452 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 8

And whereas the Land Board of the North Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that portion of the Te Kopuru No. 5 Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, be excepted from the operations of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section forty-six of the Land Laws Amendment 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 portion of the Te Kopuru No. 5 Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall from the sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 211 acres 0 roods 38 perches, more or less, being Allotment 125, Kopuru Parish, and forming part of the Te Kopuru No. 5 Kauri-gum Reserve, set apart by Order in Council dated the 26th day of October, 1903, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 83 of the 29th October, 1903, page 2291. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 1/763, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan 2904, blue.)

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

Further extending Time for holding General Election of Members of Mangawara River Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1924.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty-seven of the River Boards Act, 1908, it is provided that the general election of members of the various River Boards throughout the Dominion shall be held on the second Tuesday in January in every third year:

And whereas by Order in Council dated the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and gazetted on the seventeenth day of the same month, the time for holding such election of members of the Mangawara River Board was extended until Tuesday, the twelfth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four:

And whereas it is expedient to extend further the time for holding such election of members of the said Mangawara River Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section forty-two of the River Boards Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby further extend the time for holding the general election of members of the Board of the Mangawara River District; and doth hereby order and declare that in the aforesaid river district the said general election shall be held and take place on Tuesday, the eleventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

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

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £2,500, proposed to be raised by the Judea Land Drainage Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1924.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Judea Land Drainage Board, acting under and in pursuance of paragraph (e) of section sixteen of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, proposes to raise a loan of two thousand five hundred pounds for the purpose of draining the Judea Swamp:

And whereas the ratepayers’ consent given under paragraph (e) of section sixteen aforesaid is irregular in that subscribing ratepayers have attested the signatures of the other subscribers thereto.

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularity or defect, 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 ratepayers’ consent to the raising of the said loan shall be valid in all intents and purposes as though the same had been properly witnessed, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

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

Amending Noxious Weeds Regulations, 1916.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 1st day of February, 1924.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section fifty-three of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and of every other power and authority enabling him in that 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 amend in the manner set out in the Schedule hereto the regulations relating to Noxious Weeds made by Order in Council on the third day of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and gazetted on the sixth day of the same month; and, with the like advice and consent, doth declare that the amendment hereby made shall come into operation on the date of the gazetting of this Order in Council.

SCHEDULE.

To the list of noxious weeds set out in the First Schedule to the said regulations of the 3rd day of July, 1916, there is hereby added the plant known as “Pitati Mama.”

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