JULY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1613

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 4th July, 1932.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

James William Butcher

to be Government Statistician for the purposes of the Census and Statistics Act, 1926, as from the 1st day of July, 1932.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block V, Mangonui 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 Mangonui, 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 areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P. Being Portion of
3 1 0 Part Allotment 2.
0 2 11 Part Allotment 2.

Situated in Block V, Mangonui Survey District. (S.O. 26869.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 84221, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 5th day of July, 1932.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN,
Acting Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 33/1232.)

Multi-axled Heavy Motor-vehicles under the Heavy Motor-vehicle Regulations, 1932.

I, ETHELBERT ALFRED RANSOM, Acting Minister of Transport, do hereby approve as a multi-axled heavy motor-vehicle under the Heavy Motor-vehicle Regulations, 1932, any heavy motor-vehicle specially designed or adapted so that the weight of the vehicle and its load is carried on three axles, and having not less than two wheels to each axle.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of June, 1932.

E. A. RANSOM,
Acting Minister of Transport.

(TT. 14/1.)

Approving of Testing Officers under the Motor-drivers Regulations, 1931.

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations, 1931, I, Ethelbert Alfred Ransom, Acting Minister of Transport, do hereby approve, until further notice, of the persons named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officers under the said regulations for the local authorities described in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

COUNTIES.

Column 1. Column 2.
Otorohanga .. Urquhart, G., County Officer, Otorohanga.
Waikato .. Mason, F. W., Motor Mechanic, Huntly; Linton, J. A., Motor Mechanic, Rangiriri.
Waimate .. Bennett, W. J., Motor Engineer, Pareora East.

Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of July, 1932.

E. A. RANSOM,
Acting Minister of Transport.

(T.T. 9/4.)

Regulations as to Drainage and Plumbing under the Health Act, 1920, applied to Borough of Shannon.—(H.H. 117.)

Department of Health,
Wellington, 1st July, 1932.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council made on the 3rd day of September, 1923, and gazetted on the 6th day of the same month, regulations (to be cited as “The Drainage and Plumbing Regulations”) were made under the Health Act, 1920, prescribing the conditions to be observed in the construction of approved drains, septic tanks, sanitary conveniences, and sanitary appliances:

And whereas by the said regulations it was provided that the same were suspended as provided in the said Act:

And whereas by section 133 of the said Act it is enacted that the operation of any such regulation may, if so provided therein, be wholly suspended until they are applied by the Minister by notice in the Gazette to any part of New Zealand:

Now, therefore, I, James Alexander Young, Minister of Health, in exercise of the power and authority given by the said regulations, and by section 133 of the said Act, do hereby apply the said regulations to the Borough of Shannon, and do hereby declare that this notice shall take effect on the 1st day of August, 1932.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Children’s Home registered.

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.—CHILD WELFARE AMENDMENT ACT, 1927.

IN pursuance of the power vested in me by section 6, subsection (1), of the Child Welfare Amendment Act, 1927, I, Robert Masters, Minister of Education, do hereby notify that Miss Elsie Reston’s Home, situate at Childers Road, Gisborne, has been registered as a Children’s Home as from the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of July, 1932.

R. MASTERS, Minister of Education.

General Election of Members of Rabbit Boards.—(Notice No. Ag. 3052.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 6th July, 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.

Patea-Waitotara Rabbit Board.
Thomas Alexander,
James Hodges,
George Vater Pearce,
Thomas Lupton, and
William Henry Watkins.

Wanganui Rabbit Board.
Duncan Mackintosh,
James Farley,
Arthur Hellyer Collins,
Arthur Reginald Sommerville, and
William Craig.

Wangaehu Rabbit Board.
Duncan Mackintosh,
David Laing Blyth,
James Craig,
James Allison, and
Duncan Gordon McLachlan.

Notification of Vacancy of Seat in the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Southern Maori.

IN compliance with the provisions of section 103 of the Electoral Act, 1927, I, Charles Ernest Statham, Speaker of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, hereby notify that Tuiti Makitanara, a member of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Southern Maori, died on the 24th day of June, 1932, during a recess of the House, and that the said seat in the House of Representatives for the said Electoral District is vacant by reason of such death.

Dated at Wellington, the 1st day of July, 1932.

CHAS. E. STATHAM, Speaker.