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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

Sergeant George Bickerton Fisher to be 2nd Lieutenant, and is attached for duty to the New Zealand Army Service Corps at Featherston Camp. Dated 19th September, 1916.

MEMORANDUM.

The commission granted Captain James Frank Percival Howden, N.Z. Garrison Artillery (Reserve of Officers), lapses, under the provisions of paragraph 85, General Regulations, and he retains the rank of Captain, N.Z. Forces Motor Service Corps (Motor-boat Section), with seniority as from 29th July, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 4th May, 1917.

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

Lieutenant-Colonel ALEXANDER EDWARD STEWART, 14th (South Otago) Regiment,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 31st March, 1917, entitling him thereto of twenty-seven years three hundred and fifty-six days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Long-service and Good-conduct Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 30th April, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 14, Appendix IX, Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand, 1913, of the award of the Long-service and Good-conduct Medal to

No. 873, Staff Sergeant NEIL QUINN, R.N.Z.A.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Notice respecting Proposed Drainage District, Lower Mangapiko, County of Waipa.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th May, 1917.

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 constituted a drainage district under the said Act, by name of the Drainage District of Lower Mangapiko. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said drainage district 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.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED DRAINAGE DISTRICT OF LOWER MANGAPIKO.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point on the Paterangi–Ngaroto Road, being the south-western corner of Ngaroto Drainage District; thence along the southern boundaries of Ngaroto and Rotomanuka Drainage Districts, the south-western boundary of Tuatuamoana Drainage District, the western boundary of Upper Mangapiko Drainage District, and the northern boundary of Mangahoe Drainage District to the Borough of Te Awamutu, and along the northern and western boundaries of that borough to the south-eastern corner of Allotment 243, Mangapiko Parish; thence along the main Te Awamutu–Pirongia Road to the junction of roads on the south-western boundary of Allotment 251, Mangapiko Parish, and along the road passing Allotments 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 266, 267, 268, 278, 280, 282, 284, 286, 288, 290, and 292, and northerly along the eastern boundary of the Township of Pirongia to and along Kane Street to Franklin Street, northerly along Franklin Street to and across the Mangapiko Stream; thence to and along the road forming the north-western boundary of Allotment 100, Mangapiko Parish, and along the road passing Allotments 89,

91, 92, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 121, 122, 153, 133, 134, and 135 to the south-western boundary of Ngaroto Drainage District, the place of commencement.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Tinwald Town Board confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th May, 1917.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of by-laws made by the Tinwald Town Board on the 31st day of July, 1914.

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-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 10th day of August, 1914.

Dated this 4th day of May, 1917.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th May, 1917.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of by-laws made by the Thames Borough Council on the 31st day of August, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

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

Dated this 7th day of May, 1917.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks I, II, V, and VI, Pakaumanu Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road and Gravel-pit.

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 and gravel-pit in Blocks I, II, V, and VI, Pakaumanu 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 Te Kuiti, 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 areas of the pieces of land required to be taken :—

FOR ROAD.

A. R. P.
6 3 37·2 Portion of Rangitoto-Tuhua 26f No. 2c, Blocks I and II; coloured red.
16 0 5·4 Rangitoto-Tuhua 35g No. 2, Blocks II and VI; coloured purple.

FOR GRAVEL-PIT.

3 0 20 Rangitoto-Tuhua 26f No. 2c, Blocks I and V; coloured edged red.

Situated in Pakaumanu Survey District (S.O. 17413A).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 42111, 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 2nd day of May, 1917.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.