Nov. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3143

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks VIII and XII, Manganui 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 Pokaka 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 day from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

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

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 17th day of November, 1939.

(P.W. 70/6/28/0.) R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

Revoking the Notice prescribing the Amount of Special Orchard-tax payable in the Marlborough Commercial Fruitgrowing District.—(Notice No. Ag. 3705.)

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by subsection (3) of section 4 of the Orchard-tax Act, 1927, I, William Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, do hereby revoke the notice prescribing the amount of special orchard-tax payable by the occupier of every orchard within the Marlborough Commercial Fruitgrowing District, given under the hand of the Minister of Agriculture on the 21st day of December, 1934, and published in the Gazette on the 10th day of January, 1935, at page 12, and do hereby declare that such revocation shall take effect on the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of November, 1939.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds within the Hauraki Plains County.—(Notice No. Ag. 3706.)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 20th November, 1939.

THE following special order made by the Hauraki Plains County Council on the 8th day of November, 1939, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

“ That in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by section 4 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, the Council of the County of Hauraki Plains doth hereby declare that Xanthium spinosum (Bathurst Burr) to be a noxious weed within the boundaries of the said County of Hauraki Plains as from the ninth day of November, 1939.”

Hauraki Plains Drainage Area.—Notice of Intention to make and levy Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th November, 1939.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, pursuant to the Hauraki Plains Act, 1926, 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, 1939, to 31st March, 1940, as described in the Schedule hereto.

The amount of such rates will be payable in one sum on the 18th December, 1939.

The valuation roll 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 Land 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 land classified as Class A by the appraiser appointed under the said Act, fourpence (4d.) in the pound.

Class B: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, twopence and twenty-nine one-hundredths of a penny (2·29d.) in the pound.

Class C: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, fifty-seven one-hundredths of a penny (·57d.) in the pound.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

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