JULY 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2323

Authorizing the Judges of the First Division of the Court of Appeal to sit with the Judges of the Second Division of the said Court to hear Special Case.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this third day of July, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section nine of the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that each Division of the Court of Appeal shall sit and exercise its jurisdiction separately, save that in respect of any sitting of either Division the Governor-General in Council may, on the certificate of two Judges (of whom the Chief Justice shall be one) that any appeal or other proceeding is of special difficulty or importance, authorize all the Judges of the other Division to sit together with those of the former Division for the hearing and determination of that appeal or proceeding:

And whereas in the case of His Majesty the King v. James Jackson a case was stated by the Honourable the Chief Justice for the opinion of the Court of Appeal, under the provisions of section four hundred and forty-two of the Crimes Act, 1908:

And whereas the case so stated stands for hearing and determination before the Second Division of the Court of Appeal at the sitting commencing on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen:

And whereas the Honourable Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, and the Honourable Sir Worley Bassett Edwards, Kt., one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, have certified that the aforesaid case is one of special importance:

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, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize the Judges of the First Division of the Court of Appeal to sit with the Judges of the Second Division of the Court of Appeal for the hearing and determination at the aforesaid sitting of the case so stated in respect of the said James Jackson.

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

Constituting Blue Mountain Rabbit District.—Notice No. 1966.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of June, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section sixty-nine of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, on petition in that behalf from a majority of the ratepayers therein mentioned in the said Act, constitute and declare any part of New Zealand defined in such Order in Council a district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act:

And whereas a petition in accordance with the provisions of the said Act has been received, asking that the lands described in the Schedule hereto be constituted by the specific name of “the Blue Mountain Rabbit District,” and declared a rabbit district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby constitute by the specific name of “the Blue Mountain Rabbit District” and declare that part of New Zealand defined in the Schedule hereto to be a rabbit district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Waihemo County comprising the Blue Mountain Riding.

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

Consenting to stopping Portions of Roads in East Taieri and Dunedin and East Taieri Districts.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this eighth day of July, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three (a) of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county road or district road to be stopped until the consent thereto of the Governor-General, by Order in Council gazetted, is obtained:

And whereas the Taieri County Council has applied for such consent in respect of the portions of roads described in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the above-in-part-recited Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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 consent to the Taieri County Council stopping the portions of roads described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

In the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 46216, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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

Consenting to stopping Portions of Road in Block I, Upper Waitara Survey District, Clifton County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this eighth day of July, 1919.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three (a) of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that a local authority shall not declare any county road or district road to be stopped until the consent thereto of the Governor-General, by Order in Council gazetted, is obtained:

And whereas the Clifton County Council has applied for such consent in respect of the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto: