Mar. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 613

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries of the Borough of Blenheim.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th February, 1923.

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 Borough of Blenheim, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying that the said area may be excluded from the said borough and included in Spring Creek Road District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration 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 EXCLUDED FROM THE BOROUGH OF BLENHEIM.

ALL that area in the Marlborough Land District, containing by admeasurement 33 acres 3 roods, more or less, being the land shown as Lot 2 on Deeds plan 25, deposited in the Deeds Registry Office at Blenheim. Bounded towards the west, north, and east generally by the original south bank of the Opawa River, and towards the south generally by the present north bank of the Opawa River.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IV, Ahipara Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

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 road in Block IV, Ahipara 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 Ahipara, 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: 2 roods 1 perch.

Portion of No. 1 (Te Kohanga), Block IV, Ahipara Survey District. (S.O. 22153.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56278, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured yellow.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 24th day of February, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Post Officers authorized to take Declarations of Postmasters and other Post Officers.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1923.

IN pursuance of the powers delegated to me under paragraph (d) of section 8 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority conferred by subsection (2) of section 9 of the said Act, do hereby authorize the following Post officers to take declarations of Postmasters and other Post officers:—

James Thomas Williams Collier.
Joseph Thomas Eccleton.
George Kilvington.
Ivan Innes McGregor.

J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Officers authorized to take Declarations of Telegraph Officers.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1923.

IN pursuance of the powers delegated to me under paragraph (d) of section 8 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority conferred by subsection (1) of section 21 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1919, as amended by subsection (2) of section 3 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1920, do hereby authorize the following officers to take declarations of Telegraph officers for the purpose of the said section 21:—

James Thomas Williams Collier.
Joseph Thomas Eccleton.
George Kilvington.
Ivan Innes McGregor.
Edmund Henry Marriott.

J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Telegraph Officers authorized to take Declarations of Postmasters and other Post Officers.

Post and Telegraph Department,
General Post Office,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1923.

IN pursuance of the powers delegated to me under paragraph (d) of section 8 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority conferred by subsection (2) of section 9 of the said Act, as amended by subsection (1) of section 3 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1920, do hereby authorize the following Telegraph officer to take declarations of Postmasters and other Post officers:—

Edmund Henry Marriott.

J. G. COATES, Postmaster-General.

Defining Restricted Limits for the Ports of New Brighton and Sumner.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th February, 1923.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 189 of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, I, George James Anderson, Minister of Marine, do hereby define the limits, for the ports of Sumner and New Brighton, within which restricted-limit steamships, and ships propelled by gas, oil, fluid, electricity, or any mechanical power other than steam, and to which restricted-limit certificates are issued, shall ply to be as follows:—

River and Smooth-water Limits: Not beyond the bar at the estuary of the Avon and Heathcote Rivers.

Extended and Partially Smooth-water Limits: Between Kaiapoi, Lyttelton, and Le Bons Bay; fishing-vessels between Motunau Island on the north and Akaroa Harbour on the south.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Constitution of a Special Roading District in terms of Section 50 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913.

PURSUANT to section 50 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and the regulations thereunder, I, David Henry Guthrie, Minister of Lands, do hereby declare the lands referred to in the Schedule hereto to be a special district for the purposes of the said section, as from and including the 1st day of January, 1923, and such district shall be known as the Pehu Special Road District.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—RETARUKE SURVEY DISTRICT.

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As witness my hand this 27th day of February, 1923.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.