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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 22

and April in each year instead of on each first day of October and April :

And whereas the special order aforesaid states that the term of the loan shall be for a period of thirty years, commencing on the twentieth day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and maturing on the twentieth day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-eight :

And whereas it is desired that the term of the said loan shall be for a period of thirty years commencing on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and maturing on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the irregularity, defect, or proposed alteration 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 if the said half-yearly interest days had been correctly recited in the said special order as the first days of October and April and as if the term of the said loan had been recited in the said special order as commencing on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, 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.

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

Appointing Members of the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Appeal.

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 by section five of the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Court of Appeal shall consist of two divisions, to be called respectively the First Division and the Second Division of the Court of Appeal; and that each division shall consist of five Judges of the Supreme Court, to be appointed to that division by the Governor-General in Council :

And whereas the power conferred by the said Act upon the Governor-General in Council of appointing Judges as members of either division, or of revoking any such appointment, shall be exercisable on the recommendation of not less than three Judges of the Supreme Court (of whom the Chief Justice shall be one), and not otherwise :

And whereas the Honourable Chief Justice, the Honourable Mr. Justice Reed, and the Honourable Mr. Justice MacGregor have recommended that the two divisions of the Court of Appeal for the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight shall be constituted as shown hereafter :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion doth hereby appoint

The Honourable Sir Charles Perrin Skerrett, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice ;
The Honourable Sir William Alexander Sim, Kt., Judge ;
The Honourable John Ranken Reed, C.B.E., Judge ;
The Honourable Alexander Samuel Adams, Judge ; and
The Honourable William Cunningham MacGregor, Judge ;
to be members of the First Division of the Court of Appeal ; and

The Honourable Sir Charles Perrin Skerrett, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice ;
The Honourable Sir William Alexander Sim, Kt., Judge ;
The Honourable John Ranken Reed, C.B.E., Judge ;
The Honourable Henry Hubert Ostler, Judge ; and
The Honourable Archibald William Blair, Judge ;
to be members of the Second Division of the Court of Appeal for the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

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

Warrant vesting the Control of the Inangahua River Suspension Bridge at Rotokohu in the Inangahua County Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the bridge over the Inangahua River (as more particularly described in the Schedule hereto) shall, on and after the date of gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Inangahua County Council.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge in the Nelson Land District over the Inangahua River known as the Inangahua River Suspension Bridge at Rotokohu, situated opposite the eastern boundary of Section 42, Block XII, Inangahua Survey District. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 71357, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon marked with a red cross.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of March, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT,
For Minister of Public Wor . .

(P.W. 44/107.)

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

Randolph Fergus McKay . . . . Hanmer Springs.
Alexander Wallace Swap . . . . Putaruru.
Fritz Edward Lassen . . . . Te Uku.

As witness my hand this 7th day of March, 1928.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Tongariro National Park.

BY-LAW FIXING CHARGES FOR ADMISSION OF HORSES AND VEHICLES TO THE PARK.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon it by the Tongariro National Park Act, 1922, and the Tongariro National Park Amendment Act, 1927, the Tongariro National Park Board doth hereby make the following by-law, fixing charges for the admission of horses and vehicles to the Tongariro National Park :

Bruce Road—
s. d.
For each motor-car . . . . . . 2 6
For each motor-cycle (without side-car) . . . . 1 0
For each motor-cycle (with side-car) . . . . 1 6
For each motor-lorry or bus carrying less then twenty passengers . . . . . . 5 0
For each motor-lorry or bus carrying twenty passengers or more . . . . . . 10 0
For each motor-lorry (carrying goods only) . . 5 0
For each horse (with or without vehicle) . . . . 1 0

Ohakune Track—
For each horse . . . . . . 2 0

Passed and adopted by resolution of the Board at a meeting held at National Park this 21st day of January, 1928.

The Common Seal of the Tongariro National Park Board was affixed hereto by order of the Board, this 21st day of February, 1928, in the presence of—

[SEAL.]
J. B. THOMPSON, Chairman.
W. H. FIELD, Member of the Board.
S. GAMBRILL, Secretary.

The foregoing by-law of the Tongariro National Park Board is hereby approved, this 11th day of March, 1928.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.