Jan. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 179

O’Reilly, Hugh, Rona Bay.
Pain and Kershaw, Martinborough.
Palliser, Charles, 30 Kent Terrace, Wellington.
Palmer Bros., Main Street, Waverley.
Parsons, Queenie E. L., 89 Molesworth Street, Wellington.
Paton, James Knight, Palmerston North.
Patterson, Hugh Campbell, Main Street, Foxton.
Perrett, Claude H., corner Manners Street and Willis Street, Wellington.
Perrott, W. B. P., 173 Riddiford Street, Wellington.
Potts, Thomas, 240 Jackson Street, Petone.
Poulter, Charles R., Jellicoe Street, Martinborough.
Powell, J. H. (estate of), Makuri.
Remington, Frederick Charles, Levin.
Retter, B. A., Foxton.
Rickard, H. J. Stanley, 3 Willis Street, Wellington.
Ridd, C., Ohakune.
Robertson, David Walker, and Co. (Limited), Foxton.
Rongotea and District Industrial Co-operative Society (Limited), Douglas Square, Rongotea.
Rosie, George C., 89 Molesworth Street, Wellington.
Salek, William, 17 Willis Street, Wellington.
Sarney, Alfred Leopold (Junior), Victoria Avenue, Wanganui.
Sarney, G. Russell, Victoria Avenue, Wanganui.
Scheidt, John, Bunnythorpe.
Scott, H. W., Rangitikei Street, Palmerston North.
Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, Wellington.
Simpson, Otto, 178 Featherston Street, Wellington.
Simpson, W., Waitotara.
Smellie, D. A., U.F.S. Dispensary, Petone.
Smith, F. H. C., 31 Moir Street, Wellington.
Smith, Fred. W., and Co., Castlecliff.
Sloane, Dunbar, 66–68 Lambton Quay, Wellington.
St. George, Leonard Shaw, Queen Street, Masterton.
St. George, Louis George Varnham, Otaki, and branch shop at Otaki Railway.
Staples, John Ernest, 177 Lambton Quay, Wellington.
Stoddart, John Henry Nicoll, 108 Constable Street, Wellington.
Sutcliffe, A. V., Lower Hutt.
Taylor, Lionel J., 70 Cuba Street, Wellington.
Tingey, J. S., Fergusson Street, Feilding.
Toogood, William (estate of), Featherston.
Toomath, Roderick William, 6 Lambton Quay, Wellington.
Train, Frederick, Waitotara.
Tristram, J. E., 286 Willis Street, Wellington.
Vangioni, Thomas George, 67 Queen Street, Masterton.
Veitch and Allan, 176–180 Cuba Street, Wellington
Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative Association (Limited), Eketahuna, Carterton, Masterton, Greytown, Pahiatua, Martinborough, and Wellington.
Walkley, F., Mangatainoka.
Walkley, S., Hamua.
Wallace, W. S., Willis Street, Wellington.
Wanganui United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary, 65A Guyton Street, Wanganui.
Warwick, F. G. P., Victoria Avenue, Wanganui.
Watson Bros. (Limited), The Square, Palmerston North.
Webb, Frank, 45 Ghuznee Street, Wellington:
Wellington United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary (B. O’Connor, Manager), 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington.
Wilkinson, William, Upper Hutt.
Willetts, A. H., Gordon’s Pharmacy, Manners Street, Wellington.
Williamson, Charles Alexander, Jackson Street, Petone.
Williamson, L. J., 214 Lambton Quay, Wellington.
Wilson, Edward Vincent, Bull’s.
Wilson, T. B., 45 Ghuznee Street, Wellington.
Winstone, Arthur George, 106 Victoria Avenue, Wanganui.
Wood, Herbert T., Queen Street, Masterton.
Wood, J. Reginald, The Square, Palmerston North.
Woollams, Frederick George, Feilding.
Wright, Stephenson, and Co. (Limited), Customhouse Quay, Wellington.
Young, A. H., 286 Willis Street, Wellington.

F. W. HART,
Magistrate’s Court, Registrar of Poisons.
Wellington, 10th January, 1923.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 15th January, 1923.

THE Koa Rebekah Lodge, No. 28, situated at Kaitaia, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 13th day of January, 1923.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Notice as to Areas in the Otago Land District declared to be Fire Districts.

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 areas described in the Schedule hereto are hereby declared by me to be fire districts; 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.

GREENVALE FIRE DISTRICT.

ALL that area of land in Blocks V, IX, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII, Greenvale Survey District, containing by admeasurement 11,687 acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: Towards the north generally by Section 5, a road, Section 13, and a road, Block XIV, again by a road, Block XV; towards the east generally by Sections 5 and 6 and a road, Block XV, again by the last-mentioned road, and Section 5, Block IX, again by a road, and Sections 8 and 11, Block V, and again by a road; towards the south generally by Sections L.T. 2987, 21, and 15, Block V, a road, Section 8, Block XIII; and towards the west generally by the Pomahaka River. As the same is more particularly delineated on atlas No. 204, deposited in the Head Office, State Forest Service, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

CONICAL HILLS PLANTATION.

All that area of land in Blocks XI and XII, Glenkenich Survey District, and Blocks XI and XII, Rankleburn Survey District, containing by admeasurement 6,596 acres, more or less, and bounded as follows: On the west generally by Tapanui Railway, Section 4, Block XII. and a closed road; on the north generally by the last-mentioned closed road and a road in Block XI, Glenkenich Survey District, and Section 2, Block XI, Rankleburn Survey District; on the east generally by Section 4, Block XI, a road, and Section 3, Block XII, Rankleburn Survey District; and on the south by Pomahaka River. As the same is more particularly delineated on forest atlases Nos. 205 and 213, deposited in the Head Office, State Forest Service, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

PUKERAU FIRE DISTRICT.

All that area of land in Block IX, Waipahi Survey District, being Sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 40A, 47A, 48A, 49A, and 50A, containing by admeasurement 2,919 acres, more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on forest atlas No. 213, deposited in the Head Office, State Forest Service, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Commissioner of State Forests.

Notice as to an Area in the Auckland 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 16th day of October 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.

PUHIPUHI PLANTATION FIRE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in Blocks IV, VII, VIII, XI, and XII, Hukerenui Survey District, and bounded as follows: On the north by the northern boundary of Block VII to its intersection by the Waiariki Stream, northerly to the road forming the northern boundary of Section 6, Block IV; thence by the said road in an easterly direction until it reaches the Kaimamaku Stream; thence on the east by the said stream to the southern