$JUNE 16.]

Hutt County Council.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan Authority.

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

WHEREAS the Hutt County Council has been duly authorized to borrow by way of special loan the sum of one thousand six hundred and fifty pounds (£1,650) for extending the water-supply at Paekakariki, 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 22nd day of December, 1930, and published in the Gazette on the 23rd day of the same month at page 3900:

And whereas in respect of the said sum of one thousand six hundred and fifty pounds (£1,650) there has been raised and borrowed for the purposes aforesaid the sum of one thousand one hundred pounds (£1,100), 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 Hutt 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 (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 Hutt County Council to borrow, under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the sum of five hundred and fifty pounds (£550), 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 one thousand one hundred pounds (£1,100) already borrowed pursuant to the said loan authority.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of June, 1932.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Finance.
(T. 49/290/10.)

Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for W. Hammond, Hobart.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is 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 the said person shall be issued and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his 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. HAMMOND, "City Hall," Collins Street, Hobart, Tasmania.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of June, 1932.

ADAM HAMILTON, Postmaster-General.

Te Kuiti Base Farm Development Scheme.

Office of the Native Minister,
Wellington, 14th June, 1932.

PURSUANT to the provisions on that behalf conferred upon me, I, Apirana Turupa Ngata, Native Minister, have decided to apply the provisions of subsection (3) of section 522 of the Native Land Act, 1931, to the lands set out in the Schedule hereunder to be known as the Te Kuiti Base Farm Development Scheme, and I hereby give notice of my intention to do so.

No owner, except with the consent of the Native Minister, is entitled to exercise any rights of ownership in connection with the land affected so as to interfere with or obstruct the carrying-out of the said development scheme.

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

SCHEDULE.

THE following lands situate in Block III, Otanake Survey District, in the Waikato-Maniopoto Native Land Court District:

Pukenui 2 T2, Lot 1, D.P. 12914 .. 195 2 23·7
Pukenui 2 T3, Lot 2, D.P. 12737 .. 422 1 0
Total .. .. .. 617 3 23·7

Waipipi Development Scheme.

Office of the Native Minister,
Wellington, 14th June, 1932.

PURSUANT to the provisions on that behalf conferred upon me, I, Apirana Turupa Ngata, Native Minister, have decided to apply the provisions of subsection (3) of section 522 of the Native Land Act, 1931, to the lands set out in the Schedule hereunder to be known as the Waipipi Development Scheme, and hereby give notice of my intention to do so.

No owner, except with the consent of the Native Minister, is entitled to exercise any rights of ownership in connection with the land affected so as to interfere with or obstruct the carrying-out of the said development scheme.

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

SCHEDULE.

THE following lands situate in the Awhitu Survey District in the Waikato-Maniopoto Native Land Court District:-

Lot 323, Waipipi Parish .. .. 44 0 0
,, 324 ,, .. .. 25 0 0
,, 325 ,, .. .. 25 0 0
,, 326 ,, .. .. 26 0 0
,, 327 ,, .. .. 25 0 0
,, 328 ,, .. .. 25 0 0
,, 329 ,, .. .. 25 0 0
,, 330 ,, .. .. 42 0 0
,, 331 ,, .. .. 45 0 0
Total .. .. 282 0 0

Notice to Mariners No. 24 of 1932.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 11th June, 1932.

NEW INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS.

THE British edition of the new International Code of Signals which it is intended shall be brought into force on 1st January, 1934, has been published.

The British edition will be followed in due course by the issue of six other standard editions of the code in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, and Spanish.

Pending the coming into international operation of the new codes, it is hoped that masters and officers of British ships will take such opportunities as occur of familiarizing themselves with the new code and its procedure. A Notice to Mariners will be issued later suggesting that the code should be practised between British ships as from the 1st January, 1933, and indicating the procedure to be adopted by ships desiring to communicate in the new code. Later, when the various foreign editions are available, opportunities will occur for using the code between British ships and ships of other nationalities.

The new code, while mainly for the use of ships, provides also a considerable number of signals suitable for the use of aircraft. It consists of two volumes, Vol. I for visual and sound signalling, and Vol. II for radio signalling.

The new visual code makes use of twenty-six alphabetical flags, ten numeral flags, and three flags known as “substitutes,” in place of the twenty-six alphabetical flags of the existing code. It thus enables numbers to be signalled directly. Further, by means of the “substitutes,” signals can be made in which there are repeated letters or numbers. Such signals cannot, as a rule, be made by the present code unless a ship has two or more complete sets of the existing signalling flags. In the new code, new square flags have been introduced for the letters C, D, E, F, and G : and the pendants (or pennants), which in the existing code represent these letters, are used to denote the numerals 1 to 5 respectively, new pendants having been introduced to denote the remaining numerals 0 and 6 to 9.

Certain alterations in the meanings of the single-letter signals have been made in the new code, and the two-letter signals have been completely revised, though certain important two-letter signals such as NC, JD, and PT retain their old and well-established meanings. The three-letter signals have been completely revised and brought up to date. The geographical section has been entirely rewritten.

Vol. II (for radio signalling) is the first official international wireless telegraphy code issued specially for the use of the merchant and air services. It contains full instructions for use, including advice as to the best methods of compiling code messages so as to avoid difficulties of translation, a table for correcting corrupt groups, a general vocabulary, and a geographical section. An interesting feature of this volume is the case-stating system embodied in the medical