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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 15

loan the cost of raising the loan or the interest and sinking fund for the first year:
And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularities or defects inasmuch as it is not intended to pay out of the loan the cost of raising the loan or the interest and sinking fund for the first year, and it is expedient to validate the same.

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and eleven of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings taken shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the provisions of sections nine and ten of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, had been correctly complied with, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with Poll taken on Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Borough of Gisborne.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of March, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred and thirty-two of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, a petition was presented to His Excellency the Governor-General praying that a certain area be excluded from the Mangapapa Town District and included in the Borough of Gisborne:

And whereas a Commission appointed under the said section made inquiries and recommended that the said area with certain alterations be excluded from the Mangapapa Town District and included in the Borough of Gisborne:

And whereas a poll was taken on Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, within the area as recommended by the said Commission, upon the proposal that the said area should be excluded from the Mangapapa Town District and included in the Borough of Gisborne:

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said poll were irregular, in that the arrangements for such poll were not made by the Governor-General, as provided by subsections (e) and (f) of the said section, and it is expedient to validate the said proceedings:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section three hundred and seventy-nine of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the proceedings in connection with the poll taken on the proposal to alter the boundaries of the said Mangapapa Town District and said Borough of Gisborne shall be valid to all intents and purposes as if the arrangements in connection therewith had been duly made by the Governor-General as provided by the said section; and doth hereby declare that the said proceedings shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

Land temporarily reserved in the Auckland Land District for Water-supply Purposes.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for water-supply purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 25 acres 2 roods 9 perches, more or less, being Subdivision 2 of Section 14, Block XV, Rotorua Survey District. Commencing at the north-western corner of Okoheriki No. 1N North, thence in a south-easterly direction along the south-western boundary of the said Okoheriki No. 1N North, to its south-western corner, 2,400 links; thence in a south-westerly and north-westerly direction by Okoheriki Block No. 2 to a public road, 1,695·4 and 2074·8 links; thence in a north-easterly direction by the said public road to the north-western corner of Subdivision 1 of Section 14, Block XV, Rotorua Survey District, 486·7 links; thence along the western, southern, and eastern boundaries of the said Subdivision 1 of Section 14, to the junction of the said eastern boundary with a public road, 399·1, 847·4, 592·7, 186·1, 161·7, 99·8, 14·3, 128·8, 203·5, and 1966·3 links; thence in a north-easterly direction by the said public road to the north-western corner of Okoheriki No. 1N North, 504 links, the place of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 4/383, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 7th day of March, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Member of Native Trust Office Board appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section ten of the Native Trustee Act, 1920, and of every other power and authority in that behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

John William Macdonald, Esquire,

the Public Trustee of the said Dominion of New Zealand, to be a member of the Native Trust Office Board for a period of two years.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 8th day of March, 1924.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Native Affairs.

Appointing a Member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty-eight of the Harbours Act, 1923, that in the event of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of a non-elective member of a Harbour Board, the Governor-General shall, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place.

And whereas Charles Hayward Burgess, a non-elective member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board, has resigned his office by writing under his hand delivered to the Secretary of the Board, an extraordinary vacancy in the membership of the Board has been created, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint James Ryland Cruickshank to be a member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board in the place of the said Charles Hayward Burgess, resigned.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of March, 1924.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Member of the Auckland Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 8th March, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

Bernard Sladden

to be a member of the Auckland Land Board as from the 26th March, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.