FEB. 26.]

Conferring on Whakatane County Council certain Powers of Borough Councils with respect to Waterworks.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of February, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.
WHEREAS it is enacted by subsection one of section seventy-four of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1922, that the Governor-General may, in the manner prescribed by section one hundred and eighty-two of the Counties Act, 1920, confer on the Whakatane County Council such of the powers of Borough Councils as he thinks fit, with respect to the supply of water for domestic purposes for the Town of Matata and the district adjoining as may be specially defined in the instrument conferring such powers, and thereupon that County Council shall have and may exercise the said powers accordingly pursuant to the tenor of the Order in Council issued thereunder:
And whereas it is further enacted by subsection two of the aforesaid section seventy-four, as amended by section seventy-two of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1924, that any district defined for the purposes of the said section seventy-four shall be exempt from any rates made and levied under the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, as from such date as may be determined by the Governor-General in Council:
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 enactments, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby confer on the said Whakatane County Council all the powers with respect to the supply of water for domestic purposes exercisable by a duly constituted Borough Council under sections eighty-two to eighty-seven (inclusive), Part XXIV (with the exception of sections two hundred and forty-five to two hundred and fifty), and section three hundred and thirty-nine of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and section eleven of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1921–22, such powers to be exercisable within the Town of Matata and adjoining district as defined in the Schedule hereto, and, with the like advice and consent, doth hereby declare that the area defined in the said Schedule shall be exempt from any rates made and levied under the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, as on and from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.
SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, County of Whakatane, situated in the Township of Matata and adjoining district, bounded—commencing at a point on the sea-coast in line with the eastern boundary of Section 8, Matata Parish—by a right line to the north-east corner of the aforesaid section, thence by the eastern and southern boundaries of that section and the southern boundaries of Sections 7B, 6C, 5A, 5B, and 3, Matata Parish, to the Matata Main Road; thence by that road to the Township of Richmond, and by the south-western and north-western boundaries of the Township of Richmond to the sea, and by the sea to the point of commencement; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 15/11/11A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Portions of the Kinohaku to Waiharakeke Road, in the Kawhia County, to be County Roads.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 16th day of February, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General 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 roads described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become county roads.
SCHEDULE.
All that portion of the Kinohaku to Waiharakeke Road commencing at a point, marked 0 m. 0 ch. on plan, on the Awaroa-Waiharakeke Road adjoining Section 2, Block XIV, Kawhia North Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a south-westerly direction crossing the Waiharakeke Inlet, and thence along the north-western boundary of Crown land and Part Hauturu West part No. 2B Section, Block XIV, Kawhia North Survey District, and terminating at a point, marked 0 m. 60 ch. on plan, on the said north-western boundary of Hauturu West, part No. 2B Section, being a distance of 60 chains, more or less.
Also all that portion of the Kinohaku to Waiharakeke Road commencing at a point, marked 1 m. 54 ch., on the western boundary of Hauturu West part No. 2B Section, Block XIV, Kawhia North Survey District, and proceeding thence generally in a south-westerly direction adjoining or passing through part Hauturu West part No. 2B Section, Block XIV, Kawhia North Survey District, Sections 4 and 5 (road reserve), and Section 2 (scenic reserve), Block II, Kawhia South Survey District, crossing the Waitangi Stream, and thence adjoining or passing through Kinohaku West 11A, Section 2B, Block II, Kawhia South Survey District, and Johnston's Grant, Blocks II and I, Kawhia South Survey District, and terminating at its junction with the Kawhia to Marakopa River Road at a point marked 3 m. 50 ch. on plan, being a distance of 1 mile 76 chains, more or less.
In the Auckland Land District, Kawhia County. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 61771, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Declaring Road in Block VIII, Mohaka Survey District, to be a Government Road.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of February, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General 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 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 road declared to be a Government road: 4 acres 1 rood 38 perches.
Adjoining or passing through Mohaka 1?A, situated in Block VIII, Mohaka Survey District (Hawke's Bay R.D.). (S.O. 753, green.)
In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57698, 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 Block IV, Mahinapua Survey District, to be a Government Road.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of February, 1925.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General 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