Aug. 31.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2337

area described in the Schedule hereto, being now part of the County of Southland, may be excluded from the said county and included in the Borough of South Invercargill. 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 BOROUGH OF SOUTH INVERCARGILL.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District being Sections 35, 36A, 36B, 37A, 37B, 38, and part of 34, Block XIX, Invercargill Hundred. Bounded on the north by a public road and Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22; on the east by Boundary Road; on the south by Tramway Road; and on the west by Calypso Road.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to fill One Extraordinary Vacancy on Masterton Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th August, 1922.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the rules made thereunder, I, William Downie Stewart, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the 12th September, 1922, to be the date for holding the election of one member of the Masterton Fire Board by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. C. R. C. Robieson.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of Roads in Blocks V, VI, IX, and X. Kawhia North Survey District, Kawhia County.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 93 of the Public Works Act, 1908, that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor-General of the said Dominion, by Warrants dated the 3rd day of November, 1904, and the 23rd day of July, 1909.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of roads taken and laid off :—

A. R. P. Portion of
1 1 23} Kawhia N No. 2B, Block V; coloured red.
0 0 33}
1 0 5} Kawhia N No. 2A, Block V; coloured blue.
0 0 5}
1 3 30 Pakarikari 1B, Section 3, Block V; coloured purple.
0 3 6 Pakarikari No. 1B, Block V ; coloured blue
1 0 14 Pakarikari No. 4, Blocks V and VI; coloured purple.
0 3 18 } Kawhia L No. 2, Section 1, Block VI; coloured red.
0 2 22 6}
0 0 15 Kawhia O No. 2, Section 3, Block X; coloured blue.
0 2 21 Kawhia O No. 2, Section 5, Blocks IX and X; coloured red.
0 0 33 Kawhia O No. 2, Section 6, Block IX; coloured blue.
1 2 20 Kawhia O No. 2, Section 7, Block IX; coloured red.
1 1 0 Kawhia B No. 2, Block X; coloured purple.
17 2 0 Kawhia C 4, Sec. 2, Block X; coloured red.
7 3 0 Kawhia C 1, Sec. 2, Block X; coloured purple.

Situated in Kawhia North Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 22202.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the said roads are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 55153, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Dated this 28th day of August, 1922.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Prohibition of Money-order and Postal Correspondence for Dr. S. C. Mitter, Calcutta.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in advertising the treatment of diseases of the sexual organs, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said person shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his own or by any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to either of the addresses in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

Dr. S. C. MITTER, 20 Ultadanga Main Road, Calcutta.
Dr. S. C. MITTER, 23 Beadon Row, Durzeepara, Calcutta.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of August, 1922.

J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Cook County Council.—Notice No. 2199.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 28th August, 1922.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Cook County Council has, by special order, declared Japanese wineberry (Rubus phoenicolasius) 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.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Hobson County Council.—Notice No. 2204.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 30th August, 1922.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Hobson County Council has, by special order, declared cut-leaved psoralea (Psoralea pinnata) 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.

Adhesion of Poland and the Free City of Danzig to the International Conventions of Brussels regarding the Unification of Rules relating to Collisions and Assistance and Salvage at Sea.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 29th August, 1922.

IT is hereby notified that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has advised that the adhesion of Poland and the Free City of Danzig to the International Conventions of Brussels regarding the unification of rules relating to collisions and assistance and salvage at sea has been notified to the Belgian Government.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Notice as to an Area in Nelson Land District declared to be a Fire District.

PURSUANT to section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921-22, I do hereby notify that, on the recommendation of the Director of Forestry, and the Land Board of the district, the area described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared by me to be a fire district; and I do further specify the period from the 1st day of November in any year to the 31st day of March in the following year, inclusive, as the period during which it shall not be lawful for any person within the said district, save pursuant to the written permit of a Forest Officer, to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any timber (whether standing or not), or any undergrowth, or any debris from forest operations or land-clearing operations, or any grass or other specially inflammable material, without taking such precautions as may be prescribed by a Forest Officer.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land, comprising approximately 88,000 acres, situated in Blocks VIII, XII, XVI, Owen Survey District; XIII and XIV, Wangapeka Survey District; I, II, V, VI, IX, X, Tadmor Survey District; I, II, III, IV, V,