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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

Classification of Roads, Wairewa County.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1925, and the Motor-lorry Regulations Amendment No. 1, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works, do hereby alter the Wairewa County Council’s proposed classification of the Main Highway (Christchurch–Akaroa) from the Motukarara Bridge to the Okuti Road (near Little River) from a third-class road under the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1925, to a third-class road under the Motor-lorry Regulations Amendment No. 1—that is, available for the use thereon of any motor-lorry which with the maximum load it is licensed to carry weighs not more than 6 tons, and do hereby approve such classification as altered.

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of March, 1926.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/26/27.)

Notice of Intention to take Additional Land in Block XII, Waikouaiti Survey District, for the Purposes of the Seacliff Mental Hospital.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take the additional land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of the Seacliff Mental Hospital. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Puketeraki, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections 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 :
9 acres 1 rood 37 perches.

Being part Section 7, situated in Block XII, Waikouaiti Survey District.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 65814, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 7th day of April, 1926.

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

(P.W. 24/1194.)

Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand in connection with Duggan’s Dublin Sweeps.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the persons whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of either of the said persons shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to either of the said persons (either by his own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to either of the addresses in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

H. Towndrow, Chur, Switzerland.
“Trusty,” Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

Dated this 1st day of April, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Postmaster-General.

New Zealand Government Railway Department.

New Car and Wagon Shops at Otahuhu near Auckland.

WRITTEN tenders will be received up to noon on the 30th September, 1926, at the office of the Railway Board, Wellington, New Zealand, for the erection of new car and wagon workshops at Otahuhu, near Auckland.

Plans, specifications, and conditions of contract may be seen at the offices enumerated below :—

United Kingdom .. The office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London.

Canada .. The office of the Department of Labour, Ottawa.

Australia .. The New Zealand Government Offices at Sydney and Melbourne.

New Zealand .. The Chief Engineer’s Office, Railway Buildings, Wellington.

The Railway Engineer’s Offices at Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
Telegraphic tenders will not be considered.

By Order.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 6th April, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Waimairi, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.

WAIMAIRI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Main Highway Reconstruction Loan Proposal.—Result of Poll.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loan Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of ratepayers of the County of Waimairi was taken on the 18th day of March, 1926, on a proposal to raise a loan of £40,000 for main-highway construction.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 660; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 596.

I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

J. SEYMOUR, Chairman.

Result of Land Surveyors’ Examination, March, 1926.

Office of the Surveyor’s Board,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 25th March, 1926.

AT the examination of candidates for a surveyor’s license held in March, 1926, under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, and conducted by the Federated Surveyors’ Boards of Australia and New Zealand, sixteen candidates presented themselves in New Zealand to complete their examinations.

One of these candidates succeeded in obtaining a pass as under :—

Hanson, Frederick Melrose Horowhenua, of Greenmeadows.

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

Kaitangata Relief Fund.

STATEMENT of account of the Public Trustee’s administration from 31st March, 1925, to 31st March, 1926 :—

Cr.
£ s. d.
Balance brought forward .. .. .. 3,707 0 1
Public Trust Office—
Interest from 31st March, 1925, to 31st December, 1925, at 5 per cent. .. .. 139 12 11
Interest from 31st December, 1925, to 31st March, 1926, at 5½ per cent. .. .. 47 19 9
£3,894 12 9

Dr.
£ s. d.
Beneficiaries’ Account—Allowances to 1st April, 1926 .. .. .. 104 0 0
Balance .. .. .. .. 3,790 12 9
£3,894 12 9

Balance .. .. .. .. £3,790 12 9

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.
Public Trust Office, Wellington, 1st April, 1926.