Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4121

By-law No. 78.—Regulating the Traffic on the Footway leading to or forming Part of the Hamilton Railway-bridge.

PURSUANT to and in exercise of the powers conferred by the Government Railways Act, 1908, and the amendments thereof, I, William Herbert Herries, do hereby make the following by-law for regulating the traffic on the footway leading to or forming part of the Hamilton Railway-bridge; and I do hereby declare that such by-law shall come into force from the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

BY-LAW.

1. No person shall ride a bicycle, tricycle, motor-bicycle, or other motor-driven vehicles of any description on any part of the footway alongside the railway leading to or forming part of the railway-bridge at Hamilton.

2. Any person who shall commit a breach of this by-law shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £10 for each such breach.

Given under my hand this 21st day of December, 1915.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

Transmitting and Receiving Officer for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 17th December, 1915.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officer, at the address set against his name, is hereby appointed a Transmitting and Receiving Officer for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid:—

HERBERT JAMES RUSSELL, Postmaster, Russell.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Telegraphs.

War Regulations Act, 1914.—Highway at Featherston Camp closed for Traffic except with Consent of Military Authorities.

WHEREAS by clause 13 of the War Regulations, made and gazetted on the 20th day of September, 1915, it is provided that the Minister of Defence may, by notice signed by him and published in the Gazette, declare that any highway adjoining or intersecting any camp of military training or exercise is closed for traffic except with the consent of the military authorities; and that so long as any such notice remains unrevoked the highway to which it relates shall for the purpose of the War Regulations be deemed to be no longer a highway, but to be part of the camp which it so adjoins or intersects:

Now, therefore, I, James Allen, the Minister of Defence for the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the above-recited power and authority, do hereby declare that part of the Featherston-Greytown Road, commencing at the north-east corner of Section 56, running thence in a north-easterly direction along the northern boundaries of Sections 57, 58, 59, and 60, and across road, and along the northern boundary of part Section 505 to a point approximately 6½ chains from the north-west corner of part Section 505, or for a distance of approximately 52 chains from the north-east corner of Section 56; thence across the road at right angles to the boundary of part Section 505 to the south-east corner of Section 55, running thence in a south-westerly direction along the southern boundary of Section 55 and also along the southern boundary of Section 48 for a total distance of approximately 52 chains; thence in a south-easterly direction at right angles to the southern boundary of Section 48, across the road, to the point of commencement—total length of road, 52 chains; width of road, 1 chain; approximate area, 5 acres 0 roods 32 perches; all situated in Block IV, Wairarapa Survey District—to be closed for traffic except with the consent of the military authorities, from the date of the publication of this notice in the New Zealand Gazette.

Dated the 15th day of December, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 16th December, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Council of the County of Kawhia, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

KAWHIA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Notice of Result of Poll.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Kawhia South Special-rating Area taken on the 4th day of December, 1915, on the proposal of the Kawhia County Council to borrow the sum of £4,400 for widening and metal-ling portions of the Kawhia-Marokopa River, Marokopa Valley, and Mangapohue Roads, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 15, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil.

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

Dated at Kawhia this 9th day of December, 1915.

WILLIAM J. SHAW,
Chairman, Kawhia County Council.

Tenders accepted.

Wellington, 16th December, 1915.

THE following list of tenders accepted by the Public Works Department is published for general information.

WM. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

PLANT FOR LAKE COLERIDGE ELECTRIC POWER SCHEME.

Section 53, Transformers: Indiarubber and Gutta-percha Company, Christchurch .. £ s. d.
949 8 0
Section 54, Transformers: Tolley and Son, Wellington .. 705 0 4
Section 55, Transformers: Tolley and Son, Wellington .. 571 19 8
Section 56, Insulators: National Electrical and Engineering Company, Christchurch .. 474 0 0
Section 57, Insulators: Indiarubber and Gutta-percha Company, Christchurch .. 210 3 0
Section 58, Insulators: Indiarubber and Gutta-percha Company, Christchurch .. 210 3 0
Section 59, 1,000 ironbark poles: J. W. Wallace and Co., Wellington .. £1,272 10 0

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XI, Longwood 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 XI, Longwood 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 Colac Bay, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by 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.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P.
4 2 33, portion of Allotment 15 of Section 184.
1 2 5 ” Section 20.

Situated in Block XI, Longwood District.

In the Southland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39100, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 17th day of December, 1915.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.