Feb. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 531

No-license Districts.

Notification of the Number of Valid Votes recorded in respect of National Prohibition at the Licensing Poll taken on the 7th day of December, 1922, and of the Result thereof.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th February, 1923.

IN pursuance of the provisions of section 16 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910, as modified by section 58 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, Minister of Justice, do hereby notify that the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll throughout New Zealand, taken in accordance with Part II of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, was 619,187.

And I do further notify that the total number of valid votes recorded throughout New Zealand in respect of the proposals submitted under section 56 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, was as under, viz. :-

For national continuance .. .. 282,669
For State purchase and control .. 35,727
For national prohibition .. .. 300,791

As the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of either of the proposals for State purchase and control or for national prohibition without compensation does not amount to more than one-half of all the valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby notify, under section 59 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, that the result of the poll is that national continuance is deemed to have been carried.

F. H. D. BELL, Minister of Justice.

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

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.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P.
44 0 16 Portion of Marangairoa lc 6.
7 2 1 "

Situated in Block XVI, East Cape Survey District (Poverty Bay R.D.). (S.O. 1018, brown.)

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56345, 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 12th day of February, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works

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Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XII, Mangaoporo Survey District, for the Purposes of a Native School.

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 Native school in Block XII, Mangaoporo 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 Kahukura, 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.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 5 acres.

Portion of Paraāumu No. 3, Block XII, Mangaoporo Survey District (Poverty Bay R.D.). (S.O. 994, brown.)

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56269, 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 14th day of February, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Prohibition of Money-order and Postal Correspondence for G. Bunting. Brisbane.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is 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 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 without a name to the Post Office box mentioned in the Schedule hereunder, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

G. BUNTING, Post Office Box 1030, Brisbane.

Dated this 7th day of February, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Hauraki Plains Rating District.—Penalty on overdue Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 1st February, 1923.

IN pursuance of section 28 of the Rating Amendment Act, 1910, and the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908, the ratepayers within the district constituted by the last-mentioned Act are hereby notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added to all rates for the year ended 31st March, 1923, unpaid on the 28th February, 1923.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office or to the “Collector of Rates,” Box 1659, Auckland.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Appointment in Naval Forces.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the appointment of the undermentioned officers:—

Mr. SYDNEY HENRY VEALE, Commissioned Boatswain, R.N., appointed to H.M.S. “Philomel,” to date 1st February, 1923.

Mr. JOSEPH ANGELIUS FARRELL, Boatswain, R.N., appointed to H.M.S. “Chatham,” to date 1st February, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.