Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority so conferred upon me by section fourteen of
the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, 1, John Rushworth,
Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby proclaim that the Native land set out in
the Schedule hereto has become Crown land.

SCHEDULE.

WAIPOUA 2B 3E Block, Waipoua Survey District: Approximate area, 816 acres.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 15th day of June, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Alteration of Rules under the Bankruptcy Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of June, 1923.

Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by section nineteen of the Bankruptcy Act, 1908, 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, and with the concurrence of the Right Honourable the Chief Justice of New Zealand, and the Honourable Mr. Justice Salmond, two of the Judges of the Supreme Court, doth hereby alter rule six of the rules under the Bankruptcy Act in the Order in Council made on the twenty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, by amending, as set forth in the Schedule hereto, the table of fees in the appendix to the said rules; and doth declare that such amendment shall take effect on and after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

SCHEDULE.

APPENDIX.

Table of Fees.

The words “Hearing same if no order made” are repealed, and the words “Hearing any application for discharge” are substituted in lieu thereof.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Apportionment of Representation on the Tauranga Electric-power Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1923.

Present:

The Honourable Sir Francis Bell Presiding in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, 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 determine with respect to the Tauranga Electric-power District, being an electric-power district duly constituted by Proclamation dated the seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 52, of the fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, that the number of representatives of the constituent district of the County of Tauranga on the Board of the said district shall be seven.

C. A. JEFFERY,

Acting 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 18th day of June, 1923.

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.

Levin Borough Council (for the erection of municipal buildings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £ 24,000
Levin Borough Council (for streets and footpaths) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,000
Ohakune Borough Council (for electric plant, buildings, lines, and accessories) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,000
Ohakune Borough Council (for municipal buildings and library) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500
Ohakune Borough Council (for street improvements) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Dargaville Borough Council (for completing traffic-bridge over the Wairoa River) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,000
Wanganui Borough Council (for street purposes, St. John's Hill) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000
Featherston County Council (for the erection of Upper Tauherenikau Bridge) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Waitomo County Council (for forming, widening, culverting, and metalling portion of the Waikawau Lower Road) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,000
Dargaville Borough Council (for completing the erection of municipal offices and library) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900
Kawhia County Council (for metalling portion of the Lemon Point - Te Maika Road) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Maru Rabbit-proof Fencing Board (for erecting rabbit-proof netting around the boundaries of the district) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purposes of a Post-office in Block VIII, Paekakariki Survey District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1923.

Present:

The Honourable Sir Francis Bell Presiding in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anyway 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 consent to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for the purposes of a post-office, such land being occupied by a building, yard, and garden.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate area of the piece of land being taken: 35·3 perches.

Being Lot 3 on D.P. 407, Township of Plimmerton, Block VIII, Paekakariki Survey District (Taupo No. 1 R.D.)
(S.O. 1772.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56853, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red.

C. A. JEFFERY,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.