Mar. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 637

Land taken for the Purposes of a Post-office in Block XIV, Maungataniwha 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 post-office in Block XIV, Maungataniwha Survey District:

And whereas an agreement has been entered into, in terms of section twenty-seven of the said Act, to take such land for the public work hereinafter set forth:

And whereas a plan has been prepared, and the Minister has recommended the Governor-General to issue a Proclamation taking the land as required by the said Act:

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 authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, and being satisfied of the sufficiency of the agreement hereinbefore referred to, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of a post-office; and I also hereby declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the fifteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken: 1 rood.

Portion of Mangamuka West No. 3L No. 2 Block, situated in Block XIV, Maungataniwha Survey District. (S.O. 20269.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45278, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

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 Grace 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 twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

W. FRASER.
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Stopping Government Roads in the Town of Mokihinui.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by paragraph (c) of section one hundred and thirty-three of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Proclamation publicly notified, stop or alter the course of any Government road or any part thereof:

And whereas the Government roads described in the Schedule hereto are no longer required for the purposes of roads:

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 above-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim as stopped the roads described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of roads hereby stopped:—

A. R. P.
0 1 13, adjoining or passing through Sections 15 and 16.
0 1 20 ” 24 and 33.

Situated in the Town of Mokihinui (Nelson R.D.).

In the Nelson Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 45449, 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, 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 Grace 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 twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

W. FRASER.
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

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Altering Boundaries of Huntress Creek Drainage District, County of Opotiki.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1919.

Present:

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

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of section three of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, a majority of the ratepayers in the area described in the First Schedule hereto, situated in the County of Opotiki, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, praying that the land comprised in the said area be included in the Huntress Creek Drainage District as constituted under the provisions of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient to alter the boundaries of such drainage district in manner hereinafter appearing:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in section three of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, 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 alter the boundaries of the said Huntress Creek Drainage District by including in such district the area of land described in the said petition and in the First Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that the boundaries of the said drainage district, with such addition as herein provided for, shall be those described in the Second Schedule hereto.

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FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREA TO BE INCLUDED IN HUNTRESS CREEK DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by the Huntress Creek Drainage District as described in New Zealand Gazette, 1916, page 3933, from the northernmost corner of Section 4, Block II, Opotiki Survey District, to the north-eastern corner of Section 404, Block VI, Opotiki Survey District; thence to and by the northern boundary of Block VI aforesaid to its intersection with the western boundary of Block VII, Opotiki Survey District; thence towards the east by the western boundary of that block to its south-eastern corner; thence towards the south generally by the northern boundary of Block X, Opotiki Survey District, to the western boundary of Section 399, Block X aforesaid; thence by the western boundary of that section, the north-eastern, southern, and western boundaries of Section 490, the northern boundary of Section 489, Block X, to a public road forming the north-western boundary of that section; thence towards the west generally by that road to the place of commencement.

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SECOND SCHEDULE.

HUNTRESS CREEK DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Blocks II, VI, and X, Opotiki Survey District. Bounded towards the north by the sea for a distance of about 88 chains from the road forming the eastern boundary of Section 371, Block II, Opotiki Survey District, to the western side