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SCHEDULE.
HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.-BEACH DOMAIN.
SECTIONS 6 and 1, Block VIII, Heretaunga Survey District:
Area, 25 acres 3 roods 9·9 perches.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Recreation Reserve in North Auckland Land District brought
under Part II of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of
February, 1923.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by
the twenty-sixth section of the Public Reserves and
Domains Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve
for recreation in the North Auckland Land District described
in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby brought
under the operation of and declared to be subject to the
provisions of Part II of the said Act ; and such reserve shall
hereafter form part of the Okaihau Domain, and be managed,
administered, and dealt with as a public domain by the
Okaihau Domain Board.
SCHEDULE.
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
SECTION 78, Okaihau Parish : Area, 1 acre.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Rate of Duty on Compo Board.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of
February, 1923.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by section one hundred and thirty-
five of the Customs Act, 1913, and of all other powers and
authorities enabling him in that 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 declare that "compo
board," consisting of timber with a layer of paper-pulp,
strawboard, paper, or similar material cemented thereto on
one or both sides, and being an article which is not specifi-
cally enumerated in the Tariff, and which is, in the opinion
of the Minister of Customs, a substitute for dressed sawn
timber, shall be charged with duty at the rate of four
shillings per hundred superficial feet, and shall, in addition,
be liable to the primage duty of one per centum ad valorem
imposed by section fifteen of the Customs Amendment Act,
1921.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £2,000
proposed to be raised by the Hutt County Council.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of
February, 1923.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the Hutt County Council, acting under and
in pursuance of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913,
proposes to raise a loan of two thousand pounds for the pur-
pose of providing its share of the cost of the construction of
the Pakuratahi, Stokes Valley, and Miller's Creek Bridges :
And whereas the special order authorizing the raising of
the loan is irregular, in so far that the public notification of
the time and place fixed for the confirmation of the said
special order, although given four times, did not comply with
the provisions of section ninety-nine of the Counties Act,
1920 :
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 Execu-
tive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and
declare that the proceedings taken to raise the said loan shall
be valid to all intents and purposes as though public notifica-
tion of the special order had been correctly given, 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.
Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £200
proposed to be raised by the Council of the Borough of
Greystown.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of
February, 1923.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the Greystown Borough Council, acting under
and in pursuance of the Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1913, proposes to raise a loan of two hundred pounds for the
purpose of paying the borough's share of the cost of con-
structing the Tauherenikau Bridge :
And whereas the special order authorizing the raising of
the loan is irregular, in so far that the public notification of
the time and place fixed for the confirmation of the said
special order, although given four times, did not comply
with the provisions of section sixty-two of the Municipal
Corporations Act, 1920 :
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 Execu-
tive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and
declare that the proceedings taken to raise the said loan shall
be valid to all intents and purposes as though public notifica-
tion of the special order had been correctly given, 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.
Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £500
proposed to be raised by the Wakapuaka Drainage Board.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 12th day of
February, 1923.
Present :
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the Wakapuaka Drainage Board, acting under
and in pursuance of paragraph (e) of section sixteen
of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, proposes to raise a loan
of five hundred pounds for drainage-works :
And whereas the ratepayers' consent given under para-
graph (e) of section sixteen aforesaid is irregular, in that sub-
scribing ratepayers have attested the signatures of the other
subscribers thereto :
And whereas the special rating area is incorrectly described
in the special order authorizing the raising of the loan, but is
correctly described in the resolution making the special rate
forming the security for the loan :
And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been
misled by the said irregularities or defects, 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