SEPT. 8.]

XI, Hastings Survey District, commencing at a point
marked C in red on plan, $1 \frac{1}{2}$ chains northwards of peg XLIV
on Thames-Coromandel Road, and continuing thence south-
wards across the estuary of Tapu Creek to peg XXI marked
D in red on plan, a distance of approximately thirty-five
chains measured along high-water mark and across estuary
of Tapu Creek.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked M.D. 5346,
deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wel-
lington.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. In these conditions the term “Minister” means the
   Minister of Marine as defined by the Shipping and Seamen
   Act, 1908, and includes any officer, person, or authority acting
   by or under the direction of such Minister.

2. In these conditions the term “foreshore” means all
   land between high-water mark of ordinary spring tides and
   low-water mark of ordinary spring tides.

3. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order
   in Council shall extend and apply only to those parts of
   the foreshore as shown in red on plan marked M.D. 5346,
   and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at
   Wellington.

4. His Majesty or the Governor-General, and all officers
   in the Government service acting in the execution of their
   duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress
   in, out, and over the said foreshore without payment.

5. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Council
   to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or incon-
   sistent with any law relating to the Customs, or with any
   regulation of the Minister of Customs, or with any provisions
   of the Harbours Act, 1908, or its amendments, or any regu-
   lations made thereunder, and that are or may hereafter be
   in force.

6. The Council may, subject to the provisions of section
   150 of the Harbours Act, 1908, erect or license or permit
   the erection of bathing-sheds or boat-sheds on the foreshore
   described in the First Schedule hereto, and may make by-
   laws regulating the use thereof, and may fix charges for
   such use, provided that the funds so received shall be ex-
   pended in improving the foreshore for the benefit of the
   public.

7. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Council
   to remove or cause to be removed any stone, sand, shingle,
   or shells without the consent of the Minister being first
   obtained.

8. By-laws made by the Council under the said Act in
   respect of the foreshore shall not have effect unless and
   until approved in writing by the Minister.

9. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or
   under this Order in Council shall continue to be in force
   for twenty-one years from the date hereof, unless in the
   meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered,
   modified, or revoked by competent authority.

10. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any
    time resumed by the Governor-General, without payment
    of any compensation whatever, on giving to the Council six
    calendar months' previous notice in writing. Any such
    notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister and
    delivered at or posted to the last known address of the
    Council in New Zealand.

J. W. BLACK,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Wardens appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of
August, 1921.

Present :

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section nine of the Mining Act, 1908,
it is enacted that the Governor-General may from
time to time, by Order in Council, appoint fit persons to be
Wardens, who shall hold office during the Governor-General's
pleasure:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority conferred by the said section nine
of the Mining Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby appoint

WILLIAM MELDRUM, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.,
to be a Warden, to hold and exercise the duties of such office
under and subject to the provisions of the said Act during
pleasure, on and from the first day of September, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-one.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

2299

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum
Industry Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 30th day of
August, 1921.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section forty-six of the Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Go-
vernor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, on the
recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land
comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be
specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum
Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified
the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to
the provisions of the Land Act, 1908:

And whereas the Land Board of the North Auckland Land
District has duly passed a resolution recommending that
the portion of Te Mata Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2
described in the Schedule hereto be excepted from the
operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is
expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the power and authority conferred
upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment
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 portion of Te Mata Kauri-gum
Reserve Extension No. 2 described in the Schedule hereto
shall, from the twenty-second day of September, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-one, cease to be subject to the Kauri-
gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, con-
taining by admeasurement 66 acres 0 roods 34 perches,
more or less, being Sections 3, 4, and 8 of Block VI, Hukere-
nui Survey District, and being part of the Te Mata Kauri-
gum Reserve Extension No. 2 set apart by Order in Council
dated the 21st day of August, 1899, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the 24th day of August, 1899, page
1556. As the same is delineated on the plan marked
L. and S. 5435/16, deposited in the Head Office, Department
of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon bordered
red.

J. W. BLACK,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing Commissioners to classify Pastoral Runs in
Southland Land District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the two-hundred-and-twenty-fifth sec-
tion of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount
Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby appoint

THOMAS BROOK,
JOHN CARMICHAEL, and
JAMES FLEMING

Commissioners to classify and report to me upon the rural
lands in Southland Land District known as Pastoral Runs
Nos. 523 and 524, Nokomai; as provided by the said section
two hundred and twenty-five.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 1st day of September, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Appointing a Member of the Oamaru Harbour Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by section seventeen of the
Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, that the office of
any member of a Harbour Board shall become vacant if,
inter alia, he dies:

And whereas it is provided by section eighteen of the
said Act, as amended by section two of the Harbours Amend-
ment Act, 1913, that when a non-elective member vacates
his office on the Board through the operation of the said
section seventeen the Governor-General may, by Warrant
under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place:

And whereas Jasper Gauntlett Nicolls, a non-elective mem-
ber of the Oamaru Harbour Board, died on the eighteenth
day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and
it is desirable to appoint a qualified person in his place: