Mar. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 813

Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for recreation and preservation of scenery in the Wellington Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act; and such reserve shall hereafter form part of the Taihape Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing 6 acres 0 roods 18 perches, more or less, being Section No. 45, Taihape Suburbs. Bounded towards the south-west and north-west generally by a public road, 424·3 links, 444·8 links, and 575·5 links; by suburban Section No. 45A, 153 links, 236·4 links, and 209·4 links; by Weka Street, 582 links; and by a public road, 270 links; and towards the south-east generally by a river-bank reserve along the bank of the Otaihape Stream: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/234E, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with Two Loans of £750 each, proposed to be raised by the Mangawara Drainage Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eleventh day of March, 1918.

Present:

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

WHEREAS the Mangawara Drainage Board lately proposed to raise two loans of seven hundred and fifty pounds each, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the following purposes, namely,—
(a.) For constructing drainage-works within the No. 1 Special-rating Area:
(b.) For constructing drainage-works within the No. 2 Special-rating Area:

And whereas an irregularity or defect occurred in the notices published in pursuance of section nine of the said Act in that the term of the said loans (namely, thirty-six years and a half,) was not set forth in such notices:

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

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him 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, doth hereby declare that the proceedings in connection with the said loans shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the term of the said loans had been stated in the said notices, and that the proceedings shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

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

Special Regulations for Deer-shooting, Waitaki.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the conditions under which certain red deer may be destroyed in the Waitaki Acclimatization District.

REGULATIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the regulations made under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, dated 20th February, 1918, the Secretary of the Waitaki Acclimatization Society at Oamaru, or any person or persons duly authorized in writing by such Secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill red deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said Secretary or of the said authorized persons, should be destroyed either by reason of age, deformity, or other physical imperfection.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid from the date hereof to 31st December, 1918.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the said Secretary within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number and sexes of all red deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates and name of person by whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. The said Secretary may, with the authority of the said society, authorize the sale, either by auction or otherwise, during the currency of these regulations of deer destroyed pursuant to these regulations, and of the meat and skins of such deer; provided that the proceeds derived from such sale shall be devoted to patriotic purposes.

4A. The said Secretary shall, on or before the 31st day of January, 1919, furnish a statement of the moneys received from such sale and of the patriotic purpose or purposes to which they were devoted.

5. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

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

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Special Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the conditions under which certain red and fallow deer may be destroyed in the Otago Acclimatization District.

REGULATIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the regulations made under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, dated 13th February, 1918, the Secretary of the Otago Acclimatization Society at Dunedin, or any person or persons duly authorized in writing by such Secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill red and fallow deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said Secretary or of the said authorized persons, should be destroyed either by reason of age, deformity, or other physical imperfection.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid from the date hereof to 31st December, 1918.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the said Secretary within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number and sexes of all red and fallow deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates and name of person by whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or any portion thereof.

5. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

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

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Regulations for Sambur or Ceylon Deer Shooting, Counties of Manawatu, Oroua, Kairanga, and Rangitikei.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN exercise of the powers vested in him by the Animals Protection Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby make the following regulations respecting the Sambur or Ceylon deer shooting season within the Counties of Manawatu, Oroua, Kairanga, and Rangitikei (hereinafter called “the said district”).

REGULATIONS.

1. SAMBUR or Ceylon deer may be taken or killed within the said district from the 1st day of June, 1918, to the 31st day of July, 1918, both days inclusive.