Oct. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2893

Prohibiting all Alienation of certain Native Land other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of October, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

On the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, 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 prohibit, for the period of one year from the date of this Order in Council, all alienation of the Native land specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienation in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

TARAWERA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Block. Approximate Area.
A. R. P.
ROTOMAHANA-PAREKARANGI No. 6L 2B 1 .. 89 0 0", No. 6L 2B 3 .. 13 0 0

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Portion of Order in Council declaring Highways to be Main Highways in the No. 9 Highway District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of October, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by subsection three of section three of the Main Highways Act, 1922, 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, from the date of gazetting of this Order in Council, hereby revoke the Order in Council dated the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 40, of the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, declaring the Wellington-Auckland (via Taranaki) Highway to be a main highway in so far as it affects that portion of such highway in the Borough of Otaki.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Revoking Portion of an Order in Council declaring Highways to be Main Highways in the No. 14 Highway District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of October, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by subsection three of section three of the Main Highways Act, 1922, 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, from the date of gazetting of this Order in Council, hereby revoke the Order in Council dated the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 40, of the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, declaring the Christchurch-Dunedin Highway to be a main highway in so far as it affects that portion of such highway in the Borough of Riccarton.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Validating Irregular Proceedings in connection with First Election of Chatham Islands County Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of October, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS pursuant to a Proclamation dated the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and gazetted on the twenty-eighth day of the same month, made under the Counties Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), an election was held on the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, for the purpose of electing members of the Chatham Islands County Council:

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said election were irregular in that the nomination of candidates for the election of two members for the Pitt and Outlying Islands Riding was not carried out in accordance with section eight of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as "the said section"):

And whereas it is desirable to validate the said irregular proceedings:

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 twenty-four of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1913, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings in connection with the said election shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the nomination of candidates for the election of two members for the Pitt and Outlying Islands Riding had been carried out in accordance with the said section, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said election shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

F. D THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Additional Regulations under the Coal-mines Act, 1908.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General. ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of October, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and its amendments (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act") 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 make the following additional regulations to the regulations made under the said Act on the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and gazetted on the twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five; and doth hereby declare that the additions to the regulations hereby made shall be read as part of the principal regulations, and shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. The roof and sides of every travelling-road and working-place shall be made secure, and a person shall not, unless appointed for the purpose of exploring or repairing, travel on or work in any travelling-road or working-place which is not so made secure.

2. (1.) Where props, or props and bars, or chocks are used to support the roof at the working-face, the roof under which any work of getting coal or filling tubs is carried on shall be systematically and adequately supported, and the props or chocks shall be properly set at such regular intervals and in such manner as may be specified in the notice hereinafter mentioned.

(2.) In all parts of a roadway in which sets or trains consisting of three or more tubs are coupled or uncoupled, the roof and sides shall be systematically and adequately supported; and in such parts and in all other parts of the roadway the roof or sides of which require to be supported,