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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of Roads in Blocks I, III, IV, VI, VIII, IX, XII, and XV, Mohaka and Waihua Survey Districts.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 93 of the Public Works Act, 1908, that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were on the 11th day of April, 1910, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 19th day of March, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

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

Dated this 25th day of August, 1910.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

Pennyroyal declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Palmerston North Borough Council.—Notice No. 1430.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 31st August, 1910.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Palmerston North Borough Council has by special order declared pennyroyal to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the Palmerston North Borough.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture

Plants declared by the Minister of Agriculture to be Noxious Weeds within the Awakino and Sounds Counties.—Notice No. 1431.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 31st August, 1910.

IN virtue of the power conferred upon me by the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, I hereby declare the plants ragwort and foxglove to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the above-mentioned Act. in the Awakino and Sounds Counties respectively, being counties where the Counties Act, 1908, has never been in operation.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 26th August, 1910.

THE Sacred Heart Branch, No. 511, situated at Thorndon, Wellington, is registered as a branch of the New Zealand District Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 26th day of August, 1910.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Notice by the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II).

To the owner of a parcel of land containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section 9, Block XXX, in the Town of Oamaru, in the Provincial District of Otago. Bounded towards the north, north-east, by Test Street, 100 links; towards the east, south-east, by Section 8, 250 links; towards the south, south-west, by Section 14, 100 links; and towards the west, north-west, by Section 10, 250 links. The last registered owners are Walter Peacock Simpson, of Dunedin, butcher, and William Iles, of the same place, settler.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner of the above-described land is, and believes that such owner is not in the Dominion:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his title to the land specified in this notice; and if such owner does not, within the time limited, so establish his title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II).

Dated this 30th day of August, 1910.

FRED. FITCHETT,
Public Trustee.

Tenders for Hard-drawn Copper Wire.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1910.

TENDERS will be received until 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the 18th October, 1910, for the supply and delivery of twenty-five (25) tons of hard-drawn copper wire, 200lb. to the mile.

Quotations are to be C.I.F.E. Wellington, and are to stand good until the 21st October, 1910.

Specifications may be seen at the telegraph offices at Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin, and at the office of the Controller of Stores at Wellington.

Tenders are to be addressed to the Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington, marked on the outside “Tender for Copper Wire,” and must be accompanied by a cheque for fifty pounds (£50), marked by a banker “Good for thirty days,” payable to the Secretary of the Public Works Tenders Board, Wellington.

The whole of the wire is to be delivered within six months from the date of the order, and acceptance of the same is to be subject to satisfactory tests and inspection.

Tenderers are to state whether the wire is of British or foreign manufacture.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

By order.

J. K. LOGAN,
Superintendent of Electric Lines.