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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 3rd November, 1921.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Woodlands Drainage District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

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WOODLANDS DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the proposed special rating district of the Woodlands Drainage Board was taken on the 25th day of October, 1921, on the proposal of the Woodlands Drainage Board to borrow the sum of £3,000 for carrying out drainage-works.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 24, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 0. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 25th day of October, 1921.

JOHN MATTHEWS, Chairman.
N. G. GRIBBLE, Returning Officer.

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Kaponga Town District By-law, 1921, confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th October, 1921.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-laws made by the Kaponga Town Board on the 17th day of March, 1921.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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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 26th day of March, 1921.

Dated this 27th day of October, 1921.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Meetings of Southland Land Board.

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Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 48 of the Land Act, 1908, approved of meetings of the Southland Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 10.45 a.m. on Thursday, the 19th January, 16th February, 16th March, 20th April, 18th May, 15th June, 20th July, 17th August, 21st September, 19th October, 16th November, and 14th December during the year 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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Meetings of Auckland Land Board.

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Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 4th November, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 48 of the Land Act, 1908, approved of meetings of the Auckland Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 25th January, 22nd February, 29th March, 26th April, 31st May, 28th June, 26th July, 30th August, 27th September, 25th October, 22nd November, and 19th December during the year 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XVI, East Cape Survey District, for Lighthouse Purposes.

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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 lighthouse in Block XVI, East Cape 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 Araroa, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 126 acres 2 roods 16 perches.

Portion of Marangairoa No. 1c 6, Block XVI, East Cape Survey District (Poverty Bay R.D.). (S.O. 957, brown.)

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 52656, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 7th day of November, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

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Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Grocers’ Shops in the Borough of Oamaru, under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

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WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the grocers’ shops in the Borough of Oamaru, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, 5.30 p.m.; Fridays, 8 p.m.:

And whereas I, George James Anderson, Minister of Labour, am satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the grocers’ shops within the Borough of Oamaru:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, I do hereby direct that on and after the 17th day of November, 1921, all the grocers’ shops within the Borough of Oamaru shall be closed accordingly.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of November, 1921.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.

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Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Whangamomona County Council.—Notice No. 2102.

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Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 7th November, 1921.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Whangamomona County Council has, by special order, declared barberry (Berberis vulgaris) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

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Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Registrar dissolving a Society.

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I, ROBERT EDWARD HAYES, Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that The Empire City Athletic and Cycling Club is no longer carrying on its operations and has no assets, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved, in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of November, 1921.

R. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

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Notice to Mariners.—No. 64 of 1921.

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AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—PROTECTED ANCHORAGE FOR YACHTS.

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Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 8th November, 1921.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 65, of the 23rd September, 1919, the Auckland Harbour Board notifies that the protected anchorage for yachts, Area No. 1, Judges and Mechanics Bays, has been temporarily extended to the westward, as follows:—

The northern boundary-line, which commences at a position 0° 2·1 cables from Resolution Point, has been carried to the westward to a position where it intersects a line projected 18° from the north embankment of the new eastern reclamation. By the foregoing it will be seen that the northern boundary-line has been temporarily extended to the westward for a distance of one cable.

Notice will be given when the foregoing temporary extension has been removed.

Charts, &c., affected.—Admiralty Chart No. 1970; “New Zealand Pilot,” ninth edition, 1919, page 194; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1921, page 268, and 1922, page 197.

ROBERT DUNCAN, Secretary.