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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

Allocating Cost of certain Proceedings under Section 132 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, Borough of Whakatane.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of May, 1923.

Present :

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

IN pursuance of the powers vested in him by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and of every other power and authority 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 direct that the Whakatane County Council and the Whakatane Borough Council shall defray in equal proportions all the costs of the Commission appointed under the said Act by Warrant under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General dated the ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, to inquire and report upon the proposal to exclude an area from the Borough of Whakatane and to include such area in the County of Whakatane.

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

Amending Regulations under the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of May, 1923.

Present :

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915 (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 amend, in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations under the said Act made on the fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

SCHEDULE.

THE said regulations are hereby amended by adding after clause 38 thereof the following new clause :—
“38A. There shall be paid on every occasion of the production of title-deeds or instruments held by the Commissioner of Crown Lands a fee of 5s.”

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

Amending Regulation under the Explosive and Dangerous Goods Act, 1908.—Amendment No. 12.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of May, 1923.

Present :

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Explosive and Dangerous Goods Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and all other powers and authorities 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 that on and after the date of the publication of this Order the following regulation shall take effect for the purposes of the said Act, and shall form part of the regulations made under the said Act on the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and gazetted on the thirtieth day of July then instant

REGULATION.

THE following additional explosive having been authorized for importation into and for manufacture, storage, and sale in New Zealand, clause 8 of the above-recited regulations is hereby amended by adding the following explosive to Division I of Class 3: Samsonite No. 3.

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

Amending Rules as to Life-saving Appliances for Ships.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of May, 1923.

Present :

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

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 41, of the twenty-fifth day of the same month, an additional rule was made as to life-saving appliances for ships: And whereas it is desirable to revoke such rule and make a new rule in lieu thereof:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power conferred upon him by section one hundred and ninety-seven of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the said Order in Council of the sixteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and doth hereby make the following rule as to life-saving appliances for ships.

RULE.

3. Life-jackets previously passed.—Until the 31st August, 1923, any life-jacket which has been previously passed by a Marine Department Surveyor as part of the statutory equipment of a vessel may be accepted as part of the statutory equipment of the same vessel so long as it remains in good condition.

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

Constituting the Patea-Waitotara Rabbit District.—Notice No. Ag. 2267.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of May, 1923.

Present :

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

WHEREAS a petition from the majority of the stock-owners in that part of the Dominion specified in the Schedule hereto has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying him to constitute such part of the Dominion a district for the purposes of Part II of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), as amended by the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1920, and it appears expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred by the said Act and its amendments, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth constitute all that part of the said Dominion described in the Schedule hereto a district for the purposes of Part II of the said Act, and doth hereby declare that such district shall be known by the name of “The Patea-Waitotara Rabbit District.”

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area situated in the Provincial Districts of Wellington and Taranaki bounded as follows: Commencing at the mouth of the Whenuakura River; thence in a northerly direction and following the north bank of the said Whenuakura River to the mouth of the Moeawatea Stream; thence in a northerly direction along the right bank of the said Moeawatea Stream to the north-western boundary of the Patea County; thence in an easterly direction and following the said county boundary to the most westerly point of the Kapara Survey District