APRIL 23.]

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IV, Matakaoa Survey District, for Lighthouse Purposes.

N OTICE 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 IV, Matakaoa 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 Hicks Bay, 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:

1 acre 0 roods 8 perches.

Being part Matakaoa Block, situated in Block IV, Matakaoa Survey District (Gisborne R.D.). (S.O. 1232, brown.)

In the Gisborne Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 62309, 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 20th day of April, 1925.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,

Wellington, 16th April, 1925.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to Lieutenant A. G. Macdonald, Reserve of Officers.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 15th April, 1925.

T HE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Kaikohe Town District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Finance.

KAIKOHE TOWN DISTRICT.

PROPOSAL to raise a special loan of £7,000 under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, for the purpose of the provision of a water-supply scheme for the above-named district :

At a poll of ratepayers taken on the above-mentioned proposal on the 2nd day of April, 1925, the following votes were cast : For the proposal, 8; against the proposal, 24; informal, 3 : total votes cast, 35.

I therefore declare the above-mentioned proposal lost.

FRANK T. GOODHUE, Chairman.

3rd April, 1925.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 15th April, 1925.

T HE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Waiapu, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Finance.

WAIAPU COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Waiapu was taken on the 21st day of February, 1925, on a proposal of the Waiapu County Council to borrow the sum of £10,000 for road-construction purposes.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 54 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil ; the number of informal votes was nil.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 4th day of March, 1925.

A. W. KIRK, Chairman.

Classification of Secondary School Assistant Teachers.

Education Department,

Wellington, 14th April, 1925.

T HE following list of assistant teachers employed full time in secondary schools, or classified for employment in such schools, is issued under the authority of the Minister of Education in accordance with the regulations relating to secondary schools made by Order in Council dated the 5th May, and amendments thereto.

Under the heading “Grade” is shown the grade in which a teacher is classified for the year 1925.

Under the heading “Grade of Position” is shown the grade of position in which a teacher is now employed.

Under the heading of “School” is shown the secondary school in which the teacher is employed.

The list contains the names of teachers whose classification has been corrected or revised.

JNO. CAUGHALEY, Director of Education.

Result of Land Surveyors’ Examination, March, 1925.

Office of the Surveyors’ Board, Government Buildings, Wellington, 9th April, 1925.

A T the examination of candidates for a surveyor's license held in March, 1925, under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, and conducted by the Federated Surveyors’ Boards of Australia and New Zealand, twenty-one candidates presented themselves in New Zealand to complete their examinations.

Four of these candidates succeeded in obtaining passes, as under :-

Adams, Alfgar Vivian, of Hokitika. Batty, Cyril Howard, of Auckland. Murphy, Vernon Alan, of Hamilton. Wilson, Raymond, of Auckland.

M. CROMPTON-SMITH, Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.— Notice of Proposed Cancellation of Registration.

Department of Labour,

Wellington, 20th April, 1925.

N OTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Wanganui Master Bakers' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 1162, situated at Wanganui, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 21 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, it is my intention to cancel the registration of that industrial union after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, unless in the meantime cause is shown to the contrary.

F. W. ROWLEY, Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Notice of the Date of the Examinations for Teachers’ Class “C” and Class “D” Certificates.

Education Department,

Wellington, 16th April, 1925.

N OTICE is hereby given that the examinations for the Teachers’ Class “C” and Class “D” Certificates and for the Teachers’ Handicraft Certificate will be held on the 17th August, 1925, and following days.

Applications to be examined must be made to the Director of Education so as ts be received in his office not later than the 1st June, or, with a receipt for payment to the Public Account of a late fee of £1, not later than the 15th June.

All entries must be made on the proper form, which may be obtained shortly from the office of any Education Board.

J. CAUGHLEY, Director of Education.