Authorizing the Laying-off of Roads of less Width than 66ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,

Wellington C. 1, 18th March, 1933.

WHEREAS, in the opinion of the Minister of Lands, it is inexpedient, by reason of the fact that the land shown upon the plans of Town of Tangarakau, affecting part Section 8, Block VII, Pouatu Survey District, is intended to be used wholly for residential purposes, that Pouatu, Kowhai, and Marae Streets 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 Pouatu, Kowhai, and Marae Streets 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 21st day of March, 1933.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 16/402.)

Alteration of Boundaries of Hanmer Plantation Fire District.

WHEREAS by a notice published in the Gazette on the 1st day of November, 1923, at page 2755 (hereinafter referred to as “the said notice”), a certain area in the Canterbury Land District, Amuri County, more particularly delineated on plan No. 129/6 (the said notice referred to such land being in Blocks XIV and XV, Percival Survey District, and Blocks II, III, VI, and VII, Lyndon Survey District), was declared to be a fire district; and is now known as Hanmer Plantation Fire District:

And whereas it is expedient to extend the boundaries of the said fire district by including therein the land described in the First Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921–22, and on the recommendation of the Director of Forestry and the Land Board of the Canterbury Land District, I do hereby declare that the land described in the First Schedule hereto shall, as on and from the date hereof, be deemed to be added to and form part of the Hanmer Plantation Fire District constituted by the said notice, and that the period (1st day of November in any year to the 28th day of February in the following year, inclusive) specified in the said notice as a closed season shall apply with respect to the land described in the said First Schedule hereto; and with the like power and authority, do declare that the fire district comprising together the area first hereinbefore referred to and the land described in the said First Schedule hereto (the boundaries of which fire district are set out in the Second Schedule hereto) shall be known as Hanmer Plantation Fire District.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CANTERBURY FOREST-

CONSERVATION REGION.

Area added to Hanmer Plantation Fire District.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement 700 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks VI and VII, Lyndon Survey District, and bounded generally as follows : Commencing at the intersection of the right bank of the Hanmer River with the eastern boundary of Block III, Lyndon Survey District ; thence proceeding due south to the left bank of the aforesaid river ; thence westerly along the said left bank to the north-western corner of section 134, Block VI aforesaid ; thence along a right line across the said river to the south-western corner of Section 78, Block VI aforesaid ; thence along the south-western, north-western, and north-eastern boundaries of Section 78 aforesaid to the right bank of the Hanmer River ; and thence in an easterly direction along the said right bank to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 129/43, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered yellow.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

HANMER PLANTATION FIRE DISTRICT.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement 20,200 acres, more or less, situated in Blocks XIV and XV, Percival Survey District, and Blocks II, III, VI, and VII, Lyndon Survey District, and bounded generally as follows : Commencing at the intersection of the eastern boundary of Block XV aforesaid with the boundary between Pastoral Runs 14 and 17 ; thence proceeding due south to the left bank of the Hanmer River ; thence in a westerly direction along the said left bank to the north-western corner of Section 134, Block VI aforesaid ; thence along a right line across the said river to the south-western corner of Section 78, Block VI aforesaid ; thence northerly along the south-western and north-western boundaries of Section 78 aforesaid, and the western boundaries of Section 64, Block VI aforesaid, and Section 59, Block II aforesaid ; thence westerly along the southern boundaries of Sections 52 and 51, Block II aforesaid ; thence northerly along the western boundary of Section 51 aforesaid, the eastern side of a road reserve which forms the eastern boundary of Reserve 3656, the eastern boundaries of Hanmer Township and Sections 8 and 5, Hanmer Springs Reserve ; thence along the northern boundary of Section 5 aforesaid, the eastern and northern boundaries of a road and the northern boundary of Section 23, Hanmer Springs Reserve, to the south-western corner of Reserve 3661 ; thence northerly along the western boundaries of Blocks II and XIV, aforesaid ; and thence due east along a right line to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 129/43, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Dated this 22nd day of March, 1933.

E. A. RANSOM, Commissioner of State Forests.

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to fill Extra-

ordinary Vacancy on the Hawera Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 16th March, 1933.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, and the rules made thereunder, I, James Alexander Young, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 6th day of April, 1933, to be the date for holding the election of one member of the Hawera Fire Board by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. K. C. Akers.

J. A. YOUNG,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1933/70/16.)

Special Order made by Buller County Council declaring Sections 121 and 131, Counties Act, 1920, not to apply to that Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 20th March, 1933.

THE following special order made by the Buller County Council is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931.

J. A. YOUNG,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

BULLER COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL ORDER TO DECLARE THAT SECTIONS 121 AND 131 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT (COUNTIES ACT, 1920) NOT TO APPLY.

That, by special order, the Buller County Council declares that sections 121 and 131 of the principal Act shall not apply to the Council, inasmuch that the Council shall close the separate Riding Accounts, kept pursuant to subsection 3 of section 131 of the principal Act, by incorporating in the General Account of the County Funds the balances of such separate accounts, and that, subject to subsection 2 of section 121 of the principal Act, the Council shall thereafter make and levy all general rates over the county as a whole instead of separately as in each riding.

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the special order made at the meeting of the Buller County Council, held at the Buller County Office, Wednesday, 15th February, and that the order was duly advertised once in each of the four weeks immediately preceding the meeting to confirm the resolution.

I further certify that the resolution was confirmed at the meeting of the Buller County Council held at the County Office, on Wednesday, 15th March, 1933.

C. F. SCHADICK,

County Engineer-Clerk.

(I.A. 1933/126/2.)