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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

part of that land for the common use of the owners thereof as a burial-ground :

And whereas the Tokerau District Maori Land Board has, under date the seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, recommended that the land known as Konoti A 4 South 1A Section 1 be set apart and reserved, under the provisions of section two hundred and thirty-two of the Native Land Act, 1909, as a burial-ground for the common use of the owners thereof: And whereas it is expedient so to do :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby set apart and reserve the land known as Konoti A 4 South 1A Section 1 for the common use of owners thereof as a burial-ground.

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

Validating Election of Members of Hauraki Drainage Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this fifth day of August, 1919.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Land Drainage Act, 1908, and the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, public notice of an election to be held on Monday, the twenty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen (hereinafter referred to as “the said day”), to fill two extraordinary vacancies on the Hauraki Drainage Board, was duly given :

And whereas subsequent to such notice the said day was duly declared to be a public holiday for the purpose of celebrating Peace :

And whereas the said election was, in consequence of the declaration of such public holiday as aforesaid, not held on the said day, but on Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, public notice of such change of day being given by means of an advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the Hauraki Drainage District :

And whereas at the said election Charles Alfred Hopping, Esquire, and John Methven Mules, Esquire, were declared to be elected members of the said Hauraki Drainage Board :

And whereas doubts have arisen as to the regularity of the said election being so held as aforesaid instead of on the said day :

And whereas it is expedient to validate the said election :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section twenty-four of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, and of every other power enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the said election of the said Charles Alfred Hopping and John Methven Mules so declared to have been elected, and doth declare that the said election shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Opening Town Lands in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the town lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.
Maniototo County.—Town of Kamako.

Level land of fair quality. Good building-sites. Situated within easy distance of Waipiata School, post-office, and railway-station, on the Otago Central Railway.

No person will be allowed to hold more than one section.

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

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Lands permanently reserved.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette :

And whereas by the sixty-ninth section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, it is further provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of land acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments :

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule :

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 conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.