Nov. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3595

And whereas an election of the representative aforesaid was held on the said twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, pursuant to the notice so given:

And whereas it is provided by section seventy-one of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, that where anything is omitted to be done or cannot be done at the time required by or under that Act or is done after such time the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted at any time before or after the time within which such thing is required to be done, extend such time, or may validate anything so done after the time required or make other provision for such case as he thinks fit:

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 the said section seventy-one, 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 election held on the said twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as if the said election had been held on the seventeenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and as if the notice to be given pursuant to section seven of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1925, had been given not less than twenty-one clear days before such election, and had stated as the day for holding the election the day provided under section twenty of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926; and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said election shall not be called in question by reason only of the matters aforesaid.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(I.A. 19/159/344.)

Withdrawing Land from the Operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 11th day of November, 1930.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE E. A. RANSOM, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty-two of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, by Order in Council gazetted, on the recommendation of the Land Board, declare that any land comprised in a kauri-gum reserve shall, from a date to be specified in the Order, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and on and after the date so specified the land to which the Order relates shall become subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924:

And whereas the Land Board of the North Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that portion of the Parapara Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, be excepted from the operation of the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-two of the Land Act, 1924, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that portion of the Parapara Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from the nineteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Mangonui County, situate in Blocks IX and XIII, Rangaunu Survey District, and Blocks IV and VIII, Mangonui Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1,274 acres, more or less, being the remaining portion of the Parapara Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in New Zealand Gazette, 1899, No. 60, page 1303: Bounded, commencing at the south-western corner of Allotment 11, Taipa Parish, on the north by Allotments 11 and 34, Taipa Parish; on the east generally by a public road, by the crossing of that road, by Allotment 33, Taipa Parish, again by a public road, by the crossing of that road, by Allotment 38, Taipa Parish aforesaid, by the abutment of a foreshore reserve, by the Taipa River, by Crown land in Blocks IV and VIII, Mangonui Survey District, and by that portion of the Parapara K.G.R. withdrawn from reservation by notice published in New Zealand Gazette, 1915, No. 45, page 1024; on the south by the last-mentioned portion of the Parapara K.G.R.; on the west generally by the abutment of a public road, by Allotment 2, Kaiaka Parish, by the crossing of a public road, by Allotment 1 E.R., Kaiaka Parish aforesaid, by land originally granted to W. Clark (part O.L.C. No. 9), by land originally granted to J. Matthews (part O.L.C. No. 9), by the crossing of a public road, and again by land originally granted to J. Matthews (part O.L.C. No. 9) to the point of commencement. Excepting thereout those roads which intersect the above-described area. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 9/2533, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

A. W. MULLIGAN,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. 9/2533.)

Exempting Crown Land in Naseby Survey District from Mining, under the Mining Act, 1926.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926, it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, exempt any Crown lands from mining, or from any specified mining purpose, or from that Act or any specified provisions of that Act; and that the lands to which any such notice relates shall be specified therein by words of particular description:

And whereas it is desirable that the Crown land specified in the Schedule hereto shall, subject to all existing registered mining privileges, be exempted from mining:

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby exempt the land particularly described in the Schedule hereto from mining under the provisions of that Act, subject to all existing registered mining privileges; and do also hereby declare that such exemption shall take effect from the date of the gazetting hereof.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 883 acres 2 roods, more or less, being part of Run 219c, situated in Block V, Naseby Survey District, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by other part of Run 219c, 3000 links; towards the north-east generally by Section 15, Block II, Naseby Survey District, 7459·2 links; towards the east by other part of Run 219c, 6725 links; towards the south-east by Naseby Commonage, 2992·2 links, and the Crown land adjoining the Mount Ida Water-race, 7000 links; and towards the west generally by part of State Forest No. 93 (Naseby Plantation, Gazette, 1929, page 388), 17153·5 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less, and excepting from the above-described parcel of land an intersecting public road 100 links wide, a deduction for which has been made from the area. As the same is more particularly shown on the plan marked N. 6/8, deposited in the Head Office of the Mines Department at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of November, 1930.

A J. MURDOCH, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 6/8.)

Opening Land in the Southland Land District for Sale or Selection.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the amendments thereof, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-six of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection on Monday, the twelfth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one; and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease; and I do hereby also fix the price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and