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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

Revoking Portion of an Order in Council declaring Public Highways to be Main Highways in the No. 12 Highway District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of April, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by subsection three of section three of the Main Highways Act, 1922, 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 from the date of gazetting of this Order in Council hereby revoke the Order in Council dated the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 40, of the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, declaring public highways in the No. 12 Highway District to be main highways in so far as affects that portion of the Westport-Nelson Highway as described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

WESTPORT-NELSON: All that portion of highway, known as the Westport-Nelson Main Highway, commencing at the southern boundary of the Borough of Westport, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly and south-easterly direction, and terminating at the Te Kuha Ferry on the northern side of the Buller River, being a distance of 5 miles 20 chains, more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 68404, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green and marked X-Y.

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

Revoking Portion of an Order in Council declaring Public Highways in the No. 12 Highway District to be Government Roads.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of April, 1927.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL 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 from the date of gazetting of this Order in Council hereby revoke the Order in Council dated the ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 40, of the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, declaring public highways in the No. 12 Highway District to be Government roads in so far as affects that portion of the Westport-Nelson Main Highway as described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

WESTPORT-NELSON: All that portion of highway, known as the Westport-Nelson Highway, commencing at the southern boundary of the Borough of Westport, and proceeding thence generally in a southerly and south-easterly direction, and terminating at the Te Kuha Ferry on the northern side of the Buller River, being a distance of 5 miles 20 chains, more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 68404, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green and marked X-Y.

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

Additional Regulations under the Christchurch Tramway District Act, 1920.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of April, 1927.

Present:

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

IN exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon him by the Christchurch Tramway District Act, 1920 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and of all other powers and authorities 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 declare that for the purpose of any poll of ratepayers of the Christchurch Tramway District (hereinafter referred to as “the said district”) required to be taken pursuant to section two of the Christchurch Tramway District Amendment Act, 1926, consequent upon a notice published by the Christchurch Tramway Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) of its intention to make application to the Governor-General for consent to discontinue running a service by tram-cars on and to remove any tramway or part of tramway (hereinafter referred to as “the said poll”), the regulations under the said Act mentioned in the Fourth Schedule hereto shall have no application, and doth hereby make the following regulations under the said Act for the purposes of the said poll.

REGULATIONS.

1. THE Secretary of the Board shall make out a list (hereinafter referred to as “the ratepayers’ list”) of persons entitled to vote at the said poll.

2. The several electors’ rolls for the time being in force for the City of Christchurch and the Boroughs of Riccarton, New Brighton, and Sumner may be taken as parts of the ratepayers’ list without it being necessary for the Secretary of the Board to prepare any new lists of the ratepayers of such parts of the said district as are within the boundaries of such city and boroughs respectively.

3. The Secretary of the Board shall make out the ratepayers’ list for such parts of the said district as are outside the boundaries of the City of Christchurch and the Boroughs of Riccarton, New Brighton, and Sumner from the existing valuation rolls of such counties or parts of counties as are within the said district.

4. Such list or any part thereof may be prepared in writing or print, and in card form, bookwise or otherwise, or partly in one of such manners and partly in another or others, and shall contain the Christian name and surname of the ratepayer and his or her occupation and situation of property. In such list or part thereof the names shall be entered in alphabetical order of surnames.

5. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to make the ratepayers’ list as complete as possible, and for that purpose he shall place thereon, in addition to the names hereinbefore provided for, the name of—

(a) Every person of whose qualification or qualifications as a ratepayer he is satisfied:

(b) Every person who makes and delivers or transmits to him at his office a claim for enrolment as hereinafter prescribed, and who, in the opinion of the Secretary, possesses the necessary qualifications.

6. The several rolls and lists and parts of lists hereinbefore referred to shall together be the ratepayers’ list of the said district for the purposes of the said poll.

7. The fact that the said ratepayers’ list is being compiled shall be notified by advertisement published in at least three daily newspapers circulating in the said district prior to the date fixed for deposit of the said list as next hereinafter provided.

8. The ratepayers’ list shall be deposited for public inspection at the office of the Board not later than five o’clock in the afternoon of the fourteenth day preceding the day of the said poll, and shall remain so deposited for nine clear days. Notice of that deposit shall be published on not less than three days during the said period of nine days in at least three daily newspapers circulating in the district. Subject to any amendments to be made under clauses 11 and 12 hereof, the ratepayers’ list shall be deemed to be closed at the time when the said list is lodged for deposit.

9. Any ratepayers who object to any matter or thing contained in the ratepayers’ list, and who desires that such objection shall be heard or considered, shall forward notice thereof in writing, in the form or to the effect set forth in the