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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 99

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 4th September, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to

Captain (Quartermaster) WILLIAM H. FRASER,
9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment, he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 29th August, 1916, entitling him thereto of twenty years two hundred and twenty days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Sluggish River and Oroua Drainage Districts, County of Manawatu.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th September, 1916.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor, under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be excluded from the Oroua Drainage District and included in the Sluggish River Drainage District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed inclusion which they desire to lodge, within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA TO BE EXCLUDED FROM OROUA DRAINAGE DISTRICT AND INCLUDED IN SLUGGISH RIVER DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded towards the north by the road forming the southern boundaries of Sections 1, 2, and 3 in Block VIII, Te Kawau Survey District; towards the east by Section 19 and the Oroua River; towards the south by Section 25; and towards the west by the road forming the eastern boundaries of Sections 65 and 24.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Cancelling Forfeiture of Samuel Moore’s Lease of Section 19a, Totara Settlement, Otago Land District.

Lands and Survey Department,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1916.

WHEREAS the Land Board of the Otago Land District, by resolution on the 12th day of May, 1915, forfeited the interest of Samuel Moore in his lease, registered in Vol. 145, folio 131, Otago Land Registry Office, over Section 19A (Totara Settlement) in the said land district, for non-payment of rent, and notice of such forfeiture was duly published in the Gazette of the 16th day of September, 1915 :

And whereas by section 69 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies’ Empowering Act, 1916, the Minister of Lands was empowered, by notice in the Gazette, to cancel the said forfeiture :

Now, therefore, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, the Acting Minister of Lands, do hereby cancel the forfeiture of the lease of the said Samuel Moore over the said land, and notify that the forfeiture of such lease shall be deemed to be wholly waived and abandoned ; and the said lease, and all mortgages or encumbrances effecting the same, shall take effect and be deemed to have continued to have effect as if no such forfeiture had occurred or been declared. The District Land Registrar, on receipt of a copy of the Gazette containing this notice, shall make such entries in the Register as are necessary to give effect to the same.

F. H. D. BELL,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of a Road in Block VI, Aria Survey District, Taranaki Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 14 of the Land Act, 1908, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was on the 18th day of January, 1916, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 12th day of June, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land taken for a road :-

A. R. P.
3 0 4·1, portion of Section 17, Block VI.
1 0 2·8

Situated in Aria Survey District.

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 16/144, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

Dated this 5th day of September, 1916.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 6th September, 1916.

THE following notices, received from the Mayor of the Council of the Borough of Carterton, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

A. M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

CARTERTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Carterton taken on the 30th day of August, 1916, on the proposal of the Carterton Borough Council to borrow the sum of £12,000 for the purpose of supplementing and improving the high water-supply, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 183, the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 104, and the number of informal votes was 3.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 31st day of August, 1916.

J. T. M. HORNSBY, Mayor.

CARTERTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Carterton taken on the 30th day of August, 1916, on the proposal of the Carterton Borough Council to borrow the sum of £3,000 for the purpose of extending and adding to the gasworks plant and mains, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 191, the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 98, and the number of informal votes was 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 30th day of August, 1916.

J. T. M. HORNSBY, Mayor.

Goods prohibited to be imported to the United Kingdom.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 31st August, 1916.

IT is notified for general information that a Proclamation was issued on the 20th August, 1916, by the Imperial Government, prohibiting the importation to the United Kingdom, except under license of the Board of Trade, of the undermentioned goods, in addition to those enumerated in lists dated 30th May, 1916, 12th June, 1916, 10th July, 1916, and 9th August, 1916, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 1st June, 1916, 15th June, 1916, 20th July, 1916, and 10th August, 1916, respectively :—

Chestnut extract.

Such lacquered wares as were expressly exempt from prohibition of importation of furniture, &c., imposed by previous Proclamation (see list dated 30th May, 1916, published in the New Zealand Gazette of 1st June).

Window and sheet glass.

Plate glass.

Glass tableware.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Customs.

Correspondence prohibited under the War Regulations Act, 1914.—A. Wunnerberg; and German Savings-bank, New York.

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,