Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3911

Notice as to an Area in Wellington Land District declared to be a Fire District.

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 17th December, 1930.

PURSUANT to section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921–22, and section 6 of the Forests Amendment Act, 1925, I do hereby notify that, on the recommendation of the Director of Forestry and the Land Board of the district, the area described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared by me to be a fire district, and I do further specify the period from the 1st day of November in any year to the 31st day of March in the following year, inclusive, as the period during which it shall not be lawful for any person within the said district, save pursuant to the written permit of a Forest Officer, to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire any timber (whether standing or not), or any undergrowth, or any debris from forest operations, or any land-clearing operations, or grass or other specially inflammable material, without taking such precautions as may be prescribed by a Forest Officer.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WELLINGTON FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.

Guildford Estate Forest Fire District.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3,560 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks IV and X, Belmont Survey District, and Blocks I and V, Rimutaka Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Towards the east by Sections 104, 105, and 106, Block I aforesaid, and Section 285, Block V aforesaid; towards the north-east by Sections 285 and 283, Block V aforesaid; towards the south-east by a public road; again towards the east by Sections 243, 244, and 96, Block V aforesaid; towards the south by Section 42, Block V aforesaid, the abutment of Whiteman’s Valley Road, and Sections 50 and 58, Block V aforesaid; again towards the east by Section 58, Block V aforesaid; again towards the south by Section 236, Block X aforesaid; towards the west by Section 234, Block X aforesaid; towards the south-west by Sections 67 and 66, Block X aforesaid, and Section 65, Block IV aforesaid; towards the north-west and again towards the south-west by Section 195, Block IV aforesaid; again towards the north-west by a public road; again towards the south-west by the abutment of a public road and Section 191, Block IV aforesaid; again towards the north-west by the Hutt River; again towards the north-east by Section 83, Block IV aforesaid and the abutments of two public roads and a railway reserve; again towards the north-west and north-east by public roads; and again towards the north-west by the abutment of a public road and Sections 101 and 100, Block I aforesaid. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan numbered 92/3, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

E. A. RANSOM,
Commissioner of State Forests.

Minister’s Decisions under Customs Act.

Customs Department, Wellington, 18th December, 1930.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hon. the Minister of Customs has decided to interpret the Customs Acts in relation to the undermentioned articles as follows:—

NOTES.—(a) “Not elsewhere included” appears as n.e.i.; “other kinds” as o.k.; “articles and materials suited for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication or repair of goods within New Zealand” as a. and m.s. (b) Articles marked thus † are revised decisions. (c) Wherever the General Tariff rate shown opposite any goods enumerated in these decisions is lower than that provided for in the First Schedule to the Customs Amendment Act, 1927, action had been taken by the Minister under section 11 of the Customs Amendment Act, 1927. In such cases the reduced rate is marked with an asterisk. (d) Steam-engines, gas-engines, oil-engines, and electric or other motors are not, unless otherwise indicated, to be regarded as parts of the machines with which they are imported.

• Under section 11, Customs Amendment Act, 1927.