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8. The ballast of all vessels loading at the said metal-land-
   ings shall be taken away by the Council and deposited above
   high-water mark, or at such place as may be approved of by
   the Minister, or by any person appointed by the Minister for
   that purpose.
9. The Council shall not erect, or suffer to be erected, on
   the said metal-landings any building or structure whatever,
   except with the consent of the Minister.
10. The Council shall keep a separate account of the receipts
    and expenditure on account of such metal-landings and pre-
    mises, and shall cause such account to be balanced to the
    31st day of March in every year, and shall send a copy of such
    account when balanced to the Minister, and shall supply any
    particulars in reference thereto as may be required by the
    Minister.
11. The Council shall appoint all officers necessary for the
    working and management of the metal-landings.
12. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Council to
    do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent
    with any law relating to the Customs, or any regulation of
    the Minister of Customs, or with any provisions of the Harbours
    Act, 1923, or its amendments, or any regulation thereunder,
    and that are now or may hereafter be in force.
13. The rights, powers, and privileges hereby conferred shall
    continue in force for fourteen years, computed from the date
    hereof, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privi-
    leges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent
    authority; and the Council shall not assign, charge, or part
    with any such right, power, or privilege without the previous
    written consent of the Minister first obtained.
14. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred under or
    by virtue of this Order in Council may be at any time resumed
    by the Governor-General without payment of any compensa-
    tion whatever, on giving to the Council three calendar months'
    previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient
    if given by the Minister and delivered at or posted to the last
    known address of the Council in New Zealand.
15. The Council shall be liable for any injury which may be
    caused at the said metal-landings to any vessel or boat through
    any default or neglect on the part of the Council.
16. In case the Council shall-
    (1.) Commit or suffer a breach of the conditions herein-
    before set forth, or any of them; or
    (2.) Cease to use or occupy the said metal-landings for a
    period of thirty consecutive days;
    then and in either of the said cases this Order in Council and
    every license, right, power, or privilege, may be revoked and
    determined by the Governor-General in Council without any
    notice to the Council or other proceeding whatsoever; and
    publication in the New Zealand Gazette of an Order in Council
    containing such revocation shall be sufficient notice to the
    Council, and to all persons concerned or interested, that this
    Order in Council, and the licenses, rights, and privileges
    thereby granted and conferred, have been revoked and
    determined.
17. In the event of this Order in Council being revoked for
    any reason whatsoever, or upon the expiry of the period for
    which the license is granted, the Council shall, if required by
    the Minister so to do, remove the said metal-landings entirely
    from the site, and restore the site to its original condition
    within three months from the date of revocation or expiry,
    as the case may be; and, if the Council fails so to do, the
    Minister may cause the said metal-landings to be removed
    and the site so restored, and may recover the costs incurred
    by the said removal and restoration from the Council.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
SHIPPING WHARFAGE.
EVERY person who shall use the said metal-landings with any
vessel shall pay for the use thereof as follows, that is to say:-
For every vessel, a sum of ld. per ton on the gross tonnage
of such vessel for each and every twenty-four hours or
part thereof after the first twenty-four hours during which
such vessel shall occupy a berth alongside any vessel at
the said metal-landings, and shall lie at the said metal-
landings undergoing repairs, or fitting out only, or shall
lie off the said metal-landings with a line attached thereto.

GOODS WHARFAGE.
Every person who shall use the said metal-landings for
landing or shipping any goods shall, before using the same,
pay dues as follows, that is to say:
(1.) Metal, chips, sand, shell, shingle, bricks,
firewood, drain-pipes, and miscellaneous
material .. .. .. .. .. .. . 3d. per ton.
(2.) Timber, sawn, or bulk .. .. .. ld. per 100.
super. ft.
(3.) Fencing-posts, stays, and strainers .. 6d. per 100.
(4.) Fencing-battens .. .. .. 2d. per 100.

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

Extending Time for closing Polls, Henderson Town District.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of
August, 1926.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority
vested in him by the Local Elections and Polls Act,
1925, 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
extend the hour at which all polls to be held and taken in
the Henderson Town District shall close to seven o'clock in
the afternoon of the day appointed.

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

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of
August, 1926.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty-two of the
Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-
General may, by Order in Council gazetted, on the recom-
mendation of the Land Board, declare that any land com-
prised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified
in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry
Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land
to which the Order relates shall become subject to the pro-
visions of the Land Act, 1924:
And whereas the Land Board of the North Auckland Land
District has duly passed a resolution recommending that part
of the Totara Kauri-gum Reserve Extension as described in the
Schedule hereto be excepted from the operations of the
Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give
effect to such recommendation:
Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the power and authority conferred
upon me by section one hundred and sixty-two of the Land
Act, 1924, and acting by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby
order and declare that part of the Totara Kauri-gum Reserve
Extension, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall from the
eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-six, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry
Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, con-
taining by admeasurement 42 acres l rood 8 perches, more or
less, being that portion of Section 3, Block XI, Mangonui
Survey District, which forms part of the Totara Kauri-gum
Reserve Extension, as described in the New Zealand Gazette
of 1899, page 1214. As the same is more particularly de-
lineated on plan marked L. and S. 6/4/44, deposited in the
Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington,
and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan 23585.)

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

Prescribing the Term for which the Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric-power Board may borrow the Sum of £50,000, being a Further Portion of a Loan of £375,000 authorized to be raised for Electric Works, and also the Rate of Interest payable thereon.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of
August, 1926.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by section eleven of the Finance Act, 1921,
and its amendments, it is provided that, notwith-
standing anything to the contrary in any Act or in any rul