2956

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 98

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VI, Maungaru Survey District, for the Purposes of a Post-office.

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 post-office in Block VI, Maungaru 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 Tangowahine, 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.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 1 rood.

Portion of Waiaruhe Block, L.T. 10252 (S.O. 18330).

Situated in Block VI, Maungaru Survey District.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 38217, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured green.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 12th day of August, 1915.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Notifying Land in the Canterbury Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners, Wellington, 14th August, 1915.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Glenmark Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from the 24th March, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

GLENMARK SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 11,431 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks I, Teviotdale, XVI, Waipara, and XII, XIII, XVI, and XVII, Waikari Survey Districts, being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 295, folio 181, in the Lands Registry Office, Christchurch; as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 7161, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered yellow.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Town of Rotorua.—Order levying a Fire-prevention Rate, 1915–16.

WHEREAS by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, provision is made for the management of the Town of Rotorua by the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, and the said Department is, in respect of the said town, created a body corporate:

And whereas by section 5 of the said Act it is enacted that, for the purposes of any Act relating to local authorities, the said Department shall, in respect of the said town, be deemed to be a local authority, and that the provisions of any such Act shall (subject to such modifications or exceptions as the Governor by Order in Council directs) extend and apply as if the said town were a borough:

And whereas the said Department has become the contributory local authority to the Rotorua Fire Board, constituted under the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908:

And whereas on the 11th day of April, 1908, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise of the powers conferred in that behalf by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, did by Order in Council make certain regulations for the effectual carrying-out of that Act, which regulations appear in the New Zealand Gazette of the 16th day of April, 1908;

And whereas by clause 3 of the said regulations it is provided that an order or direction in writing, signed by the General Manager of the said Department, shall be sufficient in all cases in which (amongst other things) a resolution or special order of a Council is necessary in a borough:

Now, therefore, I, the undersigned, Benjamin Marcus Wilson, the General Manager of the said Department, in exercise of the powers given to local authorities by the Rating Act, 1908, and also in exercise of the powers and authorities given by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, and the said regulations, do hereby order, direct, and declare that a rate of one-ninth of a penny in the pound on the capital value of all rateable property in the Town of Rotorua is hereby made and levied for the year commencing on the 1st day of April, 1915, and ending on the 31st day of March, 1916, and that such rate shall be payable in one sum on the 1st day of September, 1915.

As witness my hand this 14th day of August, 1915.

B. M. WILSON,
General Manager.

Witness—W. H. Frethey.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—DENIS LEO BENEDICT GLASHEEN, Esquire, of West Maitland, New South Wales, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, has this day been appointed by His Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in New South Wales, under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of August, 1915.

R. GOLDSMAN,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

And whereas by clause 3 of the said regulations it is provided that an order or direction in writing, signed by the General Manager of the said Department, shall be sufficient in all cases in which (amongst other things) a resolution or special order of a Council is necessary in a borough:

Now, therefore, I, the undersigned, Benjamin Marcus Wilson, the General Manager of the said Department, in exercise of the powers and authorities given by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, and the said regulations, and also by section 24 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, do hereby order, direct, and declare that a separate rate of three-eighths of a penny in the pound on the value of the buildings in the Rotorua Fire District, exclusive of the value of the sites on which such buildings are erected, is hereby made and levied for the year commencing on the 1st day of July, 1915, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1916, and that such rate shall be payable in one sum on the 1st day of September, 1915.

As witness my hand this 14th day of August, 1915.

B. M. WILSON,
General Manager.

Witness—W. H. Frethey.

Town of Rotorua.—Order levying a Hospital Rate, 1915–16.

WHEREAS by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, provision is made for the management of the Town of Rotorua by the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, and the said Department is, in respect of the said town, created a body corporate:

And whereas by section 5 of the said Act it is enacted that for the purposes of any Act relating to local authorities the said Department shall, in respect of the said town, be deemed to be a local authority, and that the provisions of any such Act shall (subject to such modifications or exceptions as the Governor by Order in Council directs) extend and apply as if the said town were a borough:

And whereas by section 80 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, and the Sixth Schedule thereto, it is provided that the said Department shall be deemed to be a contributory local authority of the Waikato Hospital District, and that the said Department, for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of contributions payable to the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, shall have the same power of making, levying, and collecting rates in the Town of Rotorua as if the town were a borough and the Department were a Council thereof: