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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

Plant declared by the Ormond Road Board to be a Noxious Weed.—Notice No. 1768.

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Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 11th February, 1915.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Ormond Road Board has, by special order, declared gorse (Ulex europoeus) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

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Plants declared by the One-tree Hill Road Board to be Noxious Weeds.—Notice No. 1773.

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Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 11th February, 1915.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the One-tree Hill Road Board has by special order declared the following plants to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction :—

African box-thorn.
Pennyroyal.
Bathurst burr.
Periwinkle.
Broom.
Spiderwort.
Burdock.
St. John’s wort.
Capeweed.
Tauhinu or New Zealand cotton-wood.
Dock.
Thistles: Any species of Carlina (stemless thistle), Carduus (common plume or Scotch thistle), Cnicus (woolly-headed thistle), Centaurea (star thistle), Silybum (milk thistle).
Elderberry.
Fennel.
Foxglove.
Giant burdock.
Gorse.
Hakea.
Hemlock.
Kangaroo acacia.
Tutsan.
Lupin.
Viper’s bugloss.
Ox-eye daisy.
Wild borage.
Penny-cress or Canadian stinkweed.
Wild turnip.
Winged thistle.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

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Plants declared by the Otahuhu Borough Council to be Noxious Weeds.—Notice No. 1774.

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Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 11th February, 1915.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Otahuhu Borough Council has by special order declared the following plants to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction :—

Bathurst burr.
St. John’s wort.
Broom.
Tauhinu, or New Zealand cotton-wood.
Burdock.
Dock.
Thistles: Any species of Carlina (stemless thistle), Carduus (common plume or Scotch thistle), Cnicus (woolly-headed thistle), Centaurea (star thistle), Silybum (milk thistle).
Elderberry.
Fennel.
Foxglove.
Giant burdock.
Gorse.
Hakea.
Hemlock.
Tutsan.
Kangaroo acacia.
Viper’s bugloss.
Lupin.
Wild borage.
Ox-eye daisy.
Wild turnip.
Pennyroyal.
Winged thistle.
Periwinkle.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

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Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VIII, Kaeo Survey District, for Road Purposes.

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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 VIII, Kaeo 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 Kaeo, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

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

A. R. P.
0 0 5, portion of Section S.W. 29; coloured purple.
0 0 26 " S.W. 29 " "
0 1 7 " S.W. 29 " "
2 0 37 " N. 27 " red.

Situated in Block VIII, Kaeo Survey District, Kaeo Parish (17018).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 34841, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 15th day of February, 1915.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

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Tenders.

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Public Works Department,
Wellington, 17th February, 1915.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

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ERECTON OF PORT (NELSON) POST-OFFICE.

Accepted.

Grimmett, T. R. J., Nelson .. .. £ s. d.
1,119 9 4

Declined.

Chamberlain and Stannard, Nelson .. 1,262 0 0
Drake, J., Greymouth .. .. 1,365 17 3
Olson, H., Nelson .. .. 1,596 0 0

ERECTON OF STATION BUILDINGS, SOUTH ISLAND TRUNK RAILWAY.

Accepted.

Osgood, W. H., Blenheim .. .. £ s. d.
2,291 13 0

Declined.

Ward and Co., Blenheim .. .. 2,795 0 0

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Judges appointed to try Election Petition.

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND.

In the matter of the Legislature Act, 1908, and all Acts amending the same.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Legislature Act, 1908, and all Acts amending the same, and in exercise of all others I may possess, I hereby nominate the Honourable FREDERICK REVANS CHAPMAN, Esquire, and the Honourable JOHN HENRY HOSKING, Esquire, both being Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, to be the Judges before whom shall take place the trial of the election petition following, that is to say:—

The petition of Edward Evans, of Waipapakauri, Storekeeper, and Edward Alderton Parsons, of Waipuna, near Kawakawa, Mechanic, against the return and election of Vernon Herbert Reed as a Member of Parliament for the Electoral District of the Bay of Islands, which petition prays (1) that it may be determined that the said Vernon Herbert Reed was not duly elected or returned, and (2) that the election may be declared void.

Dated this 10th day of February, 1915.

ROBERT STOUT,
Chief Justice of New Zealand.