on the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred
and seventeen, as amended by Order in Council dated the
twenty-second day of July, one thousand nine hundred and
nineteen, and published respectively in the Gazette on the
sixth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and
seventeen, and on the twenty-fourth July, one thousand
nine hundred and nineteen, and to make other regulations
in lieu thereof :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred on him as aforesaid, and of all other powers 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 revoke the regulations hereinbefore referred to,
and doth make the following regulations in lieu thereof;
and both hereby declare that this Order in Council shall come
into force on the date of publication thereof in the New
Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purposes of these regulations—
   "Director" means the Director of the Horticulture
   Division of the Department of Agriculture:
   "Fruit-tree" means any variety of apple, pear, quince,
   peach, nectarine, plum, cherry, apricot, nut, or
   citrus tree, or grape-vine :
   "Occupier" means the occupier within the meaning
   of the Rating Act, 1925 :
   "Orchard" means any land used for the growing of
   fruit-trees and the production of fruit for sale, and
   includes any such land notwithstanding that the
   fruit-trees thereon may not have come into bearing.

2. Every occupier of an orchard shall, in the month of
   January in each year, make application to the Director, in or
   to the effect of the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto, for the
   registration of such orchard.

3. As soon as practicable after the receipt from an occupier
   of an orchard of an application as aforesaid, the Director
   shall issue to the applicant, free of charge, a certificate of
   registration in respect of such orchard, in or to the effect of the
   form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto.

4. Forms of application for registration of an orchard
   shall be obtainable from the Director, or from any District
   Office or Orchard Instructor of the Department of Agriculture.

SCHEDULE.

Form No. 1.

Application to Register an Orchard.

The Director of the Horticulture Division,
Department of Agriculture,
Private Bag, Wellington.
I HEREBY apply, in pursuance of the regulations under the
Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, for the registration
of the undermentioned orchard, of which I am the occupier.
Name of applicant :
Address :
Location of Orchard : District : County.
Section Number : Block Number : Survey
District :

The number of each of the undermentioned trees is as
follows:—
Pear : Plum :
Quince : Cherry :
Peach : Lemon :
Nectarine : Orange :
Grape-vine : Nut :
Total area of orchard : acres.
Date : Signature :

Form No. 2.

Certificate of Registration of an Orchard.

I HEREBY certify that the orchard occupied by
of , located at , in the district,
county, and comprising acres (or trees), is duly
registered as an orchard in terms of the Orchard and Garden
Diseases Act, 1908, and the regulations thereunder.

This certificate shall remain in force until the 31st day of
January, 19
Signature :
Date :

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

Validating Making-out of Ratepayers' List of Raupo Drainage
Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 13th day of
January, 1928.

Present :
THE HONOURABLE W. Downie STEWART PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section six of the Land Drainage Act,
1908 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"),
as amended by section ten of the Land Drainage Amendment
Act, 1913, it is, inter alia, provided that the Returning Officer
of every Drainage Board shall, on or before the thirty-first
day of August in every year, cause to be made out a list, to
be called the ratepayers' list, containing the particulars thereby
prescribed :

And whereas in the case of the Raupo Drainage District
the Returning Officer failed to cause the ratepayers' list for
the year now current (hereinafter referred to as "the said
list") to be made out within the prescribed time, but made
out the said list on the thirtieth day of November, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-seven, and it is expedient to validate
the making-out of the said list after the prescribed time:

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 twenty-
two of the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1922, and of all
other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf,
and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the said
list in so far as it was not made out within the prescribed
time, and doth declare that the said list shall have the same
validity, force, and effect as if it had been made out on or
before the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-seven, and that no proceedings in connection
with the making-out of the said list shall be called in question
by reason only of the fact that the said list was not made out
on or before the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-seven.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with Proposed Loan of
£10,100 for Extension of Waterworks, &c., by Hastings
Borough Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 13th day of
January, 1928.

Present :
THE HONOURABLE W. Downie STEWART PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Hastings Borough Council lately proceeded
to raise a loan of ten thousand one hundred pounds under the
provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926 (hereinafter
referred to as the said Act), for the purpose of extending certain
waterworks, as set out in the notice published pursuant to section
ten of the said Act:

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said
loan were irregular or defective in that the notice published
pursuant to section ten of the said Act, although published four
times, was not published once in each week for four successive
weeks as required by that section:

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

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers
conferred on him by section one hundred and twenty-two of
the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities enabling
him in that behalf, 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 in connection
with the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes
as though the said notice had been correctly published, and
that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the
said loan or of the security for the said loan shall not be called
in question by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
(I.A. 19/159/278.)