1988
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 55

Christchurch City Council.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan Authority.

In the matter of section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Christchurch City Council has been duly authorized to borrow by way of special loan a sum not exceeding seventeen thousand pounds (£17,000) for loan-redemption purposes, 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 15th day of May, 1933, and published in the Gazette on the 18th day of the same month, at page 1365 :

And whereas it has not been found necessary to borrow any portion of the amount so authorized, and the Minister of Finance has duly notified the Christchurch City Council in writing of his intention to cancel the loan authority not exercised :

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, as amended by section 46 of the Finance Act, 1931 (No. 4), and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Finance, do hereby cancel the authority of the Christchurch City Council to borrow, under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, any portion of the sum of seventeen thousand pounds (£17,000).

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of July, 1933.

J. G. COATES, MINISTER OF FINANCE.

(T. 49/268/36.)

Rangitaiki Land Drainage.—Notice of Intent ion to make and levy Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 1st August, 1933.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, pursuant to the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, and its amendments, to make and levy, on the unimproved value of all land within the district constituted under the said Act, the general rates to meet maintenance-costs for the period 1st April, 1933, to 31st March, 1934, as described in the First Schedule hereto ; and the special rates to meet interest on capital for the period 1st April, 1933, to 31st March, 1934, as described in the Second Schedule hereto.

The amount of such rates will be payable in one sum on the 21st August, 1933.

The valuation roll of the district is open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, Chief Drainage Engineer’s Office, Room 44, Government Buildings, Customs Street, Auckland, and a copy of same may be inspected at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer, at Thornton, near Whakatane, at all times at which those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
GENERAL RATES.

Class A : On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, twopence and three-tenths of a penny (2·3d.) in the pound.

Class B : On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, one penny and fifty-three one-hundredths of a penny (1·53d.) in the pound.

Class C : On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, seventy-seven one-hundredths of a penny (0·77d.) in the pound.

Class D : On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class D, twenty-five one-hundredths of a penny (0·25d.) in the pound.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
SPECIAL RATES.

Class A : On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, threepence and forty-seven one-hundredths of a penny (3·47d.) in the pound.

Class B : On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, twopence and thirty-two one-hundredths of a penny (2·32d.) in the pound.

Class C : On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, one penny and sixteen one-hundredths of a penny (1·16d.) in the pound.

Class D : On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class D thirty-nine one-hundredths of a penny (0·39d.) in the pound.

E. A. RANSOM, MINISTER OF LANDS.

(L. and S. 15/11/108.)

Land vested in the Christchurch City Council declared to be a Public Reserve.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 28th July, 1933.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following resolution was passed by the Christchurch City Council pursuant to section 5 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, on the 17th day of July, 1933, due notice of intention to pass such resolution having been given in terms of the said section, and no objection thereto received :

“The Christchurch City Council doth hereby declare that all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement 1 rood 17½ perches, being Lot 25 on Deposited Plan 2287, being the whole of the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 300, folio 270, vested in it, to be a public reserve within the meaning of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928.”

The land to which the foregoing resolution relates is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/241, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green.

(L. and S. 1/241.)

E. A. RANSOM, MINISTER OF LANDS.

(NOTE.—This notification is issued in substitution for that published in New Zealand Gazette No. 41, dated 1st June, 1933, at page 1515.)

Including Additional Land in the Oraka Development Scheme.

WHEREAS notice was published in the Gazette of the 24th July, 1930, of the Native Minister’s intention to apply the provisions of subsection (3) of section 23 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1929, to Oraka, Section 2a and other blocks, and known as the Oraka Development Scheme : And it being expedient to extend the scheme to Crown lands : Now, therefore, I, the said Native Minister, do hereby, with the consent of the Minister of Lands, extend and apply the provisions of section 522 of the Native Land Act, 1931, to the Crown land mentioned in the Schedule hereto as a part of such scheme, and hereby give notice of my intention accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of July, 1933.

A. T. NGATA, NATIVE MINISTER.

SCHEDULE.

The following land situate in the South Island Native Land Court District :

Section 2 of 10, Block XI, Longwood Survey District : Area, 11 acres 1 rood 20 perches.

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, John Bitchener, Acting Minister of Education, do hereby notify that the St. Vincent’s Home of Compassion, Vermont Street, Ponsonby, Auckland, has been registered as a Children’s Home as from the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of July, 1933.

JOHN BITCHENER,
ACTING MINISTER OF EDUCATION.

Amending Rules for the Examination of Masters and Mates.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 28th July, 1933.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the tenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and published in the Gazette of the fifteenth day of the same month, at page 3783, rules for the conduct of examinations of Masters and Mates and as to the qualifications of applicants for examination were made :

And whereas it is expedient to amend the said rules in the manner hereinafter described :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by section 23 of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, I do hereby amend the said rules by revoking Rule 77 and paragraph (2) of Rule 108 thereof and Appendix E thereto.

JOHN G. COBBE, MINISTER OF MARINE.