SEPT. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2045

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XIII, Mapara 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 Poro-o-Tarao, 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
0 1 18·5 Rangitoto-Tuhua 79G 2A Block; coloured neutral.
0 1 10·9 Rangitoto-Tuhua 79G 2A Block; coloured neutral.
0 0 13·9 Rangitoto-Tuhua 79G 1 Block; coloured yellow, hatched scarlet.
0 0 18·3 Rangitoto-Tuhua 79H 1B 1 Block; coloured scarlet.

Situated in Block XIII, Mapara Survey District (Taranaki R.D.).

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 84344, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 20th day of September, 1932.

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

(P.W. 37/22.)

Notice as to Area declared to be a Fire District.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th September, 1932.

PURSUANT to section 9 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1932, I do hereby notify that, on the recommendation of the Land Board for the Auckland Land District, the area described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared by me to be a fire district, and I do further specify the period from the 1st day of November in any year to the 30th day of April in the following year, inclusive, as the period during which it shall not be lawful for any person within the said district, save pursuant to the written permit of the Commissioner of the Crown Lands for the Auckland Land District, to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any timber (whether standing or not), flax, or any undergrowth, or any debris from forest operations or land-clearing operations, or any grass or other specially inflammable material, without taking such precautions as may be prescribed by the said Commissioner of Crown Lands.

SCHEDULE.

HAURAKI PLAINS FIRE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District situated partly in the Hauraki Plains County and partly in the Piako County, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-western corner of Section 8, Block X, Wharekawa Survey District; towards the north by the southern boundary of Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 across the Pouarua Road, and by the southern boundary of Sections 13, 14, and 15, all of Block X, Wharekawa Survey District, to the north-west corner of Section 20, Block X, Thames Survey District; towards the east by the western boundary of the said Section 20, and by the western boundary of Section 2A, Block I, Waihou Survey District, across the Hopai Road, by the western boundaries of Section 4, Lots 1 and 2 of Section 6, across Rawerawe Road, by the western boundaries of Lot 1 of Section 15 and Section 17, all of the said Block I, Waihou Survey District, and across Orchard West Road; again towards the north and east by Orchard West Road, the west boundary of Section 21, Block I, Waihou Survey District, and across Phillips Road; again towards the north by Phillips Road; again towards the east by the Ngatea-Kaihere Road to the left bank of the Piako River, and by the said river-bank to the Reservoir Canal; again towards the north by the said Reservoir Canal to the Awaiiti Canal; again towards the east generally by the said Awaiiti Canal to and across an intercepting canal; again towards the north by the said intercepting canal and its production to the Netherton-Tirohia Road; and again towards the east generally by the said Netherton-Tirohia Road to the northern boundary of Te Awaiiti 1H 2B, Block IV, Waitoa Survey District, by that boundary to the north-west corner of Te Awaiiti 1H 2B, and by the western boundary of the said Te Awaiiti 1H 2B and its production to the Tirohia-Otway Road; towards the north-west by the said Tirohia-Otway Road to the left bank of the Waihou River; and again towards the east generally by the said river-bank to the southern boundary of Section 4, on Land Transfer Plan No. 3118A; towards the south generally by a public road and across a public road to a point in line with the production of the western boundary of Section 5, Block VIII, Waitoa Survey District; by a line drawn from this point to eastern-most corner of Section 13, Otway Settlement, Block VII, Waitoa Survey District; and by the eastern and northern boundaries of the said Section 13 to and across the Tirohia-Otway Road, and by the said road and the northern boundaries of Sections 12, 9, 10, 11, and 1, Otway Settlement, to the eastern boundary of Putea Hapa Hapai; and by the said eastern boundary to the Waitoa River; and by that river to and along the Paeroa-Tahuna Road to the south-west corner of Section 9, Block VI, Waitoa Survey District; and by the west boundary of Section 9 and the north boundary of Section 8, Block VI, Waitoa Survey District, to West Road; towards the west generally by the said West Road to the Piako River, and by the said river to the northern boundary of part Maukoro Block, Blocks I and II, Waitoa Survey District; and by the last-mentioned boundary to the Patetonga-Morrinsville Road, by a public road forming the eastern boundary of Sections 4 and 1, Block I, Waitoa Survey District, and by the northern boundary of the said Section 4 to the Patetonga-Morrinsville Road; by the last-mentioned road to the north-west corner of Section 44, Block XIII, Waihou Survey District; by the northern boundary of the said Section 44, and the west and north boundaries of Section 43 to and across a public road, and by the said public road to and across the Waikaka Tramway Road and by the last-mentioned road to the south-west corner of Waikaka C 2 A 1 Block; by the western boundary of this block and the northern boundaries of Waikaka C 2 A 3 and C 2 A 2 Blocks, and Section 5, Block XIII, Waihou Survey District, to the Waitakaruru-Morrinsville Road, and by this road to the north-west corner of Section 7, Block XIII, Waihou Survey District; thence by a public road forming the northern boundary of the said Section 7 and the western boundary of Sections 18 and 19 to and across the Mangawhero Road, continuing along the western boundary of Section 21, Block XII, Piako Survey District, to the southern boundary of Ngarua part 1B 1 Block; by the southern and western boundaries of this block to the north-east corner of Section 13, Block XII, Waihou Survey District; thence by a line to the south-east corner of Section 28, Block XII, Piako Survey District; by the eastern boundary of the said Section 28 to and along the south boundary of Section 27 to the aforesaid Waitakaruru-Morrinsville Road, and by the said road to the south corner of Section 12, Cemetery Reserve, Block XII, Piako Survey District; by the southern boundaries of Sections 12, 41, 40, and the eastern boundary of the said Section 40 to and across the Torehape-Puhanga Road; by that road and by the eastern and northern boundaries of Section 37, Block XII, Piako Survey District, to the aforesaid Waitakaruru-Morrinsville Road, and by that road and the Mahuta Road to the most southerly corner of Section 1, Block IV, Piako Survey District; thence by the south and east boundaries of the said Section 1 and the south boundary of Section 18, Block IV, Piako Survey District, across the Maukoro Canal to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 15/95/3, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged blue.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/95/3.)

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917, closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 19th September, 1932.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Registers of New Zealand 4½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 20th April, 1939, will be closed from the 1st to the 20th October, 1932 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

GEO. W. FORBES,
Acting Minister of Finance.