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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(3.) If an officer while remaining so suspended is dismissed from or resigns his office, he shall not, unless the Minister otherwise directs, be entitled to receive any salary in respect of the period of his suspension.

7. An appointment to an office in the New Zealand Reparation Estates Service may be made to take effect at a future date, not being later than one month after the date of appointment, notwithstanding the fact that the office is not yet vacant at the date of the appointment.

8. Except as provided in any regulations which may from time to time govern the pay, allowances, control, discipline, and management of the New Zealand Reparation Estates Service, no officer of that service shall be entitled to any compensation by reason of any reduction of his salary or in consequence of his services being dispensed with.

9. Clause 8 of the New Zealand Reparation Estates Order, 1920, as amended by Order in Council of 4th day of October, 1921, is hereby revoked.

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

Lands taken in Cook Islands for the Purpose of Public Recreation.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of April, 1926.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section three hundred and fifty-seven of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, it is provided that the Governor-General may by Order in Council take any land in the Cook Islands for any public purpose specified in the Order:

And whereas the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken for a certain public purpose within the meaning of section three hundred and sixty-four of the said Act—to wit, for the purpose of public recreation:

Now, therefore, 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, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by section three hundred and fifty-seven of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and of every other power and authority enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto are hereby taken for the purpose aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

1. ALL that parcel of land situate in the Tapere of Ngatipa, District of Avarua, in the Island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, containing one acre and twenty perches (1 acre 0 roods 20 perches), be the same a little more or less, being part of the land named by the Native Land Court “Paetaa Section 162 (one hundred and sixty-two) Ngatipa, Avarua”; and

2. All that parcel of land situate in the Tapere of Ngatipa, District of Avarua, in the Island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, containing two acres and 10 perches (2 acres 0 roods 10 perches), be the same a little more or less, being part of the land named by the Native Land Court “Vaitu Section 175 (one hundred and seventy-five) Ngatipa, Avarua.”

Both of the above-described parcels of land are delineated and edged red in the plan numbered 15, signed by the Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga, and deposited in the Office of the Registrar of the High Court of the Cook Islands at Rarotonga.

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