Nov. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3165

Declaring Road-lines adjoining and passing through Land in Tokarahi Settlement, Otago Land District, to be closed, and the Land comprised therein to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that the said roads are adjacent to or intersect land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1894, and amendments, and are not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and six of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby declare the roads hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the land comprised in the said roads shall thereupon become subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of each of the portions of road required to be closed:—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
0 0 30}
0 1 35} Through Section 1, Block II.
0 1 0 |
0 1 10 |
0 2 13 |
0 1 0 |
1 1 25 Through and fronting Sections I and 7, Block II.

1 3 0} Fronting Section 7, Block II.
0 1 25} Through Section 1, Block VI.
2 2 24 Through Sections 1 and 7, Block VI.
3 2 24 Through Sections 1 and 7, Block VI.
5 2 20 Through Sections 6, 7, and PR (C), Block VI.
0 3 26 Through Sections 6 and 7, Block VI.
0 3 32 Through Section 6, Block VI.
4 0 10 Through Sections 1, 6, and 7, Block VI.
0 1 36 Through Section 9, Block VI.
1 2 28} Between portion of Sections 4 and 10, Block III.
2 1 20 Through Sections 1 and 16, Block VII.
0 2 20 Through Section 16, Block VII.
4 0 24 Through Sections 16 and 17, Block VII.
1 0 13}
1 2 28}
2 1 15}
0 2 20}
0 0 20}
0 3 10}
4 0 30} Through Section 17, Block VII.
0 2 30}
8 0 10}
0 2 35}
0 1 26}
0 3 32}

2 1 16 Through Sections 14 and 4, Block VII.
1 1 33 Through Sections 4 and 8, Block VII.
6 3 22 Through Sections 8, 7, 6, and 17, Block VII.
10 2 15 Through Sections 17, 5, and 18, Block VII.
1 0 0} Through Section 1, Block VIII.
0 0 20}
0 2 28}
1 0 32}
0 0 20}

1 1 0} Through Section 1 and PR (C), Block VIII.
5 3 10 Through Sections 1 and 3, Block VIII.
0 1 0 Through Section 3, Block VIII.
5 1 25 Through Sections 1 and 3 and PR (E), Block VIII.

2 2 20 Through Section 3 and PR (E), Block VIII.
16 2 16}
15 0 15} Through Section 3, Block VIII.
6 0 25}

Situated in Maruvenua Survey District.

In the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 19016, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2661, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of November, 1933.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 19016.)

The New Zealand Law Society.—Additional Rule under Part III, Law Practitioners Act, 1931 (Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund).

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon it by Part III of the Law Practitioners Act, 1931, the Council of the New Zealand Law Society incorporated by the said Act hereby makes the following further rule:—

SOLICITORS RECEIVING MONEY ON DEPOSIT.

WHEREAS the receipt by a solicitor of money on deposit, unless there be proper evidence of the nature of the contract, may lead to claims upon the fund that are not valid, no solicitor shall receive any money on deposit, except under the following conditions:—

(a) Contemporaneously with the making of any such deposit the solicitor shall procure the signature of the depositor to a written acknowledgment in the form set out in the Schedule hereto.

(b) The signature thereto of such depositor shall be attested by the Secretary of the District Law Society of the district in which the solicitor practises, or by an independent solicitor. It shall be the duty of such Secretary or of such independent solicitor to satisfy himself that the depositor fully understands the nature and effect of the proposed deposit and of the said acknowledgment.

(c) Duplicates of the said acknowledgment shall forthwith be lodged with the said District Law Society and with the Council of the New Zealand Law Society or its delegated committee of management, as the case may be.

(d) The deposit shall be made and the solicitor’s receipt therefor shall be given contemporaneously with the signing of the said acknowledgment. The receipt shall contain such particulars of names, amounts, and dates as shall clearly identify the deposit with the deposit acknowledged in the said acknowledgment.

SCHEDULE.

FORM OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

I, [Full name, occupation, and address of depositor], hereby acknowledge that the sum of [which I have agreed to deposit with Mr. [Full name and address of solicitor] is a deposit with the said [Name of solicitor] upon the following terms [Here fully set out the terms], and that no claim in respect of the said money will lie against the Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund and that the nature and effect of the proposed deposit and of this acknowledgment have been explained to me by Mr. [Name of witness], who is the Secretary of the District Law Society [or who is an independent solicitor employed by me to advise me upon the proposed deposit and this acknowledgment].

Dated at , this day of , 19 .

Signed by the said [Depositor] in the presence of:—
Secretary of the District Law Society,
or A Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

The foregoing rule was duly made by the Council of the New Zealand Law Society at a meeting of the said Council held at Wellington on the 30th day of June, 1933.

C. H. TREADWELL, President.
H. J. THOMPSON, Secretary.

Approved in Council this 20th day of November, 1933.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Members of Assessment Court for Farm-land List for Borough of Birkenhead appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th November, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in terms of section 10 of the Urban Farm Land Rating Act, 1932, to appoint

William Alexander Bishop, Esquire, Farmer, of Titirangi, to be a member of the Assessment Court for the Borough of Birkenhead; and also to appoint

William Wallace, Esquire, Estate Agent, of Auckland, on the recommendation of the Birkenhead Borough Council, to be a member of the said Assessment Court.

J. A. YOUNG,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1933/223/27.)