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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80

Meetings of North Auckland Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 9th November, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 48 of the Land Act, 1908, approved of
meetings of the North Auckland Land Board being held at
the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auck-
land, during the year 1924, on Wednesday, the 23rd January,
20th February, 19th March, 9th April, 14th May, 11th June,
9th July, 6th August, 3rd September, 1st and 29th October,
26th November, and 17th December.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

Meetings of Taranaki Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 9th November, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has in pursuance
of section 48 of the Land Act, 1908, approved of
meetings of the Taranaki Land Board being held during the
year 1924 at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Ply-
mouth, at 9.30 o’clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 23rd January,
27th February, 26th March, 30th April, 21st May, 25th June,
23rd July, 27th August, 24th September, 29th October, 26th
November, and 17th December.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

Notice of Filing of Scheme for controlling Sand-drift at Lyall
Bay, City of Wellington.

Office of the Minister of Lands,
Wellington, 13th November, 1923.

WHEREAS by Proclamation published in Gazette of the
17th day of May, 1923, the land described in the
Schedule hereto was declared to be subject to the provisions
of the Sand-drift Act, 1908, as on and from the 25th day of
June, 1923.

In accordance with the provisions of section 5 of the said
Act, notice is hereby given to every owner of land within the
proclaimed area who is not in New Zealand, or whose address
in New Zealand is not known to the Minister of Lands, that a
scheme for controlling the sand-drift and preventing its
further encroachment, and apportioning the cost of and inci-
dental to the operations proposed by the scheme among the
owners of land within the proclaimed area, was duly filed in
the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, on the 12th day of
November, 1923, in accordance with the provisions of sec-
tion 4 of the Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land situate in the City of
Wellington, containing by admeasurement 16 acres 3 roods
25·32 perches, be the same a little more or less, and being the
lots numbered 22 to 93 inclusive, and a drainage reserve on a
plan deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at
Wellington, and numbered 2560, and Lots numbered 1 to 19
inclusive on a plan deposited in the aforementioned office and
numbered 3342, and Lots numbered 5 to 21 inclusive on a
plan deposited in the aforementioned office and numbered
2458, together with another portion of Original Section 8,
Evans Bay District, situate at the intersection of Lyall Parade
and Onepu Road, bounded on the north by Lot 21 on the
aforementioned plan 2458, and on the east by Lot 1 on the
aforementioned plan 3342. As the same is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/75/7, deposited
in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey at
Wellington, under No. 2010, and thereon edged red.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the
Otago Electric-power Board.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section 3 of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act,
1920, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs,
acting for Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works,
do hereby appoint Thursday, the 13th day of December,
1923, at 11.15 o’clock a.m., as the time, and the office of the
Otago Expansion League, 94 Vogel Street, Dunedin, as the
place, for holding the first meeting of the Otago Electric-
power Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of November, 1923.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD.
For Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VIII, Mohaka
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 VIII, Mohaka 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 Mohaka, 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 :
4 acres 3 roods 24 perches.

Portion of Mohaka 13A Block, situated in Block VIII, Mohaka
Survey District (Hawke’s Bay R.D.). (S.O. 753, green.)

In the Hawke’s Bay Land District ; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D..57698,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 13th day of No-
vember, 1923.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Public Works.

By-laws regulating Heavy Traffic on Portion of the Road
between New Plymouth and Te Kuiti, being Portions of
Mokau, Mokau-Awakino, Lower Awakino Valley, and
Awakino - Te Kuiti Roads.

WHEREAS by section 139 of the Public Works Act,
1908, and section 4 of the Motor Regulation Act,
1908, the Minister of Public Works is authorized from time
to time to make by-laws in respect of all or any Government
roads for the purposes specified in the said sections (relating
to the control of traffic upon such roads) :

And whereas by Order in Council dated the 30th day of
July, 1923, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of
the 2nd day of August, 1923, portion of the road between New
Plymouth and Te Kuiti, being portions of Mokau, Mokau-
Awakino, Lower Awakino Valley, and Awakino - Te Kuiti
Roads was declared to be a Government road, and it is ex-
pedient to make by-laws in respect of the said portion of
road (hereinafter referred to as “ the said road.”)

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the authority hereinbefore
referred to and of all other powers in anywise enabling me
in this behalf, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, the Minister of
Public Works, do hereby make the following by-laws regu-
lating heavy traffic on the said road ; and do hereby declare
that the said by-law shall come into force on the first day of
December, 1923.

BY-LAWS.

1. In these by-laws, if not inconsistent with the context,—
   “ Gross weight ” means the weight of the traction-
   engine, motor-lorry, machine, or other vehicle to-
   gether with any passengers or any thing or things
   being transported thereon :
   “ Heavy traffic ” means the transportation of any vehicle,
   engine, or machine which itself or together with any
   thing or things being transported thereon weighs
   more than one and a half tons avoirdupois to each
   pair of wheels :
   “ Jinker ” means any vehicle or vehicles used for the
   purpose of carrying timber, machinery, or other
   material by being suspended from and under the
   axle or axles of such vehicle or vehicles :
   “ Minister ” means the Minister of Public Works :
   “ Motor-lorry ” means any vehicle propelled by power
   derived from internal-combustion engine or storage
   battery :
   “ On springs ” means any vehicle the body of which is
   supported on or by springs affixed to the axle or
   axles connecting the wheels of such vehicle :
   “ Public Works Engineer ” means the Engineer or
   Engineers of the Public Works Department in charge
   of the district or districts in which the portion or
   portions of the said road affected is or are situated :
   “ Traction-engine ” means any locomotive-engine pro-
   pelled by steam or other motive power and designed
   for use on ordinary roads.