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Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XI, Waiau 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 Waiau, 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.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken : 17·4 perches.

Being portion of Section 345, Square 85, Amuri.

Situated in Block XI, Waiau Survey District (Canterbury R.D.). (S.O. 903/157.)

In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 80842, deposited in the office of the Minister of Pubic Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 12th day of October, 1931.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works. (P.W. 45/173.)

Authorizing the Laying-off of Roads 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 Okiwi, affecting part Section 19 of Square 91, in Block X, Wangamoa Survey District, is intended to be used wholly for residential purposes, that Whetu, Turi, Old Mill, Harbour View Roads, Orchard Lane, and Stoneways 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 Whetu, Turi, Old Mill Roads, and Orchard Lane of a width of not less than 50 ft. and of Harbour View Road and Stoneways of a width of not less than 40 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 13th day of October, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands. (L. and S. 25/1158.)

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,

Wellington, 8th October, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registers of New Zealand 4½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 15th November, 1938, will be closed from the 31st October to the 15th November, 1931 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Finance.

Officiating Ministers for 1931.—Notice No. 33.

Registrar-General's Office,

Wellington, 13th October, 1931.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:-

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Gordon Melville McKenzie, B.A.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Donald Neill McDiarmid, B.A.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General,

[No. 75

Mining Privileges to be Struck off the Register.—Notice under the Mining Act, 1926.

Mining Registrar's Office,

Gore, 10th October, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the provisions of section 188 (3) of the Mining Act, 1926, unless sufficient cause be shown to the contrary within three months from the date hereof, the mining privilege mentioned in the Schedule hereto will be struck off the Register.

W. J. BLACKLER, Mining Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

PRIVILEGE : Water-race. Registered No. 1/1925. Date: 19/10/25. Locality : Section 4, Block IX, Tuturau. Registered holder : Thomas H. Watson.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 9th October, 1931.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor, Auckland City Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/121/22.)

CITY OF AUCKLAND.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the City of Auckland was taken on the 30th day of September, 1931, on the proposal of the Auckland City Council to borrow the sum of £50,000 for the purpose of providing drainage in the Tamaki District of the City of Auckland. The numbers of votes recorded for and against the proposal were as follows :-

Votes recorded for the proposal ... ... 368

Votes recorded against the proposal .. 363

Informal .. ... ... ... 9

I therefore declare that the foregoing proposal was carried.

GEO. W. HUTCHISON, Mayor.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Ahipara on the 18th November, 1931.

Registrar's Office,

Auckland, 13th October, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native Land Court sitting at Ahipara on the 18th November, 1931, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will allow.

E. P. EARLE, Registrar.

[Waikato-Maniapoto 1931-10.]

SCHEDULE.

No. 12. Applicant : Hoani Wiremu Taua and others. Name of land : Kareponia 1A 3. Nature of application : Application for assessment of compensation for loss, injury, or damage suffered by the taking of part of the said land for drainage purposes.

No. 13. Applicant : Kehu Tamati. Name of land : Maimaru D 3c 2B. Nature of application : Application for assessment of compensation for loss, injury, or damage suffered by the taking of part of the said land for drainage purposes.

No. 14. Applicant : Merepeka Tamati. Name of land : Maimaru D 3c 1 : Nature of application : Application for assessment of compensation for loss, injury, or damage suffered by the taking of part of the said land for drainage purposes.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

JOHN CARADUS, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Patea Electorate Licensed Vituallers' Association (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at New Plymouth, this 9th day of October, 1931.

J. CARADUS,

Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies,