Mar. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 609

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken : 76 acres 3 roods 23 perches.
Being part of Reserve 210 (Ross Borough Endowment), Block V, Totara Survey District. (S.O. 2459.)

In the Westland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 65028, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 2nd day of March, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 52/84.)

By-laws, Eskdale to Waipunga Section, East Coast Main Trunk Railway.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 11 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works, do hereby order and declare that the by-laws to be enforced on the Eskdale to Waipunga Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway prior to its being opened for traffic under the Government Railways Act, 1908, shall be as set forth in the Schedule hereto, such by-laws to come into force on the 12th day of March, 1926, from which date all previous by-laws fixed or imposed in respect of the said railway or any portion thereof are declared to be hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

1. THE by-laws to be enforced on the Eskdale to Waipunga Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway prior to its being opened for traffic under the Government Railways Act, 1908, shall, mutatis mutandis, be the same as those made by the Minister of Railways on the 29th day of May, 1909, for the management of the railways open for traffic in the Dominion of New Zealand, and for the regulation and control of all traffic on or upon the same (hereinafter called “the Railway Department’s By-laws”), a copy of which by-laws has been published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 47, of the 10th day of June, 1909, as altered and extended from time to time by publication in the New Zealand Gazette as hereinafter mentioned.

2. Where the words mentioned in the first column below appear in the Railway Department’s By-laws, the words mentioned in the second column below shall be read in lieu thereof :-

First Column. Second Column.
Department Public Works Department.
Board of Management of Engineer-in-Chief and Under-
the New Zealand Go- Secretary, Public Works
vernment Railways or Department.
General Manager
District Manager or Dis- District Engineer.
trict Railway Manager
Railway or Railways Public Works.
Minister Minister of Public Works.

3. Paragraph (2) of clause 40 and Part VI of the Railway Department’s By-laws shall be omitted from the by-laws to be imposed on the Eskdale to Waipunga Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway.

4. The alterations and extensions hereinbefore referred to are those published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st September, 1911, 15th February, 1912, 5th February, 1914, 31st July, 1919, 15th September, 1921, 15th June, 1922, 8th November, 1923, 20th December, 1923, 15th April, 1924, and 26th November, 1925.

Given under my hand at Wellington this 6th day of March, 1926.

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

Scale of Fares, Rates, and Charges, Eskdale to Waipunga Section, East Coast Main Trunk Railway.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 11 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works, do hereby order and declare that the regulations, scale of fares, rates, and charges for passengers and goods, and the conditions on which passengers and goods will be carried on the Eskdale to Waipunga Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway prior to its being opened for traffic under the Government Railways Act, 1908, shall be as set forth in the Schedule hereto, such regulations, scale, and conditions to come into force on the 12th day of March, 1926.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

THE regulations, scale of fares, rates, and charges, and the conditions on which passengers and goods will be carried on the Eskdale to Waipunga Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway prior to its being opened for traffic under the Government Railways Act, 1908, shall, mutatis mutandis, be the same, as the following parts or portions of the parts of the regulations and scale of fares, rates, and charges for the New Zealand Government Railways fixed to take effect on and from the 31st day of August, 1925, by the Minister of Railways, as published by the Government Printer by authority in form of a handbook (which is hereinafter referred to as “the Tariff”), and relating to passenger fares and coaching and goods rates, as altered and added to from time to time by publication in the New Zealand Gazette as hereinafter mentioned, namely :-

1. Part I of the Tariff, Regulations 1 to 38, pages 1 to 29, except Regulations 3 and 4, 9 to 20, 22 and 23, and 25 to 31, all inclusive.

2. Part II of the Tariff, Regulations 1 to 24, pages 35 to 51 inclusive.

3. Part III of the Tariff, pages 54 to 85 inclusive.

4. Part V of the Tariff, pages 109 to 139 inclusive.

5. Part VII of the Tariff, Regulations 1 to 10, pages 148 to 154 inclusive, except the definition of “Department” contained in Regulation 1.

6. The alterations to the scale of fares, rates, and charges in force upon the New Zealand Government Railways as published in the New Zealand Gazettes of the 3rd and the 17th September, 1925, the 1st and the 22nd October, 1925, the 5th and 19th November, 1925, the 3rd and 23rd December, 1925, and the 4th February, 1926, affecting the parts of the Tariff hereinbefore mentioned.

7. Where the words mentioned in the first column below appear in the parts of the Tariff or alterations thereto hereinbefore mentioned, the words in the second column below shall be read in lieu thereof :-

First Column. Second Column.
Department Public Works Department.
Board of Management of Engineer-in-Chief and Under-
the New Zealand Go- Secretary Public Works,
vernment Railways Department.
District Manager District Engineer.
Railway or Railways Public Works.
Minister Minister of Public Works.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 6th day of March, 1926.

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

Notice respecting Proposed Constitution of Town District of Putaruru, County of Matamata.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the Town Boards Act, 1908, and its amendments, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a town district under the said Act by name the Putaruru Town District.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed constitution which they desire to lodge within fourteen days from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE CONSTITUTED AS THE PUTARURU TOWN DISTRICT.

ALL that area known as the Township of Putaruru (Selwyn Village), in the County of Matamata, in the Provincial District of Auckland, bounded as follows : Commencing at the point where the boundary between part Section 97, Block VI, Patetere North Survey District, and the land contained in deposited plan No. 13158, Auckland Registry, joins the Oraka Stream, thence following such stream in a southerly direction to its intersection with the Whakaratamaiti Pah Road; thence following such road in a south-westerly direction to