Oct. 1.]

Classification of Portion of Blenheim - Hope Junction Main Highway.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Transport Department Act, 1929, and the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927, and their amendments, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Transport, do hereby approve of the Main Highways Board's proposed classification of that portion of the Blenheim - Hope Main Highway, commencing at the common boundary of the Marlborough and Waimea Counties, and terminating at the junction with the Nelson-Westport Main Highway at Hope Junction, in the Third 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 6½ tons, or any multi-axled motor-lorry which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 8 tons.
Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of September, 1931.
J. G. COATES, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 9/18/1.)

Meetings of Nelson Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1931.
NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of meetings of the Nelson Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, at 11 o'clock a.m. on Thursday, 14th January, 11th February, 10th March, 14th April, 12th May, 9th June, 14th July, 11th August, 8th September, 13th October, 10th November, and 8th December, during the year 1932.
E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 22/748/6.)

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

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th September, 1931.
PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I hereby notify that the undermentioned land, being the land known as Finlayson Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act as from the 22nd December, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.--FINLAYSON SETTLEMENT.
ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, Whangarei County, containing by admeasurement 1,380 acres, more or less, being Allotments 76, 77, 78, 100, S.E. 75, N.E. 96, S.E. 96, S.W. 98, N.E. 98, N.E. 99, S.W. 99, N.W. 101, S.E. 101, Parish of Ruarangi, contained in Certificate of Title Vol. 539, folio 91; Allotments N. 73, N. 75, Parish of Ruarangi, contained in Certificate of Title Vol. 84, folio 3; Allotment S.W. 77, Parish of Mangapai, contained in Certificate of Title Vol. 130, folio 286; and Allotment S.W. 78, Parish of Mangapai, containing in Certificate of Title Vol. 60, folio 135. As the same is more particularly delineated on a plan marked L. and S. 26/2/15, and deposited under No. 2515 in the Head Office of the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, and thereon edged red.
E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 26/2/15.)

Wairau River Board.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan Authority.

In the matter of Section 118 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.
WHEREAS the Wairau River Board has been duly authorized to borrow by way of loan the sum of £14,500 for the purchase of land required in connection with river-improvement schemes, and the consent of the Governor-General in Council thereto was given by Order in Council made on the 29th day of July, 1929, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 53, on 1st August, 1929, at page 1936 :
And whereas in respect of the said sum of £14,500 there has been raised and borrowed for the purposes aforesaid the sum of £13,900:
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 Minister of Finance has duly notified the Wairau River 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, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Finance, do hereby cancel the authority of the Wairau River Board to borrow under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the sum of £600, 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 £13,900 already borrowed pursuant to the said loan authority.
Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of September, 1931.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Finance.
(T. 49/225.)

Including additional Land in the Heretaunga Development Scheme.

Office of the Native Minister,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1931.
WHEREAS notice was published in the Gazette of the 20th August, 1931, 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 Karamu F2 and other blocks of Native land or land owned by Natives, in the Ikaroa Native Land Court District : And whereas the Native Minister has now decided that the Native land or land owned by Natives set out in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions of subsection (3) of the said section 23, and shall be included in and form part of the Heretaunga Development Scheme. Notice of the Native Minister's intention is hereby given and published in accordance with the said subsection (3), which provides that no owner shall, except with the consent of the Native Minister, be entitled to exercise any rights of ownership in connection with the land affected so as to interfere with or obstruct the carrying-out of any works undertaken or to be undertaken under the said subsection (3).

SCHEDULE.

The following lands situate in the Heretaunga Survey District in the Ikaroa Native Land Court District:
| Block | Area. A. R. P. |
|-------|----------------|
| Puninga 4A 1 .. .. .. .. 71 1 24 |
| ,, 4A 2 .. .. .. .. 9 2 0 |
| Residue of Wharerangi 6B 4B 2 left after the sale of 11 acres 1 rood 22 perches thereof to one Charles Codd .. .. .. .. .. 83 3 20 |
| Northern and separate portion of Karamu C 2 .. 16 2 14 |
| Total .. .. .. .. 181 1 28 |
A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-orders and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for Woodford and Grant, Melbourne.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having reasonable ground for supposing that the persons whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under section 32 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, that no money-order in favour of either of the said persons shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to either of the said persons (either by their own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to the address in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

W. GRANT, Box 1438, G.P.O., Melbourne, Vic. Woodford and Grant, Melbourne ; or Box 1438, G.P.O., Melbourne, Vic.
Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of September, 1931.
ADAM HAMILTON, Postmaster-General.