APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1033

Conferring on Matau River Board certain Additional Powers of a Drainage Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1924.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS it is enacted by the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), that the Governor-General may, subject to such restrictions, modifications, and conditions as he thinks fit, from time to time, by Order in Council, confer upon any specified River Board such of the powers of a Drainage Board as he thinks fit:
And whereas by Order in Council (hereinafter referred to as the said Order in Council) made under the said Act dated the nineteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and gazetted on the twenty-first day of the same month, certain powers of a Drainage Board were conferred on the Matau River Board (hereinafter referred to as the said Board):
And whereas it is expedient to confer on the said Board certain additional powers of a Drainage Board:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him in that behalf by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth, in addition to the powers conferred on the said Board by the said Order in Council, hereby confer upon the said Board all the powers exercisable by a duly constituted Drainage Board under section sixteen, sections thirty-one to thirty-seven (inclusive), and section forty-one of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, including all amendments and extensions of these sections, subject, however, as far as applicable, to the restrictions, modifications, and conditions contained herein and in the said Order in Council; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, and with the like advice and consent, doth hereby amend the said Order in Council by repealing numbers two and three of the restrictions, modifications, and conditions contained therein, and by adding the following as number two thereof;—
“(2.) Section 16 shall apply only for the purposes of rating and classification of lands for rating.”
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Vigor Brown Domain.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1924.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty of the Public Reserves and Domains 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 appoint
John Vigor Brown,
Thomas Hyde, and
John McConnell
to be the Vigor Brown Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby appoint Thursday, the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, at eight o’clock p.m., as the time when, and the Public Hall, Westshore, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.
SCHEDULE.
VIGOR BROWN DOMAIN.—HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.
Section 5, Westshore, Napier : Area, 2 roods.
Section 133, Westshore, Napier : Area, 1 acre 2 roods.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Declaring Portion of Road in Block VI, Waihou Survey District, to be a Government Road.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1924.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anyway 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 order and declare that the portion of road described in the Schedule hereto, shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a Government road.
SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the portion of road declared to be a Government road : 37·7 perches.
Adjoining or passing through Makumaku 5A 2D 4A, Kaikahu IB Section 2, and Section 62, situated in Block VI, Waihou Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 23094.)
In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 59117, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Declaring Portions of Road in East Taieri District, to be Government Roads.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1924.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anyway 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 order and declare that the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become Government roads.
SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE areas of the portions of road declared to be Government roads:—
A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
2 1 13 Sections 49 and 50.
0 0 39 Section 49 and Crown land. River Sections.
0 0 17 Section 49.
0 2 32
0 3 26
Situated in East Taieri District (Otago R.D.).
In the Otago Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 58571, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Revoking the Vesting in the Opotiki Town Board of a Reserve for the Improvement and Protection of the Waioeka River, being Allotment 363, Parish of Waiceka.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1924.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto was vested in the Opotiki Town Board, in trust, for