Aug. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1783

Land taken for the Development of Water-power (Harewood Substation) in Block VI, Christchurch Survey District.

[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the development of water-power; and I do also declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and forty.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken: 1 rood 3·2 perches.

Being portion of Rural Section #152, Block VI, Christchurch Survey District (Canterbury R.D.). (S.O. 7223.)

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 107648, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon edged pink.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 30th day of July, 1940.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(P.W. 26/3180/0.)

Allocating Railway land to the Purposes of a Road in Block XVII, Cloudy Bay Survey District.

[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare that the land which is described in the Schedule hereto (and which was taken for a portion of the Picton-Hurunui Railway and is not now required for such purpose) shall, upon the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette, become road, and that such road shall be maintained by the Main Highways Board in like manner as other public highways are controlled and maintained by the said Board.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land dealt with:—

A. R. P.
0 0 0·96
0 0 5·3
0 0 2
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Being Railway land.

Situated in Block XVII, Cloudy Bay Survey District.

(S.O. R. 523/79.)

In the Marlborough Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 105716, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 30th day of July, 1940.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(P.W. 70/11/51/0/2.)

Alteration of Boundaries.—Christchurch Drainage District.

[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by section two of the Christchurch District Drainage Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be added to and form part of the Christchurch Drainage District; and, with the like powers and authorities, do hereby also declare that the said area shall be added to the Rural Heathcote Subdistrict of the said district.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement 1 rood 3·9 perches, more or less, and being Lot 1 and part Lot 2, plan No. 8731, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Christchurch, and being part Rural Section 54, situated in Block XV, Christchurch Survey District; being the whole of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 427, folio 271, Canterbury Registry.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 24th day of July, 1940.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(I.A. 103/17/9.)

Abolishing Makarewa-Hedgehope River District, County of Southland.

[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by the River Boards Act, 1908, as amended by the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913, it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor-General may, on petition signed by not less than a majority of the rate-payers of a river district, abolish any such district:

And whereas a petition signed as aforesaid has been duly presented, praying that the Makarewa-Hedgehope River District, established under the said River Boards Act, 1908, may be abolished:

Now, therefore, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the above-recited power and authority, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said Makarewa-Hedgehope River District shall be and the same is hereby abolished.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 30th day of July, 1940.

F. JONES,

For the Minister of Internal Affairs.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

(I.A. 103/25/2.)

Proclaiming Road-lines laid out in Block XIII, Whakatane, and Blocks I and II, Waimana Survey Districts, Auckland Land District, to be Public Roads.

[L.S.] GALWAY, Governor-General.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the land described in the First Schedule hereto was, by an order of the Native Land Court made on the fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, duly laid out as a road-line in pursuance of section forty-nine of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913:

And whereas the land described in the Second Schedule hereto was, by an order of the Native Land Court made on the twelfth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, duly laid out as a road-line in pursuance of section 10 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1912:

And whereas the said Court is of the opinion that it is in the public interest that the said road-lines should be proclaimed as public roads and notifications to that effect have been forwarded to the Minister of Lands in terms of section four hundred and eighty-six of the Native Land Act, 1931:

And whereas one month’s notice in writing of the intention to proclaim the said road-lines as public roads has been given by the Surveyor-General to the local authority of the district concerned, in terms of subsection two of section four hundred and eighty-seven of the Native Land Act, 1931:

And whereas it is now expedient that the said road-lines should be proclaimed as public roads.

Now, therefore, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four hundred and eighty-seven of the Native Land Act, 1931, do hereby proclaim as public roads the road-lines described in the First and Second Schedules hereto.