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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

taking portion of Lot 14 of Allotment 147, Wairau Parish,
Block XIII, Waipu Survey District, for scenic purposes, such
Proclamation containing an error in substance.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government
House at Wellington, this 3rd day of March, 1922.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Notice withdrawing Land from a Mining District.—
(Mines N. 6/4/8.)

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon
me by section eight (c) of the Mining Act, 1908, and of
every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf,
I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, as from the date
of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, with-
draw from the Hauraki Mining District that area of Crown
land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the Hauraki Mining District, in the
Auckland Land District, described in Gazette No. 43, of 29th
May, 1913, page 1772, bounded towards the north-east by
the westernmost side of the road intersecting Section C,
Ngahina Pouri Block, Waihou Survey District, Block XII,
and commencing at the left or west bank of the Waihou River
and running in a south-easterly direction generally through
the said Block XII, through the Borough of Paeroa, and
through the Ohinemuri Survey District, Block XIII, and
adjoining or intersecting Te Huruhuru and Mangakotuku-
tuku Blocks, adjoining the Magazine Reserve, and termi-
nating at the stream in the Te Tawa-a-Takuao No. 1 Block ;
thence bounded towards the south-east by the said stream
to its confluence with the Ohinemuri River, and by a straight
line from the said confluence to the Waihou River at the
easternmost corner of Te Awaiiti 1n 2d, Waitoa Survey
District, Block IV ; thence towards the west by the left or
west bank of the Waihou River to the point of commence-
ment. All as it is more particularly shown on the plan
marked Mines N. 6/4/8, and thereon coloured yellow, de-
posited in the office of the Minister of Mines in Wellington,
in the Wellington Land District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued
under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government
House at Wellington, this 2nd day of March, 1922.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Authorizing the Reef ton Electric-power Board to purchase and
construct Electric Works.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 2nd day
of March, 1922.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE D. H. GUTHRIE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by
section forty-nine of the Electric-power Boards Act,
1918, as amended by section seventeen of the Electric-power
Boards Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other powers in
anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby authorize the purchase
by the Reef ton Electric-power Board (hereinafter referred to
as “the Board”) of the electric works the property of the
Reef ton Electric Light and Power Company (Limited); and
doth hereby authorize the Board to erect electric lines and
substations for the transmission and distribution of electrical
energy in the Reef ton Electric-power District as defined by
Proclamation dated the twenty-eighth day of June, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette No. 61, of the thirtieth day of June,
one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and generally to
perform the functions of an Electric-power Board constituted
in accordance with the provisions of the Electric-power
Boards Act, 1918, and its amendments, subject to the fol-
lowing conditions :—

(1.) No electric lines shall be used for the distribution of
electrical energy until the Board has obtained a license for
that purpose in accordance with the provisions of section
two of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911.

(2.) The existing lines now in service, if taken over by the
Board, shall be reconstructed within twelve months of the
assignment or issue of the license so as to comply with the
regulations made under section two of the Public Works
Amendment Act, 1911.

(3.) Any conditions inserted in such licenses shall be strictly
complied with by the Board.

(4.) The Board shall, before the works authorized are com-
menced, forward for the approval of the Minister of Public
Works—

(a.) Plans showing the routes of the electric lines proposed
to be erected and particulars of insulation and
voltage ;

(b.) Such further plans and particulars as the Minister of
Public Works may require.

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

Conferring Special Jurisdiction on the Native Land Court.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day of
February, 1922.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section twenty-five of the Native Land
Act, 1909, it is enacted that, in addition to the juris-
diction elsewhere in the said Act conferred upon the Native
Land Court, the Governor-General may by Order in Council
confer upon the Court jurisdiction in any matter or question
affecting the rights of Natives in any real or personal
property :

And whereas it is expedient to confer upon the Court the
said jurisdiction as hereinafter appears :

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, doth hereby, pursuant
to the said Act and all other powers thereunto him enabling,
confer upon the Native Land Court jurisdiction to hear and
determine as between Natives any claim whether at law or
equity to the ownership or possession of a flock of sheep now
running or depasturing upon the Wharekauri No. 1G or
Matarakau Block situated on Chatham Islands, and alleged to
be under the control and management of one Henry Grennell,
and to hear and determine as between Natives any claim to
recover damages in respect thereof, with power and juris-
diction to make such order or orders as the circumstances
of the case may require, and to enforce compliance there-
unto as fully and effectively as if the order was one within
the ordinary jurisdiction of the Court.

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

Declaring Portion of Takaputahi Road, in the Opotiki County,
to be a County Road.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 28th day
of February, 1922.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by
the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in
anywise enabling him in this behalf, 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, doth hereby order and declare that
the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall,
on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a
county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the Takaputahi Road, in the Auckland
Land District, Opotiki County, commencing at a point near
the junction of the Whitikau and Nga Upoko Tangata Streams,
and proceeding thence generally in a northerly direction for a
distance of eighty chains, more or less, along the left bank of
the Takaputahi Stream, adjoining or passing through part
Section 2, Block XVI, Waiawa Survey District. As the said