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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

Arbor Day.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th June, 1914.

WEDNESDAY, the 15th day of July next, will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout the Dominion, for the celebration of Arbor Day.

In order that the movement may be made as successful as possible, the Government hopes that the Mayors of various municipalities and Chairmen of local bodies will place the matter prominently before the people of the Dominion, and do all they can to encourage the planting of public reserves and other available lands, both public and private, with trees suited to the locality.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Martinborough Town Board confirmed under the Town Boards Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th June, 1914.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of by-laws made by the Martinborough Town Board on the 29th day of April, 1914.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 7th day of May, 1914.

Dated this 15th day of June, 1914.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th June, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalization, under the Aliens Act, 1908, in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block II, Heao 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 II, Heao 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 Tokirima, 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.

In the Taranaki 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 16th day of June, 1914.

W. FRASER.
Minister of Public Works.

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 10th June, 1914.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenderers is published for general information.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

ERECTON OF POST-OFFICE AT OKAIawa.

Accepted.

Declined.

Officers appointed to take Statutory Declarations under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office,
Wellington, 13th June, 1914.

IN pursuance of powers delegated to me under section 8, clause (d), of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, I, Robert Heaton Rhodes, the Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting under the authority conferred by section 9, subsection (2), of the said Act, do hereby appoint the following persons to take statutory declarations of Postmasters and other Post officers:—

Kemp, G. T., Telegraph Engineer, Nelson.
Jennings, F. G., Assistant Telegraph Engineer, Blenheim.
Plank, C. S., Assistant Telegraph Engineer, Christchurch.
Veitch, R. D., Assistant Telegraph Engineer, Dunedin.
Cummings, H. L., Assistant Telegraph Engineer, Wellington.
Gage, E. C., Assistant Telegraph Engineer, Auckland.
Lye, R. W. G., Assistant Telegraph Engineer, New Plymouth.
Cowles, E. P., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Hamilton.
Parton, D. E., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Masterton.
McDermott, J., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Napier.
Macey, L. L., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Auckland.
Fairbairn, J. C., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Wellington.
Smith, J. R., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Wellington.
Campbell, A. H., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Wellington.
Lawn, E. H., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Wellington.
Miles, P. V. R. C., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Wellington.
Brent, H. C., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Christchurch.
Scott, A., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Wellington.
Webster, J., Sub-Telegraph Engineer, Auckland.
Miller, D., Chief Inspector.
Pickett, J. J., Chief Postmaster, Gisborne.
Grocott, H. D., Assistant Postmaster, Dunedin.
Inder, S., Assistant Inspector of Post-offices, Wellington District.
Markmann, A. T., Superintendent of Staff.
Haszard, S. F., Assistant Inspector of Post-offices, Southern District.
Rule, J. G., Assistant Postmaster, Christchurch.
White, P. P., Chief Postmaster, Thames.
Johnson, F. T. R., First Clerk, Accountant’s Branch, General Post Office.
Harwood, P. G., District Accountant, Auckland.
Treweek, C., Assistant Superintendent, Telegraph Office, Nelson.
Oxley, A. W., Assistant Superintendent, Telegraph Office, Invercargill.
Perrin, F., Postmaster, Hastings.
Cumming, S., Postmaster, Masterton.
Porter, R. W., District Accountant, Wellington.
Wylie, J. T., Postmaster, Hamilton.
Willcox, W. A. S., Postmaster, Tauranga.
Beswick, J. G., Postmaster, Lyttelton.
Egginton, F., Postmaster, Whangarei.
Carmine, L. J., Assistant Superintendent, Telegraph Office, Gisborne.
Tregonning, W. N., Postmaster, Bluff.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Postmaster-General.