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of the foreshore as described in the First Schedule hereto, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

THAT portion of the foreshore at Muriwai commencing at the mouth of the Muriwai Stream and extending generally southwards to the southern boundary of the Motutara Domain: as the same is shown on plan marked M.D. 5834, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

1. IN these conditions the term “Minister” means the Minister of Marine as defined by the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and includes any officer, person, or authority acting by or under the direction of such Minister.

2. In these conditions the term “foreshore” means all land between high-water mark of ordinary spring tides and low-water mark of ordinary spring tides.

3. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall extend and apply only to those parts of the foreshore as shown in red on plan marked M.D. 5834, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington.

4. His Majesty or the Governor-General, and all officers in the Government service acting in the execution of their duty, shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress out and over the said foreshore without payment.

5. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Board to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or with any regulation of the Minister of Customs, or with any provisions of the Harbours Act, 1923, or its amendments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that are or may hereafter be in force.

6. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall not apply to those portions of the foreshore required for securing the shore ends of any telegraph cables that are at present or may be at any time laid down within the said area of foreshore.

7. The Council may enclose any part or parts of the foreshore described in the First Schedule hereto for the purpose of holding athletic sports or games, and may by by-law fix a charge for admission to such enclosed part or parts, provided that the total number of days on which such enclosures are made shall not exceed six in any one year.

8. The Board may, subject to the provisions of section 171 of the Harbours Act, 1923, erect or license or permit the erection of bathing-sheds or boat-sheds on the foreshore described in the First Schedule hereto, and may make by-laws regulating the use thereof, and may fix charges for such use, provided that the funds so received shall be expended in improving the foreshore for the benefit of the public.

9. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Board to remove, or cause to be removed, any stone, sand, shingle, or shells without the consent of the Minister being first obtained.

10. By-laws made by the Board under the said Act in respect of the foreshore shall not have effect unless and until approved in writing by the Minister.

11. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or under this Order in Council shall continue to be in force for twenty-one years from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority.

12. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor-General, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the Board six calendar months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered at or posted to the last-known address of the Board in New Zealand.

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

Westport Fire District constituted.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 5th day of May, 1924.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by section four of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor-General may by Order in Council, on the application of any Borough Council, declare the district within the jurisdiction of such Borough Council to be a fire district under the said Act:

And whereas an application has been made by the Westport Borough Council in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and it appears expedient to grant the said application:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare the Borough of Westport to be a fire district under the said Act.

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

Notifying Lands in Taranaki Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and twenty-six of the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.

Ohura County.—Town of Matiere.

The majority of the sections comprise level land, well adapted for building-sites. They vary from a dry to swampy