MAR. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

the authority of the Native Land Act, 1909, the Governor-General may issue a Proclamation that such land has become Crown land:
And whereas the purchase of the Native Land set out in the Schedule hereto has been duly completed by or on behalf of the Crown under the authority of the Native Land Act, 1909, and its amendments :
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority so conferred upon me by section fourteen of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1914, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim that the Native land set out in the Schedule hereto has become Crown land.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 668 acres 0 roods 17 perches, more or less, being part Paeroa East No. 4B 2E No. 1B Block, situated in Blocks X and XI, Paeroa Survey District. Bounded on the north-east by Crown land originally part 4B 1B 3, Paeroa East Block, the abutment of a road, and again by the aforesaid block, 13525 links; towards the east by the Waiotapu River; towards the south-east and south generally by subdivisions of Reporoa Settlement, abutment of a road, and again by aforesaid settlement, which were originally Paeroa East 4B 2E 1A and 4B 2A No. 2, the abutment of a road, again by subdivisions of the aforesaid settlement originally Paeroa East 4B 2A No. 3A, 4B 2A No. 3B, and 4B 2A No. 3c, 10271, 6832-1, 738-7, 5331-3, and 3,000 links; towards the north-west by part of the aforesaid settlement originally Native block Rotomahana-Parekarangi 3A 3A 3B No. 2, 1734 links ; towards the north, west, and south by other portions of Paeroa East 4B 2E No. 1B Block, 939-2, 5199-7, and 971-4 links; towards the north-west by the crossing of a road and subdivisions of aforesaid settlement originally part of Rotomahana-Parekarangi Native Block part 3A 3A 3B No. 2, 3A 3B 5c No. 1, by part 3A 3B No. 4A, and part 3A 3B No. 4B, 7369-2 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

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 26th day of February, 1926.
J. G. COATES, Native Minister.
GOD SAVE THE KING!

Altering Boundaries of Taieri River Trust District, County of Taieri.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day of February, 1926.
Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the Taieri River Trust, being of the opinion that certain lands situated in the County of Taieri, and not included in the Taieri River Trust District (hereinafter referred to as “the said district”) are deriving benefit from the drainage-works carried out by the said Trust, did, in accordance with the provisions of section six of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1913, and of the Taieri River Improvement Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Acts”), present a petition to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying that the boundaries of the said district might be altered so as to include such lands in the said district:
And whereas in respect thereof a Commission has been appointed to inquire and report as to the several matters mentioned in subsection three of section six of the Land Drain-age Amendment Act, 1913:
And whereas the Commission so appointed has reported that such lands should be included in the said district:
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 by the said Acts, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the boundaries of the said district are hereby altered so as to include in the said district the lands described in the First Schedule hereto, and that the boundaries of the said district shall be those described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
AREA INCLUDED IN THE TAIERI RIVER TRUST DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the Otago Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point in the middle of the Taieri River in

line with the northern boundary of River Section 38, West Taieri, thence down the middle of the Taieri River to a point in line with the southern boundary of River Section 35, Block V, West Taieri Survey District; thence to and along that boundary to the road forming the western boundary of River Sections 35, 36, 37, and 38, Block V, West Taieri Survey District; thence along that road to the northern boundary of said Section 38; thence easterly along that northern boundary and its production to the middle of the Taieri River, the point of commencement.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
TAIERI RIVER TRUST DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the Otago Land District bounded by a line commencing at the centre of the Taieri River at the West Taieri Traffic-bridge, thence by the centre of the said river to the western boundary of the Township of Allanton; thence along the south-western boundary of the Township of Allanton to the Main South Road; thence by the Main South Road to the steel traffic-bridge at Henley; thence along the Main South Road to the south-western side of the Township of Waihola; thence along the boundary of the said township to the shore of Lake Waihola; thence along the southern, western, and northern shores of the said lake to the south-eastern corner of Block XVI, Waihola District; thence by the southern and western sides of the said block to the north-east corner of Block XVII; thence along the northern boundary of the said block to its north-western corner; thence in a south-western direction along the boundary of said block to the south-eastern corner of Section 5, Block VII, Clarendon District; thence along the south side of said Section 5 to the road-line bounding that section; thence along the said road to Berwick; thence by the right bank of the Waipori River up to a point immediately opposite the north-western corner of Section l of 37, Block II, Mangatua District; thence across the river and along the north-western and north-eastern boundaries of said Section 1 of 37, and along the south-eastern boundary of same to Section 43; thence along the north-eastern boundary of Sections 43, 1 of 39, 1 of 11, and 1 of 9 of said Block II to the main road Berwick to Outram; thence along the Berwick-Outram Road to its intersection with the Woodside Road at the north-east corner of Section 1, Block IV, West Taieri District; thence by Woodside Road to Woodside; thence by Woodside-Outram Road to the western boundary of River Section 38, West Taieri; thence along western and northern boundaries of said Section 38, and the production of that northern boundary to the middle of the Taieri River; thence along the middle of that river to the point of commencement : excluding the Township of Waihola and Government Railways.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Authorizing the Purchase by the Poverty Bay Electric-power Board of the Gisborne Borough's Electric Works.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day of February, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty-nine of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, section seventeen of the Electric-power Boards Amend-ment Act, 1920, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that 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 authorize the purchase by the Poverty Bay Electric-power Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) duly constituted under the provisions of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, of electric works the property of the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Gisborne (hereinafter referred to as “the borough”), as described in a certain agreement bearing date the twelfth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and made between the borough of the one part and the Board of the other part, subject to the condition that such purchase be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the said agreement so far as the same relates to the purchase of electric works.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 26/1035.)