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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Notice respecting Proposed Abolition of the Ngakaroro Drainage District, County of Horowhenua.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th November, 1930.

IT is hereby notified that it is proposed to abolish the Ngakaroro Drainage District, in the County of Horowhenua, pursuant to the provisions of section 4, Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1922.

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 at Wellington.

JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 19/63/25.)

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 Raumati Extension No. 14, affecting part Sections 3 and 5, Wainui Registration District, in Blocks I and II, Paekakariki Survey District, is intended to be used wholly for residential purposes, that Mokoia 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 power me thereunto enabling, authorize the lay-off of such road of a width of not less than 50 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 19th day of November, 1930.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 25/337.)

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 Raumati Extension No. 13, affecting part Sections 4 and 22, Wainui Registration District, in Block II, Paekakariki Survey District, is intended to be used wholly for residential purposes, that Kare Kare 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 lay-off of such road of a width of not less than 50 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 19th day of November, 1930.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 25/337.)

Justice of the Peace authorized to exercise Jurisdiction in Children's Court.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th November, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize Hugh William Charles Baird, Esquire, J.P., to exercise jurisdiction in the Children's Court established at Hastings.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 17th November, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration to Major J. Abel, Reserve of Officers, Regiment of N.Z. Artillery.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
For Minister of Defence.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XV, Motu Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, 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 Rakauroa, 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. B. P. Being Portion of
0 2 13·5 Section 3.
5 3 5·0 ,, 3.
16 0 4·0 ,, 3.
Situated in Block XV, Motu Survey District (Gisborne R.D.).
(S.O. 1376, brown.)

In the Gisborne Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 78318, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1930.

W. B. TAVERNER, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 62/4/15/5.)

Education Board of the District of Wanganui.

ELECTION OF MEMBER.

IT is hereby notified that for the election of one member for the Wanganui Urban Area, to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. A. H. Ross, the only nomination received was that of Mr. James Aitken.

I hereby declare Mr. James Aitken duly elected a member of the Board.

W. H. SWANGER, Returning Officer.
15th November, 1930.

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th November, 1930.

THE following result of the election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON, Under-Secretary.

Ohaupo Drainage District : County of Waipa— Harold George Dingle.
E. F. Burrows.
Bertie C. O'Connor.
William Somerville.
Bertram Cecil Tarr.

(I.A. 19/78/49.)

Election of Member of Marlborough Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Blenheim, 18th November, 1930.

PURSUANT to section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, and regulations made thereunder, notice is hereby given that James Fulton, of Blenheim, has been duly nominated for election as a member of the Land Board of the Marlborough Land District; and as no other person has been nominated up to the time fixed for receiving such nominations, I hereby declare the said James Fulton to be duly elected a member of the said Board for the term of two years, commencing from the 17th day of January, 1931.

Dated at Blenheim, this 18th day of November, 1930.

P. R. WILKINSON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Returning Officer.

(L. and S. 22/748/5.)