July 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2479

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land proclaimed as a road :—

A. R. P. Portion of
0 0 0·7 Section 7; coloured purple.
6 0 12 Sections 18, 19, 20, and 23; coloured red.
0 0 30·3 Section 23; coloured red.
0 0 31 Sections 24 and 25; coloured blue.
0 3 2 Section 75; coloured red.
0 0 0·7 " 76 " purple.
0 0 38 " 25 " blue.
0 1 13 " 25 " blue.
0 0 34 " 25 " blue.
0 0 2·2 " 25 " blue.
0 0 1·2 " 25 " blue.
0 0 3 " 25 " blue.
1 3 3·4 " 26 " purple.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ROAD CLOSED.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road closed :—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
8 2 1 Sections 23, 24, 20, 19, and 7.
1 1 20 Section 24.
1 3 13 Sections 24 and 26.
0 2 4 " 76 and 76A.
0 2 8 " 25 and 76A.
0 0 2·1 Section 25.
0 0 26 " 25.
0 0 3·5 " 25.
0 0 1·7 " 25.
0 0 3 2 " 25.

Coloured on plan : Green.

All situated in Block I, Purua Survey District. (S.O. 18097.) All in the North Auckland Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 40496, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

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-ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING !

Alteration of Boundaries of Borough of Thames.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of July, 1919.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section six of the Thames Borough Boundaries Alteration Act, 1918 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), that not later than twelve months after the passing of the said Act a joint poll shall be taken of all the electors upon the district electors roll of the Thames Borough, and of all the electors upon the Thames County electoral roll in respect of such portion of the Ridings of Waiotahi, Kauaeranga, and Parawai in the Thames County as is within the area (hereinafter referred to as the said area) described in the Third Schedule to the said Act, upon the proposal that the said area shall be added to and form part of the Borough of Thames :

And whereas at a poll taken under the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and amendments thereof, held on the nineteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, the majority of electors of the areas described above decided in favour of the proposal that the said area be added to and form part of the Borough of Thames :

And whereas it is desirable to give effect to the said proposal :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section ten of the Thames Borough Boundaries Alteration Act, 1918, 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 order and declare that on and after the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, the area described in the Schedule hereto shall form part of and be included in the Borough of Thames.

SCHEDULE.

AREA ADDED TO BOROUGH OF THAMES.

ALL that area in the Provincial District of Auckland bounded towards the north-east by a right line commencing at Trig. Station F, Block IV, Thames Survey District, and proceeding to Trig. Station D, Punga Flat ; thence by a right line to the true right bank of the Kauaeranga River, passing through a point 3650 links distant, bearing due west (true) from Trig. Station 92, Gentle Annie ; thence towards the south generally by the true right bank of the said Kauaeranga River and by the ordinary high-water mark of the true right bank of the said Kauaeranga River to the south boundary of the Borough of Thames at the confluence of the said Kauaeranga River and the Hape Creek ; thence towards the south-west generally by the boundary of the said Borough of Thames—namely, by a line along the middle of the said Hape Creek to the middle of Grey Street, by a line along the middle of the said Grey Street to the middle of Rolleston Street, by a line along the middle of the said Rolleston Street to the middle of Karaka Road, by a line along the middle of the said Karaka Road to a point opposite the middle of Sandes Street, by a right line to Trig. Station No. 1, Waitahi Spur, by a right line to Trig. Station No. 5, Kuranui Hill, and by a right line to Trig. Station F, the point of commencement.

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

Amending Regulations under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day of July, 1919.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), 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 amend in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations under the said Act made on the twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-second day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

SCHEDULE.

SUBCLAUSE (b) of clause 22 of the said regulations is hereby amended by adding thereto the following proviso :—
“Provided that in the case of an applicant who has previously applied for an advance, and whose application has been refused, the Commissioner of Crown Lands may, with the approval of the Minister, reduce or dispense with the payment of valuation fees on any subsequent application lodged by the said applicant for an advance under these regulations.”

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

Amending Regulations under the Coal-mines Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-second day of July, 1919.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and its amendments, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting