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any bridge forming part of a main highway in so far as such cost is not provided for out of the Main Highway Fund :

And whereas on the 1st day of December, 1930, the Board resolved as follows : “ That in terms of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1925, the Honourable Minister of Public Works be recommended to apply the provisions of section 135 of the Public Works Act, 1928, to the Tuakau Bridge on the Pukekohe–Glenmurray via Tuakau Main Highway ” :

Now, therefore, I, William Burgoyne Taverner, Minister of Public Works, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 7, and of every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby declare that the provisions of section 135 of the Public Works Act, 1928, in so far as they provide for the apportionment of cost of construction, shall apply with respect to the apportionment of the cost of construction of the Tuakau Bridge on the Pukekohe–Glenmurray via Tuakau Main Highway.

W. B. TAVERNER, Minister of Public Works.
Wellington, 6th December, 1930.

Classification of Roads in Ashley County.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Transport Department Act, 1929, and Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927, and their amendments, I, William Burgoyne Taverner, Minister of Transport, do hereby approve of the Ashley County Council’s proposed classification of roads as shown in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

ASHLEY COUNTY.

ROADS classified in the Second Class : Available for the use thereon of any motor-lorry (other than a multi-axled motor-lorry) which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 8 tons, or any multi-axled motor-lorry which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 10 tons.

Primary Highways—
The Ashley Junction (or Fawcett’s Road).
The Rangiora–Oxford via Loburn.

Secondary Highways—
The Ashley County portion of the Oxford – Lees Valley Road.
Loburn – White Rock.

County Roads—
Barkers Road, from the Primary Highway to the Round Hill Road.
Carrs–Sinclairs Road.
Round Hill Road.

District Roads—
Bairds Road.
Barkers Road.
Boundary Road.
No. 2 Road.
Stony Flat Road.
Swamp Road.

Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of December, 1930.

W. B. TAVERNER, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 9/18/134.)

Defence Rifle Club accepted.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 4th December, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the services of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :—

Pamoana Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Koriniti, Wanganui. Dated 11th October, 1930.

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

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 4th December, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to Major A. C. Nathan, The Nelson-Marlborough Mounted Rifles.

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

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Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, and its Amendment, fixing the Closing-hours of Grocers’ Shops within the Borough of Waimate.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the grocers’ shops within the Borough of Waimate, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the said borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows : On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 5.30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 8 p.m. :

And whereas I, Sydney George Smith, Minister of Labour, am satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops within the said borough :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, I do hereby direct that on and after the 29th day of December, 1930, all the said shops within the said borough shall be closed accordingly.

The notice gazetted on the 29th day of November, 1906, fixing the closing-hours of grocers’ shops within the Borough of Waimate, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of December, 1930.

S. G. SMITH, Minister of Labour.

Notifying Land in North Auckland Land District to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

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

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I hereby notify that the undermentioned land, being the land known as Dreadon Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act as from 10th July, 1930.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—DREADON SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Otamatea County, containing by admeasurement 410 acres 2 roods 12 perches, more or less, being Allotments 49, 50, 50A, N.E. 51, S.E. 51, and S.W. 51, Tokatoka Parish, and Allotments N.W. 68, S.E. 68, 69, and W. 70, Omaru Parish. As the same is more particularly delineated on a plan marked L. and S. 26/18957, and deposited under No. 2449 in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, and thereon edged red.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 26/18957.)

Revoking Notices re Tokaanu Development Scheme.

Office of the Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 4th December, 1930.

WHEREAS notice was published in the Gazette and Kahiti of the 14th August, 1930, and the 30th October, 1930, that the Native Minister has decided to apply the provisions of subsection (3) of section 23 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1929, to Waipapa 1A and other blocks of Native land, for land owned by Natives in the Aotea Native Land Court District : Notice is hereby given that the Native Minister has decided no longer to apply the provisions of the said section to the said Native lands, or lands owned by Natives, and the said notices are hereby revoked accordingly.

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Native Minister to apply Provisions of Section 25 of Native Trustee Act, 1930.

Office of the Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 4th December, 1930.

WHEREAS the Native Minister has decided to apply the provisions of section 25 of the Native Trustee Act, 1930, to the Native land or land owned by Natives described in the Schedule hereto : Notice of the Native Minister’s intention so to do is hereby given and published in accordance with subsection (1) of the said section 25, and the control and management of the land described in the said Schedule is hereby vested in the Native Trustee : Attention is drawn to subsection (15) of the said section 25, which provides that no owner shall be capable of making any alienation of the land mentioned in the notice other than through the Native Trustee as agent for the owners, in accordance with the provisions of the said section 25.