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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 22

"That the Council of the Borough of Mosgiel declares that the provisions of section one hundred and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, shall not apply to the following portion of the following street in the Borough of Mosgiel—viz., that portion of Factory Road between Gordon Road and the Mosgiel to Outram railway-line, where the said Factory Road abuts on part of original Section 12, Block 2, East Taieri Survey District"; subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the south-eastern side of the portion of Factory Road (described in the Schedule hereto), within a distance of thirty-three feet from the centre-line of the said portion of street.

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SCHEDULE.

THE south-eastern side of all that portion of street, situated in the Otago Land District, Borough of Mosgiel, known as Factory Road, abutting on part Section 12, Block II, East Taieri Survey District. As the said portion of street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 71352, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 51/892.)

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Regulation under Section 8 of the Coroners Amendment Act, 1908.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 5th day of March, 1928.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by section eight of the Coroners Amendment Act, 1908, 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 regulation made on the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, prescribing the scale of expenses that may be paid to witnesses, other than medical witnesses, for attendance at Coroners’ inquests; and doth hereby make the following regulation in lieu thereof; and doth hereby declare that such regulation shall take effect on and from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

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REGULATION.

THE scale of expenses that may be paid to witnesses, other than medical witnesses, for attendance at Coroners’ inquests shall be as follows, viz.:

(a) For every day’s attendance at an inquest, or necessary absence from usual place of abode, not exceeding the sum of . . . . 10 0
And in addition thereto, for every night’s necessary absence from such place of abode not exceeding the sum of . . . . 4 0
Provided that no person in receipt of salary or wages from the General Government shall be paid any expenses for attendance as a witness at a Coroner’s inquest unless he is by reason of such attendance necessarily absent at night from his usual place of abode. If he is not so absent such a person may be paid a sum not exceeding the amount of his actual personal expenses.

(b) Witnesses residing beyond three miles from the place at which the inquest is held may also be allowed their coach, railway, or steamboat fares. Second-class fares may be allowed to mechanics, labourers, and persons of similar rank, and first-class fares to others. Receipts must be furnished for coach and steamer fares over 5s.

When there is no public conveyance witnesses may be allowed a mileage rate of 9d. per mile one way.

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

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Revoking a Portion of an Order in Council declaring Public Highways in the No. 1 Highway District to be Main Highways.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 10th day of March, 1928.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by 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 the 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, declaring public highways in the No. 1 Highway District to be main highways, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 40 of the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, in so far as it affects the portion of the Maungaturoto Railway-station–Waipu Main Highway described in the Schedule hereunder.

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SCHEDULE.

MAUNGATUROTO RAILWAY-STATION–WAIPU MAIN HIGHWAY.—All that portion of main highway in the Whangarei County commencing at the south-western boundary of the County of Whangarei and proceeding generally in a north-easterly direction through the Waipu Gorge, and terminating at its junction with the Mangawai–Oakleigh Road at Waipu Central, being a distance of 8 miles 40 chains, more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 71418, deposited in the office of the Main Highways Board at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

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

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Validating Proceedings in connection with Whangamarino Road Board’s Roads Loan of £300.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 10th day of March, 1928.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS pursuant to the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and with the consent of the requisite proportion of ratepayers given pursuant to paragraph (e) of section seventeen of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the ratepayers’ consent”), the Whangamarino Road Board lately proceeded by way of special order (hereinafter referred to as “the said special order”) to raise a special loan of three hundred pounds (hereinafter referred to as “the said loan”) for the purpose of metalling a certain portion of the Waerenga–Maramarua Road:

And whereas the said loan is for the benefit of a defined part of the Whangamarino Road District, known as the Waerenga–Maramarua Special-rating Area (hereinafter referred to as “the said special-rating area”)—to wit, all that area comprising the north part of Section 437 (60 acres), Block X, Piako Survey District; Section 198, Blocks V and IX, Piako Survey District; Sections 199A, 18, 19, 31, 30, 74, 61, 15, 33, 60, 197A, Block V, Piako Survey District; and Sections 18, 19, 22, 5, 66, Block VI, Piako Survey District:

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said loan were irregular or defective in that—

(a) In the ratepayers’ consent and in the said special order, the said Act and section number thereof were not correctly cited:

(b) In the description of the said special-rating area contained in the said special order Section 16, Block V, Piako Survey District, was referred to instead of Section 15, Block V, Piako Survey District: