6. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this
   Order in Council shall not apply to those portions of the
   foreshore required for securing the shore ends of any telegraph
   cables that are at present or may be at any time laid down
   within the said area of foreshore.

7. The Council may enclose any part or parts of the fore-
   shore described in the First Schedule hereto for the purpose
   of holding athletic sports or games, and may by by-law fix
   a charge for admission to such enclosed part or parts, pro-
   vided that the total number of days on which such enclosures
   are made shall not exceed six in any one year.

8. The Council may, subject to the provisions of section one
   hundred and seventy-one of the Harbours Act, 1923, erect or
   license or permit the erection of bathing-sheds or boat-sheds
   on the foreshore described in the First Schedule hereto, and
   may make by-laws regulating the use thereof, and may fix
   charges for such use, provided that the funds so received shall
   be expended in improving the foreshore for the benefit of the
   public.

9. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the Council to
   remove, or cause to be removed, any stone, sand, shingle, or
   shells without the consent of the Minister being first obtained.

10. By-laws made by the Council under the said Act in
    respect of the foreshore shall not have effect unless and until
    approved in writing by the Minister.

11. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or under
    this Order in Council shall continue to be in force for twenty-
    one years from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such
    rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or
    revoked by competent authority.

12. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any
    time resumed by the Governor-General, without payment of
    any compensation whatever, on giving to the Council six
    calendar months' previous notice in writing. Any such notice
    shall be sufficient if given by the Minister, and delivered
    at or posted to the last-known address of the Council in
    New Zealand.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Opotiki County
Council's Waioeka Bridge Loan of £7,000.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 31st day of
May, 1928.
Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE J. G. COATES, P.C., PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS the Opotiki County Council lately proceeded
to raise a loan of seven thousand pounds under the
Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as
"the said Act"), for the purpose of renewing in concrete a
traffic-bridge across the Waioeka River at a point adjacent to
Bridge Street, Opotiki :

And whereas it was intended to pay out of the loan-moneys
certain preliminary expenses amounting to six hundred and
fifty-three pounds and fourpence incurred in connection with
the scheme for which the said loan was raised (hereinafter
referred to as "the said preliminary expenses"):

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said loan
were irregular or defective in that the intention to pay the said
preliminary expenses out of the loan-moneys was not stated
to the ratepayers in the notice published pursuant to section
nine of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as "the
said notice ") nor in the voting-paper used for the pur-
poses of the poll taken on the proposal to raise the said loan
(hereinafter referred to as "the voting-paper"):

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

And whereas by section one hundred and twenty-six of the
Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, the said Act is repealed, and it
is enacted that all matters and proceedings commenced under
the said Act and pending or in progress on the commencement
of the reciting Act may be continued, completed, and enforced
under the reciting Act:

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 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 intention to pay the said preliminary expenses out of the
loan-moneys had been stated to the ratepayers in the said
notice and in the voting-paper, and that the validity of the
proceedings in connection with the said loan or the validity
of the security for the said loan shall not be called in question
by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(I.A. 19/159/288.)

Notifying the proposed Exchange of National-endowment Land
in the Canterbury Land District for other Land.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by section three hundred and one of the
Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that it shall be lawful
for the Governor-General, on the recommendation of the
Dominion Land-purchase Board, whenever he deems it
expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any
area of national-endowment land in exchange for the fee-
simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay
or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange:

And whereas in the opinion of the Governor-General it
is expedient to exchange the national-endowment land
described in the First Schedule hereto for the land described
in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land
described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange,
and has agreed to pay to the Crown a sum of money by way
of equality of exchange:

And whereas the Dominion Land-purchase Board has duly
passed a resolution recommending that the proposed exchange
be carried out:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid
powers and authorities, doth hereby declare it is his intention
to grant in fee-simple the area of national-endowment land
described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the
fee-simple of the land described in the Second Schedule
upon payment by the owner thereof of the sum of money
hereinbefore referred to by way of equality of exchange.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.
ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by
admeasurement 3 acres 3 roods 2 perches, more or less, and
being Rural Section No. 37123, situated in Blocks IV and VI,
Hutt Survey District, and bounded as follows : Commencing
at a point on the north-west side of Double Hill Road, being
north-east corner of Rural Section 33501; thence south-
west, bearing 267° 46', distance 867·0 links ; thence north-
west, bearing 349° 33', distance 128·4 links ; thence north-
east, bearing 340° 10', distance 910·3 links ; again north-east,
bearing 80° 34', distance 152·5 links; thence south-west,
bearing 197° 30', distance 592·2 links; thence south-east,
bearing 107° 30', distance 429·9 links ; and again south-west
along the north - west side of Double Hill Road, bearing
181° 14', distance 176·0 links, to the point of commencement:
As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S.
8/8/51, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands
and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE
THEREFOR.
ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by
admeasurement 2 roods 23 perches, more or less, and being
part of Rural Section No. 28843, situated in Block IV, Hutt
Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a
point on the north-west side of Rural Section No. 28843,
being distant 592·9 links from its south-west corner; thence
north-east, bearing 17° 30', distance 362·1 links; again
north-east, bearing 79° 34', distance 148·3 links ; thence
south-west along the north-west side of Double Hill Road,
bearing 181° 14', distance 331·1 links; and again south-west
bearing 260° 34', distance 251·1 links, to the point of com-
mencement: As the same is more particularly delineated
on the plan marked L. and S. 8/8/51A, deposited in the Head
Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and
thereon bordered green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 2nd day of June, 1928.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.