enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke so much of the Proclamation dated the eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the fourteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, taking land for the purpose of stop-banks in Blocks VIII and XII, Waihou Survey District, as affects the land described in the Schedule hereto, such land being no longer required for the purpose for which it was taken.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land not required : 3 acres 1 rood 15 perches. Portion of Raumanga, situated in Block VIII, Waihou Survey District.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 54514, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged green. (S.O. 22204.)

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 23rd day of June, 1922.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING !

Stopping a Government Road in Block II, Tapapa Survey District. [L.S.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as stopped the Government road described in the Schedule hereto, such road being no longer required.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road hereby stopped : 1 acre 2 roods 36 perches. Adjoining or passing through public-school sites, Blocks IX, XXI, and X, and recreation reserve (Matamata Domain), Matamata Township. situated in Block II, Tapapa Survey District. (S.O. 22086.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 53881, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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 26th day of June, 1922.

W. FRASER,

For Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amending Regulations under the Registration of Aliens Act, 1917.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of June, 1922. Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him in that behalf by the Registration of Aliens Act, 1917 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), 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 make the amendment set out in the Schedule hereto to the regulations made under and for the purpose of the said Act on the fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and gazetted on the eighth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen (hereinafter called "the said regulations").

SCHEDULE.

Clause 9 of the said regulations is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following paragraph :

(e.) Any alien who has been granted letters of naturalization in some part of the British Dominions other than the Dominion of New Zealand and whose exemption is approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing Members of the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Appeal.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of June, 1922. Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by Order in Council made on the twenty-third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, under the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, the Honourable William Alexander Sim, a Judge of the Supreme Court, was appointed a member of the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Appeal:

And whereas owing to the absence from the Dominion of the said Judge it is expedient to revoke his appointment as a member of the First and Second Divisions and to appoint other Judges in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in exercise of the authority conferred upon him by the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, and in pursuance of the recommendation of the Right Honourable the Chief Justice, the Honourable Mr. Justice Sim, the Honourable Mr. Justice Hosking, and the Honourable Mr. Justice Reed, doth hereby revoke the said appointment of the Honourable William Alexander Sim, and appoint

The Honourable Sir JOHN WILLIAM SALMOND, Kt., Judge,

to be a member of the First Division of the Court of Appeal, and appoint

The Honourable JOHN HENRY HOSKING, Judge,

to be a member of the Second Division of the Court of Appeal ; and in all other respects the aforesaid Order in Council of the twenty-third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, is hereby confirmed.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of June, 1922. Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS application has been made, under section twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919, for the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council to enable the several local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto to borrow the sums set out therein, and it is expedient that such consent should issue:

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, doth hereby consent to the raising of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the several local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto, and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Finance Act, 1919, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loans.

SCHEDULE.

PALMERSTON North Borough Council (for repaying the Council's antecedent liability) ... 33,000 Blenheim Borough Council (for furthering the water-works undertaking) ... 22,000 Oamaru Borough Council (for repaying the Council's antecedent liability) ... 22,000