Feb. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 677

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of Murdoch Road, situated in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, Borough of Hastings, abutting on Lots 6 to 16 and 43, D.P. 495; as the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 47712, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revocation of Establishment of National Efficiency Board, and also of Soldiers’ Property Regulations, 1917.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1920.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Warrants dated the twenty-seventh day of February and the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and respectively gazetted on the fifth day of March and the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, a Board to be known as the National Efficiency Board was constituted and established with the powers therein mentioned :

And whereas it is now deemed expedient to revoke the establishment of the said Board :

And whereas the Soldiers’ Property Regulations made under the War Regulations Act, 1914, on the second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and gazetted on the fifth day of the same month, have been administered by the said Board and have ceased to have any effect, and it is expedient therefore that the said regulations should be revoked :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and the War Regulations Act, 1914, and of every other power and authority enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby revoke the said Warrants of the twenty-seventh day of February and the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, the establishment of the National Efficiency Board constituted thereby, and also the above-recited Soldiers’ Property Regulations, 1917.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Raising of a Loan by the Council of the Borough of Waipawa.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eleventh day of February, 1920.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Waipawa Borough Council lately proposed to raise a loan of one thousand six hundred pounds, under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of providing additional water-supply in connection with the borough waterworks and sewerage system :

And whereas the voting-paper used at the poll of ratepayers upon the said proposal was in the form numbered six in the Second Schedule to the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, instead of the form numbered one in the First Schedule to the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913 :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity, and it is expedient to validate the same :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the voting-paper used at the poll of ratepayers upon the said proposal had been in the proper form, and that the proceedings shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Validating Proceedings in connection with the Raising of a Special Loan of £2,090 for constructing Approaches to a New High-level Bridge at Manurewa, in the Manukau County.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth day of February, 1920.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Manukau County Council lately proposed to raise, under the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and its amendments, a special loan of two thousand pounds for the purpose of constructing approaches to a new high-level bridge at Manurewa, rated over a special-rating area at Manurewa in the said county :

And whereas the special roll of such special-rating area was not deposited for public inspection at the office of the said Manukau County Council prior to obtaining the consent of the ratepayers to the loan under paragraph (e) of section sixteen of the said Act :

And whereas notice of the deposit of the special roll of such rating area was not published as required by law :

And whereas the signatures of certain ratepayers to the consent required by section 16 (e) of the said Act were witnessed respectively by one of the consenting ratepayers and by the Clerk of the said Council, and doubts have arisen as to the validity and regularity thereof :

And whereas the special order passed in pursuance of such section sixteen differed from such consent in that such special order did not provide that the first year’s interest and sinking fund should be paid out of the said loan :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such defects or irregularities, and it is expedient to validate the same :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers conferred by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the deposit and completion of the said special roll shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as though the said roll had been properly deposited and notice of such deposit had been properly published, and that the said consent of the ratepayers and the said special order shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as though such signatures to such consent had been witnessed by a disinterested person, and as though such special order had provided that the first year’s interest and sinking fund should be payable out of the said loan ; and, further, that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the defects and irregularities aforesaid.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Raising of Loans of £3,500 and £1,300 by the Hungahunga Drainage Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eleventh day of February, 1920.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Hungahunga Drainage Board lately proposed to raise loans of three thousand five hundred pounds and one thousand three hundred pounds, under the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of land-drainage works :

And whereas section nine of the said Act provides that a notice setting forth the proposal to raise the loans shall be published once in each week for four successive weeks :

And whereas the notices setting forth the proposals to raise the loans were not published once in each week for four successive weeks, inasmuch that the said notices were published in the Te Aroha News on the twenty-fourth and twenty-ninth October and the seventh and fourteenth days of November, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen" :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by such irregularity or defect, and it is expedient to validate the same :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of