Dec. 10.]

Directing the Sale of Land under the Public Works Act, 1928,
in the City of Wellington.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of
December, 1931.

Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by the Public Works Act, 1928, 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 direct
the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto, such
land being no longer required for the public work for which
it was acquired.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate area of the piece of land directed to be sold:
8·35 perches.
Being part Section 285, Town of Wellington (City of Wellington).
(S.O. 2122.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 66931,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, and thereon edged pink.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 20/167/1.)

Granting Temporary Exemption from Section 50 (4) of the
Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of
December, 1931.

Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

Pursuant to section fifty-five of the Finance Act, 1931
(No. 4), His Excellency the Governor-General, being
of opinion that compliance with the provisions of subsection
four of section fifty of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, by
the Auckland District of the New Zealand Branch of the
Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Friendly
Society, being a registered branch within the meaning of the
last-named Act (hereinafter called “the said branch”), in
respect of the period of two years ending on the thirty-first
day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one,
would impose undue hardship on the said branch, and acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council, doth hereby grant to the said branch exemption
to the extent hereinafter set out from the obligations
of the said subsection four in respect of the period afore-
said—that is to say, that in lieu of the interest at the rate
of not less than four per centum per annum payable by the
said branch into any benefit fund of the said branch in terms
of the said subsection four, it shall be sufficient compliance
with the obligations of the said subsection four relating to
moneys forming part of any benefit fund of the said branch
invested in the purchase of the land referred to in the
Schedule hereto, and/or the erection of offices or buildings
on the said land, if there be paid by the said branch into any
such benefit fund as aforesaid by way of interest for the
period of two years aforesaid a sum equal to the net amount
received by the said branch by way of rents and premiums
paid (whether before, during, or after the period of two years
aforesaid) for any lease, letting, or other tenancy or license
of, or relating to, any part of the said premises during the
period of two years aforesaid, and by way of any other revenue
obtained from the said premises during the period of two
years aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

All that piece of land situated at the corner of Victoria
Street and Hobson Street, in the City of Auckland, together
with the building erected thereon known as “The Manchester
Unity Building.”

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

Extending Prohibition of Alienation of certain Native Land
other than Alienation in favour of the Crown.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of
December, 1931.

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 thereof, doth hereby extend for a further
period of six months the Order in Council dated the twelfth
day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty,
and gazetted the eighteenth day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and thirty, prohibiting all alienation of the
Native land specified in the Schedule hereto, other than
alienation in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

HOROHORO SURVEY DISTRICT.

Name of Block. Approximate
Area.

Rotomahana-Parekarangi lc 2 .. 122 2 3
" lc 3 .. 281 3 0
" lc 4 .. 504 3 34
" lc 5 .. 305 3 32
" lc 6 .. 886 2 18
" lc 7 .. 349 2 25
" lc 8 .. 299 3 9
" lc 9 .. 380 3 20
" lc 10 .. 420 2 20
" lc 11 .. 490 3 29
" lc 12 .. 454 3 12
" lc 13 .. 368 3 4
" lc 14 .. 388 2 9
" lc 15 .. 118 2 9
" lc 16 .. 61 2 21

PAEROA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Rotomahana - Parekarangi 6A, Section 2 No. 3B
1A, Section 2 .. 859 1 17
6A, Section 2 No. 3B
No. 2 .. .. 782 0 30
6A, Section 2 No. 3B
No. 3A.. .. 198 0 0
6A, Section 2 No. 3B
No. 5B .. .. 198 0 0
6A, Section 2 No. 2B
No. 2A.. .. 812 2 0
6A, Section 2 No. 2B
No. 2B .. .. 20 0 0
6A, Section 2 No. 2B
No. 2c .. .. 741 0 0
6A, Section 2 No. 2B
No. 2D .. .. 1,723 2 0

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

Order in Council consenting to the Raising of a Loan of £1,175
by the Pukekohe Borough Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 4th day of
December, 1931.

Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

Whereas the Pukekohe Borough Council (hereinafter
called “the said local authority”) proposes to raise,
pursuant to the terms of a Warrant issued under section one
hundred and thirty-five of the Public Works Act, 1928, the
sum of one thousand one hundred and seventy-five pounds
by a loan to be known as “Tuakau Bridge Loan, 1931,”
for the purpose of meeting its share of the cost of constructing
a bridge (together with approaches thereto) over the
Waikato River, at Tuakau, on the Pukekohe – Glen Murray
via Tuakau Main Highway:

Now, therefore, 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,
and in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities