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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 126

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-
service Medal to

Captain CHARLES WILLIAM EDWARD CRIBB (since died
of wounds), 13th (North Canterbury and Westland)
Regiment,

he having a total service to the 30th June, 1915, entitling
him thereto of twenty-four years one hundred and seventy-
nine days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Local Advisory Committee under the War Funds Act, 1915, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1916.

PURSUANT to the War Funds Act, 1915, and the regu-
lations thereunder, I, George Warren Russell, being
the Minister administering the Act, hereby notify that I
have appointed the following persons to be a Local Advisory
Committee to assist the National War Funds Council in the
administration of any war funds being administered by the
National War Funds Council established in the County of
Westland :—

George Albert Perry, Esq. . . . Hokitika.
James Alexander Murdoch, Esq. . . . Kumara.
Joseph Grimmond, Esq. . . . Ross.
Arthur Clifton, Esq. . . . Rimu.
Thomas Brook . . . . Hokitika.
William Sarsfield Colclough, Esq. . . . Greymouth.
Alfred Austin Andrews, Esq. . . . Hokitika.
David John Evans, Esq. . . . "

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Lower Hutt Borough Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1916.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed
copy of No. 3 Miscellaneous By-law made by the
Lower Hutt Borough Council on the 18th day of September,
1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the above-written by-law, and declare that the same came
into force on the 1st day of November, 1916.

Dated this 2nd day of November, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in the City of Auckland for the Purposes of a Post and Telegraph District Store.

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 and
telegraph district store in the City of Auckland, 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 Chief Post-office at Auckland,
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 :
3 acres 2 roods 14·5 perches.
Portion of Lot 7 of Section 11, Suburbs of Auckland (City of
Auckland), Block I, Otahuhu Survey District (S.O.19079).
In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 41198,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and
thereon coloured edged red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 7th day of
November, 1916.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Mangonui County Council.—Notice No. 1852.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 7th November, 1916.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the
Mangonui County Council has, by special order, de-
clared gorse (Ulex europoeus) to be a noxious weed within the
meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district
under its jurisdiction.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries
and Commerce.

Results of Elections of Trustees of Drainage Districts.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th October, 1916.

THE following results of the elections of Trustees of
Drainage Districts have been received from the
Returning Officer, and are published in accordance with
the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

J. HISLOP,
Under-Secretary.

Eltham Drainage District, Counties of Eltham and Strat-
ford—
Walter Charles Clement, Ward No. 1.
James Shallue and Henry Alfred Wood, Ward No. 2.
John Campbell, Ward No. 3.
Richard John Knuckey, Ward No. 4.

Aorangi Drainage District, County of Kairanga—
Roderick Andrew McKenzie.
Meldrum Alfred Eliott.
Percy Raymond Henry.
David Collis.
Jonathan Holden.

Correspondence prohibited under the War Regulations Act, 1914.

I, ROBERT McNAB, Acting Postmaster-General of
New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of clause 2
of the War Regulations of the 17th day of December, 1914,
order that no postal packet or telegram addressed to or
intended for the firm or company named in the Schedule
hereto shall be forwarded or delivered by the Post Office or
transmitted by telegraph.

Dated the 3rd day of November, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE DEVELOPER, United States of
America.

ROBERT McNAB,
Acting Postmaster-General.

Christmas and New Year Holidays.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 6th November, 1916.

IT is hereby notified for general information that on
Monday, 25th December, Tuesday, 26th December,
Wednesday, 27th December, 1916, and Monday, 1st Janu-
ary, and Tuesday, 2nd January, 1917, the Government
Offices throughout New Zealand will be closed.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

Surveyors licensed.

Surveyors’ Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1916.

IT is hereby notified for general information that licenses
under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners
Act, 1908, have been issued by the Surveyors’ Board to the
following surveyors :—

Surveyor. Address.
WILLIAM HENRY COULTER . . . Auckland.
KEITH FITZGERALD HASZARD . . . "
WILLIAM TRAILL . . . Invercargill.

M. C. SMITH,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.