Feb. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 439

Prohibiting all Alienation of certain Native Land other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of February, 1929.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

ON the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, 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 prohibit, for the period of one year from the date of this Order in Council, all alienation of the Native lands specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienation in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

HOROHORO SURVEY DISTRICT.

Name of Block. Approximate Area.
A. R. P.
KAITAO-ROTOHOKAHOKA 2Q .. .. 1,144 1 13
" 3A 5 .. .. 589 0 30
" 3C 5 .. .. 316 2 28
" 3G 2A .. .. 195 3 32
" 3G 2B .. .. 113 2 24
" 3G 2C .. .. 181 0 24
Kaitao 2C .. .. .. 190 1 10
" 2D .. .. .. 98 1 3
Patetere South No. 1B 3 .. .. 1,572 1 0

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

Validating the Proceedings in connection with a Loan of £350, proposed to be raised by the Council of the County of Clifton.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 29th day of January, 1929.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Clifton County Council, acting under and in pursuance of paragraph (e) of section seventeen of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, proposed to raise a loan of three hundred and fifty pounds for the purpose of metalling portions of the Wai-iti Road and the purposes mentioned thereto :

And whereas the written consent of the ratepayers to the raising of the said loan is dated the thirtieth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and purports to be under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913 :

And whereas the said Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, was repealed by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926 :

And whereas the special order authorizing the raising of the loan is irregular in that the special-rating area is described as “part Sections 9, 10, and 11, and 63, and Sections 13, 14, 16/24, 36/39, 76 of Block X, Mimi Survey District,” instead of “part Sections 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 69, and the whole of Sections 18 to 24, 36 to 39, 63, and 76 of Block X, Mimi Survey District” :

And whereas the public notice of the special order was advertised in the Taranaki Daily News on the tenth, seventeenth, twenty-fourth, and twenty-seventh days of April and the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight :

And whereas the notice advertised on the tenth and seventeenth days of April as aforesaid is defective in that it states the purpose of the loan to be “for the formation and metalling of Beach Road, Urenui, and the purposes incidental thereto”; and the notice advertised on the twenty-fourth day of April is defective in that it states the purpose of the loan to be “for the formation and metalling of the Wai-iti Road and the purposes incidental thereto” instead of “for the formation and metalling of portions of the Wai-iti Road, Pukearuhe, and the purposes incidental thereto” as advertised on the twenty-seventh day of April and the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers have not been misled by the said irregularities or defects, 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 to raise the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though the written consent of the ratepayers had been given under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, as though the special order had correctly described the special-rating area, and as though public notification of the said special order had been correctly given, and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall not be called into question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

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

Validating Proceedings in connection with the Vincent County Council's Loan of £20,000 for reconstructing and erecting Bridges.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of February, 1929.

Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the Vincent County Council lately proceeded to raise a loan of twenty thousand pounds under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), for the purpose of reconstructing and erecting within the county certain bridges, more particularly defined in the notice published pursuant to section nine of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said notice”) :

And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said loan were irregular or defective, in that—
(a) The poll of ratepayers was not taken not less than one week after the day of the last publication of the said notice, as required by subsection two of section ten of the said Act :
(b) The said notice set out that, subject to the consent of the ratepayers, the said Council proposed raising a special loan of twenty thousand pounds for the purpose of paying its one-third quota of the cost of repairing and erecting bridges within the county, particulars of which purpose, giving the name of each bridge or bridge-site, the work proposed to be done there, and the sum proposed to be spent on each work were thereinafter set out, and were likewise set out with the same particularity in the voting-paper printed pursuant to section ten of the said Act, and the said purpose should in the said notice have been described as “the cost of reconstructing and erecting bridges” :
(c) In the notification of the result of the poll published in the Gazette pursuant to section twelve of the said Act on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, at page 1813, the proposal of the said Council is stated to be a proposal to borrow the sum of twelve thousand pounds, and such proposal should in the said notification have been stated to be a proposal to borrow the said sum of twenty thousand pounds :

And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the district have not been misled by such irregularities or defects as aforesaid, 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, or 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 reciting 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—