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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 105

TABLE showing the Causes of the Deaths of Persons at the Four Metropolitan Areas, and Total for Nine Suburban Areas, registered during July, 1919—continued.

Census and Statistics Office.
Wellington, N.Z., 15th August, 1919.

MALCOLM FRASER,
Government Statistician.

Confering on Matau River Board certain Powers of a Drainage Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this nineteenth day of August, 1919.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS it is enacted by the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913, that the Governor-General may, subject to such restrictions, modifications, and conditions as he thinks fit, from time to time by Order in Council confer upon any specified River Board such of the powers of a Drainage Board as he thinks fit: And whereas it is expedient to confer on the Matau River Board certain of the powers of a Drainage Board:

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 upon the said Board all the powers exercisable by a duly constituted Drainage Board under section fourteen, sections seventeen to thirty (inclusive), and sections thirty-eight to forty (inclusive) of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, and section two of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1908, subject, however, to the following restrictions, modifications, and conditions, namely:—

1. Section 14 shall only apply with respect to the powers conferred by this Order in Council.

2. All drainage-works to be constructed shall be paid for out of the proceeds of special loans secured by special rates over defined areas.

3. All special rates in respect of drainage-works shall be levied on a graduated scale according to a classification made by the Board of the rateable property within the area affected by the works.

4. Separate accounts shall be kept in respect of all drainage operations, and all moneys received in respect thereof shall be paid into a separate bank account.

5. Moneys payable as compensation in respect of land taken for drainage-works shall be paid out of the separate bank account.

6. Sections 38 to 40 shall only apply to the raising of special loans for the purpose of exercising any of the powers conferred by sections 17 to 30.

7. The powers conferred by this Order in Council shall be exercised subject to the provisions of section 88 of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

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

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1919.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid:—

GEORGE WILLIAM WOODS, Postmaster, Pahiatua.
ALBERT EDWARD FORDHAM, Postmaster, Bluff.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Telegraphs.

Illuminating Kerosene-oil of or over 150 Fire Test exempted from the Operation of the Regulations as to the Shipment and Landing of Petroleum.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 18th August, 1919.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by clause 12 of the regulations as to the shipment and landing of petroleum, made by Order in Council dated the 9th day of December, 1918, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 163, of the 12th day of the same month, I, Thomas Mason Wilford, Minister of Marine, do hereby exempt from the operation of the said regulations illuminating kerosene-oil of or over 150 fire test: Provided that clause 8 of the said regulations shall apply to kerosene-oil.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.