May 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1723

Revoking Order in Council vesting Management of Aratapu Wharf in Messrs. Samuel George Ball Barker, William Fincher Coutts, Anthony Keane, William Newman, and Thomas Nield, as Trustees for the Inhabitants of Aratapu.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of May, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 86, of the fourteenth day of the same month, the management of the wharf at Aratapu (erected in accordance with the plan marked M.D. 2020, deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington) was vested in Messrs. Samuel George Ball Barker, William Fincher Coutts, Anthony Keane, William Newman, and Thomas Nield, as trustees for the inhabitants of Aratapu :

And whereas it is desirable that the said Order in Council should be revoked :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Harbours Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council, and the rights and privileges thereby conferred, as from the fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

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

Revoking Order in Council declaring that the Waiapu County Council shall exercise the Powers of a Harbour Board, and defining the Limits of the Port or Harbour of Hicks Bay.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of May, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 32, of the twenty-fifth day of the same month, it was declared that the Waiapu County Council shall exercise the powers of a Harbour Board over the port or harbour of Hicks Bay, and the limits of such port or harbour were defined :

And whereas it is desirable to revoke the said Order in Council :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Harbours Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council of the sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

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

Declaring that the Matakaoa County Council shall exercise the Powers of a Harbour Board, and defining the Limits of the Port or Harbour of Hicks Bay.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of May, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is, among other things, provided by section one hundred and eighty-five of the Counties Act, 1908, that in any place where there is no Harbour Board the Governor-General, on the request of the Council of any county bordering on any estuary or arm of the sea, may, by Order in Council duly gazetted, declare that such Council shall, from a date to be fixed in such Order, exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within such limits of such estuary or arm aforesaid as the Governor-General may define for that purpose :

And whereas the Council of the County of Matakaoa, which borders on the port or harbour of Hicks Bay, in the Matakaoa County, has requested that it may be declared that it shall exercise all the powers of a Harbour Board within such port or harbour :

And whereas it is desirable that such request should be acceded to, and that the limits of such port or harbour should be defined as hereinafter appears :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that, as from the date hereof, the said Council shall exercise the powers of a Harbour Board within the limits of the port or harbour hereinafter set forth, and which said port or harbour is called Hicks Bay Harbour.

And, in further pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, His Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice and consent aforesaid, doth hereby define the limits of the said port or harbour within which the Council of the County of Matakaoa is to exercise the powers aforesaid as follows, that is to say :—

All that area of the sea known as Hicks Bay, and covered by the sea at high water, lying between Matakaoa Point on the north and Te Koau Point on the south, each of the said points being marked by a post having painted thereon the words “ Hicks Bay Harbour Boundary.”

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

Validating the Election of Members of the Wanganui Harbour Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of May, 1920.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS it is provided by section twenty-four of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, that where anything is omitted to be done or cannot be done at the time required by or under the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, or is done after such time, or is otherwise done irregularly in matter of form, or sufficient provision is not made by or under that Act, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, at any time before or after the time within which such thing is required to be done, extend such time, or may validate anything so done after the time required, or so irregularly done in matter of form, or may make other provisions for such case as he thinks fit :

And whereas by Order in Council dated the nineteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 52, of the twenty-second day of the same month, regulations were made governing the election of members of Harbour Boards by electors of combined districts, and providing that the provisions of sections five to sixteen inclusive, eighteen to twenty-six inclusive, thirty to thirty-two inclusive, thirty-five, thirty-six to thirty-nine inclusive, and forty-five to fifty-four inclusive, of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, as amended by the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, and of section two of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1911, and of sections two to twelve inclusive, thirteen (subsection two), and sixteen to twenty-four inclusive, of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, shall apply to the elections of those members ; provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in section seven of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, public notice of any election to fill any vacancy shall be given not less than twenty-one clear days before such election, and the date for the nomination of candidates shall be not less than fourteen clear days before such election :

And whereas by the hereinbefore-recited Acts and regulations it is provided that any notice of any election to fill any vacancy on any Harbour Board for a combined district shall be given not less than twenty-one clear days before such election, and the date for the nomination of candidates shall be not less than fourteen days before such election :

And whereas public notice of an election of two members of the Wanganui Harbour Board, as representatives of the combined district of the Counties of Wanganui and Waimarino, was through an error not given within the period of