Mar. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 705

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £1,250, proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Clifton.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of March, 1921.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Clifton County Council, acting under and in pursuance of paragraph (e) of section sixteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, lately proposed to raise a loan of one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds for the purpose of metalling portions of the Onaero and Mataro Roads:

And whereas the ratepayers’ consent given under paragraph (e) of section sixteen aforesaid is irregular, in that a subscribing ratepayer has attested the signatures of the other subscribers thereto:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said 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 ratepayers’ consent to the raising of the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the same had been properly witnessed, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Vesting a Reserve in the Manai'a Town Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 9th day of March, 1921.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart as a site for an athenæum:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to vest the said reserves in the Manai'a Town Board:

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 the said Dominion, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserves described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Manai'a Town Board, in trust, as a site for an athenæum.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 19, Block XI, Manai'a Township: Area, 1 rood.

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

Regulations for Virginian-deer Shooting, Lakes District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the Virginian-deer-shooting season in Rees Valley, Upper Wakatipu, being part of the Lakes District Acclimatization District, and the conditions affecting the same, and also the form of license and the fee payable therefor.

REGULATIONS.

1. VIRGINIAN deer (bucks only) may be taken or killed in Rees Valley, Upper Wakatipu, being part of the Lakes District Acclimatization District, from the 1st day of April, 1921, to the 21st day of May, 1921, both days inclusive.

2. Licenses to take or kill such deer may be issued by the Postmaster at Queenstown on payment of a license fee of £2 2s., in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act and these regulations. The number of such licenses shall not exceed three, provided that not more than one such license shall be issued to the same person.

3. No licensee shall take or kill more than two bucks.

4. No hind or fawn shall be taken or killed on any pretext whatever, and no licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either himself or any attendant he may have with him.

5. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

6. Any person committing a breach of any of these regulations shall be liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding £20.

SCHEDULE.

No. .

License to take or kill Game (Virginian Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £2 2s., is hereby authorized to take or kill two Virginian deer (bucks), in Rees Valley, Upper Wakatipu, being part of the Lakes District Acclimatization District, from the day of , 1921, to the day of , 1921 (both days inclusive), subject to the provisions of the Animals Protection Act, 1908, and all regulations thereunder in force within the said district.

Dated at this day of , 1921.

Chief Postmaster.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of March, 1921.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Declaring Land in the Auckland Land District to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section seventy-nine of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area of Crown lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and shall hereafter form part of the Tainui Settlement.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District being part of Hoetainui North No. 6B No. 2J Section I Block, Blocks IV and VIII, Hapuakohe Survey District, containing by admeasurement 6 acres 3 roods 38 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north by Section 3S, Tainui Settlement, 1599·9 links; towards the east by a public road, 880·3 links; and towards the south-west by Hoetainui North No. 6B No. 2J Section I Block, 1730·4 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on Auckland plan No. 8986, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of March, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in the Borough of Geraldine, Canterbury Land District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for a site for a fire-brigade station, being a reserve within Class I of the Second Schedule of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and such land is not vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or trustee:

And whereas it is expedient that such land should be appropriated for recreation purposes, being a reserve within Class III of the aforesaid Act:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the eleventh section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, do by this notification declare that the said land shall, from and after the third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, be appropriated for recreation purposes under Class III of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908; and I do hereby direct that this notification shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 16·8 perches, more or less, being part of