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8. 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 three 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.

9. The Council shall be liable for any injury which the said wharf may cause any vessel or boat to sustain through any default or neglect on its part.

10. In case the Council shall—
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions hereinbefore set forth, or any of them; or
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said wharf for the purposes aforesaid,—

then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council, and every license, right, power, or privilege thereby conferred, may be revoked and determined by the Governor-General in Council, without any notice to the Council or other proceeding whatsoever; and publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the Council, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this Order in Council, and the license, rights, and privileges thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and determined.

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

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £3,000 proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Castlepoint.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1922.

Present:

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

WHEREAS the Castlepoint County Council, acting under and in pursuance of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, proposes to raise a loan of three thousand pounds for the purpose of constructing a ferro-concrete bridge over the Whareama River:

And whereas the voting-paper used at the poll of ratepayers upon the said proposal was in the form numbered six in the Second Schedule to the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, instead of in the form numbered one in the First Schedule to the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913:

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularity or defect, 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 taken to raise the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as if the voting-paper used at the poll of ratepayers had been in the correct form, 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 or defect aforesaid.

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

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £500 proposed to be raised by the Hutt County Council.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1922.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING 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 five hundred pounds for the purpose of constructing street channelling and surface drainage in No. 15 Special Rating Area, Day’s Bay:

And whereas the notices of intention to raise the loan and the notices of the poll are irregular, inasmuch as they were published partly in one newspaper and partly in another instead of wholly in one newspaper as required by sections nine and ten of the said Act:

And whereas the voting-paper used at the poll of ratepayers upon the said proposal was in the form numbered six in the Second Schedule to the Local Election and Polls Act, 1908, instead of in the form numbered one in the First Schedule to the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913:

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 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 taken shall be valid to all intents and purposes as if the provisions of sections nine and ten of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, had been correctly complied with, and as if the voting-paper used at the poll of ratepayers had been in the proper form, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

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

Taking Land for Public Purposes in the Cook Islands.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1922.

Present:

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

WHEREAS by section three hundred and fifty-seven of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, it is provided that the Governor-General may by Order in Council take any land in the Cook Islands for any public purpose specified in the Order:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a certain public purpose — to wit, for the purposes of public buildings:

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, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section three hundred and fifty-seven of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and of every other power and authority enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the purposes of public buildings.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, situate in the district of Arutanga in the Island of Aitutaki, Cook Islands, containing 34 perches, be the same a little more or less, being the land named by the Native Land Court Matariki No. 2D. As the said parcel of land is delineated in the plan numbered 7, signed by the Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga, and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the High Court of the Cook Islands at Rarotonga.

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

The North-eastern Side of Portion of Childers Terrace, in the City of Wellington, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, subject to a Condition as to the Building-line.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1922.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Wellington City Council on the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, viz. :—

“The Wellington City Council, being the local authority having control of the streets in the City of Wellington,