Sept. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2937

49 and 47, and parts of Section XIV, Block X, Waimea Survey District. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45930, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured purple, and marked B C.

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

New Plymouth Borough Council declared a Leasing Authority under the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this fifteenth day of September, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the New Plymouth Borough Council is a body of persons having power to lease lands held in trust, reserved, or set apart for public purposes, and has requested the Governor-General in Council to declare it to be a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in compliance with such request, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred by the above-mentioned Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the New Plymouth Borough Council is a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies' Leases Act, 1908.

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

Adding another River to the List of Rivers to be inquired into by the Commission inquiring into the State of that Part of the Clutha River where it runs in the Vicinity of the Borough of Balclutha, thence continuing to the Sea, and also into the State of the Orari, Rangitata, Waimakariri, Ashley, and Marae whenua Rivers, and such other Rivers as may from Time to Time be added to this Commission.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to FREDERICK WILLIAM FURKERT, Esquire, of Wellington, Inspecting Engineer, Public Works Department; ASHLEY JOHN HUNTER, Esquire, of Auckland, Civil Engineer; and FRANCIS CHARLES HAY, Esquire, of Gisborne, Civil Engineer: Greeting.

WHEREAS by a Commission dated the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen (hereinafter referred to as “the said Commission”), you, the said Frederick William Furkert, Ashley John Hunter, and Francis Charles Hay, were constituted and appointed to be a Commission in terms of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, to inquire “into the state of that part of the Clutha River where it runs in the vicinity of the Borough of Balclutha, thence continuing to the sea, and also into the state of the Orari, Rangitata, Waimakariri, Ashley, and Marae whenua Rivers, and such other rivers as may be added to this Commission from time to time by direction of Cabinet, but not later than six months from the date hereof (the whole of such rivers being hereinafter referred to as “the said rivers”), with the object of ascertaining the cause or causes of the silting-up, erosion, and flooding of the said rivers, and the best means of remedying the same, and what legislation (if any) is necessary or expedient in relation thereto”:

And whereas it has been decided that the state of the Thames or Waihou River, in the Auckland Provincial District, is to be inquired into by the said Commission, and that this river be added to the list of rivers forming the subject of inquiry by the said Commission:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby add to the list of rivers the subject of inquiry by the said Commission the Thames or Waihou River, in the Auckland Provincial District, and I do hereby declare that the provisions of the said Commission shall apply as fully and effectively in all respects as if such river were originally included in the said Commission.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, 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 fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Issued in Executive Council.

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

Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in Southland Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth section of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

THOMAS BROOK,
JOHN CARMICHAEL, and
HENRY JONATHAN MIDDLETON

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural land in the Southland Land District known as Run 423A, Nokomai, Rockyside, Garvie, 6,070 acres; Run 423B, Nokomai, Rockyside, Gap, Garvie, Wakaia, 10,000 acres; Run 251, Tuturau, Slopedown, Mokoreta, 18,250 acres; Run 207, Hokonui, 2,773 acres; Run 420, Campbelltown Hundred, 5,640 acres; Run 415B, Takitimo, 5,040 acres; and Run 149, Taringatura, 8,575 acres; as provided by the said section two hundred and twenty-five.

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

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Waimangaroa Public Cemetery appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section four of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

OSCAR JAMES LUNN

to be a trustee, in the place of Michael Sherlock, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Waimangaroa Public Cemetery, in conjunction with John Sowerby, Charles George Friend, Harold John Neighbours, and Joseph Wakeman, previously appointed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Trustees for the Boatman's Public Cemetery appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fourth section of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in Part I of the Schedule hereto to have the control and management of the public cemetery specified in Part II of the said Schedule.