Mar. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 589

(b.) By adding to the Second Schedule to the regulations made on the 20th day of October, 1924, the following regulation :—

“(11.) The provision contained in the regulation dated the 9th day of August, 1926, as to payment of ¾d. per hour to certain tradesmen in the Locomotive Branch while engaged in marking off new work (other than from templates) shall be deemed to apply to fitters and carpenters employed in the Maintenance Branch.”

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with a Loan of Seven Hundred Pounds (£700) proposed to be raised by the Stratford County Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Auckland, this 21st day of February, 1927.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Stratford County Council, acting under and in pursuance of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, proposes to raise a loan of seven hundred pounds (£700) authorized by a special order passed on the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and confirmed on the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, pursuant to a petition of the ratepayers in the Akama Road Special-rating District of the County of Stratford, for the purpose of forming and metalling the Akama Road from the Makuri Road to Mr. Iremonger’s gate :

And whereas the proceedings are irregular in that the advertisements as required by section ninety-nine, subsection (c), of the Counties Act, 1920, and published in the Stratford Evening Post newspaper at Stratford on the twenty-third and thirtieth days of November and the eleventh and fourteenth days of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, respectively, were not published once in each and every of the four weeks immediately preceding the date of the meeting confirming the special order :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the irregularity or defect aforesaid and it is expedient to validate the same :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and twenty-two of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings taken shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the advertisements had been published once in each and every of the four weeks immediately preceding the date of the meeting confirming the special order, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

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

Appointment of Cemetery Trustees revoked.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke a certain Warrant dated the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and gazetted on the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, appointing trustees for the Urenui Public Cemetery, as described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

URENUI PUBLIC CEMETERY.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District containing by admeasurement 3 acres 2 roods, more or less, being part of Town Belt No. 3 on the map of the Urenui Township, Waitara Survey District; bounded towards the north by Nikorima Street and part of No. 2 Town Belt, 690 links; towards the east by the Te Haoko Stream; towards the south by other part of the aforesaid No. 3 Town Belt, 440 links; and towards the west by the Urenui Township and a road, 605 links.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of March, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands,

Notifying Lands in Westland Land District for Sale by Public Auction for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and thirty-two of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction for cash or on deferred payments; and I hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LANDS.

Grey County.—Town of Rapahoe.