Mar. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 769

Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution to the extent hereinbefore mentioned.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Church Road, Warrington, situated in the Otago Land District, Waikouaiti County, adjoining Allotments 4 and part 5 of Section 48, Block I, Waikouaiti District. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41467, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

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Taking Land for Public Purposes in the Cook Islands.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of February, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and fifty-seven of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, it is provided that the Governor may by Order in Council take any land in the Cook Islands for any public purpose specified in the Order:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a certain public purpose—to wit, for the purposes of public health:

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, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section three hundred and fifty-seven of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and of every other power and authority enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of public health.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situate in the lagoon at Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, being the whole of the island known as Motu-rakau, containing an area of 3 acres 3 roods. As the said parcel of land is delineated in the plan numbered 2, signed by the Deputy Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the High Court of the Cook Islands at Rarotonga.

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

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Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of One Thousand Pounds (£1,000) proposed to be raised by the Spring Creek River Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighteenth day of February, 1918.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Spring Creek River Board did on the fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, pursuant to the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, take a poll of the ratepayers of the said Board to raise a loan of one thousand pounds (£1,000) for the purpose of paying off the Board’s overdraft:

And whereas the said poll was duly carried and the said Board is desirous of borrowing the said sum of one thousand pounds (£1,000) so authorized by the poll of ratepayers as aforesaid:

And whereas an irregularity or defect occurred in the proceedings required to be taken by subsection four of section ten of the said Act in that the voting-paper used at the said poll did not contain the full particulars of the loan as required by the aforementioned subsection four of section ten of the said Act:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the said Board have not been misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is expedient to validate the said proceedings:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General in and for the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me 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, do hereby declare that all proceedings in connection with the said poll shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the said voting-paper had contained the aforesaid information, and that the said proceedings shall not be called into question by reason only of the said irregularity or defect.

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

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Warden appointed:

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of February, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section nine of the Mining Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time by Order in Council appoint fit persons to be Wardens, who shall hold office during the Governor-General’s pleasure:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the said section nine of the Mining Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion doth hereby appoint

EDWARD DARKER MOSLEY

to be a Warden, to hold and exercise the duties of such office under and subject to the provisions of the said Act during pleasure on and from the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

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

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Making Regulations regarding the Use and Management of the Ngahina Wharf on the Waihou River.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of February, 1918.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section six of the Waihou and Ounemuri Rivers Improvement Act, 1910 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), that the Governor may from time to time make regulations for, inter alia, the use, management, or protection of any works constructed under the authority thereof, and providing for fees or dues to be paid for the use of any wharf or other work or convenience constructed or acquired under that Act, and may prescribe penalties for the breach of any of such regulations: And whereas the Minister of Public Works has, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon him by the said Act, erected a wharf (hereinafter called “the Ngahina Wharf” or “the wharf,”) and it is considered expedient that the regulations hereinafter set forth should be made regulating the use and management of such wharf:

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, doth hereby make the following regulations in respect of the use and management of the Ngahina Wharf, or any store or other building erected thereon and adjacent thereto and used in connection therewith, the road approaches thereto, together with that part of the Waihou River and its banks extending down-stream for a distance of nine hundred feet from the centre-line of the Ngahina Bridge over the said river on the Paeroa to Netherton Road; and doth hereby order that they shall come into force on the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations (if not inconsistent with the context) words and expressions to which by the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Act, 1910, meanings are assigned or interpretations given have the same respective meanings and