APRIL 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1133

And whereas an error was made in the description of the said domain in the Schedule to the said Order in Council, and it is expedient that the error should be rectified:

Now, therefore, 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, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby amend the Schedule to the said Order in Council by substituting the description of the said Motutara Domain set forth in the Schedule hereto in lieu of the description of the said domain set forth in the Schedule to the said Order in Council.

SCHEDULE.

MOTUTARA DOMAIN.

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 53 acres 2 roods 26 perches, more or less, being Section North 2 of Block IX, Kumeu Survey District, and parts of Motutara Native Block bounded, commencing at the intersection of the south-eastern boundary of a public road, shown on deposited plan No. 7794, with the north-eastern boundary of Motutara Block, on the south-east generally by another portion of the Motutara Block, 236·1 links, bearing 197° 42′; 427·5 links, bearing 218° 11′; 565·5 links, bearing 222° 53′; 326 links, bearing 248° 50′; 421·2 links, bearing 218° 32′; 219·5 links, bearing 265° 4′; 241·3 links, bearing 275° 27′; 94·3 links, bearing 250° 10′; 528·8 links, bearing 243° 7′; 124·6 links, bearing 193° 13′; 299·2 links, bearing 240° 20′; 161·1 links, bearing 204° 44′; and 149·9 links, bearing 268° 11′, to a foreshore reserve 1 chain wide; thence on the west by that foreshore reserve to the south-western boundary of part of Allotment 37 of the western portion of Taupaki Block; thence on the north-east by the said part of Allotment 37, by Lot 1 shown on deposited plan No. 9548, by another part of the said Allotment 37, and by the abuttal of a public road, to the place of commencement.

Also all that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 17 acres 9 perches, more or less, and being Section South 2 of Block IX, Kumeu Survey District.

Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same are more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 1/168A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. Auckland plan No. 22939 (blue).

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

Approving of the New Plymouth Harbour Board permitting any Part of the Foreshore legally vested in it to be used and Occupied for the Purpose of the Prospecting for or the Winning of Petroleum or Mineral Oil or Gas.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and fifty of the Harbours Act, 1923, it is provided that a Harbour Board may, from time to time, subject to the provisions of section one hundred and seventy-one of the said Act, license and permit any part of the foreshore legally vested in it to be used or occupied for any local enterprise or object which the Governor-General in Council may approve:

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 as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the New Plymouth Harbour Board licensing and permitting any part of the foreshore legally vested in it to be used and occupied for the purpose of the prospecting for or the winning of petroleum or mineral oil or gas; provided, however, that such approval is subject to the following conditions:—

1. That any permission given or license issued by the said Harbour Board by virtue of this Order in Council shall be a permission or license to use the said foreshore for a local enterprise or object within the meaning of section one hundred and fifty of the Harbours Act, 1923.

2. That no license issued by virtue of this Order in Council shall unduly interfere with or restrict any public right of navigation or the public convenience.

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

B

Altering Duty on Bran and Pollard. (C. No. 24).

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 27th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section twelve of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921, and of all other powers and authorities 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 suspend the existing Tariff (being the First Schedule to the Customs Amendment Act, 1921), in so far as it relates to bran and pollard, and in lieu thereof doth hereby impose on bran and pollard a duty of Customs of one shilling per cental under the British Preferential, the Intermediate, and the General Tariffs.

Nothing in this Order in Council shall be deemed to affect the provisions of section fifteen of the Customs Amendment Act, 1921.

This Order in Council shall come into force on the date of the publication of the same in the New Zealand Gazette.

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

Consenting to the raising of Loans by certain Local Authorities.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of April, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS application has been made under section twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919, for the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council to enable the several local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto to borrow the sums set out therein, and it is expedient that such consent should issue:

Now, therefore, 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 consent to the raising of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the several local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto, and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Finance Act, 1919, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loans.

SCHEDULE.

Akito County Council (for regrading and metalling Pongaroa–Akito Road) £ 6,000
Eltham Drainage Board (for drain-construction) 2,750
Franklin Electric-power Board (for electric works) 150,000
Geraldine County Council (for Raukapuka water-supply) 10,000
Hokianga County Council (for roadworks in the Motukaraka Riding) 5,400
Kairanga County Council (for completing deviating formation on Fitzherbert East Road) 100
Kairanga County Council (for widening and metalling Napier Road and treating surface with tar and asphalt in the Mangaone Riding 1,100
Lower Mangapiko Drainage Board (for completing reconstruction of portion of the Mangapiko Stream and for widening, deepening, and improving drains) 250
Matakaoa County Council (for construction of the Potaka Waikura Road) 3,000
Otaki Borough Council (for extension of waterworks) 2,500
Otaki Borough Council (for construction of bridges and culverts) 1,000
Te Awamutu Electric-power Board (for electric works) 8,000
Southland County Council (for construction of main highways) 50,000
Wairere Electric-power Board (for electric works) 38,500
Waitoa Drainage Board (for drainage-construction, Te Puninga No. 3 Special-rating Area) 50

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