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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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duty at the rate of twenty per centum if admissible under the British Preferential Tariff, and at the rate of thirty per centum if admissible under the Intermediate Tariff, and at the rate of thirty-five per centum if admissible under the General Tariff, and shall, in addition, be liable to the primage duty of one per centum ad valorem imposed by section fifteen of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921.

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

Determining Powers as a Commissioner of Native Land Court.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of October, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCEY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the power and authority vested in him by section seven of the Native Land Act, 1909, and of all other powers thereunto him enabling, 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 that Edward Percy Earle, a Commissioner appointed under the said Act, shall possess and may exercise all the powers and functions of a Judge of the Native Land Court (other than those vested in the Chief Judge or vested in a Judge as a member of the Native Appellate Court), save and except the following, that is to say,—

(1.) The jurisdiction conferred upon or vested in a Judge under Parts II, IV, V, and IX of the Native Land Act, 1909.

(2.) The jurisdiction conferred upon or vested in a Judge under the following enactments :

Sections twenty-four, twenty-five, one hundred and forty-four, two hundred and thirty-two, and four hundred and thirty-seven of the Native Land Act, 1909; section seventeen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912; section one hundred and eighteen and one hundred and twenty-six of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, section six of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1920, and section ten of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1922.

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

Partial Revocation of Order in Council prohibiting all Alienation of certain Native Land other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of October, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCEY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that any Order in Council made under that section may at any time be varied or revoked:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority hereinbefore mentioned, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council referred to in Part I of the Schedule hereto, but only in so far as it affects the land mentioned in Part II of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

ORDER in Council under section 363 of the Native Land Act, 1909, dated the 21st day of May, 1923, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 31st day of May, 1923, affecting the land known as Taihaere No. 1 and other subdivisions.

PART II.

Taihaere No. 6A, being part of Subdivision 7 of Section 7, containing 9 acres 0 roods 39 perches, more or less, situated in Cape Survey District.

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

Treaty of Peace Amendment Order, 1922, amended.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of October, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCEY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon him by the Treaties of Peace Act, 1919, and the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916, and of all other powers him in that behalf enabling, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand in Council was pleased to make the Treaty of Peace Order, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Order”):

And whereas the principal Order was amended by the Treaty of Peace Amendment Order, 1922:

And whereas the said Treaty of Peace Amendment Order, 1922, was amended by the Treaty of Peace Amendment Order (No. 2), 1922:

And whereas it is expedient that the said Treaty of Peace Amendment Order, 1922, should be amended in manner hereinafter appearing:

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, and in pursuance of the authority conferred upon him in manner aforesaid, doth hereby order as follows :—

1. In addition to the fees referred to in paragraph 2 of the said Treaty of Peace Amendment Order, 1922 (being the commission of the Public Trust Office for certain special duties) there shall be paid to such officers as may have been engaged in carrying out the duties imposed on the Public Trustee under the War Regulations dated the 3rd April, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, or the War Regulations dated the second May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, or the War Regulations dated the eleventh May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, or the Enemy Property Regulations dated the fifth August, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, or the principal Order or any amendment to such War Regulations or principal Order, such allowances as the Minister of Finance and the Attorney-General may direct, such allowances to be paid out of the moneys in the hands of the Public Trustee pursuant to Part II of the principal Order without any further appropriation than this Order in Council; such allowances may be retrospective to cover services performed prior to the date hereof.

2. This Order may be cited as the Treaty of Peace Amendment Order, 1923.

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

Portion of Evelyn Street, in the City of Auckland, exempted from the Provisions of Section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of October, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCEY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Public Works 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 approve of the following resolution passed by the Auckland City Council on the 31st day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, viz. :—

“That the Auckland City Council, having control of Evelyn Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland, by resolution declares that section 117 of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to that portion fronting part Lots 51 and 52 of Allotment 8, Section 5, Suburbs of Auckland ”;

such portion of street being described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of street situated in the North Auckland Land District, City of Auckland, known as Evelyn Street, fronting part Lots 51 and 52 of Allotment 8, Section 5, Suburbs of Auckland. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57476, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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