Numb. 65.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1925.

Revoking a Proclamation taking Additional Land near Tengawai for the Hurunui-Waitaki (Branch from the Washdyke to Opawa, Fairlie Creek, and Burke's Pass) Railway.

[L.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, it is enacted that if at any time after the issue or making of any Proclamation taking land under the Public Works Act, 1908, and before the payment or awards of any compensation in respect of the taking thereof, it is found that the land, or any part thereof, is not required for the purpose for which it is taken, the Governor-General may, by a subsequent Proclamation gazetted, revoke the former Proclamation, either wholly or so far as he thinks necessary: And whereas it is found that the additional land taken for the purposes of the Washdyke to Opawa, Fairlie Creek, and Burke's Pass, Branch of the Hurunui-Waitaki Railway by a Proclamation made under the Public Works Act, 1908, dated the nineteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and ten (hereinafter termed “the said Proclamation”), and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 20 of the third day of the following month, page 723, is not required for the purpose for which it was taken:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, do hereby revoke the said Proclamation.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 18th day of September, 1925.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Railways.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Altering Boundaries of Waiapu and Matakaoa Counties.

[L.s.] CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection two of section fourteen of the Counties Act, 1920, that the boundaries of any one or more counties may be altered in accordance with a resolution proposing the alteration passed by the Council of each of such counties in which the Counties Act is in force: A

And whereas a resolution was passed by ths Waiapu County Council on the fifteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four:

And whereas a similar resolution was passed by the Matakakaoa County Council on the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, praying for the alteration of the boundaries of the Waiapu and Matakakaoa Counties in the manner described in the said resolutions and in the First and Second Schedules hereto:

And whereas it is expedient to make such alteration in accordance with the said resolutions:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the said Act, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the areas described in the First Schedule hereto, being now part of the Matakakaoa County, shall be added to and form part of the Waiapu County, and that the areas described in the Second Schedule hereto, being now part of the Waiapu County, shall be added to and form part of the Matakaoa County; and that the boundaries of the Waiapu and Matakaoa Counties as so altered shall be those set forth in the Third and Fourth Schedules respectively hereto.

And I do also proclaim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

AREAS EXCLUDED FROM MATAKAOA COUNTY AND INCLUDED IN WAIAPU COUNTY.

ALL that area in the Gisborne Land District commencing at a point where the existing county boundaries of Waiapu and Matakakaoa as described in “New Zealand Statutes, 1919,” page 302, intersect the northern boundary of Marangairoa lc 6c 2, situated in Block XVI, East Cape Survey District, proceeding in a south-westerly direction by the aforesaid county boundary till it intersects the north-western boundary of Marangairoa lc 6A Block; thence in a northerly and easterly direction generally by the north-western and northern boundaries of the aforesaid lc 6A and by the northern boundaries of Marangairoa No. lc 6B and lc 6c A to the place of commencement.

Also all that area in the Gisborne Land District commencing at a point where the existing county boundaries as described in “New Zealand Statutes, 1919,” page 302, intersect the north-eastern boundary of Marangairoa No. lc lB Block, proceeding in a south-westerly direction by the said county boundary till it intersects the western boundary of Lot 6, Marangairoa No. lB 4 Block; thence in a northerly, north-easterly, and south-easterly direction generally by the western and north-western boundaries of the aforesaid Lot 6 and by

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