the centre of the street, subject to the building-line being set back to 33 ft. from the centre of the said streets, and subject to the owners dedicating a strip of land 3 ft. 6 in. in width along Lee Street for the purpose of widening the said street”:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved in so far as it refers to the south-east side of that portion of Lee Street and the west side of that portion of Bridle-path Road described in the Schedule hereto, subject to the condition hereinafter mentioned:

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, subject to the condition that no building, or part of a building, shall be erected at any time on the said sides of the portions of roads aforesaid within a distance of thirty-three feet of the centre-line of such roads.

SCHEDULE.

The south-eastern side of that portion of Lee Street bounding Lots Nos. 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26 (D.P. 26), portion of Rural Section 254, Block XVI, Christchurch Survey District, and the west side of that portion of Bridle-path Road bounding Lots 21, 22, and 27 (D.P. 26) forming portion of Rural Section 254, and situated in the block and Survey District aforesaid: as the said portions of roads are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45129, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

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

Revoking the Prohibition of the Importation of Soap.

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-six of the Customs Act, 1913, as extended by section two of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Amendment Act, 1915, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, prohibit the importation into New Zealand of any goods the prohibition of the importation of which is in his opinion necessary in the public interest:

And whereas by Order in Council made and gazetted on the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and amended by further Order in Council made on the sixth and gazetted on the ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and further amended by Order in Council made on the twenty-ninth day of January and gazetted on the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, the importation of soap manufactured in or exported from any place other than the United Kingdom or a British possession, or France, or Italy, or Japan was prohibited save with the consent of the Minister of Customs:

And whereas it is deemed advisable to revoke the aforesaid Orders in Council:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the aforesaid Acts, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the aforesaid Orders in Council made on the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, the sixth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, respectively.

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

Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in Westland Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth section of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Saville, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

THOMAS BROOK,
ROBERT HOULISTON, and
WILLIAM CLAYTON

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural land in the Westland Land District known as Run No. 9, Kokatahi and Toaroha Rivers; Run No. 13, Little Wanganui River; Run No. 34, Kawhaka River; Run No. 440, Lake Mapourika; Run No. 3, Taramakau River; and Runs 58 and 349, Evans Creek and Mount Bonar; as provided by the said section two hundred and twenty-five.

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

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.