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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

Declaring Area to be a Closely Populated Locality for the
Purposes of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936,
Section 3.

IN terms of section 3 of the Motor-vehicles Amendment
Act, 1936, the Minister of Transport does hereby declare
the area described in the Schedule hereto to be a closely
populated locality for the purposes of the said section to
the intent that a person driving any motor-vehicle on any
road, street, or other place to which the public have access
therein, shall be subject to a maximum speed limit of thirty
miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE.

SITUATED within the Southland County. All that area
adjoining the Invercargill–Queenstown Main Highway No. 229
from the Invercargill City boundary to the junction of West
Plains Road with the said main highway, a distance of
approximately 1 mile 34 chains.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of October, 1937.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/144.)

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

Department of Internal Affairs.
Wellington, 6th October, 1937.

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

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1937/126/11.)

SPECIAL ORDER.

IN exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2 of the
Counties Amendment Act, 1931, the Tauranga County
Council resolves and declares by way of special order that
sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920 (as to levy of
general rates separately in ridings and as to apportionment
of income, &c.), shall not apply to the Tauranga County
Council.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and
Inhabitants of the County of Tauranga was hereto affixed at
the office of and pursuant to a resolution of the Tauranga
County Council in the presence of—

G. H. MENDS, Chairman,
H. LEWIS, County Clerk.

In accordance with section 2 (2) of the Counties Amend-
ment Act, 1931, we hereby declare that the above special
order has been duly made.

Dated at Tauranga, this 16th of September, 1937.

G. H. MENDS, Chairman.
H. LEWIS, County Clerk.

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

WHEREAS in the opinion of the Minister of Lands it is
inexpedient, by reason of the fact that the land shown
upon the plan of the Town of Lowry Bay Extension No. 19,
affecting parts of Sections 22, 23 and 24, Harbour Registration
District, Block XVI, Belmont Survey District, is intended to
be used wholly for residential purposes, that Walter Road
Extension and Gill Road Extension shown therein should be
of the width of 66 ft.

Now, therefore, I, Frank Langstone, 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
power me thereunto enabling, authorize the laying-off of
Walter Road Extension of a width of not less than 50 ft.
and Gill Road Extension 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-line of such roads.

Given under my hand, this 5th day of October, 1937.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 25/234.)

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

WHEREAS in the opinion of the Minister of Lands it is
inexpedient, by reason of the fact that the land
shown upon the plan of the Town of Mt. Pleasant Extension
No. 34, affecting part of Rural Section 4, Block XVI,
Christchurch Survey District, is intended to be used wholly
for residential purposes, that the proposed road shown
therein should be of a width of 66 ft. :

Now, therefore, I, Frank Langstone, 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 power me thereunto enabling, authorize the laying-off
of such road 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-line of such road.

Given under my hand, this 5th day of October, 1937.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 25/897.)

Hauraki Plains Drainage District.—Notice of making and
levying Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th October, 1937.

I, FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands, in the
exercise of powers conferred upon me by the Hauraki
Plains Act, 1926, do hereby make and levy on the unim-
proved value of all lands within the district constituted
under the said Act the general rates to meet maintenance
costs for the period 1st April, 1937, to 31st March, 1938, as
described in the Schedule hereto.

The amount of such rates will be payable in one sum on
the 11th October, 1937.

The rate-book of the district is open for inspection at the
office of the Collector of Rates, Chief Drainage Engineer’s
Office, Room 45, Government Buildings, Customs Street West,
Auckland, and a copy of same may be inspected at the office
of the Chief Drainage Engineer, at Kerepeehi, at all times at
which those offices are open for the transaction of public
business.

SCHEDULE.

Class A : On the unimproved value of all lands classified as
Class A by the appraiser appointed under the said Act,
three-pence and fifty-five one-hundredths of a penny (3.55d.)
in the pound.

Class B : On the unimproved value of all lands so classified
as Class B, twopence and three-hundredths of a penny
(2.03d.) in the pound.

Class C : On the unimproved value of all lands so classified
as Class C, fifty-hundredths of a penny (.50d.) in the pound.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of September, 1937.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/13/154.)

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 4th October, 1937.

THE St. Patrick’s Branch, No. 889, with registered office
at Fairlie, is registered as a branch of The New
Zealand District of the Hibernian-Australasian Catholic
Benefit Society Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies
Act, 1909, this 4th day of October, 1937.

R. SINEL,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Officiating Ministers for 1937.—Notice No. 38.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 5th October, 1937.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908,
the following name of an officiating minister within the
meaning of the said Act is published for general information :—

The Church of Te Kooti Rikirangi.

Mr. Kaiwhare Kireona.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.