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Zealand in any licensed tobacco factory, for manufacturing purposes only, into cigars: And in lieu thereof doth impose on such unmanufactured tobacco a Customs duty of two shillings per pound provided as follows:—

1. That such suspension of the existing tariff shall not apply to any unmanufactured tobacco entered to be manufactured as aforesaid into cigars which pursuant to any Order in Council made under section 25 of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1930, are liable to excise duty at a higher rate than that set out in section 24 of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1931.

2. That such suspension of the existing tariff shall not apply to any unmanufactured tobacco unless the Collector of Customs is satisfied that such tobacco is to be used in New Zealand and for no other purpose than in the manufacture of cigars, and is not to be used to be manufactured into cigars liable to excise duty at the higher rate referred to in the last preceding proviso hereof.

3. That nothing in this Order shall be deemed to affect the provisions of section 5 of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1930, or the liability for payment of any duty imposed thereby or prescribed thereunder.

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

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in the Town of Hokitika, Westland Land District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 22nd day of December, 1931.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS a notice of intention to issue an Order in Council declaring that the reservation over the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be changed from a reserve for a cricket-ground to a reserve for an endowment in aid of the funds of the Borough of Hokitika was published in the Gazette of the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one:

And whereas such notice of intention was duly laid before both Houses of Parliament in accordance with the provisions of subsection two of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928:

And whereas the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives, by resolutions dated respectively the seventh and the fifth days of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, approved the proposed change of purpose as aforesaid:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by subsection one (a) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby change the purpose of the reservation over the land described in the Schedule hereto from a reserve for a cricket-ground to a reserve for an endowment in aid of the funds of the Borough of Hokitika.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

RESERVE No. 446, Town of Hokitika: Area, 23 acres 2 roods 7 perches, more or less.

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

(L. and S. 22/3841.)

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

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 18th day of December, 1931.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES, 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 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 Mangakahia Kauri-gum Reserve and portion of the Purua Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, be excepted from the operations 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 Mangakahia Kauri-gum Reserve and portion of the Purua Kauri-gum Reserve, as described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from the ninth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

All that area in the North Auckland Land District, Whangarei County, situate in Block XII, Mangakahia Survey District, containing by admeasurement 531 acres, more or less, being the remaining portion of the Mangakahia Kauri-gum Reserve set apart by Order in Council in New Zealand Gazette, 1898, No. 93, page 2075, bounded as follows: Commencing at a point being the westernmost corner of Section 26, Block XII, Mangakahia Survey District; thence on the south-west generally by Sections 6, 5, and 4, all of Block XII aforesaid, bearing 280° 19′ distance 420-0 links, bearing 243° 08′ distance 446-1 links, bearing 268° 36′ distance 669-5 links, bearing 289° 13′ distance 520-1 links, bearing 340° 13′ distance 1504-7 links, bearing 327° 25′ distance 1048-3 links, bearing 336° 46′ distance 323-7 links, bearing 288° 41′ distance 316-6 links, bearing 260° 22′ distance 505-8 links, bearing 298° 17′ 30″ distance 311-8 links, to the southern boundary of Block VIII, Mangakahia Survey District; thence on the north by that boundary, bearing 90° 00′ distance 18500-0 links to the western boundary of Block IX, Purua Survey District; thence on the east by that boundary, bearing 180° 00′ distance 6940-0 links; on the south by the northern boundary of Crown land in Block XII, Mangakahia Survey District, bearing 270° 00′ distance 8860-0 links to Section 26 aforementioned; thence on the west and south generally by that section, by the abutment of a public road, and again by Section 26 aforesaid, bearing 50° 56′ 30″ distance 42-0 links, bearing 25° 07′ 30″ distance 1156-8 links, bearing 31° 17′ distance 244-5 links, bearing 31° 50′ distance 516-0 links, bearing 314° 29′ distance 9480-0 links, bearing 264° 42′ distance 302-1 links, bearing 265° 44′ distance 3552-6 links, to the point of commencement. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 34/69a, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plans 5513, 22345, and block sheet.)

Also all that area in the North Auckland Land District, Whangarei County, containing by admeasurement 358 acres, more or less, being Sections 12 and 13, Block II, Purua Survey District, and being the remaining portion of the Purua Kauri-gum Reserve set apart by Order in Council in New Zealand Gazette, 1898, No. 93, page 2075. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 34/69b, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan 1503.)

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

(L. and S. 34/69.)

Authorizing Erection of a Public Hall on Governor’s Bay Domain, Canterbury Land District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by subsection one (d) of section fifty-two of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize the Governor’s Bay Domain Board to erect a public hall on that portion of the Governor’s Bay Domain under its control, described in the Schedule hereto.