JUNE 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1431

Classification of Portion of Auckland—Wellington Main Highway.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Transport Department Act, 1929, and the Heavy
Motor-vehicle Regulations, 1932, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Transport, do hereby declare that that portion
of the Auckland—Wellington via Taranaki Main Highway commencing at the Paekakariki Railway-station and terminating in the Horokiwi Gorge at Section 20, Block 6, Paekakariki
Survey District, shall belong to Class Three, available for the use thereon of any heavy motor-vehicle (other than a multi-axled heavy motor-vehicle) which with the load it is carrying
weighs not more than 6½ tons, or any multi-axled heavy motor-vehicle which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 10 tons.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1932.
J. G. COATES, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 10/170.)

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

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st June, 1932.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registers of New Zealand 5½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 15th January,
1933, will be closed from the 1st July to the 15th July, 1932 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Finance.

Ashburton County Council.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan Authority.

In the matter of section 118 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Ashburton County Council has been duly authorized to borrow by way of special loan the
sum of six thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds for meeting the Council's share of the cost of reconstructing the
Ashburton Traffic-bridge on the Christchurch-Dunedin Main
Highway, and the consent of the Governor-General in Council
to the raising of the said loan was given by Order in Council
made on the 19th day of August, 1929, and published in the
Gazette on the 22nd day of the same month, at page 2143:

And whereas in respect of the said sum of six thousand
seven hundred and fifty pounds there has been raised and
borrowed for the purposes aforesaid the sum of four thousand
three hundred and seventy-six pounds nineteen shillings and
eleven pence, 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
Ashburton County Council 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, as amended by section 46 of the Finance Act,
1931 (No. 4), and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling,
I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Finance, do hereby
cancel the authority of the Ashburton County Council to
borrow, under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the
sum of two thousand three hundred and seventy-three pounds
and one penny, 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 four thousand three hundred and
seventy-six pounds nineteen shillings and eleven pence
already borrowed pursuant to the said loan authority.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of June, 1932.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Finance.
(T. 49/470.)

Removal of Name from the Commission of the Peace.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th June, 1932.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased,
in terms of section 8 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, to direct the removal of the name of
Henry Butcher,
of Mosgiel, from the Commission of the Peace; and it is hereby notified that such name has been removed accordingly,
and that such removal will take effect on and from this 6th day of June, 1932.
JOHN. G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

General Election of Members of Rabbit Boards.—(Notice No. Ag. 3044.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 7th June, 1932.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer of the several Rabbit Boards mentioned in
the Schedule hereto that the persons whose names are set under the name of each such Board in the said Schedule have
been duly elected as members of that Board, pursuant to the provisions in that behalf of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928.
CHAS. E. MacMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

SCHEDULE.

Apiti-Pohangina Rabbit Board.
Arthur Brooking,
Theophilus Edward Craine,
James Daniel Calvin,
John Stewart McIntyre, and
Henry London Osborne.

Whitehall Rabbit Board.
Herbert Nicholas Lowell,
James Walter Jeans,
William Gilbert Hulse,
Allan Roy Dunning, and
William Seymour Brunskill.

Eastern Pohangina Rabbit Board.
Richard Port,
William George Seymour Romley,
Thomas Searle,
John Edward Spelman, and
Thomas John Spelman.

Motunau Rabbit Board.
Henry Byrch,
Norman Dugald F. Campbell,
Hugh Fitzsimmons,
Eric Charrington Gardiner, and
David Thomas Matson.

Manawatu Rabbit Board.
Walter Edward Barber,
Bernard Gapper Gower,
Thomas Alfred Grammer,
James Flockhart McKelvie, and
Francis Campbell Raikes.

Maungakawa Rabbit Board.
William James Elliott,
Edward Henry Hall,
Roland Kidd,
Hugh Pierpont Hewitt, and
Ivan Dyche Woodroffe.

Banks Peninsula Rabbit Board.
William Alexander Gray,
James Viles Chapman,
Charles John Richfield,
James Openshaw Coop, and
Henry Alexander Nutt.

Te Aria Rabbit Board.
Alexander Hanna,
Sidney John Laurence, and
Arthur Richard Thompson.

Kihikihi Rabbit Board.
Hamilton Allen,
John Thomas Bryant,
Arthur Thomas Bryant,
John Patrick Linehan, and
Hall Raine.

Hairini Rabbit Board.
Henry Valentine Collison,
Gordon William Johnson,
Herbert Mandeno,
John Edward Perry, and
Andrew Rennie.

Kawa West Rabbit Board.
Mervyn Roy Ashton,
Samuel George Broadbent,
William George Neill,
John Burgess Teasdale, and
John Leddra Wallis.