JUNE 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2175

into the Cook Islands aforesaid by declaring and directing as follows:—

1. That there shall be payable on all black twist tobacco of which the genuine invoice value at the time of importation is proved to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs not to exceed three shillings per pound, the following duties, that is to say:—
   (a.) When imported into or entered for home consumption in the Cook Islands (exclusive of the Island of Niue), a duty of one shilling per pound:
   (b.) When imported into or entered for home consumption in the Island of Niue (being one of the Cook Islands), a duty of two shillings per pound:
   Provided that a further duty of one shilling per pound shall be paid on the landing in the Island of Niue of any tobacco removed from other parts of the Cook Islands which has been admitted to entry at a duty of one shilling per pound.
2. That this Order shall have effect on and after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Prohibiting the Exportation of Empty Casks of Every Kind.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day of June, 1918.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, as extended by section twenty-four of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, prohibit the exportation of any goods the prohibition of the exportation of which is in his opinion necessary in the public interest:
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is necessary in the public interest that the exportation of empty casks of every kind should be prohibited to the extent and in the manner hereinafter appearing:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section forty-seven of the Customs Act, 1913, and section twenty-four of the Regulation of Trade and Commerce Act, 1914, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, doth hereby prohibit the exportation of empty casks of every kind from the said Dominion, save with the consent of the Minister of Customs.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Sections of the Road Boards Act, 1908, to apply to Mount Roskill Road Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day of June, 1918.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Board of the Mount Roskill Road District, in the County of Eden, being a county in which the Counties Act, 1908, is suspended, have made an application under section one hundred and forty-five of the Road Boards Act, 1908, and it is expedient to grant such application:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Road Boards Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of sections one hundred and forty-six, one hundred and forty-seven, and one hundred and forty-eight of the Road Boards Act, 1908, shall apply to the said Mount Roskill Road Board as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Extending Prohibition of Alienation of certain Native Lands other than Alienations in favour of the Crown.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day of June, 1918.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, and by section one hundred and eleven of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913 (as amended by section eight of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1916), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, doth hereby extend for a further period of eighteen months the Order in Council dated the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and gazetted the twenty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, prohibiting all alienations of the Native lands specified in the Schedule hereto, other than alienations in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.
PARITUTU SURVEY DISTRICT.

Block. Approximate Area.
A. R. P.
KATERE 3A .. .. .. 13 0 0
,, 3B .. .. .. 29 0 2

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prohibiting all Alienation of certain Native Lands other than Alienations in favour of the Crown.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this fourth day of June, 1918.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, 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 prohibit, for the period of one year from the date of this Order in Council, all alienations of the Native lands specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienations in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE
MAHOE, OMARA, TAURAKAWA, AND KIRI SURVEY DISTRICTS.

Block. Approximate Area
A. R. P.
TAUMATAMAHOE 2B 2B No. 1 .. .. 1,381 1 5
,, 4 .. .. 921 1 37
,, 5 .. .. 1,739 1 5
,, 6 .. .. 178 1 27
,, 7 .. .. 1,570 1 12
,, 8 .. .. 2,178 3 37
,, 9 .. .. 1,214 3 19
,, 10 .. .. 1,124 1 28
,, 13 .. .. 422 0 1
,, 15A .. .. 1,165 1 5
,, 16 .. .. 127 2 16
,, 19A .. .. 40 0 0
,, 19B .. .. 36 1 36
,, 19C .. .. 149 2 0
,, 19D .. .. 67 2 37
,, 20 .. .. 100 0 0

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.