2856
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 70

The Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment.
Lieutenant N. O. Loney, from the Canterbury Regiment, to be Lieutenant, with seniority from the 21st July, 1928, and is posted to the Regimental Supernumerary List. Dated 24th August, 1931.

The Otago Regiment.
Lieutenant R. W. Souter, 1st Battalion, is retired, he having left the Dominion. Dated 22nd May, 1931.
Lieutenant G. W. Lane, from the Southland Regiment, to be Lieutenant, with seniority from the 25th July, 1925, and is posted to the Regimental Supernumerary List. Dated 10th September, 1931.

The Southland Regiment.
Lieutenant G. W. Lane, 1st Battalion, is transferred to the Otago Regiment. Dated 10th September, 1931.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.
Captain J. A. W. Rober-ton, M.B., M.R.C.S., Eng., ceases to be posted to the 1st Field Ambulance, and is attached to the 4th Field Battery, Regiment of N.Z. Artillery. Dated 20th August, 1931.
Captain K. S. Macky, M.B., ceases to be attached to the 1st Field Battery, Regiment of N.Z. Artillery, and is posted to the Retired List, with the rank of Major, and with permission to wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 9th September, 1931.
Captain E. D. Aubin, M.D., ceases to be attached to the 1st Field Company, Corps of N.Z. Engineers, and is posted to the Retired List, with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 9th September, 1931.
Captain L. A. Spedding, M.B., ceases to be attached to the 4th Field Battery, Regiment of N.Z. Artillery, and is posted to the Retired List, with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 9th September, 1931.
Lieutenant J. A. Paterson, M.B., ceases to be attached to the 1st Battalion, the Hauraki Regiment, and is posted to the 1st Field Ambulance. Dated 9th September, 1931.
Lieutenant F. J. Appleby, M.B., ceases to be attached to the Waikato Mounted Rifles, and is posted to the Retired List, with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 9th September, 1931.
Lieutenant R. G. B. Lusk, M.B., attached to the Northern Depot, N.Z. Corps of Signals, resigns his commission. Dated 10th September, 1931.

N.Z. DENTAL CORPS.
Captain H. E. Suckling, from the Reserve of Officers, to be Captain, and is attached to the 3rd Field Ambulance. Dated 8th September, 1931.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
N.Z. Army Service Corps.
Captain G. R. Hutchinson is posted to the Retired List, with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 1st September, 1931.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Constituting a “Recognized Aviation Authority.”

Office of the Minister of Defence,
Wellington, 17th September, 1931.

PURSUANT to section 3 of the Local Authorities Empowering (Aviation Encouragement) Act, 1929, I hereby give notice that the Milson Aerodrome (Inc.), is duly constituted a Recognized Aviation Authority under that Act.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

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 1st April, 1931, to 31st March, 1932.

The amount of such rates (together with the annually recurring special rates already made and levied) will be payable in one sum on the 25th September, 1931, to the Collector of Rates, Room 44, First Floor, Government Buildings, Customs Street, Auckland. The rate-book will be open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, and a copy of same will be available for inspection at the office of Mr. H. W. Earp, Clerk, Kaituna River Board, Te Puke, at all times 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: Seven pence 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: Four pence and thirty-eight one-hundredths of a penny (4·38d.) in the pound.

Class B.—On the unimproved value of all land so classified as Class B: Three pence and forty one-hundredths of a penny (3·40d.) in the pound.

Class C.—On the unimproved value of all land so classified as Class C: One penny and ninety-five one-hundredths of a penny (1·95d.) in the pound.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of September, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

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

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 Ranfurly Extension No. 3, affecting parts of Block III, Town of Ranfurly, in Block VI, Maniototo Survey District, is intended to be used wholly for residential purposes, that Davis Avenue 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 laying-off of such road of a width of not less than 33 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 17th day of September, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 25/1101.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XV, Tawakira 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 Ranana, 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.