DEC. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3703

Huntly Town Board: Cancellation of unexercised Loan Authority.

In the matter of Section 118 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Huntly Town Board has been duly authorized to borrow by way of loan the sum of £2,560 for double-sealing portion of the Great South Road, and the consent of the Governor-General in Council thereto was given by Order in Council made on the 24th day of April, 1928, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 39, of 3rd May, 1928, at page 1418:

And whereas in respect of the said sum of £2,560 there has been raised and borrowed for the purposes aforesaid the sum of £2,550:

And whereas the undertaking in respect of which the said loan was authorized has been completed, and it has not been found necessary to borrow the whole of the amount so authorized:

And whereas the Acting Minister of Finance has duly notified the Huntly Town Board in writing of his intention to cancel the loan authority in so far as it has not been exercised:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, I, Apirana T. Ngata, for the Acting Minister of Finance, do hereby cancel the authority of the Huntly Town Board to borrow, under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the sum of £10, being the amount in respect of which the said loan authority has not been exercised; Provided always that this cancellation is without prejudice to the validity in all respects of the loan of £2,550 already borrowed pursuant to the said loan authority.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of November, 1930.

A. T. NGATA,
For Acting Minister of Finance.

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registers of New Zealand 5½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 15th January, 1933, will be closed from the 1st January to the 15th January, 1931 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

A. T. NGATA,
For Acting Minister of Finance.

Altering Appointment of Clerk to Transport Appeal Board for No. 7 Motor-omnibus District.

Transport Department,
Wellington, 12th November, 1930.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by Regulation 33 of the Motor-omnibus (Licensing) Regulations, 1926, I, William Burgoyne Taverner, Minister of Transport, do hereby revoke the appointment of Fred. Sydney Rocks Knight, as Clerk to the Transport Appeal Board for No. 7 Motor-omnibus District, and do hereby appoint (with approval of the Public Service Commissioner) Henry Bell Reid, as Clerk to the said Transport Appeal Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of November, 1930.

W. B. TAVERNER, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 9/19/17.)

Kaitaia Drainage Area: Notice of Intention to make and levy General Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, pursuant to the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, to make and levy, on the unimproved value of all land within the Kaitaia Town District Subdivision of the Kaitaia Drainage Area constituted under the said Act, the general rate described in the First Schedule hereto, and on the unimproved value of all land in the subdivision of the Kaitaia Drainage Area outside the Kaitaia Town District the general rates described in the Second Schedule, such respective rates being for the purpose of meeting maintenance costs for the period from the 1st April, 1930, to the 31st March, 1931.

The amount of such rates, less a subsidy of eighteen shillings (18s.) for one pound (£1) will be payable in one sum on the 22nd December, 1930.

The valuation roll of the district is open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, Chief Drainage Engineer's Office, 5 Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, and a copy of same may be inspected at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer, Kaitaia, at all times at which those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Lands.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
Town Subdivision.
On the unimproved value of all land within the Kaitaia Town District, seventy-three one-hundredths of a penny (0·73d.) in the pound.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Rural Subdivision.
Class A.—On the unimproved value of all land classified as Class A by the persons appointed to classify lands under section 3 of the Swamp Drainage Amendment Act, 1928, seven pence and seventy-four one-hundredths of a penny (7·74d.) in the pound.
Class B.—On the unimproved value of all land so classified as Class B, two pence and seventy-one one-hundredths of a penny (2·71d.) in the pound.
Class C.—On the unimproved value of all land so classified as Class C, one penny and sixteen one-hundredths of a penny (1·16d.) in the pound.
(L. and S. 15/42/5.)

Despatch, Nobel Peace Prize, 1931.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th November, 1930.

THE following Despatch, received from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, is published for general information.

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

NEW ZEALAND.
Dominions No. 534.
Downing Street,
7th October, 1930.

My LORD,—With reference to my predecessor's Despatch Dominions No. 451 of the 25th September, 1929, I have the honour to transmit, for the information of His Majesty's Government in New Zealand, the accompanying copies of a circular issued by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament regarding nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 1931.

2. I should be glad if the conditions of the prize could be made known to those bodies and persons who are qualified to nominate candidates.

I have, &c.,
J. H. THOMAS.
Governor-General, His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Bledisloe, G.C.M.G., K.B.E., &c.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

ALL proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed on the 10th December, 1931, must, in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the first of February of the same year.

Any one of the following persons is held to be duly qualified : (a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute ; (b) Members of Parliament and Members of Government of the different States, as well as Members of the Interparliamentary Union ; (c) Members of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague; (d) Members of the Council of the International Peace Bureau ; (e) Members and Associates of the Institute of International Law ; (f) University professors of Political Science and of Law, of History, and of Philosophy ; and (g) Persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations.

According to the Code of Statutes, para. 8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated, and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to.

According to para. 3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print.

For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Oslo.