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Alexander William McDonald
to be Assistant Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Blenheim
for the purposes of section 19 of the Magistrates’ Courts
Act, 1928, as from the 9th day of March, 1931.

Leo Robert Higgins
to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Huntly for the pur-
pos es of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the lst
day of April, 1931.

Walter James Blackler
to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Gore for the purposes
of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, and Clerk of the Warden’s
Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at
Gore, for the District of Otago, constituted under the Mining
Act, 1926, Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the District of Gore, and Registrar of Electors and
Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Mataura for the
purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 9th day of
March, 1931.

Eric Walter Abercrombie
to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Putaruru for the pur-
pos es of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the Ist day
of April, 1931.

Frederick Stoop
to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the District of Cromwell, as from the 4th day of
March, 1931.

Percy William Jones Cockerill
to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the
Electoral District of Central Otago for the purposes of the
Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 2nd day of March, 1931.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Otatau Town Board.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan
Authority.

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

WHEREAS the Otatau Town Board has been duly
authorized to borrow by way of loan the sum of
three hundred and thirty-three pounds (£333) for the purpose
of meeting the Town Board’s proportion of the cost of sealing
the Riverton-Otatau Main Highway within the town district,
and the consent of the Governor-General in Council thereto
was given by Order in Council made on the 30th day of June,
1930, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 49, of
3rd July, 1930, at page 2080 :

And whereas in respect of the said sum of three hundred and
thirty-three pounds (£333) there has been raised and borrowed
for the purposes aforesaid the sum of two hundred and eighty-
five pounds (£285) :

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 autho-
rized:

And whereas the Minister of Finance has duly notified the
Otatau 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 con-
ferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1926, and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, I,
George William Forbes, Minister of Finance, do hereby cancel
the authority of the Otatau Town Board to borrow under the
loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the sum of forty-eight
pounds (£48), 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 two hundred and eighty-five pounds
(£285) already borrowed pursuant to the said loan authority.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of March, 1931.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/491/1.)

Notice of making and levying General Rates.—Waihi Drainage
Area.

I, ETHELBERT ALFRED RANSOM, Minister of Lands,
in the exercise of the powers conferred upon me by
the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, do
hereby make and levy on the unimproved value of all land
within the Pukehina Subdivision of the Waihi Drainage Area
constituted under the said Act the general rates described
in the First Schedule hereto, and on the unimproved value
of all land included in the Central Subdivision the general
rate described in the Second Schedule hereto, and on the
unimproved value of all land in the Kaikokopu Subdivision

the general rates described in the Third Schedule hereto, such
respective rates being for the purpose of meeting maintenance
costs for the period lst April, 1930, to 3lst March, 1931.

The amount of such rates will be payable in one sum on
the 20th March, 1931, when the annually-recurring special
rates already made and levied will also be payable.

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 Mr. H. W. Earp,
Clerk, Kaituna River Board, Te Puke, at all times at which
those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

PUKEHINA 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,
sixteen pence and sixty-nine one-hundredths of a penny
(16·69d.) in the pound.

Class C.—On the unimproved value of all land so classified
as Class C, seven pence and forty-two one-hundredths of a
penny (7·42d.) in the pound.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

CENTRAL 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,
sevenpence and fifty-four one-hundredths of a penny (7·54d.)
in the pound.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

KAIKOKOPU 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,
sixpence and thirty-one one-hundredths of a penny (6·31d.)
in the pound.

Class B.—On the unimproved value of all land so classified
as Class B, fourpence and ninety-one one-hundredths of a
penny (4·91d.) in the pound.

Class C.—On the unimproved value of all land so classified
as Class C, twopence and eighty-one one-hundredths of a
penny (2·81d.) in the pound.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of February, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/24/1.)

Abolition of Special Roading District.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th March, 1931.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power conferred on me
by section 371 of the Land Act, 1924, I do hereby declare
that the Mangapurua Special Roading District, as instituted
by a notice published in the Gazette of the 1st day of March,
1923, is hereby abolished as from and including the 1st day
of April, 1931.

As witness my hand this 16th day of March, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 4/40.)

Applying the Provisions of Section 136 of the Public Works
Act, 1928, to the Hurunui River Bridge on the Christchurch-
Blenheim via Parnassus Main Highway.

WHEREAS by resolution dated the 25th February, 1931,
the Main Highways Board recommends, in pursuance
of section 7 of the Main Highways Act, 1925, that the pro-
visions of section 136 of the Public Works Act, 1928, be applied
to the Hurunui River Bridge on the Christchurch-Blenheim
via Parnassus Main Highway:

Now, therefore, I, William Burgoyne Taverner, Minister of
Public Works, in pursuance and exercise of the powers con-
ferred by section 7 of the Main Highways Amendment Act,
1925, and of every other power in anywise enabling me in
this behalf, do hereby declare that the provisions of the said
section 136 of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall apply in so
far as affects the Hurunui River Bridge on the Christchurch-
Blenheim via Parnassus Main Highway.

W. B. TAVERNER, Minister of Public Works.

Wellington, New Zealand,
13th March, 1931.