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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66
Special Order passed by the Masterton County Council declaring Hemlock to be a Noxious Weed.- Notice No. Ag. 2673.
Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1927.
THE following special order, passed by the Masterton County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act.
O. HAWKEN, Minister of Agriculture.
SPECIAL ORDER.
In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, the Masterton County Council hereby resolves and declares by way of special order, that the plant mentioned in the Schedule hereto (being a plant mentioned in the Third Schedule to the said Act, as extended from time to time by the Governor-General in Council) be and is hereby declared to be a noxious weed in the County of Masterton, within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908.
SCHEDULE.
HEMLOCK (Conium Maculatum).
Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for the Inter-State Bank, Paris or London, and Metcalfe and Company, Amiens.
THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having reasonable ground for supposing that the bank and company whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said bank or the said company shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said bank or the said company (either by its own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to any of the addresses in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.
SCHEDULE.
THE Inter-State Bank, 5 Rue Cardinal Mercier, Paris 9e ; or 333 Oxford Street, London, W. 1. Metcalfe and Company, 31, Boulevard Faidherbe, Amiens, France.
Dated this 22nd day of September, 1927.
W. NOSWORTHY, Postmaster General.
Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VIII, Thames Survey District, 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 Kopu, 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 10.2 Lot 1, Kopu Township; coloured purple.
0 0 1.8 ,, 2 ,, ,, red.
Situated in Block VIII, Thames Survey District (D.P. 358), (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 24460.) In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 69878, 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 September, 1927.
K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 62/2/16/3.)
Notice of Intention to take Land for Scenic and Historic Purposes in Block VIII, Omapere Survey District.
NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for scenic and historic 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 Te Ahuahu, 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
52 2 24.5 Part Okuratope No. 2 Block; coloured red.
2 0 24.3 Part Lot 1 on D.P. 7001 ; coloured blue.
1 0 12.5 Part Sub. 1 O.L.C. 55; coloured red.
0 0 15.8 Part Okuratope No. 1 Block; coloured neutral.
Situated in Block VIII, Omapere Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 24057.) In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 68786. 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 22nd day of September, 1927.
K. S. WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 52/95.)
Bonus on Briquettes or Marketable Fuel from New Zealand Sub-bituminous or Brown-coal Slack.
NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £2,000 will be paid by the New Zealand Government for the successful manufacture of briquettes or marketable fuel from bituminous, sub-bituminous, or brown-coal slack for commercial purposes as under :-

1. 2s. per ton up to 10,000 tons on briquettes;
2. 2s. per ton up to 10,000 tons on marketable fuel produced by a process of low-temperature carbonization ; subject to the following conditions :-
   (a) The briquettes or marketable fuel shall be manufactured in New Zealand.
   (b) At the date at which the bonus is claimed the plant owned by the claimant shall have manufactured and sold not less than 1,000 tons of briquettes or marketable fuel within the preceding three months.
   (c) The plant owned by the claimant shall be capable of producing not less than 150 tons of briquettes or marketable fuel per week.
   (d) The briquettes or marketable fuel shall be manufactured at a total cost which would enable them to be marketed in any one of the following centres : Auckland, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill at a price not greater than the cost of Newcastle, West Coast, Waikato, Kaitangata, or Ohai screened coal, whichever may be the lowest price, at the centre chosen.
   (e) The Minister may appoint an expert who shall be permitted to see the whole process of manufacture, and to make such an examination of the accounts in connection therewith as may be necessary to determine the cost of manufacture and the selling-price obtainable for the product.
   (f) The briquettes shall have a calorific value of 12,500 B.T.U. if made from bituminous coals or semi-coke, and 9,500 B.T.U. if made from raw brown coals, certified to by the Dominion Analyst, Wellington, as determined by the Bomb calorimeter.
   (g) No bonus shall be paid in respect of briquettes manufactured after 31st December, 1929.
   G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.