JUNE 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1775

valid to all intents and purposes as though the Returning Officer's public notice had been given not less than twenty-one clear days before the date of the said election; and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with the said election shall not be called in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.

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

(I.A. 19/159/353.)

Land temporarily reserved in the Southland Land District for Recreation Purposes.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

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 the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Southland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for recreation purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 172 acres 0 roods 37 perches, more or less, being Section 70, Block VII, Oteramika Hundred: Bounded towards the north by Section 68, Block VII, Oteramika Hundred, 3119·8 links; towards the east by Section 5, a public road, Section 6 and Section 7, Block VII, Oteramika Hundred, 760·1 links, 2387·3 links, and 1403·3 links; towards the south by Section 71, Block VII, and Section 45, Block II, Oteramika Hundred, 4514·8 links; and towards the north-west by Sections 34, 33, 32, and 31, Block II, Oteramika Hundred, 4760 links; save and excepting intersecting tramway reserves, 20 links wide: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 9/1653, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of June, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/727.)

Lands set apart in the Taranaki Land District as a Public-school Site and as an Addition to a Public-school Site.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section thirty-three of the Education Reserves Act, 1928, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the district in which are situated any reserves or endowments vested in the Crown by or in pursuance of section two of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, or of section twenty-two of the first-mentioned Act, set apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical schools any part of such reserves or endowments:

And whereas the Land Board of the Taranaki Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the lands described in the Schedule hereto should be set apart as a public-school site and as an addition to a public-school site, 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 powers conferred by the Acts aforesaid, do hereby set apart the lands described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be set apart.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres, more or less, being Sections 92 and 93, Pukearuhe Township: Bounded towards the north-east by Section 91, Pukearuhe Township, 500 links; towards the south-east by Clifton Street, 400 links; towards the south-west by Stirling Street, 500 links; and towards the north-west by Sections 61 and 62, Pukearuhe Township, 400 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/552N, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For a public-school site (Pukearuhe).

Also all that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being Lot 2 on deposited plan 2365, being part Section 162, Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred: Bounded towards the north-east and south-east by other part of said Section 162, 248·3 links and 318·5 links respectively; towards the south-west by Section 37, Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred, 317·05 links; and towards the north-west by part Section 162 on deposited plan 260, 395·6 links: all the above being situated in Block V, Paritutu Survey District: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/552O, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For an addition to a public-school site (Korito).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of June, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 6/6/552.)

Warrant authorizing the Raglan County Council to construct a New Bridge over the Waikato River at Tuakau on the Pukekohe – Glen Murray via Tuakau Main Highway (together with Approaches thereto), and apportioning the Cost.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by section one hundred and thirty-five of the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize the Raglan County Council to construct the bridge (together with approaches thereto) described in the Schedule hereto; and I do also declare that the cost thereof, less such contribution (if any) as may be made thereto by the Government of New Zealand or the Main Highways Board, shall be borne by the Raglan County Council, the Pukekohe Borough Council, and the Tuakau Town Board in the following proportions—viz., the Raglan County Council shall pay seventy-five per centum, the Pukekohe Borough Council shall pay fifteen per centum, and the Tuakau Town Board shall pay ten per centum of such cost respectively; and I do further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Pukekohe Borough Council and the Tuakau Town Board shall be paid from time to time, in the proportions hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said Council and Board within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Raglan County Council, and all such payments shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Raglan County Council for and on behalf of the said Borough Council and Town Board.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Waikato River, at Tuakau, on the Pukekohe – Glen Murray via Tuakau Main Highway (together with approaches thereto). As the site of the said bridge and approaches is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 81211, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of June, 1931.

JOHN G. COBBE, for Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/2/321/4.)

Appointing Members Representative of the Wellington Automobile Club (Incorporated), and the Wellington General Carriers and Customhouse and Forwarding Agents’ Industrial Union of Employers on the Wellington City and Suburban Highways Board of Control.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Wellington City and Suburban Highways Construction and Hutt Road Amendment Act, 1929, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the persons named in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be members on and from the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, of the Wellington City and Suburban Highways Board of Control, representing thereon the bodies described in the second column of the Schedule hereto.