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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 91

PRIVATE LINES.

4A. The rates for maintenance of private lines as above mentioned do not include the maintenance of any telephones or other instruments connected with such private lines.

4B. The Department may undertake the maintenance of telephones of approved pattern which are connected with private lines maintained by the Department, the charge to be at the rate of £1 per annum per telephone; but the right is reserved to decline the maintenance of any such telephone.

4C. Telephones owned by a private-line owner and used for communication over a private line not maintained by the Department but connected with a telephone office or bureau may be repaired by the Department upon application and upon payment of the expenses incurred, including cost of any material used.

9. The Department does not maintain private lines or telephones constructed as indicated in clauses 6, 7, and 8, neither does it undertake to maintain communication over inefficient private lines. If the interference with telephone-working caused by inefficient private lines is acute the Department will, if necessary, cut off a private line or private lines from the switchboard until the condition of the private-line circuit when again tested at the switchboard is found to be satisfactory.

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice of Change of the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in Block XIII. Town of Ormondville, Hawke’s Bay Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

WHEREAS by section six of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), the Governor-General is empowered in the case of any public reserve vested in His Majesty or the Governor-General, for any of the purposes comprised in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, to change the purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other purpose:

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve duly set apart for a site for a Courthouse, being a purpose within Class II in the Second Schedule to the said Act, and it is expedient to change, as hereinafter provided, the purpose of portion of such reserve so set apart:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance of the powers conferred on me by section six of the said Act as aforesaid, declare that the purpose of portion of the said reserve is hereby changed from a site for a Courthouse to an addition to a site for a post-office. And I do hereby further declare that this notice is issued subject to the provisions of section seven of the said Act, and shall take effect according to the provisions of that section.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 13 perches, more or less, being Section 3, Block XIII, Town of Ormondville. Bounded towards the north generally by Section 1, 82·2 links; towards the east by Section 2, Block XIII aforesaid, 136·1 links; towards the south by a public road, 73·91 links; and towards the west by Section 1 aforesaid, 100·1 links, to point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/3/156, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notifying Lands in Otago Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth section of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, as the time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF LAWRENCE.

Town Land.

Section 11, Block XX: Area, 1 rood; upset price, £10.

Sections 12 and 13, Block XX: Area, 1 rood 11 perches; upset price, £12.

Situated within the Borough of Lawrence, about half a mile from the post-office and school.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this sixteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Adding other Rivers to the List of Rivers to be inquired into by the Commission inquiring into the State of that Part of the Clutha River where it runs in the Vicinity of the Borough of Balclutha, thence continuing to the Sea, and also into the State of the Orari, Rangitata, Waimakariri, Ashley, and Marae whenua Rivers, and such other Rivers as may from time to time be added to this Commission.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

To all to whom these presents shall come, and to FREDERICK WILLIAM FURKERT, Esquire, of Wellington, Inspecting Engineer, Public Works Department, ASHLEY JOHN HUNTER, Esquire, of Auckland, Civil Engineer; and FRANCIS CHARLES HAY, Esquire, of Gisborne, Civil Engineer: Greeting.

WHEREAS by a commission dated the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen (hereinafter referred to as “the said Commission”), you, the said Frederick William Furkert, Ashley John Hunter, and Francis Charles Hay, were constituted and appointed to be a Commission in terms of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, to inquire “into the state of that part of the Clutha River where it runs in the vicinity of the Borough of Balclutha, thence continuing to the sea, and also into the state of the Orari, Rangitata, Waimakariri, Ashley, and Marae whenua Rivers, and such other rivers as may be added to this Commission from time to time by direction of Cabinet, but not later than six months from the date hereof (the whole of such rivers being hereinafter referred to as ‘the said rivers’), with the object of ascertaining the cause or causes of the silting-up, erosion, and flooding of the said rivers, and the best means of remedying the same, and what legislation (if any) is necessary or expedient in relation thereto”:

And whereas it has been decided that the state of the Waihi River (South Canterbury), the Wairau River (Marlborough), the Waiau-uha River (North Canterbury), the Taieri River (Otago), and the Aparima River (Southland) is to be