In the Southland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 43361,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian
Order, Governor-General and Commander-in-
Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of
New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued
under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the
Government House at Wellington, this eleventh
day of January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

God save the King!

Land taken for the Purposes of a Native School in Block
XVI, Mangaoporo Survey District.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken, under the Public Works Act,
1908, for a certain public work—to wit, for the purposes
of a Native school in Block XVI, Mangaoporo Survey Dis-
trict:

And whereas all the conditions precedent required by law
to be observed and performed prior to the taking of such land
for the purposes hereinbefore specified have been observed
and performed:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl
of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and autho-
rities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of
every other power and authority in anyway enabling me
in this behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land
described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the
purposes of the said Native school; and I do also hereby
declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and
after the twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand nine
hundred and eighteen.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken : 5 acres.
Portion of Manutahi 2B, situated in Block XVI, Mangao-
poro Survey District (Hawke's Bay R.D.).

In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 42771,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
edged pink.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian
Order, Governor-General and Commander-in-
Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of
New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued
under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the
Government House at Wellington, this fourteenth
day of January, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

God save the King!

Declaring Land taken for a Public Work, and not required for
such Public Work, to be Crown Land.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty of the Public
Works Act, 1908, that if it is found that any land
held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under this
or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise how-
soever, for any public work is not required for such public
work the Governor-General may, by an Order in Council
publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold
under the conditions therein mentioned:

And whereas it is further provided by section five of the
Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case of any
land so taken, purchased, or acquired for a Government work
and not required for that purpose the Governor-General may,
on the recommendation of the Minister, and without com-
plying with any other requirements of the aforesaid section
thirty, by Proclamation declare such land to be Crown land
subject to the Land Act, 1908, and thereupon the land may
be administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto
was taken for the purposes of a road : And whereas such
road has been stopped, and it is desirable to declare the
land contained therein to be Crown land:

And whereas a plan has been prepared, and the Minister
has recommended the Governor-General to declare such land
to be Crown land;

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred upon me by the above-in-part-
recited Acts, and of all other powers in anyway enabling
me in this behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl
of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby declare the land described in the Schedule
hereto to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and
that such land may be administered and disposed of under
that Act accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of stopped roads declared
to be Crown land:—
A. R. P.
0 1 7'4, adjoining or passing through E.R. 25.
3 2 37 E.R.s 25 & 26.
Situated in Block XIII, Waipoua Survey District. (S.O.
18778.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41112,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured green.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian
Order, Governor-General and Commander-in-
Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of
New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued
under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the
Government House at Wellington, this eleventh
day of January, in the year of our Lord one thou-
sand nine hundred and eighteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

God save the King!

Adding an Office to the Administrative Division of the Public
Service under the Public Service Act, 1912.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-
second day of December, 1917.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section eighteen, subsection two, of the
Public Service Act, 1912, it is enacted that the
Commissioner may, whenever it appears advantageous to the
Public Service so to do, certify to the Governor-General that
it is expedient to add any office to or to abolish any office
in the Administrative Division ; and the Governor-General
in Council may, upon such certificate, add any office to the
Administrative Division or abolish any office therein:

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,
doth hereby add the office of Assistant Under-Secretary,
Prisons Department (also Inspector of Prisons), to the said
Administrative Division.

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