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 the Engineer-in-Chief and Under-New Zealand Government Secretary, Public Works Railways District Manager Railway Manager Railway or Railways Minister Minister of Public Works.
   Given under my hand at Wellington, this 28th day of October, 1926.
   W. NOSWORTHY,
   For Minister of Public Works.
   (P.W. 19/506.)

Applying the Provisions of Section 119 of the Public Works Act, 1908, to the Pareora River Bridge on the Christchurch-Dunedin Main Highway.

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 Account :
And whereas on the 21st day of October, 1926, the Board resolved as follows :
“ That in accordance with 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 to the Pareora River Bridge on the Christ-church-Dunedin Main Highway.”
Now, therefore, I, James Alexander Young, Minister of Health, acting for 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 any-wise 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 the cost of construction, shall apply with respect to the apportionment of the cost of construction of the Pareora River Bridge on the Christchurch-Dunedin Main Highway.
Dated at Wellington this 1st day of November, 1926.
J. A. YOUNG, for Minister of Public Works.

By-laws, Waipunga to Waikoau 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, William Nosworthy, Minister of External Affairs, acting for Kenneth Stuart Williams, Minister of Public Works, do hereby order and declare that the by-laws to be enforced on the Waipunga to Waikoau 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 fourth day of November, 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 Waipunga to Waikoau 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 the New Zealand Government Engineer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary, Public Works Railways or General Manager District Manager or District District Engineer. 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 Waipunga to Waikoau Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway.
4. The alterations and extension 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 28th day of October, 1926.
W. NOSWORTHY,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 6/127.)

Notice of Intention to take Land for the Development of Water-power (Arapuni Scheme) in Block II, Otahuhu Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the development of water-power (Arapuni scheme). And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Panmure 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 areas of the pieces of land required to be taken :
A. R. P.
Being
1 3 38 Part Lot 13 and part Lot 14, Section 4, Small Farms near Panmure; coloured red.
0 1 31 Part Lot 14 and part Lot 15, Section 4, Small Farms near Panmure ; coloured blue.
4 3 16 Part of Lot 12, being part of Hamlin’s Grant ; coloured yellow.

Situated in Block II, Otahuhu Survey District (Auckland R.D.).

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 67550, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand at Wellington this 3rd day of November, 1926.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 60/156.)

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Rotorua on the 29th November, 1926.

Registrar’s Office,
Rotorua, 30th October, 1926.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matter mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Rotorua on the 29th day of November, 1926, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.
Waiariki 1926-10.
T. ANARU, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION.
No. 48. Name of applicant : Minister of Public Works. Name of land : Rotomahana-Parekarangi No. 6A No. 2 Section 4B and Rotomahana-Parekarangi No. 6A No. 2 Section 5B No. 3E No. 10. Nature of application : Assessment of compensation for land taken for a road.