Mar. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 535

Members of the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Appeal appointed.

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 by section five of the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Court of Appeal shall consist of two Divisions, to be called respectively the First Division and the Second Division of the Court of Appeal; and that each Division shall consist of five Judges of the Supreme Court, to be appointed to that Division by the Governor-General in Council:

And whereas the power conferred by the said Act upon the Governor-General in Council of appointing Judges as members of either Division, or of revoking any such appointment, shall be exercisable on the recommendation of not less than three Judges of the Supreme Court (of whom the Chief Justice shall be one), and not otherwise:

And whereas the Honourable the Chief Justice, the Honourable Mr. Justice Reed, the Honourable Mr. Justice Ostler, and the Honourable Mr. Justice Alpers have recommended that the two Divisions of the Court of Appeal shall be constituted as shown hereafter:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

The Honourable Charles Perrin Skerrett, Chief Justice;
The Honourable Sir William Alexander Sim, Kt., Judge;
The Honourable Thomas Walter Stringer, Judge;
The Honourable William Cunningham MacGregor, Judge; and
The Honourable Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers, Judge,

to be members of the First Division of the Court of Appeal; and

The Honourable Charles Perrin Skerrett, Chief Justice;
The Honourable Alexander Lawrence Herdman, Judge;
The Honourable John Ranken Reed, C.B.E., Judge;
The Honourable Alexander Samuel Adams, Judge; and
The Honourable Henry Hubert Ostler, Judge,

to be members of the Second Division of the Court of Appeal.

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

Declaring Portion of Maben Road, in the Hawera County, to be a County Road.

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 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 Taranaki Land District, Hawera County, known as Maben Road, commencing at its junction with Patupuremu Road, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly direction, adjoining or passing through Section 1, Block II, Opaku Survey District, Subdivision 8, Rehu Village, Block I, Opaku Survey District, Subdivisions 7, 1, and 2, Rehu Village, and Section 2, Block II, Opaku Survey District, and terminating at a point on the boundary between the said Section 2 and Section 3, Block II, Opaku Survey District; being a distance of 4 miles 10 chains, more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 65239, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 38/58.)

Directing the Sale of Land under the Public Works Act, 1908, in Block XXVIII, Town of Palmerston.

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 and authorities conferred upon him by the Public Works Act, 1908, 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 direct the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto, such land being no longer required for the public work for which it was acquired.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land directed to be sold: 1·24 perches.

Being part Section 8, Block XXVIII, Town of Palmerston.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 64281, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged green.

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

(P.W. 50/295.)

Declaring Portion of the Waipapa Valley Road, in the Waimarino County, to be a County Road.

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 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 the Waipapa Valley Road, commencing at its junction with the Mangatiti Road and proceeding thence generally in a northerly direction adjoining or passing through part of Waimarino 5A No. 2A Block, and Sections 5, 4, 3, and part Section 2, Block VI, Whirinaki Survey District, and terminating at Jennings’ Stream about 10 chains north of the boundary between the said Sections 2 and 3; being a distance of 2 miles 3 chains, more or less. As the said portion of the road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 65259, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 39/129.)

Bringing certain Provisions of the Mining Act into force within a certain Part of New Zealand.

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 by section two of the Mining Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided that the Governor-General by Order in Council, may from time to time declare that any of the provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, shall apply