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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 86

gazetted on the twenty-third day of the same month, an election of five Trustees of the Kirikiriroa Drainage District (hereinafter referred to as “the said district”) should have been held on the third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and such election was not held on that day, but public notice was given that an election (hereinafter referred to as “the first election”) would be held on the second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five:

And whereas four candidates only were nominated for election as trustees of the said district, and the four candidates so nominated were declared to be duly elected as Trustees of the said district accordingly:

And whereas pursuant to section thirty-nine of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, public notice was given that an election (hereinafter referred to as “the second election”) would be held on the twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, to fill the vacancy of one Trustee of the said district:

And whereas one candidate was nominated for election as a Trustee of the said district and the candidate so nominated was declared to be duly elected as a Trustee of the said district accordingly:

And whereas it is expedient to validate the holding of the first election after the day provided by the said Act and the holding of the second election:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act, as amended by the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1922, 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 validate the first election of Trustees of the said district insofar as that election was not held on the day provided by the said Act, and doth hereby validate the second election of a Trustee of the said district insofar as such election was rendered necessary by the result of the first election; and doth hereby declare that the proceedings in connection with the holding of such respective elections shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

I. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Prohibition of Importation of Wheat, Wheat-flour, Wheat-meal, and Ground Wheat. (O. No. 37.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of December, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section forty-six of the Customs Act, 1913, 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 prohibit the importation into New Zealand on and after the eighteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, of wheat, wheat-flour, wheat-meal, and ground wheat, save with the consent of the Minister of Customs.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Portion of Raetihi-Ohura Road, in the Waimarino County, to be a County Road.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise 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 portion of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become a county road.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of road in the Wellington Land District, Waimarino County, known as Raetihi-Ohura Road (Harris’s Hill Deviation), commencing at a point 14 chains north of the Orautaha Stream Bridge, and proceeding thence generally in a north-westerly direction adjoining or passing through Reserve 13, Sections 1 and 2, part Section 3 and Reserve 11, Block XIII, Manganui Survey District, and terminating at the Manganui-a-te-Ao River Bridge; being a distance of 2 miles 44 chains, more or less. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 64840, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulation under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.—Loans to Local Bodies by Advances Office.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and 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 make the following regulation, and doth hereby declare that this regulation shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATION.

THE following table is prescribed in addition to the table contained in the regulations made under the said Act by Order in Council dated the 24th day of April, 1914, and

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £800 proposed to be raised by the Eketahuna County Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Eketahuna County Council, acting under and in pursuance of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, proposes to raise a loan of eight hundred pounds (£800) authorized by a special order passed on the twelfth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and confirmed on the 10th day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, pursuant to a petition of the ratepayers of the Te Hoe Stream Bridges Loan No. 4 Special rating Area dated the twenty-third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, for the purpose of building three bridges:

And whereas proceedings to raise the loan were taken before the special roll of the ratepayers had been deposited for public inspection for a period of at least seven clear days as required by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913:

And whereas the aforesaid proceedings are irregular:

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 consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings taken shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though such proceedings had not been commenced until the special roll of the ratepayers of the Te Hoe Stream Bridges Loan No. 4 Special-rating Area had been deposited for inspection for a period of at least seven clear days, 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