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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

According to § 3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print.
For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Kristiania.
[NOTE.—See page 1278 of New Zealand Gazette No. 57 of 1901 for first notice respecting this bequest.]

Funds approved under Section 40 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th January, 1917.

PURSUANT to section 40 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916, I hereby notify, for public information, that I have this day approved, for the purposes of the said section, the war funds controlled by the societies named in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Society. Address.
Gisborne Times Patriotic Funds Gisborne.
Morrisville Local Soldiers’ Relief Fund.. Morrisville.
Morrisville Belgian Relief Fund ..
Hospital Ship and Sick and Wounded Fund ..
(Branch Auckland Patriotic and War Opotiki.
Relief Association) ..
Rotorua Invalid Soldiers’ Benefit Association .. Rotorua.
Taumarunui Girls’ Patriotic Club Taumarunui.
Tauranga Branch, Auckland Provincial Tauranga.
Patriotic and War Relief Association ..
Women’s National Reserve Thames.
Okoke Patriotic Committee Okoke.
Uruti Sub-branch of the North Taranaki Uruti.
Patriotic League ..
Masterton Mayor’s Local War Relief Fund Masterton.
Otamakapua Wounded Soldiers’ and Sandon Block.
Sailors’ Fund ..
Taihape Women’s Working Club Taihape.
Kaikoura Branch Citizens’ Defence Corps Kaikoura.
Kekerangu-East Coast Branch Marlborough Kekerangu.
Patriotic Fund ..
Nelson Empire Defence Fund Nelson.
Waimea West Wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Waimea West.
and Dependants’ Fund ..
Ashburton Belgian Relief Association Ashburton.
Cheviot Soldiers’ Committee Cheviot.
Halswell Patriotic and Red Cross Society Halswell.
Kaiapoi Belgium Fund Kaiapoi.
Temuka Branch, South Canterbury Patriotic and War Relief Society .. Temuka.
Timaru Ladies’ Patriotic Society Timaru.
Patriotic Committee, Sheffield Riding of Waddington.
Malvern County ..
Hampden-Waianakarua Sewing Guild for Hampden.
Wounded Soldiers ..
Balfour Ladies’ Patriotic League Balfour.

The following Societies, the approval of whose funds has previously been notified, have now ceased operations :—

Name of Society. Address.
Russian Prisoners’ Relief Fund Auckland.
Taradale Wounded Soldiers’ Fund Taradale.
Railwaymen’s Belgian Relief Fund Wellington.
Motueka Sick and Wounded Soldiers’ Fund Motueka.
Navy League Fund for Widows and Orphans Nelson.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Raupo Drainage District, County of Waipa.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th January, 1917.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor, under the Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1913, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be included in the Raupo 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 INCLUDED IN RAUPO DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at the south-western corner of Section 86, Tokatoka Parish, thence along the northern side of the road forming the southern boundaries of Sections 86, 87, 85, 84, 83, and 81, Tokatoka Parish, across a road and along the north-eastern side of the road forming the south-western boundaries of Sections 8 and 7, Omaru Parish, and thence along the present boundary of the Raupo Drainage District as described in the New Zealand Gazette of the 25th November, 1909, page 3031, to the place of commencement.

Also all that area bounded by a line commencing at the westernmost corner of Section 3, Omaru Parish, thence along the northern boundary of that section and the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 3, 2, and 1, Omaru Parish, to the easternmost corner of the last-mentioned section, and thence along the present boundary of the Raupo Drainage District as described in the New Zealand Gazette of the 25th November, 1909, page 3031, to the place of commencement.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries of the Borough of Onehunga.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th January, 1917.

PURSUANT to Section 14 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, being part of the County of Eden, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor, praying that the said area may be excluded from the said county and included in the Borough of Onehunga. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE BOROUGH OF ONEHUNGA.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point on the southern side of Mount Smart Road in line with the south-eastern side of Campbell Road, thence across the road to the southernmost corner of Lot 9, Hospital Reserve, part of Allotment 13, Section 12, Suburbs of Auckland, and along the eastern side of Manukau Road to the north-western corner of Lot 1 of the said Hospital Reserve; thence along the north-western boundaries of Lots 1, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, and 42, the north-eastern boundary of Lot 42, across Turama Road, and along the north-eastern boundaries of Lots 22 and 21, Hospital Reserve aforesaid, to and across Campbell Road, and along the southern side of that road and its production to the south-western side of Mount Smart Road the place of commencement.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries of the Borough of Te Aroha.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th January, 1917.

PURSUANT to Section 14 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with the regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, being part of the County of Piako and part of the County of Ohinemuri, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor, praying that the said area may be excluded from the said counties and included in the Borough of Te Aroha. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to, or petitions against, the proposed alteration within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE BOROUGH OF TE AROHA.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in Block IX, Aroha Survey District, bounded by a line commencing at a point in the middle of the Waihou River in line with the north-western side of the road between Section 13 and Te Aroha Borough Endowment, thence to and along the north-western side of that road to and along the north-eastern side of Stanley Road to a point in line with the south-