to take water from such works when completed, which contracts specify the quantity of water to be taken and the price to be paid for the same:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve and confirm the terms of the several contracts aforesaid, and doth hereby authorize the Minister of Public Works to construct, maintain, and control the water-supply works described in the First Schedule hereto, and doth hereby also define the district to be served by such water-supply works as set out in the Second Schedule hereto, and herein referred to as the Idaburn Irrigation District.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

THE Idaburn Irrigation Works, for the irrigation of the Idaburn Irrigation District (described in the Second Schedule hereto) by means of water drawn from the Idaburn Stream and from any dam or dams which are or may be constructed or acquired on the said river or its tributaries, such water being conveyed into the said district by a race known as the Idaburn Water-race, and by any enlargement or extension thereof or by any other race or races constructed or acquired by the Minister of Public Works in addition to or in lieu of the said Idaburn Water-race and any enlargement or extension thereof; the said works, including all dams, weirs, reservoirs, tunnels, fluming, siphons, piping, gauge-boxes, and races, and all other works incidental to or required for the construction, maintenance, and control of the said works for the irrigation of the said Idaburn Irrigation District.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, bounded by a line commencing at a point in the Idaburn Stream at the site of the dam in Run 225E, Block 13, Blackstone Survey District, and proceeding thence in a south-westerly direction generally following the course of the said stream along portions of the northern boundaries of Runs 225E and 225N, Block 13, Blackstone Survey District, across the Idaburn-Moa Creek Highway; along the northern boundary generally of a gravel reserve, Block 13, Blackstone Survey District; through Run 224C, Block 20, Blackstone Survey District, across a public road; through Sections 14, 13, and 12, Block 16, Blackstone Survey District, across a public road; through Sections 20 and 7, Block 16, Blackstone Survey District, across a public road; through Sections 8 and 6, and across a public road, Block 16, Blackstone Survey District; through Sections 22, 29, 28, 18, and part 17, Block 15, Blackstone Survey District; thence leaving the course of the said stream and passing through part of the said Section 17; across a public road, and along the north-western boundary of Section 9, Block 15, Blackstone Survey District; thence proceeding in a south-easterly direction generally along the south-western boundary and portion of the south-eastern boundary of the said Section 9, through Section 27 (Forest Reserve), and along the south-western boundary of Section 13, across a public road, and along the south-western boundary of Section 12, Block 15, Blackstone Survey District; across the Idaburn-Moa Creek Highway and through Section 2, Block 4, Poolburn Survey District to the southern corner of Section 1, Block 4, Poolburn Survey District; thence proceeding in a north-easterly direction through Section 1, Block 6, Poolburn Survey District, to the south-western corner of Section 25, Block 16, Blackstone Survey District; thence in an easterly direction along the southern boundary of the said Section 25 to the south-eastern corner thereof; thence northerly along the eastern boundaries of the said Section 25 and Section 24, Block 16, Blackstone Survey District; thence in a south-easterly direction along the south-western boundary of Run 225JJ, Block 17, Blackstone Survey District; thence in a north-easterly direction along the south-eastern boundary of Run 225JJ, Block 17, Blackstone Survey District, and the south-eastern boundary of Run 225D, Blocks 17 and 18, Blackstone Survey District; thence in a north-westerly direction along portion of the north-eastern boundary of Run 225D, Blocks 18, 17, and 13, Blackstone Survey District, and through part Run 225E, Block 13, Blackstone Survey District, to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 81749, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 64/89.)

Authorizing the Judges of the Second Division of the Court of Appeal to sit with the Judges of the First Division.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1931.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section nine of the Judicature Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that each Division of the Court of Appeal shall sit and exercise its jurisdiction separately, save that in respect of any sitting of either Division the Governor in Council may, on the certificate of two Judges (of whom the Chief Justice shall be one), that any appeal or other proceeding is of special difficulty or importance, authorize all the Judges of the other Division to sit together with those of the former Division for the hearing and determination of that appeal or proceeding:

And whereas a petition was filed in the Supreme Court at Wellington under Number 3725 on the twelfth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, by Florence Kate Worth, praying for a divorce from Charles Stanhope Worth, and such petition has been removed into the Court of Appeal, and now stands for hearing and determination before the First Division of the Court of Appeal at the sitting commencing on the twenty-second day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one:

And whereas the Honourable Sir Michael Myers, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, and the Honourable John Ranken Reed, C.B.E., a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, have certified that the said proceeding is of special importance:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority vested in him in that behalf as aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby authorize the Judges of the Second Division of the Court of Appeal to sit with the Judges of the First Division of that Court at the aforesaid sitting for the hearing and determination of the said petition for divorce.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Portions of Road in Block II, Moeangiangi Survey District, to be Government Roads.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1931.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in any-wise enabling him in this behalf, 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 order and declare that the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become Government roads.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the portions of road declared to be Government roads:

A.'R. P. Adjoining or passing through

2 2 7 Awa-o-Totara A Block.

(S.O. 968.) (P.W.D. 73872.)

1 1 12 Awa-o-Totara A Block.

(S.O. 1058.) (P.W.D. 81928.)

Situated in Block II, Moeangiangi Survey District (Hawke's Bay R.D.).

In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plans marked as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

(P.W. 6/32.)