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Samoan Crown Estates Order ..
Samoan Crown Estates Amendment Order
Samoan Crown Estates (or Estate) ..
Samoan Crown Estates Account
General Manager of Crown Estates ..
Samoan Crown Estates Board ..

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New Zealand Reparation Estates Order.
New Zealand Reparation Estates Amendment Order.
New Zealand Reparation Estates (or Estate).
New Zealand Reparation Estates Account.
General Manager of Reparation Estates.
New Zealand Reparation Estates Board.

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

Allocating Cost of certain Proceedings under Section 131 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, Borough of Upper Hutt.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of March, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by section one hundred and thirty-one of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as the “said Act”), and of every other power and authority 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 direct that the Upper Hutt Borough Council and the Hutt County Council shall defray in the following proportions the costs of the Commission appointed under the said Act by His Excellency the Governor-General on the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, in connection with the proposal to constitute the Borough of Upper Hutt—that is to say, the Upper Hutt Borough Council shall defray two-thirds of the said costs and the Hutt County Council shall defray one-third thereof; and with the like advice and consent doth hereby also direct that the said Upper Hutt Borough Council shall defray all the costs of the poll taken under the said Act on the ninth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, in connection with the proposal to constitute the said borough.

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

Altering the Description of a Government Road in Highway District No. 11.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of March, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1908, 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 alter the Order in Council dated the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, published in New Zealand Gazette No. 40, of the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, declaring portions of roads in Highway District No. 11 to be Government roads, by deleting the description therein of the Nelson-Blenheim Road, and substituting the following description in lieu thereof.

SCHEDULE.

Nelson-Blenheim.—All that portion of the Nelson-Blenheim Road, in the Waimea and Marlborough counties, commencing at Lud Bridge, and proceeding thence generally in a north-easterly and a south-easterly direction, passing over Whangamoa Saddle, Rai Saddle, and passing through Waka-marino, Havelock, and Okaramio, and terminating at the southern end of the Wairau Bridge, being a distance of 54 miles 40 chains, more or less. Marked A–B on plan. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked M.H. 44, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue and marked as above mentioned.

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

Arrangements for taking Poll respecting Proposed Borough of Hikurangi, County of Whangarei.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of March, 1926.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, 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 that a poll shall be taken on the proposal that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a borough under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, by name the Borough of Hikurangi; and, further, doth hereby make the following appointments and arrangements for the purpose of taking the said poll:

1. Alexander Mearns Rust, of Hikurangi, to be the Returning Officer for the purpose of taking the said poll, and also to be the person authorized to prepare a voters roll of the persons entitled to vote at the said poll.
2. The voters roll prepared and signed by the said Alexander Mearns Rust shall be the voters roll to be used at the said poll.
3. Each person on such roll shall have and may exercise one vote, and no more.
4. The said poll shall be taken on Thursday, the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and shall close at six o'clock in the afternoon of that day.
5. Except as herein provided, the poll shall be taken as nearly as may be in the manner provided by the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, and the Returning Officer hereby appointed shall be deemed to be a Returning Officer appointed for the purposes of that Act.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE CONSTITUTED THE BOROUGH OF HIKURANGI.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District being the Town District of Hikurangi, as defined in the New Zealand Gazette, 1908, page 1170.

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