Oct. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2789

First Meeting, Kaiapoi Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th October, 1922.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, hereby appoint the Borough Council Chambers, Kaiapoi, at 10 a.m. on Thursday, the 26th October, 1922, to be the place and date for holding the first meeting of the Kaiapoi Fire Board.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Town District of Russell, County of Bay of Islands.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th October, 1922.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the Town Boards Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a town district under the said Act, by name the Town District of Russell.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said district which they desire to make 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 RUSSELL TOWN DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded on the west, north, and east by the high-water mark of the Bay of Islands, and on the east and south by the eastern and southern boundaries of Old Land Claim No. 128 in Block I, Russell Survey District.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Meetings of Auckland Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th October, 1922.

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 31st January, 28th February, 21st March, 18th April, 30th May, 27th June, 25th July, 29th August, 26th September, 31st October, 28th November, and 19th December during the year 1923.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Prohibition of Money-order and Postal Correspondence for E. M. Stephenson, Box 5, and Others, Gayndah, Queensland.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the persons and committee whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of any of the said persons or the said committee shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to any of the said persons (either by his own or by any fictitious or assumed name), or to the said committee, or to the president, treasurer, secretary, or other member of the committee, or addressed without a name, to Box 5, mentioned in the Schedule hereunder, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

E. M. STEPHENSON, Box 5, Gayndah, Queensland.
H. H. WILSON, P.I.A. and H. Association, Gayndah, Queensland.
GEO. BUNTING, P.I.A. and H. Association, Gayndah, Queensland.
E. G. ELLIOTT, P.I.A. and H. Association, Gayndah, Queensland.
A. E. NAGEL, P.I.A. and H. Association, Gayndah, Queensland.
THE DIAMOND CASKET ART UNION COMMITTEE, Gayndah, Queensland.

Dated this 12th day of October, 1922.
J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Entering into Possession of Mining Property by His Majesty the King.

In the matter of the Mining Act, 1908, and its amendments; and in the matter of deed of mortgage bearing date the 31st day of January, 1913, between the Teviot Molyneux Gold-mining Company (Limited) of the one part, and His Majesty the King of the other part, and registered in the office of the Mining Registrar at Roxburgh as No. 1593.

NOTICE is hereby given that, default having been made in the payment of the principal and interest moneys and the performance and observance of the covenants and conditions which by the above-mentioned deed of mortgage the above-named The Teviot Molyneux Gold-mining Company (Limited) covenanted to pay, perform, and/or observe, it is the intention of His Majesty the King, acting through the Minister of Mines of the Dominion, to enforce compliance with the provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, and its amendments, by entering into possession of the mines, machinery, working-plant, and appliances of the said company and selling the same.

Dated this 14th day of October, 1922.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 12/22.)

Notice as to an Area in Southland 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 15th day of November in any year to the 15th day of April 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.

LONGWOOD FOREST FIRE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Wallace County, situated in Waiau and Longwood Survey Districts and Aparima and Jacob’s River Hundreds, containing approximately 99,300 acres, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-west corner of Section 14, Block XVI, Longwood Survey District, and running in a northerly direction generally, and bounded on the west as follows—by the McInerney Road, Section 10, Block XVI, Longwood Survey District; Section 4, Bloomfield’s Road, again by a road, Section 15, Block XVIII, Sections 6 and 7, a road, Block XIX, Longwood Survey District; again by a road, Section 14, a road, and Section 10, Block XI, Waiau Survey District: thence in an easterly direction generally and bounded on the north as follows—by a road, Section 26, and a closed road, Block XI, by a road and the Clifden–Otatau Road, Block XII, Waiau Survey District; by Sections 9, 59, 8, a road, Sections 61, 60, 52 (quarry reserve), again by the Clifden–Otatau Road, Block IV, Aparima Hundred: thence in a southerly direction generally and bounded on the east as follows—again by the last-mentioned road, a public road, Sections 23 and 24A, Block III, Aparima Hundred; a public road, Sections 4, 7, a road, Sections 11, 17, a road, Block V, Aparima Hundred; by a road, Section 7, Block XXII, Jacob’s River Hundred; Section 14, Mitchell Road, Omute Road, Block XIII, Jacob’s River Hundred; a road, Section 29, a road, Sections 26, 25, a closed road, Section 23, again by the last-mentioned closed road, Sections 21, 20, part 19 (scenic reserve), a road, again by part Section 19, part Section 18 (scenic reserve), Block V, Jacob’s River Hundred; a road, Sections 31, 32, a road, again by Section 32, Section 36, Moa Creek Road, Section 35, and Centre Road, Block XIX, Jacob’s River Hundred: thence by the Centre and Wards Roads to the most southerly point, being the junction of Wards and Round Hill–Colac Roads: thence in a northerly and north-westerly direction to the point of commencement, and bounded on the west and south-west as follows—by the Round Hill–Colac Road, Section 19, a road, Section 5, a road, Section 7, and by a road, Block XII; again by the last-mentioned road, Section 15, a closed road, a road, again by Section 15, Waimeamea River, Block III, Longwood Survey District; a road, Sections 45, 18, Crown land, and Section 15, Block I, Longwood Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on forest atlases 210 and 211, deposited in the Head Office, State Forest Service, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Commissioner of State Forests.

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