3592

Notifying Day on which Poll to be taken re Local Option

in the Maori Council Districts.

Native Department, 23rd November, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

TUESDAY, THE 19TH DECEMBER, 1911,
as the day on which a poll shall be taken, in terms of section 46 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910, and the regulations made thereunder, of the Maoris residing in the—

Takitimu Maori Council District,
Horouta Maori Council District,
Arawa Maori Council District, and Wairoa Maori Council District,
to determine whether liquor shall be supplied to Natives in the said districts or not.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Warrant under Section 298 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

IN pursuance of the power conferred upon the Native Minister by subsection (b) of section 298 of the Native Land Act, 1909, I, James Carroll, Native Minister, acting on the recommendation of the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board, do hereby consent to a sale of Mangatokerau 1A1 Block, containing 55 acres 2 roods 8 perches, situated in Block III, Uawa Survey District, subject to the same restrictions and to the same requirements as to confirmation and otherwise as if the land was not subject to Part XVI of the Native Land Act, 1909.

As witness my hand, this twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Consent to Exchange of Crown Land for Native Land

WHEREAS by Part XIX of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided, inter alia, that exchanges of Crown land for Native land must be effected through the Native Land Purchase Board: And whereas it is expedient that the exchange set out in the Schedule hereto should be effected:

Now, therefore, the Native Land Purchase Board, in pursuance of the powers conferred by Part XIX of the Native Land Act, 1909, doth hereby consent to such exchange.

And it is hereby declared that this notice, made under the provisions in that behalf of the Native Land Act, 1909, shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Native Land Purchase Board.

SCHEDULE.

CROWN land: All that parcel of land containing 250 acres, more or less, being portion of Kopua 1s, Section 2. Bounded on the north and west by Kopua 1R, on the east by road, and on the south by Kopua 1s, Section 2, situated in Blocks VI, VII, X, XI, Pirongia Survey District; in exchange for

Native land: All those parcels of land containing 249 acres 1 rood 30 perches, more or less, part being Section 11, Block XII, Pirongia Survey District. Bounded on the north by Kopua 1B2, on the east by Kopua 1A, on the south by Parihoro Block, and on the west by a Native reserve and Moakuraua Stream, containing 27 acres 1 rood 10 perches, part also being Section 16, Block VII, Pirongia Survey District, containing 206 acres 2 roods; bounded on the north by Tetahi Road, on the east by Section 17, on the south by Mangakahua Road, and on the west by Section 15, together with that portion of land containing 15 acres 2 roods 20 perches, in Block XI, Pirongia Survey District; bounded on the east by Kopua 1L and road, on the south by Kopua 1s, Section 2, and on the north and west by Ngakoahia Stream.

Dated at Gisborne, this 25th day of November, 1911.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

[No. 98

Notice to Mariners No. 148 of 1911.

AUCKLAND HARBOUR LIGHTS.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 25th November, 1911.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 102 of 1911, the Auckland Harbour Board have notified that on 1st December, 1911, the Lux light on seaward end of Orakei Wharf will be replaced with a fixed white acetylene light of 75 c.p. The light will be in the same situation as the present light, and should be visible for a distance of about six miles all round the horizon.

The Lux light above mentioned will then be used to replace the small kerosene lamp now in use on St. Helier's Bay Wharf.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1970 and 1896; "New Zealand Pilot," eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ii, page 38.

J. A. MILLAR.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XIII, Waihua Survey District, for a Police-station.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a police-station in Block XIII, Waihua Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Mohaka, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land required to be taken:

In the Land District of Hawke’s Bay; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 30656, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

Subsidies to Public Libraries

Education Department,
Wellington, 8th November, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £4,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 3rd February, 1912, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, on or before the 27th January, 1912.

1. A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the control of an association, society, or club whose membership is composed of a section of the community only,