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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz:—

James Joseph Ledingham .. .. Stewart Island.
Henry John Louis Walsleben .. .. Reefton.
Robert Joshua Ashley .. .. Kumara.
William Rickerby .. .. Mangapehi.
James Alexander Price .. .. Arrow.
George John Startup .. .. Hamilton.
James McIntosh .. .. Mangaweka.
Aubrey William Mewton .. .. Palmerston North.
William Rickerby .. .. Tokaanu.
William Arthur Herriot Williams .. .. Hunter ville.
Arthur Geoffrey Roach .. .. Tirau.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 19th March, 1926.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

Francis Stanley Schaab, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Middlemarch, as from the 31st day of October, 1925.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

ALFRED WILLIAM LIGHTBODY, Esquire, of 33 Bedford Street, Covent Garden, London, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England, has this day been appointed by the Honourable Charles Perrin Skerrett, Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the Kingdom of England, under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of March, 1926.

W. W. SAMSON,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Applying the Provisions of Section 119 of the Public Works Act, 1908, to the Waipukurau Traffic-bridge.

WHEREAS it is provided by section 7 of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1925, that the Minister of Public Works may, on the recommendation of the Main Highways Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”), by notice in the Gazette, declare that the provisions of section 119 of the Public Works Act, 1908, in so far as it provides for the apportionment of the cost of construction of any bridge forming part of a main highway, shall apply with respect to the apportionment of the cost of construction of any bridge forming part of a main highway in so far as such cost is not provided for out of the Main Highways Fund:

And whereas on the 2nd day of March, 1926, the Board resolved as follows: “That in terms of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1925, the Honourable Minister of Public Works be recommended to apply the provisions of section 119 of the Public Works Act, 1908, to the Waipukurau Traffic-bridge on the Wellington-Napier via Wairarapa Main Highway”:

Now, therefore, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 7, and of every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby declare that the provisions of section 119 of the Public Works Act, 1908, in so far as they provide for the apportionment of cost of construction, shall apply with respect to the apportionment of the cost of construction of the Waipukurau Traffic-bridge on the Wellington-Napier via Wairarapa Main Highway.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of March, 1926.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VIII, Matakaoa Survey District, for the Purposes of a Native School.

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 Native school in Block VIII, 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 Te Araroa, 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: 6 acres 2 roods 15 perches.

Being portion of Tokata 2b Block, situated in Block VIII, Matakaoa Survey District (Gisborne R.D.). (S.O. 1257, brown.)

In the Gisborne Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 65662, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 24th day of March, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 31/459.)

Redefining Boundaries of the Borough of Waimate, the County of Waimate, and the Deep Creek Riding of the County of Waimate.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1926.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the Borough of Waimate are hereby defined as set out in the First Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the said borough having been altered by Order in Council dated the 14th day of December, 1925, made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and published in Gazette No. 86, of the 23rd day of December, 1925.

And also in pursuance of the provisions of the said section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the County of Waimate affected by the said Order in Council dated the 14th day of December, 1925, are hereby defined as set out in the Second Schedule hereto.

And in further pursuance of the provisions of the said section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the Deep Creek Riding of the County of Waimate affected by the said Order in Council dated the 14th day of December, 1925, are hereby defined as set out in the Third Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF BOROUGH OF WAIMATE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded by a line commencing at the south-western corner of Rural Section 4311, and proceeding in a north-easterly direction along the north-western boundaries of said Rural Section 4311 and Rural Section 7494; thence south-easterly along the north-eastern boundary of the last-named section to a point in the production of the north-western boundary of Rural Section 2513; thence north-easterly along a right line to and along the north-western boundaries of said Rural Section 2513 and of Rural Sections 2697 and 5691, and along the production of the last-mentioned boundary to the south-western boundary of Rural Section 6243; thence south-easterly along the last-mentioned boundary and the south-western boundary of Rural Section 5725; thence north-easterly along the south-eastern boundary of said Rural Section 5725 to a point in the production of the northernmost boundary of Rural Section 5647; thence south-easterly along a right line to and along the last named boundary to a point distant 2750 links from the north-eastern corner of said Section 5647; thence south-westerly along a right line parallel to the south-eastern boundary of said Section 5647 to the south-western boundary of that section; thence south-easterly along the last named boundary and south-westerly along the south-eastern bound-