APRIL 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 611

Classification of No. 1 Main Highway, Waipapakauri to Wellington, via Taranaki.

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 approve of the Main Highways Board’s proposed classification of the road described in the Schedule hereto, and situated in the Waitomo and Clifton Counties.

SCHEDULE.

WAITOMO AND CLIFTON COUNTIES.

ROAD classified in Class Four: 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 4½ tons, or any multi-axled heavy motor-vehicle which with the load it is carrying weighs not more than 6½ tons:—

Waipapakauri—Wellington, via Taranaki Main Highway No. 1.

That portion of the main highway commencing at Awakino and terminating at the Uruti Road Junction in Uruti, and situate in the Waitomo and Clifton Counties.

Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of March, 1933.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 10/195.)

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

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers’ Regulations, 1931, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, 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 authority described in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Putaruru Town Board .. R. W. Cook, Company-manager, Putaruru.
Inangahua County Council .. N. B. Griffin, County Officer, Reefton.

Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of March, 1933.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4.)

Special Order made by the Ross Borough Council altering the Total Number of Members of the Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th April, 1933.

THE following Special Order, made by the Ross Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

SPECIAL ORDER.

PURSUANT to section 142 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, it is hereby notified that at a special meeting of the Ross Borough Council, held on the 2nd March, 1933, at the Council Chambers, Moorhouse Street, Ross, the following resolution was passed and duly confirmed at a special meeting held on 31st March, 1933, viz.:—

“That the number of councillors for the Borough of Ross be reduced from nine to six.”

JOHN MURDOCH, Mayor.

A. W. PEEBLES, Town Clerk.

(I.A. 1933/218/3.)

Result of Election of a Member of the Hawera Fire Board by Fire Insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th April, 1933.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Hawera Fire Board has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1926.

Hawera Fire Board: James Alexander Robb.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

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Endowment Reserves for Education sanctioned by Parliament.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st April, 1933.

THE following resolutions, passed by the Legislative Council and by the House of Representatives, are published in accordance with section 362, subsection 3, of the Land Act, 1924.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, TUESDAY, THE 29TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1932.

Resolved: “That the Report of the Lands Committee on paper 213, relative to the proposed issue of Orders in Council for reservation for primary-education endowments in North Auckland and Auckland Land Districts, be agreed to.”

On the motion of the Hon. Mr. Moore.

A true extract—
E. W. KANE,
Clerk of the Legislative Council.

EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THURSDAY, THE 2ND DAY OF MARCH, 1933.

Ordered: “That this House agrees to the report of the Lands Committee on paper 170 that the proposal to reserve certain land in North Auckland and Auckland Land Districts as endowments for primary education be approved.”

On motion of the Hon. Mr. Ransom.

A true extract—
T. D. H. HALL,
Clerk of the House of Representatives.

LANDS PROPOSED TO BE PERMANENTLY RESERVED AS ENDOWMENT FOR PRIMARY EDUCATION.

North Auckland Land District.

Section 31, Block VIII, Whangape S.D. | A. R. P. 4 2 06 | 22/10/32 | No. 67 of 27/10/32.

Auckland Land District.

Section 3, Block III, Wharepapa S.D. | 723 1 15 | 22/10/32 | No. 67 of 27/10/32.

Extension to French Colonies and Mandated Territories of the Convention between the United Kingdom and France respecting Legal Proceedings in Civil and Commercial Matters.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st March, 1933.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the Convention between the United Kingdom and France respecting Legal Proceedings in Civic and Commercial Matters, signed at London on the 2nd February, 1922, the extension of which to New Zealand was notified in the Gazette of the 2nd February, 1928, has been extended to the French Colonies and Mandated Territories enumerated in the Schedule hereto as from the 1st January, 1933.

In each of these Colonies and Territories the Rogatory Acts and Commissions should be served on the Attorney or Attorney-General, Chief of Justice, who will ensure their transmission to the competent services, and communications and translations are to be made in the French language.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

SCHEDULE.

Colonies—
Indo-China.
French West Africa.
French Equatorial Africa.
Madagascar and Dependencies.
French Somali Coast.
Reunion.
Martinique.
Guadeloupe.
St. Pierre and Miquelon.
New Caledonia.

Countries under Mandate—
Togo.
Cameroon.