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ing the antecedent liability of that Council under the Local Bodies’ Finance Act, 1921–22 :

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said loan were irregular, in that public notice of the special order authorizing the raising of the loan was not given once in each full week intervening between the meetings at which the resolution was passed and confirmed respectively, as required by section ninety-nine of the Counties Act, 1920 :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the district have not been misled by such irregularity as aforesaid, 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 proceedings in connection with the said loan shall be valid at all intents and purposes as though the said public notice had been correctly given, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

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 11th day of September, 1922.

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 Governor-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 the Purua Kauri-gum Reserve and the portion of the Purua 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 pursuance 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 the Purua Kauri-gum Reserve and portion of Purua Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2 described in the Schedule hereto shall, from the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 167 acres, more or less, being Section 10, Block II, Purua Survey District, and being part of the Purua Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 93, of the 21st of December, 1898, page 2075.

Also all that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 80 acres, more or less, being Section 9, Block II, Purua Survey District, and being part of the Purua Kauri-gum Reserve Extension No. 2, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 18, of the 6th March, 1922, page 528.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/4/9, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (Auckland plan No. 1503, blue.)

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

Notice of Change of the Purpose of a Portion of a Reserve in the Otago Land District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section six of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), the Governor-General is empowered, in the case of any public reserve vested in His Majesty or the Governor-General for any of the purposes comprised in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, to change the purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other purpose :

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve duly set apart for a resting-place for stock, being a purpose within Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, and it is expedient to change, as hereinafter provided, the purpose of the reservation over the said land :

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by section six of the said Act as aforesaid, declare that the purpose of the reservation over the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby changed from a resting-place for stock to a site for a post and telegraph office. And I do hereby further declare that this notice is issued subject to the provisions of section seven of the said Act, and shall take effect according to the provisions of that section.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 45 (formerly part of Section 41), Block I, Pomahaka Survey District: Area, 2 roods 5 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of September, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Otago Land District for other Land.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and forty-two of the Land Act, 1908, as amended by section six of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange :

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land of equal value described in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 6 acres 0 roods 27 perches, more or less, being Section 42, Block V, Wakefield Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the southern corner of Preemptive Right “D,” Run 238; thence by said preemptive right, 23° 47′, 758·3 links; 293° 47′, 688·1 links; by Run 238E, 26° 2′, 187 links, 116° 2′, 1178·3 links, 206° 2′, 976 links, 296° 2′, 1178·3 links; by a public road, 26° 2′, 30·1 links; and again by said preemptive right, 113° 47′, 717·9 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 8/8/35, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 6 acres 0 roods 27 perches, more or less, being part of Preemptive Right D, Run 238, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the northern corner of said preemptive right, thence by Run 238E, 113° 47′, 828·5 links; by other part of said preemptive right, 206° 2′, 757 links; by a public road and by said Run 238E, 293° 47′, 798·7 links; and by said Run 238E, 23° 47′, 758·3 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 8/8/35, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 5th day of September, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.