Mar. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 633

Tirohia-Rotokohu Drainage District, County of Ohinemuri, constituted.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of March, 1929.

Present:

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

WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the third section of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, a majority of the ratepayers in the area of land described in the Schedule hereto, situated within the County of Ohinemuri, have presented a petition to His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, praying that the said area be constituted a drainage district under the provisions of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the third section of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth constitute and declare the area of land described in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part I of the said Act, and to be called by the name of the “Tirohia-Rotokohu Drainage District”; and also, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority contained in the fourth section of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the Board of Trustees of the said district shall consist of five persons, to be elected as members of the said Board and under and in accordance with the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF TIROHIA-ROTOKOHU DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that land in the Auckland Land District bounded as follows: Commencing at the junction of the right bank of the Waihou River with the left bank of the Ohinemuri River at the northern end of the Ngahina Canal; thence by the right bank of the Waihou River southward to the southern boundary of Taumatawahine No. 3; thence along that boundary to the Paeroa–Te Aroha main road; thence along that road northwards to the southern boundary of Takapau; thence eastwards and following that boundary and the southern boundary of Otamarunganui A to the western boundary of Rotokohu No. 1a; thence eastwards to the Paeroa–Te Aroha old road; thence north along that road to the eastern boundary of Otamarunganui C; thence along that boundary to the southern boundary of Te Koronae B2; thence eastwards along that boundary to the eastern boundaries of Ngahuitoitoi G and J; thence northwards along those boundaries to the Pareoa–Waihi Railway line; thence westward and following that line to the Paeroa–Te Aroha old road; thence north along that road to the southern boundary of the Borough of Paeroa; thence generally westwards following the borough boundary to the left bank of the Ohinemuri River; thence following the Ohinemuri River to the junction with the Waihou River at the northern end of the Ngahina Canal and the point of commencement.

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

(I.A. 19/10/20.)

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Te Kuiti Borough Council declared a Leasing Authority under the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of March, 1929.

Present:

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

WHEREAS the Te Kuiti Borough Council is a body of persons having power to lease lands held in trust, reserved, or set apart for public purposes, and has requested the Governor-General in Council to declare it to be a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in compliance with such request, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred by the above-mentioned Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the Te Kuiti Borough Council is a leasing authority within the meaning of the Public Bodies’ Leases Act, 1908.

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

(I.A. 2/37/56.)

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Validating Proceedings in connection with the Temuka Borough Council’s Waterworks Loan of £6,000.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 8th day of March, 1929.

Present:

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

WHEREAS the Temuka Borough Council lately proceeded to raise a loan of six thousand pounds under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), for the purpose of erecting new high-pressure water-supply headworks, and laying a concrete pipe-line from the said headworks to connect to the present water-supply pipe-line at Winchester:

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

(a) The poll of the ratepayers was not taken not less than one week after the day of the last publication of the notice, published pursuant to section ten of the said Act (hereinafter referred to as “the said notice”), as required by subsection two of section eleven of the said Act:

(b) The said notice and the notice published pursuant to subsection two of section eleven of the said Act, although published four times, were not published in the same newspaper, as required by the said sections ten and eleven of the said Act:

(c) In the notification of the result of the poll published in the Gazette pursuant to section thirteen of the said Act on the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, at page 3370, the poll is stated to have been taken on the nineteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and the date of such poll should in the said notification have been stated as the eighteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight:

(d) The voting-paper used for the purposes of the poll was not in the form required by the said Act:

(e) The said voting-paper did not contain a statement that it was not proposed to pay out of loan-money the interest and sinking fund for the first year in respect of the said loan:

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:

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 said Act, 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 order and declare that the proceedings in connection with the said loan shall be valid to all intents and purposes as though—

(a) The said poll of the ratepayers had been taken at the proper time:

(b) The notices published pursuant to sections ten and eleven of the said Act had been published in conformity with the said sections ten and eleven:

(c) The notification published pursuant to section thirteen of the said Act had stated the date of the poll as the eighteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight:

(d) The voting-paper had been in the form prescribed by the said Act:

(e) The voting-paper had contained a statement that it was not proposed to pay out of loan-money the interest and sinking fund charges for the first year in respect of the said loan:

And that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said loan or the validity of the security of the said loan shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularities or defects aforesaid.

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