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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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value addressed to the United Kingdom or for places in
transit through the United Kingdom. Packages containing
gold, if addressed to countries beyond New Zealand, can
only be posted (if not prohibited as aforesaid) at money-
order offices, and senders must pay thereon the export duty
of 2s. 3d. per ounce troy for gold mined in the North Island
and of 3d. per ounce troy for gold mined in the South Island,
in addition to the usual parcel-postage. Parcels containing
jewellery, watches, articles of manufactured gold or silver, and
suchlike valuables, should be insured and specially packed as
instructed in regulation 9, under the heading of “Insurance
of Parcels,” of the said regulations of the 26th day of
December, 1907; and such parcels, if addressed to any
place within New Zealand, may be insured and registered if
desired, but their insurance or registration is not compulsory
unless the contents are over 10s. in value. The transmission
of parcels of jewellery, &c., and bullion to certain countries
is prohibited. (See “Prohibitions” in the table of British,
Australasian, and Foreign parcel-post charges, pages 230–289
in “Post and Telegraph Guide,” March, 1918.)

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

Conferring on Wairewa County Council Powers of Borough
Councils with respect to Lighting and the Supply of Electricity.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the Lake Coleridge Water-
power Act, 1915 (hereinafter referred to as “the
said Act”), that the Governor-General may by Order in
Council confer on any local authority proposing to contract
with His Majesty the King for the supply of electricity from
the works established at Lake Coleridge by the Minister of
Public Works such of the powers of Borough Councils with
respect to lighting and the supply of electricity as he thinks
fit, and with such restrictions, modifications, and conditions
as he thinks fit, and thereupon that local authority shall
have and may exercise the said powers accordingly pursuant
to the tenor of the said Order in Council:

And whereas the Wairewa County Council proposes to
contract as aforesaid with His Majesty the King, and it is
expedient to confer upon the said County Council certain of
the said powers of Borough Councils, subject to certain
restrictions and conditions:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority vested in him in that behalf by the
said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
confer on the said Wairewa County Council all the powers
exercisable by a duly constituted Borough Council under
sections two hundred and seventy-seven and three hundred
and twenty-nine of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908,
section thirty-three, and subsection one as regards para-
graph (a) and subsection two of section forty-five of the
Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, and section
five of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1915,
subject to the restriction and condition that such powers
shall be exercisable by the said Wairewa County Council
only within the area described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area situate in Blocks 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6, Akaroa
Survey District; 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, and 14, Pigeon Bay Survey
District; 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, and 16, Halswell Survey District;
and 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8, Ellesmere Survey District, and bounded
as follows: Commencing at a point on the eastern boundary
of Wairewa County being the intersection of the northern
side of Mount Bossu Road with the eastern boundary of
Rural Section 29331; thence generally northerly along the
eastern boundary of Wairewa County to the northern corner
of Rural Section 31527; thence south-westerly, north-westerly,
and north-easterly along the southern, western, and northern
boundaries of Rural Section 21799 to the northernmost corner
of that section; thence generally northerly and westerly
along the eastern and northern boundaries of Wairewa County
to Herbert Peak; thence generally south-westerly and
westerly along the south-eastern and southern boundaries
of Rural Sections 21455, 21456, 21454, 21453, and 21452 to
the western corner of the last-mentioned section; thence
southerly along the eastern boundary of Rural Sections 21316
and 2612 to the southern side of a road intersecting the
last-mentioned section; thence westerly along the southern
side of the said road to the north-western corner of Rural
Section 2733; thence south-westerly to the south-eastern
corner of Rural Section 21396; thence generally westerly
along the southern boundary of Rural Sections 21396, 12128,
and 13545 to McQueen’s Valley Road; thence south-westerly
along the south-eastern side of that road and the south-western
and south-eastern side of a road forming the north-eastern
and north-western boundary of Rural Sections 10523 and
13560 to a point opposite the southern corner of Rural
Section 21391; thence generally north-westerly along
the south-western boundary of Rural Sections 21391, 18718,
18716, 35586, 21392, 35885, and 3624 to the eastern
side of Gebbie’s Pass Road; thence generally north-
easterly along the eastern side of that road to the south-
eastern corner of Rural Section 5131; thence northerly along
the eastern boundary of that section and Section 12764 to
the northern boundary of Wairewa County; thence generally
westerly and southerly along the northern and western
boundary of that county to Lake Ellesmere; thence south-
easterly across Lake Ellesmere to the eastern side of a road
forming the eastern boundary of Section 4, Reserve 3586;
thence southerly along the eastern side of that road and a
line in continuation thereof to the sea; thence easterly
along the southern boundary of Wairewa County to the
eastern shore of Lake Forsyth; thence northerly along the
eastern shore to the westernmost corner of Rural Section
2039; thence north-easterly, south-easterly, and south-
westerly along the north-western, north-eastern, and south-
eastern boundaries of that section to the northern side of
Mount Bossu Road, and from thence returning easterly along
the northern side of the said road to the commencing-point,
and edged pink on the plan.

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

Declaring Portion of Mangatoa Road, in the Awakino County,
to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Mangatoa Road, situated in the Auck-
land Land District, Awakino County, commencing at its
juncture with the Waikawau Road at the Mangatoa Bridge,
and proceeding thence generally in a north-easterly direction,
adjoining or passing through Sections 3 and 2, Block X, and
Sections 3 and part 4, Block VII, Whareorino Survey District,
and terminating at a point on the western boundary of the said
Section 4; being a distance of 1 mile 63 chains, more or less.
As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on
the plan marked P.W.D. 45238, 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.

Declaring Portion of Road in Poolburn District to be a
Government Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this ninth day
of December, 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