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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

and exercise of the power and authority vested in him as
aforesaid, and acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
prescribe that the rate of interest that may be paid by the
Tararua Electric-power Board in respect of the said loan of
ten thousand pounds shall be a rate not exceeding six per
centum per annum, and the said Tararua Electric-power
Board is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of ten
thousand pounds accordingly.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notifying Lands in Wellington Land District for Sale by
Public Auction for Cash or on Deferred Payments.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon
me by section one hundred and twenty-six of the Land
Act, 1908, I Robert Stout, Administrator of the Government
of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint
Wednesday, the fourth day of February, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-five, as the time at which the lands
described in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public
auction for cash or on deferred payments; and I hereby fix
the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those
mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.
Hutt County.—Block II, Paekakariki Survey District.

Section.
Area.
Upset
Price.
Section.
Area.
Upset
Price.

Town of Paekakariki Extension No. 5.
A. R. P.
£

1
0 0 29
42
9
0 1 2
48
2
0 1 2
48
10
0 1 5
96
3
0 0 37
48
11
0 1 15
54
4
0 0 32
60
12
0 0 37
36
5
0 1 5
54
13
0 1 5
42
6
0 0 33
72
14
0 1 4
42
7
0 0 33
48
15
0 0 36
42
8
0 0 39
84
16
0 1 1
48

Town of Paekakariki Extension No. 7.
18
0 0 32
84
31
0 0 32
78
19
0 0 32
84
32
0 0 32
78
20
0 0 32
84
33
0 0 32
78
21
0 0 32
84
34
0 0 32
72
22
0 0 38·7
54
35
0 0 39·4
54
23
0 0 38·7
60
36
0 0 39·3
60
24
0 0 38·9
60
37
0 0 38·2
60
25
0 0 39·6
52
38
0 0 37·2
60
26
0 1 0·3
48
39
0 0 36·2
60
27
0 0 32·7
48
40
0 0 35·5
48
28
0 0 32·7
48
41
0 0 35·5
48
29
0 0 32·7
48
42
0 0 35·5
42
30
0 0 33·5
48

This township is situated on the sea-coast abutting on
part of the northern boundary of the Paekakariki Township.
Access is by formed road about one mile from the Paekaka-
riki Railway-station. Paekakariki is on the Main Trunk
Railway, distant twenty-seven miles from Wellington and
sixty miles from Palmerston North. The sections comprise
low sand-hills covered with lupin, flax, and grass. They
are admirably situated, having such easy access by rail and
road, and are offered with a view to providing residential
areas as a seaside resort.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government, this 12th day of December, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
For Minister of Lands.

Warrant authorizing the Kiwitea County Council to construct
or reconstruct Approaches to the Hikurangi and Upper
Kawhatau Bridges (being Portions of the Upper Kawhatau
and Rangitane Roads), and apportioning the Cost.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by
sections one hundred and nine and one hundred and
nineteen of the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other
powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf,
I, Robert Stout, Administrator of the Government of the
Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize the Kiw-
tea County Council to construct or reconstruct ap-
proaches to the Hikurangi and Upper Kawatau Bridges,
being portions of the Upper Kawhatau and Rangitane
Roads (as more particularly described in the Schedule hereto);
and I do also hereby declare that the cost thereof, less such
contribution (if any) as may be made thereto by the Govern-
ment of New Zealand, shall be borne by the Kiwitea County
Council and the Rangitikei County Council in the following
proportions—viz., the Kiwitea County Council shall pay
one-half and the Rangitikei County Council shall pay one-
half of such cost respectively; and I do further direct that
any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by
the Rangitikei County Council shall be paid from time to
time in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the
funds of the said County Council, within a period of one
month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the
Kiwitea County Council; and all such payments shall be
made from time to time to the Clerk of the Kiwitea County
Council for and on behalf of the Rangitikei County Council.

SCHEDULE.

ALL those approaches to the Hikurangi and Upper Kawhatau
Bridges over the Hikurangi and Upper Kawhatau Rivers,
in the Wellington Land District, Kiwitea and Rangitikei
Counties, being portions of the Upper Kawhatau and Rangi-
tane Roads, commencing at Peg 0 at the end of the metal
opposite Messrs Bonnor and Munro's gate and extending
across the said bridges to Peg 3 at the metal north of the
said Upper Kawhatau Bridge, and being a total distance of
approximately 72·10 chains. As the said approaches are
more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.
59083, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works
at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator
of the Government, this 12th day of December, 1924.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred by the two-hundred
and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace
Act, 1908, I, Robert Stout, the Administrator of the Govern-
ment of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and
declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being
persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and
Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names
in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive
statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-
eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

Albert McNicol Gordon Ward .. .. Hikurangi.
William Henry Kent .. .. Pokeno.
Luther Hill .. .. Taihape.
Hugh Tannock Dawson .. .. Te Aroha.

As witness my hand this 12th day of December, 1924.

ROBERT STOUT,
Administrator of the Government.

Appointments to Staff of His Excellency the Governor-General.

Government House,
Wellington, 17th December, 1924.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
make the following appointments to his staff:

George Jerningham Little, Esq., to be Private Secretary.
Albert Cecil Day, Esq., C.B.E., to be Official Secretary.
Major Leonard Proby Haviland, 6th (Duke of Connaught's
Own) Lancers, to be Military Secretary.
Lieutenant Charles John Vernon-Wentworth, Grenadier
Guards, to be Aide-de-Camp.

G. J. LITTLE, Private Secretary.

Appointment of Vice-Consul of Denmark at Auckland recognized.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th December, 1924.

His Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
notified that he has recognized the appointment of
Soren Peder Anderson, Esquire,
as Danish Vice-Consul at Auckland in place of Howard
Parris Richmond, resigned.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.