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(Limited) at points (as shown on plan marked P.W.D. 67430
and deposited as aforesaid) already agreed upon by the licensee
and the said company at distances approximately of one mile,
two miles, and three and one-quarter miles, respectively, from
the boundary of the said area, or with the approval of the
Minister at such other point or points as may from time to
time be mutually agreed upon by the licensee and the said
company.”

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 26/1104.)

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Street in the City of Auckland
of a Width of less than 66 ft., but not less than 54 ft.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 25th day of
January, 1927.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by
the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, 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 hereby authorize the
Auckland City Council to permit the laying-off of the street
coloured pink on the plan referred to in the Schedule hereto
of a width less than sixty-six feet, but not less than fifty-four
feet, within the area described in the Schedule hereto, it
being difficult and inexpedient to lay off a street of a width
of sixty-six feet within such area.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land in the North Auckland Land District,
City of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 4 acres
0 roods 6·7 perches, being part Allotment 20, Section 7,
Suburbs of Auckland. As the same is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 68018, deposited in
the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in
the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged green.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 51/1028.)

Consenting to Land being taken for Street Purposes in the City
of Wellington.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 31st day
of January, 1927.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE G. J. ANDERSON PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred 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 hereby consent to the land described in the Schedule hereto being taken for street purposes.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land permitted to be
taken:—

A. R. P. Being Portion of
0 0 0·64 Lot 2 (D.P. 7) of Section 659, Town of Wellington R.D.; coloured red.
0 0 0·40 Lot 5 (D.P. 7) of Section 659, and portion of Section 660, Town of Wellington R.D.; coloured blue.

Situated in the City of Wellington. (S.O. 2138.)

In the Wellington Land District. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 67917, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 51/311.)

Bringing certain Provisions of the Mining Act into Force within
certain Parts of New Zealand.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 25th day
of January, 1927.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section four hundred and fourteen, subsection one, of the Mining Act, 1926, it is provided that the Governor-General, by Order in Council, may from time to time declare that any of the provisions of the Mining Act, 1926, shall apply to prospecting and mining for and the storage of petroleum and other mineral oils and of natural gas, and also define the districts within which any such Order in Council shall take effect.

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said section four hundred and fourteen, subsection one, 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 the provisions of the Mining Act, 1926, set out in the First Schedule hereto shall apply to prospecting and mining for and the storage of petroleum and other mineral oils and of natural gas within the districts described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

THE Mining Act, 1926—

Part I: Section 4—Definitions of Crown lands, Endowment Land, Minister, Native, Native land, Native ceded land, Native reserves, Occupier, Owner, Person, Private lands, Public Reserve, Unalienated Crown land; Section 7.

Part III: Section 22.

Part IV: Sections 77 to 80, 81 (1), 82 to 86, 98, 119, 155, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 178 to 180, 186, 188, 216, 221, 223, 226 (a) (b) (c) and (e), 227 to 237.

Part V: Sections 260, 262 to 264, 274 (44), 286 to 288, 290, 292 to 301, 303 to 305.

Part IX: Sections 339, 350 to 352, 354 to 360.

Part XIII: Sections 427 (1) (2) (13) (33) (34) (36) (40) (43), 430, 437, 440.

Regulations 1, 10, 15 to 17, 19, 21, 33 to 37, 57, 68 to 77, 79 to 85, 91, 112, 135 to 140, 144, 157, 158, 181 to 289.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICTS.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District contained in the Survey Districts of Mahanga and Nuhaka.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne Land Districts contained in the Survey District of Nuhaka North.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(Mines N. 5/4/63.)

Declaring Portions of a Main Highway in the No. 1 Highway
District, Rodney and Otamatea Counties, to be Government
Roads.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day
of January, 1927.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. DOWNIE STEWART PRESIDING 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 hereby order and declare that
the portions of main highway described in the Schedule
hereto shall, on and after the date of gazetting of this Order
in Council, become Government Roads.

SCHEDULE.

WAYBY-MAUNGATUROTO: All that portion of the Wayby-Maungaturoto Main Highway commencing at its junction with the Waiwera-Mangawai Main Highway at Wayby,