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4. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the board to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or inconsistent with any law relating to the Customs, or with any regulation of the Minister of Customs, or with any provision of the Harbours Act, 1923, or its amendments, or any regulations made thereunder, and that are or may hereafter be in force.

5. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Order in Council shall not apply to those portions of the foreshore required for securing the shore ends of any telegraph cables that are at present or may be at any time laid down within the said area of foreshore.

6. The board may enclose any part or parts of the foreshore described in the First Schedule hereto for the purposes of holding athletic sports or games, and may by by-law fix a charge for admission to such enclosed part or parts: Provided that the total number of days on which such enclosures are made shall not exceed six in any one year.

7. The board may, subject to the provisions of section 171 of the Harbours Act, 1923, erect, or license, or permit the erection of bathing-sheds or boat-sheds on the foreshore described in the First Schedule hereto, and may fix charges by laws regulating the use thereof, and may make charges for such use: Provided that the funds so received shall be expended in improving the foreshore for the benefit of the public.

8. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the board to remove, or cause to be removed, any stone, sand, shingle, or shells without the consent of the Minister being first obtained.

9. By-laws made by the board under the said Act in respect of the foreshore shall not have effect unless and until approved in writing by the Minister.

10. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by or under this Order in Council shall continue to be in force until the 28th day of September, 1953, unless in the meantime such rights, powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked by competent authority.

11. The said rights, powers, and privileges may be at any time resumed by the Governor-General, without payment of any compensation whatever, on giving to the board six calendar months’ previous notice in writing. Any such notice shall be sufficient if given by the Minister and delivered at or posted to the last-known address of the board in New Zealand.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing a Member of the Oamaru Harbour Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection (3) of section 38 of the Harbours Act, 1923, that in the event of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of a non-elective member of a Harbour Board, the Governor-General shall, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place:

And whereas Percival Malthus, a non-elective member of the Oamaru Harbour Board, has resigned, and an extraordinary vacancy in the membership of the Board has been created, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority doth hereby appoint Frank Hood

to be a member of the Oamaru Harbour Board in the place of the said Percival Malthus, resigned.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 19th day of January, 1939.

P. FRASER, Minister of Marine.

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

John William Harvey, Chief Clerk, District Office, Lands and Survey Department, Christchurch.

Harold Clive Hulme, Chief Clerk, District Office, Lands and Survey Department, New Plymouth.

James Bond Dixon, Chief Clerk, District Office, Lands and Survey Department, Nelson.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of January, 1939.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Exempting Crown Land in the Westland Land District from the Operation of Part III of the Coal-mines Act, 1925.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by subsection two of section one hundred and seventy-one of the Coal-mines Act, 1925, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be exempt from the operation of Part III of the Coal-mines Act, 1925, and do hereby further declare that this notice shall take effect as from the date of the gazetting hereof.

SCHEDULE.

All that area of Crown land in the Westland Land District containing 3 roods 12-1 perches, more or less, situated in the Borough of Runanga, Block III, Cobden Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the most southerly corner of Section 27, Block XXXVIII, Town of Runanga, and proceeding by right lines bearing 238° 46’ 30” for 382-1 links and 308° 18’, 62-38 links, to the eastern side of a public road; thence in a northerly direction along the eastern side of that road 33° 18’, 182-3 links, 9° 28’, 231-8 links, and 9° 36’, 92-7 links to the south-western corner of M.R. 23, Block XXXVIII, Town of Runanga; thence along the south-western boundary of M.R. 23 and Sections 24, 25, 26, and 27, Block XXXVIII, Town of Runanga, 148° 46’ 30” 418-39 links, to the point of commencement.

Also all that area of Crown land in the Westland Land District containing 36-4 perches, more or less, situated in the Borough of Runanga, Block III, Cobden Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-western corner of Section 1, Block XXXVIII, Town of Runanga, and proceeding along the southern boundary of that section; thence by right lines bearing 178° 18’ for 14-36 links, 91° 56’, 47-71 links, 178° 50’, 37-2 links, 269° 31’, 232-4 links, to the eastern side of Herd Road; thence in a northerly direction along the eastern side of the said road 1° 32’, 99-7 links, to the point of commencement.

Also all that area of Crown land in the Westland Land District containing 1 acre 1 rood 9-8 perches, more or less, situated in the Borough of Runanga, Block III, Cobden Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the eastern side of Herd Road, distant 181° 32’, 99-7 links and 184° 54’, 80-0 links, from the south-western corner of Section 1, Block XXXVIII, Town of Runanga; thence by right lines bearing 139° 54’, 28-28 links, 94° 54’, 224-31 links, 178° 50’, 374-9 links, 225° 51’, 279-06 links, to the eastern side of Herd Road; thence in a northerly direction along the eastern side of the said road 332° 28’, 188-3 links and 4° 54’, 444-67 links, to the point of commencement.

Also all that area of Crown land in the Westland Land District containing 2 roods 31-1 perches, more or less, situated in the Borough of Runanga, Block III, Cobden Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the western side of Herd Road, distant 184° 50’, 40-8 links, and 152° 28’, 66-08 links, from the south-eastern corner of Section 41, Block XXXVIII, Town of Runanga, and proceeding in a southerly direction along the western side of Herd Road 152° 28’, 172-70 links; thence by right lines bearing 228° 8’, 255-36 links, 328° 23’ 30”, 322-89 links, 4° 50’, 40-36 links and 88° 16’, 276-28 links, to the point of commencement.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plans numbered N. 15/22, 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 18th day of January, 1939.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Mines.

(Mines: N. 15/22.)