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and twenty-three; and also further petitions, praying that the
boundaries of the proposed electric-power district be altered
so as to include the Town District of Mangapapa and the
Town District of Te Karaka and the County of Waikohu,
were presented to the Governor-General on the tenth day
of October and third day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-three, respectively:

And whereas such petitions were publicly notified in the
Gisborne Times dated the seventeenth day of May, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, the Poverty Bay
Herald dated the thirteenth day of September, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-three, and the Gisborne Times dated
the fifteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-three, being newspapers circulating in the pro-
posed electric-power district:

And whereas, after due inquiry, the Governor-General is
of opinion that the petitions should be granted, subject to
the proposed boundaries of the district being altered as
hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the power and authority con-
ferred upon me by section three of the Electric-power Boards
Act, 1918, do hereby alter the proposed boundaries, and
proclaim the area comprising the Cook County (including
the Patutahi Town District), the Gisborne Borough, the
Waikohu County (including the Te Karaka Town District),
and the Mangapapa Town District to be an electric-power
district, and I hereby assign to such district the name of
the "Poverty Bay Electric-power District."

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 14th day of
December, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

God save the King!

Additional Land taken for the Kawakawa-Hokiang Railway
(Kaikohe and Okaihau Sections) in Block XV, Omapere
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 anywise enabling me in
this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the additional land mentioned in the Schedule
hereto is hereby taken for the Kawakawa-Kokiang Railway
(Kaikohe and Okaihau Sections) in Block XV, Omapere
Survey District.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land taken:-

A. R. P. Being
0 0 11·95 Pt. Kohewhata No. 69 Block; coloured blue.
0 3 24·3 Pt. Kohewhata No. 69 Block (D.P. 14402);
coloured red.
0 0 29·21 Pt. Kohewhata No. 69 Block; coloured blue.
0 0 10·9 Right-of-way part Kohewhata Block; col-
oured green.
0 0 4·9 Pt. Kohewhata No. 50 Block; coloured
yellow.
(Kaikohe Town District.) (P.W.D. 58431.) (S.O. 22641.)
0 3 0 Pt. Taire No. lc Block; coloured red.
(P.W.D. 58432.) (S.O. 22659.)

Situated in Block XV, Omapere Survey District (Auckland
R.D.).

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are
more particularly delineated on the plans marked and coloured
as above-mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister
of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land
District.

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
December, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works

God save the King!

Land taken for a Further Portion of the Orepuki-Waiau
Railway (Orawia Section), and for a Road Approach
thereto.

[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 anywise enabling me in
this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is
hereby taken for a further portion of the Orepuki-Waiau
Railway (Orawia Section), and for a road approach thereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land taken:-

FOR RAILWAY.

A. R. P.
2 2 5·3 Portion of Section 40 (sheet 3); coloured blue.
6 3 15·6 40 (sheet 4); blue.
0 3 13'9 40 " blue.
0 0 31·4 38 " blue.
0 0 1·27 39 " pink.
3 3 29·3 39 " pink.
0 0 8·18 39 " pink.

FOR ROAD APPROACH.

0 2 2·2 Portion of Sec. 39 (sheet 4); coloured orange.
0 1 26'2 38 (sheet 4); sepia.

Situated in Block X, Waiau Survey District (Southland
R.D.).

In the Southland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57188,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured as above mentioned.

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 14th day of
December, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works

God save the King!

Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Block IV,
Kidnapper Survey District, Hawke's Bay County.

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

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section eleven of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rush-
worth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim as a road the land in
Kidnapper Survey District described in the First Schedule
hereto; and also do hereby proclaim as closed the road
described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

LAND PROCLAIMED AS A ROAD.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land proclaimed as a
road:-

A. R. P. Portion of
0 0 0'065 Part Section 4 R.
0 1 32·9 Part Block 9, Te Mata C.G.D.
0 0 23'6 " "
0 0 1'7 " "
0 1 0·4 " "

Coloured on plan: Pink.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ROAD CLOSED.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road closed:-

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
0 2 8'8 Block 9, Te Mata C.G.D.
0 0 13 " "
0 0 36 5 " "

Coloured on plan: Green.

All situated in Block IV, Kidnapper Survey District
(Hawke's Bay R.D.). (S.O. 707, green.)

All in the Hawke's Bay Land District: as the same are
more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.
57832, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public