Nov. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3323

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block I, Otokia Survey District, for Road Purposes.

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 road in Block I, Otokia 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 Brighton, 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 such 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.

All in the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 14th day of November, 1912.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of a Road in Blocks XII, Ikitara, and IX, Wangaehu 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, and of a deed dated the 15th May, 1849, in the name of the men of Ngatiapa, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrants dated respectively the 30th day of November, 1907, and the 22nd day of January, 1907.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Wellington Land District; as the said road is more particularly delineated on the plan 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 18th day of November, 1912.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1912.

IT is hereby notified that

WALTER RICHARD HOWARD

has been appointed to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Upper Hutt.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1912.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Christmas and New-year Holidays.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th November, 1912.

IT is hereby notified for general information that Wednesday, 25th December, Thursday, 26th December, Friday, 27th December, Saturday, 28th December, 1912, and Wednesday, 1st January, and Thursday, 2nd January, 1913, will be observed as holidays in the public offices of the Government of New Zealand.

By order.

J. HISLOP,
Under-Secretary.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—
Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 20th November, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Port Chalmers Marine Labourers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 133, situated at Port Chalmers, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

JOHN LOMAS,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 16th November, 1912.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the receipt of a 10s. postal note as “conscience-money,” received by the Collector of Customs at Auckland, by some person unknown.

J. W. POYNTON,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 18th November, 1912.

THE Awatua Lodge, No. 83, situated at Taihape, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 18th day of November 1912.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.