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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

Declaring Areas to be Closely Populated Localities 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 areas described in the Schedule hereto to be
closely populated localities 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 the maximum speed-limit
of thirty miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE.

SITUATED within Maniototo County—
All that area at Oturehua consisting of the Wedderburn-
Omakau via Ida Valley Main Highway No. 227 com-
mencing at a point 12 chains measured along the road
in a south-westerly direction from the Oturehua Post-
office and terminating at a point 14 chains measured
along the road in a south-westerly direction from its
junction with the Oturehua—Hills Creek Main Highway,
a distance of approximately 38 chains.

All that area at Ranfurly bounded by a line commencing
at the junction of Stuart Road and Alexander Street,
and proceeding thence in an easterly direction along
Alexander Street to its junction with Tyrone Street;
thence in a northerly direction along Tyrone Street to
its junction with Caulfield Street; thence in a westerly
direction along Caulfield Street to its junction with
Northland Street; thence in a northerly direction along
Northland Street to a point 5 chains north of the junction
of Northland Street and Welles Street; thence returning
along Northland Street to its junction with Welles
Street; thence in a westerly direction along Welles
Street to its junction with Stuart Road; thence in a
southerly direction along Stuart Road to the com-
mencing-point at the junction of Stuart Road and
Alexander Street, the area being inclusive of the said
roads and portions of roads to the extent above described.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of August, 1938.
R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 9/15/39.)

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

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers’ Regulations,
1931, the Minister of Transport does 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 authority specified in column 1 of the
said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Hastings B o r o u g h Herbert Arthur Green, of Hastings,
Council Assistant Traffic Inspector.
Upper Hutt Borough Charles Edward Hinson Yarnell, of
Council Upper Hutt, Borough Inspector.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of August, 1938.
R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 9/4/3.)

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed in the Borough of New
Brighton.—(Notice No. Ag. 3588.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1938.

THE following special order made by the New Brighton
Borough Council on the 18th day of July, 1938, is
published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious
Weeds Act, 1928.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT whereas at a special meeting of the New Brighton
Borough Council held on Monday, the 20th day of June,
1938, it was resolved :—

“ That under the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act,
1928, the New Brighton Borough Council hereby declares the
plant Silver Poplar (Populus Nivea) a noxious weed within
the boundaries of the Borough of New Brighton.”

The New Brighton Borough Council hereby confirms the
said resolution as a special order, and that the council’s
seal be affixed to the said special order, and to as many copies
thereof as may be found necessary.

Kaitaia Drainage Area.—Notice of Intention to make and levy
General Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 29th July, 1938.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, pursuant
to the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments,
to make and levy, on the unimproved value of all land within
the Kaitaia Town District Subdivision of the Kaitaia Drainage
Area constituted under the said Act, the general rate described
in the First Schedule hereto, and on the unimproved value
of all land in the Subdivision of the Kaitaia Drainage Area
outside the Kaitaia Town District the general rates described
in the Second Schedule, such respective rates being for the
purpose of meeting maintenance-costs for the period from
the 1st April, 1938, to the 31st March, 1939.

The amount of the general rates, together with the annually
recurring special rates already made and levied, will be
payable in one sum on the 30th August, 1938.

The valuation roll and the rate-book of the district will be
open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates,
Land Drainage Engineer’s Office, Room 45, First Floor,
Government Buildings, Customs Street West, Auckland, and
copies of same may be inspected at the office of the Land
Drainage Engineer, Kaitaia, at all times at which those
offices are open for the transaction of public business.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

TOWN SUBDIVISION.

On the unimproved value of all land within the Kaitaia Town
District, one penny and thirteen one-hundredths of a penny
(1·13d.) in the pound.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

RURAL SUBDIVISION.

Class A.—On the unimproved value of all land classified as
Class A by the persons appointed to classify lands under
section 3 of the Swamp Drainage Amendment Act, 1928,
tenpence and three one-hundredths of a penny (10·03d.) in
the pound.

Class B.—On the unimproved value of all land so classified
as Class B, threepence and fifty-one one-hundredths of a
penny (3·51d.) in the pound.

Class C.—On the unimproved value of all land so classified
as Class C, one penny and fifty one-hundredths of a penny
(1·50d.) in the pound.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 15/42/5.)

Unclaimed Property.

NOTICE BY THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE DECLARING HIS INTENTION
OF TAKING POSSESSION OF AND ADMINISTERING PROPERTY
UNDER PART III OF THE PUBLIC TRUST OFFICE ACT, 1908,
AND ITS AMENDMENTS.

WHEREAS William Frederick Neary, formerly of Auck-
land, in the Provincial District of Auckland, New
Zealand, Dairyman, is the owner of one undivided half-share
or interest in all that piece or parcel of land containing
84 acres, be the same a little more or less, being Allotment 23
and the southern part of Allotment 11, Parish of Mata, and
being all the land in certificate of title, Volume 555, folio 169
(Auckland Registry): And whereas it is not known whether
the said William Frederick Neary is alive or dead: And
whereas the Public Trustee has been requested to take posses-
sion of and administer the said property under the provisions
of Part III of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its
amendments: And whereas the value of the said property
does not exceed one thousand pounds:

Now, therefore, by virtue of the powers in that behalf
conferred upon him by section 87 of the Public Trust Office
Act, 1908, the Public Trustee with the consent of the Public
Trust Office Board hereby declares his intention of taking
possession of the said property and of exercising in respect
thereof all the powers conferred upon him in and by the
provisions of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its
amendments.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of July, 1938.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.