SEPT. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2717

Lieutenant F. C. Lopdell, 1st C Battalion, is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Class I (b), R.D. 12. Dated 11th August, 1930.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.

Captain W. N. Searle, from the Otago Regiment, to be Lieutenant, with seniority as from 1st December, 1928. Dated 18th August, 1930.

Lieutenant F. P. Furkert, M.B., ceases to be attached to the Central Depot, N.Z.M.C., and is attached to the Southern Depot, N.Z.M.C. Dated 12th August, 1930.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.

The Regiment of N.Z. Artillery.

The notice published in the N.Z. Gazette, No. 48, of 26th June, 1930, relative to Lieutenant R. McK. Watson is cancelled, and the following substituted:—

Lieutenant R. McK. Watson is retired. Dated 7th June, 1930.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 29th August, 1930.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Franklin County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.

E. A. RANSOM, Acting Minister of Finance.

FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Awhitu-Pollock Main Roads Special-rating Area in Franklin County, taken on the 8th day of August, 1930, on the proposal of the Franklin County Council to borrow the sum of nine thousand pounds (£9,000) for the purpose of—

(a) Shelling Awhitu Central Road from school to wharf;
(b) Forming and shelling part Waiuku-Awhitu Main Road;
(c) Forming and shelling Graham’s Beach Road; and
(d) Forming and culverting Orua Bay Road from school to wharf;

the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 149;
the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 8.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 14th day of August, 1930.

J. N. MASSEY,
Chairman of the County.

Fire Brigades Act, 1926.—List of Persons, Companies, &c., carrying on Fire-insurance Business in New Zealand.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th August, 1930.

It is hereby notified that the name of N.I.M.U. Mutual Insurance Company, Huddart-Parker Buildings, Wellington, has been added to the list of persons, firms, and companies carrying on fire-insurance business in New Zealand.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(T.A. 11/23.)

Notice respecting proposed Abolition of the Waiatarua Drainage District, County of Eden.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd September, 1930.

It is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, and amendments, praying that the Waiatarua Drainage District may be abolished. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed abolition of such district which they desire to lodge, within one month from the first publication of this notice; such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 19/63/7.)

Notifying Land in the Southland Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 6th August, 1930.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I hereby notify that the undermentioned land, being the land known as Te Wae Wae Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act as from 30th June, 1930.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TE WAE WAE SETTLEMENT.

FIRSTLY, all that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 164 acres 2 roods 12 perches, more or less, being part of Section 15, Block XV, Longwood Survey District, bounded as follows: Towards the north by Section 14, 3166·9 links, 150·0 links, and 1947·8 links; towards the east by Section 16, 3922·0 links; towards the south-west generally by a public road and a railway reserve, 1223·9 links, 751·2 links, 423·1 links, 1122·6 links, and 2567·6 links; towards the north-west by a public road, 175·3 links; towards the north-east, north-west, and south-west by other part of Section 15, 198·0 links, 277·8 links, and 199·9 links, respectively; towards the north-west by said public road, 2055·3 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; excepting thereout all that portion of the Orepuki-Waiau Railway Reserve which lies within the above-described boundaries.

Secondly, all that area in the Southland Land District, containing by admeasurement 273 acres 2 roods 2 perches, more or less, being part of Section 3, Block XV, Longwood Survey District, bounded as follows: Towards the north-west by part of Section 4, across a public road, and by other part of Section 4, 1494·2 links, 110·7 links, and 4106·4 links; towards the north-east by Sections 18 and 19, 1718·1 links, 233·6 links, and 3541·3 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 1990·0 links; towards the south-west and south-east by part Section 3, 134·5 links and 319·5 links, respectively; thence across the Orepuki-Waiau Railway Reserve, 510·3 links on a bearing of 76° 23'; towards the south by part Section 3, and across a public road, 2092·2 links and 101·4 links; towards the north-east by a public road, 848·6 links; towards the south-east by part Section 3, 887·8 links; towards the south-west by a road reserve, 5070·0 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less; excepting thereout a public road and all that portion of the Orepuki-Waiau Railway Reserve which lies within the above-described boundaries.

As the same are more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 21/149/347, deposited under No. 2417 in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

A. J. MURDOCH, for Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 21/149/347.)

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Road of less Width than 66 ft.

Whereas, in the opinion of the Minister of Lands, it is inexpedient, by reason of the fact that the land shown upon the plan of Town of Tekapo Village Extension No. 1, part of Block IV, Tekapo Village, in Block XIII, Tekapo Survey District, is intended to be used wholly for residential purposes, that the proposed road shown therein should be of the width of 66 ft.:

Now, therefore, I, Ethelbert Alfred Ransom, Minister of Lands, do hereby, in pursuance of the power conferred upon me by section 17, subsection (1), of the Land Act, 1924, and of every other power me thereunto enabling, authorize the laying-off of such road of a width of not less than 40 ft.: Provided always that it shall not be lawful for any person to erect, or cause to be erected, any building at a less distance than 33 ft. from the middle of such road.

Given under my hand, this 22nd day of August, 1930.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 6/9/46.)

Boundaries of Balmoral Plantation Fire District extended.

Whereas by a notice in the Gazette on the 17th day of February, 1927, at page 479 (hereinafter referred to as "the said notice"), a certain area in Blocks IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and XIV, Mandamus Survey District and Blocks IX, X, XIII, and XIV, Culverden Survey District, Canterbury Land District (inter alia), was declared to be a fire district under the name of the Balmoral Plantation Fire District:

And whereas it is expedient to extend the boundaries of the said fire district by including therein the land described in the Schedule hereto: