SEPT. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2799

Classification of Roads in the Waiapu County.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927, I, Kenneth Stuart Williams, Minister of Public Works, do hereby approve of the Waiapu County Council’s proposed classification of roads, as set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

CLASSIFICATION OF ROADS IN THE WAIAPU COUNTY.

ROADS classified in the third class (available for the use thereon of any motor-lorry which, with the load it is carrying, weighs not more than 6 tons)—

All that portion of the Main Highway running from the boundary-line between the Uawa County and Waiapu County as far as the boundary between the Matakaoa County and the Waiapu County.

Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of August, 1927.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 62/26/113.)

Notice of intention to take Land in Block III, Makotuku Survey District, for the purposes of a Road—viz., a Deviation of the Bull’s-Taumarunui Main Highway.

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—viz., a deviation of the Bull’s-Taumarunui Main Highway, 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 Ohakune, 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
0 0 4·7 Section 34 ; coloured blue.
2 2 4·4 ,, 16 ; coloured red.
0 2 6·6 ,, 17 ; coloured blue.
5 0 34·6 ,, 16 ; coloured red.
0 0 4·2 Lot 13, D.P. 4518 of Raetihi No. 3A ; coloured blue.

Situated in Block III, Makotuku Survey District. (S.O. 2221.)

All in the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D 69579, 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 26th day of August, 1927.

K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 62/8/23/1.)

Notice to Mariners No. 58 of 1927.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 29th August, 1927.

NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND.—HAURAKI GULF.—AUCKLAND HARBOUR.

(1) Construction of breakwater and exhibition of lights thereon;
(2) Removal of beacon.

(1) Position: St. Mary’s Bay.

Details: A breakwater is being constructed to form a boat harbour. When completed, the breakwater will begin at a point 287°·5, 3,600 ft. from the centre of the outer end of Prince’s Wharf, and trend 3,130 ft. on a 277° line tangent to a circle of 1,120 ft. radius, thence on the western arc of this circle to the reef at Pt. Erin. An opening, 240 ft. wide, has been left, beginning 1,420 ft. from eastern end.

Lights: Eastern end—2 fixed green lights vertically disposed 5 ft. apart—
Eastern side of opening: 1 fixed red light.
Western side of opening: 1 fixed green light.
Fixed lights for illumination exist along the breakwater approximately 400 ft. apart.

Remarks: The breakwater at the present time extends to about 400 ft. east of the opening, and should be completed in nine months. The lights are being exhibited as the work progresses.

(2) The beacon marking the end of the reef at Pt. Erin will be removed permanently on 15th September, 1927.

Charts affected: 1970 (plan).

Publications: New Zealand Pilot, 9th edition, pages 191 194.

Authority: Auckland Harbour Board, 29/6/27, 16/8/27.

B. W. MILLIER, Acting Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 59 of 1927.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 31st August, 1927.

THE following Notice to Mariners, which has been received from the Hydrographer, London, is published for general information.

B. W. MILLIER, Acting Secretary.

SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN.—FRIENDLY ISLANDS.—VAVAU GROUP.

Neiafu Harbour: Information re W/T Station.

Position: Northern W/T mast: 110 yards, 042°, from Neiafu F.S.; southern W/T mast: 55 yards, 054° from Neiafu F.S.; Lat. 18° 39′ S., long. 173° 59′ W. (approx.).

Abridged description: W/T, against each mast.

Call signal: GON.

Wave length: 450, 600, 800 metres (spk.).

Range: 150 miles.

(Notice No. 1186 of 1927, dated 16th July.)

Charts affected: Nos. 3097 (plan)—3098—2421.

Publications: List of Wireless Signals, 1926, No. 1647. Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. II, 1918, page 526.

Authority: H.M.S. “Diomede,” Remark-book, 1926. (H. 3301/27.)

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Rotorua on the 19th September, 1927.

Registrar’s Office,
Rotorua, 26th August, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Rotorua on the 19th day of September, 1927, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

[Waiariki, 1927–9.]

T. ANARU, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION.

No. 32. Name of applicant: Minister of Public Works. Name of land: Waotu South 5, 4c, 4A, 6, 7, 8, 9h. Nature of application: Assessment of compensation for land taken for development of water-power (Arapuni Scheme).

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

WALTER HAROLD FLETCHER, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Taihape and District Returned Soldiers’ Association (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations and has become defunct, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of August, 1927.

W. H. FLETCHER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Officiating Ministers for 1927.—Notice No. 30.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 30th August, 1927.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand commonly called The Church of England.

The Reverend Arthur Baron Pywell.

The Assemblies of God in New Zealand.

Mr. Stanley Burgess.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.