MAY 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1559

Decorations and Distinctive Badges Act, 1918, define the badge in the Schedule hereto and assign the said badge to the said association.

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SCHEDULE.

A METAL badge consisting of a bar surmounted by a Crown and the letters N.Z., with the arc of a circle below the bar, and having the words “Returned Soldiers Association” inscribed on the bar and arc.

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

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Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Ormondville Domain.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of May, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by the Public Domains 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 revoke an Order in Council, dated the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, appointing the Ormondville Town Board to be the Ormondville Domain Board, and doth hereby appoint

THE ORMONDVILLE TOWN BOARD

to be the Ormondville Domain Board, having, subject to the said Act, control of the lands described in the Schedule hereto, which lands are a public domain, and shall be called the Ormondville Domain; and also doth hereby appoint Tuesday, the seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, at half past seven o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Town Board Office, Ormondville, as the place where, the first meeting of the said Board shall be held.

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SCHEDULE.

ORMONDVILLE DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 15 acres 3 roods 20 perches, more or less, being Block I, Town of Ormondville. Bounded towards the north generally by the Mangarangiora Stream; towards the south-east by a railway reserve, 389·1 links, and by a public road 1 chain wide, 737 links; and towards the south-west and north-west by a public road 1½ chains wide, 1782 links, to the Mangarangiora Stream: save and except a road 150 links wide, which intersects the area herein described: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 50457/14A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 2 roods 3 perches, more or less, being Section 1 (part of original reserve of 16 acres 1 rood), Block XIV, Ormondville Township. Bounded towards the north-east by school reserve, a distance of 587 links; towards the north-west by a public road, a distance of 750 links; towards the south-west by a public road, a distance of 339·2 links; and towards the south-east by railway reserve, a distance of 396 and 378·6 links respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/622, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

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Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Oxford Domain.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of May, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, with respect to any public domain, appoint such persons (not exceeding nine) as he thinks fit to be a Domain Board having, subject to Part II of the said Act, control of such domain:

And whereas by an Order in Council made on the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, a Domain Board was appointed to control the Oxford Domain:

And whereas the period for which the said Board was appointed expired on the twelfth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen:

And whereas it appears expedient to again appoint a Domain Board to control the domain:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

ARTHUR STUBBS,
DAVID HAWKE,
WILLIAM HARLEY ALFORD,
PRYCE CHARLES JONES, and
JOHN CROSS,

as from the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, to be the Oxford Domain Board, having the control of the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of and subject to the provisions of the said Act; and doth hereby appoint Wednesday, the eleventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, at half past four o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Coronation Hall, Main Street, Oxford, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

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SCHEDULE.

OXFORD DOMAIN.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 216 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 1651 (in red), situate in Blocks VIII and XII, Oxford Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the west by Rural Section 25509, 4864 links; towards the south by a public road, 3488 links; towards the east by Rural Section 24130, and also by a line in continuation of its western boundary, a distance altogether of 5155 links; and towards the north by the right bank of the River Eyre: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1341, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 2 roods 26 perches, more or less, being that portion of Rural Section 1889 to the south of the Oxford-Rangiora Railway line passing through the said section. Bounded on the north by the aforesaid railway-line, 642 links; on the east by part Rural Section 1941, 1446 links; on the south by the Oxford-Rangiora Road, 629 links; and on the west by part Rural Section 1839, 1312 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1341A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, hitherto known as View Hill Reserve, containing by admeasurement 10 acres, more or less, being part of Rural Section 18277, Block VI, Oxford Survey District, and comprising all the land referred to in certificate of title, Vol. 144, folio 190 (Canterbury).

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

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

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LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-first day of May, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 thereof, doth hereby extend for a further