that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the seventeenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken : 3 acres 0 roods 1 perch.

Being portion of Section No. 1D No. 2B, Rangitatau Block, Block V, Nukumaru Survey District (Rangitatau Block R.D.). (S.O. 1784.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57784, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered pink.

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 24th day of October, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Portions of Street proclaimed as closed in the Borough of Invercargill.

[L.S.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Land Act, 1908, and its amendments, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as closed the portions of street in the Borough of Invercargill described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of street closed :

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through

0 2 16 Sections 1 to 5, Block LXXX, Town of Inver-cargill

0 2 16 Sections 1 to 5, Block LXXI, Town of Inver-cargill.

Situated in the Borough of Invercargill (Southland R.D.). (S.O. R. 507.)

In the Southland Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57585, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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 25th day of October, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Stopping a Government Road in Block XV, Opoiti Survey District.

[L.S.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority in anyway enabling me inthis behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as stopped the Government road described in the Schedule hereto, such road being no longer required.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road hereby stopped:- A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through

0 0 32 Tutuotekaha 2D l.

0 0 5.5 ",

Situated in Block XV, Opoiti Survey District (Poverty Bay R.D.). (S.O. 945, brown.)

In the Gisborne Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 52327, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at

Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

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 30th day of October, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Date on which the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923, is to come into Operation.-Notice No. Ag. 2308.

[L.S.] JELLICOE, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section two of the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923, it is enacted that the said Act shall come into operation on a date to be specified in that behalf by the Governor-General by Proclamation approved in Executive Council; but that a Proclamation shall not issue unless and until a majority in number of the producers, within the meaning of the said Act, have, at a poll to be taken for the purpose as therein provided, voted in favour of a proposal that the said Act should be brought into operation : And whereas it appears from a notice published in the Gazette of the twenty-fifth October now instant that a majority in number of the producers voted in favour of the proposal that the said Act should be brought into operation : And whereas it is further enacted by the said section that a notice published in the Gazette as aforesaid shall be conclusive evidence of the result of the poll:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the aforesaid section two, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923, shall come into operation on the third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

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 29th day of October, 1923.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,

For Minister of Agriculture.

Approved in Council.

C. A. JEFFERY,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

Proclaiming Native Land to have become Crown Land.

[L.S.] JELLICOE, 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 V part, being Section 10, Block IV, Section 14, Block VIII, Sections 1, 2, 3, Block IX, Lots 1 and 2 of Section 4, Block XIV, Sections 1 and 2, Block XV, Section 14, Block XXI, Sections 2 and 6, Block XXIII, Section 1, Block XXV, Section 8, Block XXVII, and Sections 4 and 14, Block XXVIII.

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 25th day of October, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

GOD SAVE THE KING!