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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block I, Whakatane Survey District, for the more effective carrying-out of the Drainage or other Works authorized by the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the more effective carrying-out of the drainage or other works authorized by the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Whakatane, 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 portion of
3 1 35·6 29J No. 3; coloured red.
3 0 5·9 29H No. 2; coloured blue.
2 2 9·1 Part 29H No. 1; coloured red.
4 0 23·1 Part 29r; coloured blue.
2 2 16·1 28B 4; coloured red.
3 2 30 28B 5D; coloured red.
0 0 17·8 28B 5C; coloured yellow.
0 2 35·8 28B 10A 1; coloured blue.
1 1 2·8 28B 10A 2; coloured red.
1 1 33·2 28B 7; coloured blue.
0 1 20·9 Part 28B; coloured red.
2 0 14·2 28B 3B 2; coloured blue.
1 2 32·3 28B 3C 4; coloured red.
4 3 31·8 28B 3C 3; coloured blue.
0 0 36·5 28B 3C 2; coloured yellow.
6 1 16·6 28B 9B; coloured red.

Situated in Parish of Rangitaiki, Block I, Whakatane Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 24184).

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 68071, 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 24th day of January, 1927.

K. S. WILLIAMS,
Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 48/204/3.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks XIV and XV, Whirinaki, and V, Rarete Survey Districts, for the Purposes of a Road.

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 road; 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 Pipiriki, 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 areas of the pieces of land required to be taken :—
A. R. P. Being Portion of
39 3 0 Section 8, Blocks XV, Whirinaki, and V, Rarete Survey Districts; coloured pink. Sheet No. 1 and 2. (S.O. 2163 and 2164.)
7 3 7 Section 7, Block XV, Whirinaki Survey District; coloured blue. Sheet No. 2.
1 3 0 Lot 1, D.P. 2971, of Waimarino No. 2 Block, Block XIV, Whirinaki Survey District; coloured yellow. Sheet No. 2.
1 0 10 Lot 2, D.P. 2971, of Waimarino No. 2 Block, Block XIV, Whirinaki Survey District; coloured grey. Sheet No. 2. (S.O. 2164.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 68096, 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 24th day of January, 1927.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 39/12.)

Notice of Intention to take Land for Recreation Purposes in Block VII, Rock and Pillar 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 recreation purposes. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Hyde, 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 :
4 acres 0 rood 37 perches.

Being part Section 19, Block VII, situated in Rock and Pillar Survey District.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 67463, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 24th day of January, 1927.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 50/338.)

Additional Regulation for the Conduct of Legal Business.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th January, 1927.

THE Regulations for the Conduct of Legal Business dated the 29th day of March, 1920, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 8th April, 1920, and all amendments thereof, are hereby revoked, and the following regulation is made in lieu thereof :—

ALLOWANCES TO WITNESSES.

(a.) Allowances will be made to prosecutors and witnesses for the Crown as follows :—

To persons giving evidence, strictly as experts, £ s. d.
for every day’s attendance at Court or necessary absence from usual place of abode .. 1 1 0
Except as above, to every prosecutor and witness for every day’s attendance at Court or necessary absence from usual place of abode .. .. .. 0 10 0
And in addition thereto, for every night’s necessary absence from such place of abode 0 4 0

(b.) Provided that persons in receipt of salary or wages from the General Government will only be entitled to such allowances if necessarily absent at night from their usual place of abode. If not so absent such persons will be allowed their actual personal expenses only.

(c.) Witnesses residing beyond three miles from the town or city in which the Court is held will also be allowed their coach, railway, or steamboat fares. Second-class fares will be allowed to mechanics, labourers, and persons of similar rank, and first-class fares to others. Receipts must be furnished for coach and steamer fares over 5s.

When there is no public conveyance witnesses will be allowed a mileage rate of 9d. per mile one way.

(d.) Medical practitioners using their own motor-cars, or motor-cars hired for their personal use, whether public conveyances are available or not, will be allowed mileage at the rate of one shilling per mile one way for every mile between their place of residence and the place at which evidence is required to be given; provided, however, that in no case will mileage be paid for a greater distance than fifty miles.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Approved in Council.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council,