2374
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 51

Applying the Provisions of Section 109 of the Public Works Act, 1908, to the Section of the Auckland-Wellington (via Taranaki) Main Highway between Wanganui and Wangaehu.

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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 109 of the Public Works Act, 1908, in so far as it provides for the apportionment of the cost of maintenance, repair, or reconstruction of any part of a main highway, shall apply with respect to the apportionment of the cost of maintenance, repair, or reconstruction of any part of a main highway in so far as such cost is not provided for out of the Main Highways Account :

And whereas on the 15th day of July, 1926, the Board resolved as follows :—

“That in terms of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1925, the Hon. Minister of Public Works be recommended to apply the provisions of section 109 of the Public Works Act, 1908, to that section of the Auckland-Wellington Main Highway between Wanganui and Wangaehu, all in the Wanganui County.”

Now, therefore, I, Kenneth Stuart Williams, 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 109 of the Public Works Act, 1908, in so far as they provide for the apportionment of the cost of maintenance, repair, or reconstruction, shall apply with respect to the apportionment of the cost of maintenance, repair, or reconstruction of the section of the Auckland-Wellington (via Taranaki) Main Highway between Wanganui and Wangaehu.

Dated at Wellington this 27th day of July, 1926.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/1/8/1.)

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

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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; 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 Tokaanu, 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.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken : 10 acres.

Being portion of Okahukura No. 2 Block, situated in Block I, Pihanga Survey District. (S.O. 2094.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 66533, 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 26th day of July, 1926.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 31/471.)

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Trustee of the Roxburgh East Rabbit District elected.—Notice No. Ag. 2588.

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Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1926.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer of the Roxburgh East Rabbit District, constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, that

John Richards

has been duly elected under section 79 of the said Act, to be a trustee of the said district, vice John George, resigned.

O. HAWKEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

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Wellington, 22nd July, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Pukekohe, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Finance.

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BOROUGH OF PUKEKOHE.

Proposal to raise a Loan of £24,400.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Pukekohe taken on 7th July, 1926, on a proposal to raise a loan of £24,400, for the purpose of the repayment and consolidation of several short-dated loans, the numbers of valid votes recorded for and against the proposal were as follow :—

For the proposal, 57 ; against the proposal, 6.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 13th day of July, 1926.

JOHN ROULTY, Mayor.

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Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General 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.

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SCHEDULE.

Bertram Ray Rhodes . . . . Kaukapakapa.
Elinor Gertrude McCardle (Mrs.) . . Maramarua.
David Pollock Porteous . . . . Pahiatua.
George Loveridge . . . . Urenui.
George Alfred Overend . . . . Waiau.
Alexander Wallace Swap . . . . Waiuku.

As witness my hand, this 22nd day of July, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

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Rate of Exchange.

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Customs Department,
Wellington, 27th July, 1926.

IT is hereby notified for public information that in pursuance of the Customs Acts the Minister of Customs has declared that with respect to all goods imported from Canada and the United States of America on or after the 1st day of September, 1926, the rate of exchange for ascertaining for duty purposes the value of such goods shall, until further notice, be $4·86 to the £1 sterling.

GEO. CRAIG, Comptroller of Customs.

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Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

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I, WILLIAM GREER FLETCHER, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Dairy Farmers Union Lower Waikato Provincial Executive (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Auckland this 22nd day of July, 1926.

WM. G. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

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Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

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I, WILLIAM GREER FLETCHER, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Tangitu Hall Society (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Auckland this 22nd day of July, 1926.

WM. G. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies