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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Despatch: Nobel Peace Prize, 1939.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th October, 1938.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, is published for general information.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

NEW ZEALAND.
Circular despatch C. No. 182.
My LORD,—
Downing Street,
14th September, 1938.
With reference to Mr. MacDonald's Circular despatch C. No. 208 of the 6th October, 1937, I have the honour to transmit the accompanying copies of a circular issued by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament regarding nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 1939.

2. It would be appreciated if the conditions of the prize could be made known to those bodies and persons who are qualified to nominate candidates.

I have, &c.,
DEVONSHIRE,
For the Secretary of State.
Governor-General, His Excellency Colonel the Right Honourable Viscount Galway, G.C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., &c.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.
ALL proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed 10th December, 1939, must, in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the first of February of the same year.
Any one of the following persons is held to be duly qualified:
(a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; (b) Members of Parliament and Members of Government of the different States, as well as Members of the Interparliamentary Union; (c) Members of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague; (d) Members of the Council of the International Peace Bureau; (e) Members and Associates of the Institute of International Law; (f) University professors of Political Science and of Law, of History, and of Philosophy; and (g) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

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The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations.
According to the Code of Statutes, §8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to.
According to §3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print.
For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Oslo.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block V, Waitemata Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.
NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Kumeu and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken:—
A. R. P.
0 0 14·17 Section 1.
0 0 8·5 Part Lot 9, Deeds Plan Whau 56, being part Taupaki Block.
Being Portion of
Situated in Block V, Waitemata Survey District.
In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 101119, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.
As witness my hand at Wellington, this 26th day of October, 1938.
R. SEMPYLE, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 70/2/6/0.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks X and XI, Puketi Survey District, for River-protection Purposes.
NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of river-protection works—and for the purpose of such public works the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Tokaanu and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
Approximate Areas of the Pieces of Land required to be taken.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 99947, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 26th day of October, 1938.

R. SEMPYLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 48/255/1.)