Sept. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2507

Consenting to Land being taken for the Purposes of a Native School in Motiti Survey District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of September, 1923.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General 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 consent to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for the purposes of a Native school, portion of such land being occupied by buildings, garden, and orchard.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land being taken: 3 acres 2 roods.

Being Motiti B No. 1, parts of B No. 12, B No. 15, B No. 16, and B No. 20, situated in Motiti Survey District. (S.O. 22652.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57034, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

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 25th day of September, 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.

Raglan County Council, for forming, draining, and metalling various roads in the Pukemiro Riding.. £20,000
Feilding Borough Council for repaying water loan 23,400
Feilding Borough Council for repaying surface-drainage loan 4,200
Feilding Borough Council for reconstructing and tar-sealing roads 16,000
Feilding Borough Council for purchasing roadmaking machinery 4,000
Feilding Borough Council for building rest-room and conveniences 3,500
Feilding Borough Council for erecting Derby Street Bridge 2,000
Feilding Borough Council for erecting South Street Bridge 2,000
Napier Harbour Board for partly extinguishing its antecedent liability 13,800
Inglewood County Council for improvements to the Main Road 8,000
Matamata County Council for road-metalling in Whitehall S.R.A. 5,000
Springs-Ellesmere Electric-power Board for the erection of reticulating electric lines in the Dunsandel area 4,000
Wanganui County Council for paying Council's proportion of the cost of the Kauangaroa Bridge 2,500
Te Puke Town Board for street-improvement works 1,200
Taranaki County Council for forming and metalling Lower Richmond Road 250

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

Conferring certain Powers on Trustees of the late James Gammack.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of September, 1923.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS the lands hereinafter described are vested in George Rennie, formerly of Lincoln, but now of Taupiri in the Provincial District of Auckland, Farmer, and John Rennie, of Motukarara, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, Farmer, as trustees of the will of James Gammack, late of Springston, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, deceased, but without power of sale or gift being conferred upon them by such will:

And whereas by section one hundred and fifty-three of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1922, it is enacted that the Governor-General may by Order in Council authorize the trustees for the time being of the will of the said James Gammack (deceased), subject to such conditions as the Governor-General shall think fit, to give to the Corporation of Springs County for the purpose of a war memorial the land described as Lot 1 in Schedule hereto, and to give to the Education Board of the District of Canterbury for the purpose of a school-site the land described as Lot 2 in Schedule hereto, and to sell the land described as Lot 3 in Schedule hereto, and to invest the proceeds of such sale for the benefit of the beneficiaries according as they are entitled to the same under the said will:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section one hundred and fifty-three of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1922, and acting by and with the consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize the said trustees for the time being of the will of the said James Gammack, deceased,—

(a.) To give to the Corporation of Springs County for the purpose of a war memorial the land described as Lot 1 in Schedule hereto;

(b.) To give to the Education Board of the District of Canterbury for the purpose of a school-site the land described as Lot 2 in Schedule hereto;

(c.) To sell the land described as Lot 3 in Schedule hereto, and to invest the proceeds of such sale for the benefit of the beneficiaries according as they are entitled to the same under the said will. Subject to the consent of the said beneficiaries, such land may be sold either in one lot or in several lots by public auction or private contract upon such terms as to payment of purchase-money, and subject to such stipulations as to title or otherwise, as the aforesaid trustees shall think fit, with power for the said trustees to buy in or rescind or vary contracts for sale and to resell without responsibility for loss.

SCHEDULE.

Lot 1.—All that piece or parcel of land situate in the Leeston Survey District, containing by admeasurement 22·3 perches, being portion of Rural Section 3053 on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the Canterbury Land District, and being bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the northern side of the road which forms the southern boundary of the said Rural Section 3053, distant 1247·3 links from the south-west corner of that section; thence north-easterly bearing 24° 35′ 30″ for a distance of 103 links; thence south-easterly bearing 100° 31′ for 50 links; thence south-easterly again bearing 100° 36′ for a distance of 79·45 links; thence south-westerly bearing 193° 6′ 30″ for a distance of 100·1 links to the northern side of the above-mentioned road; thence north-westerly along the northern side of this road bearing 100° 36′ for a distance of 75 links; thence north-westerly again bearing 100° 31′ continuing along the side of the said road for a distance of 75 links to the commencing-point.

Lot 2.—All that piece or parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods 30 perches, being part of Rural Section 3055, Block VIII, Leeston Survey District, and being Lot 13 of deposited plan numbered 5565 in the office of the District Land Registrar at Christchurch, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the Ellesmere Junction Road forming the southern-most boundary of the said Rural Section 3053, 234·5 links from the south-west corner thereon; thence south-easterly following the said Ellesmere Junction Road a distance of 498·45 links bearing 100° 31′; thence north-easterly following