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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 33

Notice of Intention to take Land in the City of Wanganui for the Purposes of an Automatic Telephone Exchange.

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 purposes of an automatic telephone exchange. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Wanganui, 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: 20 perches.

Being portion of Section 187, Town of Wanganui. Situated in the City of Wanganui.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 69072, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 25th day of May, 1927.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 20/621.)

Rangitaiki Land Drainage District.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th May, 1927.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, the ratepayers within the district constituted by the last-mentioned Act are hereby notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added to all rates for the year ended 31st March, 1927, unpaid on 23rd June, 1927.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office, or to the “Collector of Rates,” Box 1659, Auckland.

O. HAWKEN, for Minister of Lands.

Plumbers Registration Act, 1912.

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE, PLUMBERS BOARD EXAMINATION, 29TH AND 30TH OCTOBER, 1926.

THE following candidate having passed the examination of the Plumbers Board of New Zealand, held on the 29th and 30th October, 1926, his name has been entered in the Register of Plumbers of New Zealand in pursuance of sections 8 and 17 (b) of the Act:—

Reg. No. Name.
1796 Alcock, David Frank.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Scheme of Control.—Auckland Grammar School.

Wellington, 19th May, 1927.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914, and with the powers thereunder, I, Robert Alexander Wright, Minister of Education, do hereby approve of the following amendments in the Scheme of Control of the Auckland Grammar School and the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School as gazetted on the 15th July, 1915:—

(1) The introductory paragraph of the said scheme is hereby amended by deleting therefrom all the words after the words “approve of the following scheme for the” and substituting therefor the words “schools under the control of the Auckland Grammar School Board.”

(2) Paragraph 1 of the said scheme is hereby amended by deleting the words “special Acts” and substituting therefor the words “Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899, and the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School Act, 1906.”

(3) Paragraphs 2 (6) and 2 (9) are hereby amended by deleting the words “Board of Governors of the Auckland Grammar School and the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School” wherever they occur, and substituting therefor the words “Auckland Grammar School Board.”

R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.

Te Makarini Scholarships tenable at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

TWO scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition in the year 1927. One of these scholarships, to be called the Senior Makarini Scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end of the month next preceding the month of the examination. The other scholarship, to be called the Junior Makarini Scholarship, is open to Maori boys who have been in regular attendance at Native village schools and are under fourteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the month of the examination. The scholarships are open to Maori boys on the conditions set forth in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Appendix to the Regulations relating to Native Schools, except that for the Junior Scholarship the age limit is now fourteen years, and that for the senior examination the work required is that of Standard VI instead of Standard V. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 5th and 6th of December, 1927. Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Senior Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 30th of September, 1927.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Director of Education, Wellington.

JOHN PORTEOUS,
Senior Inspector of Native Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 25th May, 1927.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Whakatane on the 21st June, 1927.

Registrar’s Office,
Rotorua, 20th May, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Whakatane on the 21st day of June, 1927, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

(Waiariki, 1927–3.)

T. ANARU, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Wanganui on the 15th June, 1927.

Registrar’s Office,
Wanganui, 23rd May, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matter mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Wanganui on the 15th day of June, 1927, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

(Wanganui, 1927–5.)

W. H. BOWLER, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION UNDER SECTION 91 OF THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1908.

No. 1074. Name of applicant: Assistant Under-Secretary. Name of Land: Kirikau B 5. Purpose for which taken: A road.