Page's Road and Rudd's Road to the western side of Kerr's
Road, and northerly along the western side of that road to the
point of commencement.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, City of
Christchurch.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st January, 1922.

PURSUANT to section 132 of the Municipal Corporations
Act, 1920, 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 Waimairi, has been
presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying
that the said area may be excluded from the said county and
included in the City of Christchurch.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any
written objections to or petitions against the proposed altera-
tion which they desire to lodge 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 CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.
ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded by a
line commencing at the junction of May's Road and Rutland
Street, and proceeding thence along the south-western bound-
ary of Rural Section 1048 to the Papanui Drain; thence
along the centre of that drain to the north-western side of
Main North Road, along that side of road to Langdon's Road,
and along the north-western side of said Langdon's Road to
Rural Section 112 ; thence along the south-eastern boundary
of that section, and its production to a point 300 links distant
from the south-western side of Harewood Road ; thence
south-easterly and parallel to the said Harewood Road to
Lot 8, deposited plan 2075; thence along the north-western
boundaries of Lots 8, 5, 6, and 7, deposited plan 2075, and
Lots 1, 2, 3, and 3A, deposited plan 1656, and Lots 5 and 6,
deposited plan 3832, and Lot 1, deposited plan 2444; thence
south-easterly along the south-western boundaries of Lots 1,
2, 3, and 4, across Rosewarne Road, Lots 32, 32, 34, 35, 36,
37, 38, 39, 40, and 41, deposited plan 2444, to the southern-
most corner of said Lot 41; thence along a right line to the
easternmost corner of Lot 7, deposited plan 2150, along the
south-eastern boundary of said Lot 7, and its production to
the south-western side of Wairarapa Road, along that side
of said Wairarapa Road to Jeffrey's Road, along the southern
side of Jeffrey's Road to the boundary of the City of Christ-
church, and along that boundary to the point of commence-
ment.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Tenders for Supply of Uniforms.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1922.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary,
General Post Office, Wellington, not later than 4 p.m.
on Wednesday, the 15th day of February, 1922, for the supply
and delivery of uniforms, cloth and waterproof, caps, helmets,
leggings, &c., during the half-year ending 30th June, 1922.

Forms and conditions of tender may be obtained at the
office of the Stores Manager, Post and Telegraph Department,
Wellington, and at the offices of the Chief Postmasters, Auck-
land, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

R. B. MORRIS, Secretary.

Appointing a Time and Place for First Meeting of the
Manawatu-Oroua Electric-power Board.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section 4 of the Electric-power Boards Amendment
Act, 1920, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, the Minister of Public
Works, do hereby appoint Monday, the 13th day of February,
1922, at 1.30 o'clock p.m., as the time, and the Palmerston
North Borough Council Chambers as the place, for holding
the first meeting of the Manawatu-Oroua Electric-power
Board.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of February, 1922.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

The Public Service Classification and Superannuation Act,
1908.--Election of a Member of the Public Service Super-
annuation Board to represent Contributors belonging to the
Police Department.

MR. ARTHUR HOBBINS WRIGHT, Commissioner of
Police, Wellington, being the only candidate nomi-
nated for the above election, I hereby declare him to be duly
elected a member of the Public Service Superannuation
Board to represent contributors belonging to the Police
Department.

Dated at Wellington this 1st day of February, 1922.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT, Returning Officer.

Mining Privilege struck off the Register.--Notice under the
Mining Amendment Act, 1914.

Office of the Mining Registrar,
Murchison, 20th January, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no cause to the contrary
having been shown within the prescribed three months,
the mining privilege mentioned in the Schedule hereunder has
this day been struck off the Register kept by me, in terms
of section 30, subsection (4), of the Mining Amendment Act,
1914.

W. C. ROBERTSON, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

No. 916; date, 17/4/1914; special alluvial claim situate
Skeats Creek, Howard Survey District, held by Robert P.
White.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Auckland Land District forfeited.

Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, 30th January, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands having been declared forfeited by
resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown, under the provisions of
the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ditions and non-pay-
ment of rent. |
| ,, 463 .. | 13 | .. | Puahue Settlement .. | A. A. Hancock .. .. | Abandoned section. |
| ,, 520 .. | 4 | XV | Karioi .. .. | H. W. Pain .. .. | At request. |
| ,, 565 .. | 8 | VII | Rotoma .. .. | S. Sanders .. .. | """"" |
| ,, 579 .. | 24 | IV | Piako .. .. | S. H. Wynyard .. .. | """"" |
| ,, 616 .. | 1 | .. | Whatawhata Settlement | N. D. Galloway .. | Abandoned section. |
| ,, 707 .. | 10 | .. | Kopuku No. 2 Settlement | S. H. Faulkner .. | At request. |
| ,, 729 .. | 12 | .. | Pukemapou Settlement | P. W. Griffith .. .. | Abandoned section. |
| ,, 731 .. | 28 | XII | Waihou .. .. | Thomas Savage .. | At request. |

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.