July 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2043

Proclaiming Native Land to have become Crown Land.

[L.S.] JELLI COE, Governor-General.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section fourteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, it is provided, inter alia, that on being satisfied that the purchase of any Native land has been duly completed by or on behalf of the Crown under the authority of the Native Land Act, 1909, the Governor-General may issue a Proclamation that such land has become Crown land:

And whereas the purchase of the Native land set out in the Schedule hereto has been duly completed by or on behalf of the Crown under the authority of the Native Land Act, 1909, and its amendments:

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, I, 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.

TAUMARUNUI Native Township Subdivision I, being Section 14, Block III, and Section 8, Block V: Approximate area, 2 roods 8 perches.

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 12th day of July, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amending Regulations under the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, prescribing Fees for the Grading of Dairy Produce.—Notice No. Ag. 2279.

JELLI COE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of July, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Dairy Industry 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, doth hereby revoke the regulations under the said Act made by Order in Council on the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and by Order in Council dated the twenty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and doth hereby make the following regulations in lieu thereof; and it is hereby declared that these regulations shall come into operation upon their publication in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. THE fee for grading butter shall be 1·05d. per box of butter of the standard size, subject as hereinafter provided.
2. The fee for grading cheese shall be 1·40d. per crate of cheese, subject as hereinafter provided.
3. (1.) In the case of butter or cheese forwarded for export from a registered factory, creamery, or private dairy the fee shall be payable by the manufacturer on demand.
   (2.) In the case of butter or cheese not included in (1) the fee shall be payable by the owner on demand.
4. Where it is found that the total amount paid or payable in respect of grading fees in any year ending the thirty-first day of March exceeds the cost, as determined by the Minister of Agriculture, of the dairy-grading service, including the salary and expenses of the Government Dairy Produce Officer in London, the Minister may credit to the payers of fees, towards the fees payable by them during the next succeeding year, the amount paid or payable in excess of such cost as aforesaid, in the proportion in which each payer contributed towards the fees, paid or payable, during the period in question.

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

Authorizing the Taranaki Electric-power Board to construct Electric Works.

JELLI COE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of July, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by section forty-nine of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, as amended by section seventeen of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, 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 authorize the Taranaki Electric-power Board to construct the works indicated on the plans marked P.W.D. 56869, 56870, 56871, 56872, 56873, and 56874, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, for the purpose of enabling the Board to utilize water from the Manganui River, and Mangaotea and Mako Streams, and divert those waters through suitable conduits to a power-station situated on the bank of the Motukawa Stream, and to erect suitable machinery for the conversion of such water-power into electrical energy; and also to erect electric lines as shown on the said plans, and such further lines as may from time to time be required in the Taranaki Electric-power District as hereinafter defined, and substations for the transmission and distribution of electrical energy in the Taranaki Electric-power District, as defined by Proclamation dated the seventeenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 40, of the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. No water shall be used for the purpose of generating electricity and no electric lines shall be used for the distribution of electrical energy until the Taranaki Electric-power Board has obtained a license for such purposes in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1908, and section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911.
2. Any conditions inserted in such license shall be strictly complied with by such Board.
3. Such Board shall forward for the approval of the Minister of Public Works such further plans and particulars as the Minister may require.
4. The Board shall not, without the consent in writing of the Minister of Public Works, erect any electric lines along the routes of the Government main trunk transmission-lines when surveyed.
5. The works hereby authorized shall be constructed so as to comply with the regulations made under section 2 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911, dated the 9th day of October, 1922, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th day of the same month, or any regulations made in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor, which regulations shall be deemed to be incorporated herein.
6. The licensee shall substantially complete the works hereby authorized within a period of five years from the date of this license, or within such further time as the Minister may allow in the event of the work being delayed by strikes, lockouts, breakdowns, or other unavoidable causes not due to any neglect of the licensee.

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

Consenting to the Raising of £5,000, being Part of a Loan of £6,000 authorized to be raised by the Hokitika Borough Council on the Instalment System extending over a Period of Thirty-six and a Half Years.

JELLI COE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of July, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS section thirteen of the Finance Act, 1921, provides that where any local authority, as defined by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, has heretofore been or shall hereafter be authorized to raise a loan, whether pursuant to a poll of ratepayers or otherwise, and whether