Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3995

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1941.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Constable David Robertson

to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Otorohanga for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, on and from the 3rd day of December, 1941.

William McEwan Thompson

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Gore at Riversdale for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, on and from the 5th day of December, 1941.

Richard Raymond Chapman

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Tikiti, on and from the 22nd day of November, 1941.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Notice of Intention to take Land for Housing Purposes in the City of Lower Hutt.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, and section 32 of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1936, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for housing purposes: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Lower Hutt and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections 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 pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P. Being
0 3 4·6 } Parts Lot 4, D.P. 1139, being part Section 39, Hutt District; coloured orange.
1 3 2·6 }
0 0 1·88 } Parts Lot 3, D.P. 6354, being part Section 39, Hutt District; coloured orange.
0 0 12·72 }
3 0 24·4 Lot 5, D.P. 1139, being part Section 39, Hutt District; coloured sepia.
4 1 31·32 Part Section 39, Hutt District; coloured orange.

Situated in the City of Lower Hutt. (S.O. 20822.)

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 112747, 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 22nd day of December, 1941.

H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 24/1258/47/20.)

Applying the Provisions of Section 136 of the Public Works Act, 1928, to the Mangatainoka River Bridge on the Pahiatua Station Main Highway.

WHEREAS by resolution dated 19th November, 1941, the Main Highways Board recommends, in pursuance of Section 7 of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1925, that the provisions of section 136 of the Public Works Act, 1928, be applied to the Mangatainoka River Bridge on the Pahiatua Station Main Highway:

Now, therefore, I, Hubert Thomas Armstrong, Minister of Public Works, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1925, and of every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby declare that the provisions of the said section 136 of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall apply in so far as affects the Mangatainoka River Bridge on the Pahiatua Station Main Highway.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of December, 1941.

H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Public Works.

Warrant approving the Provision of Additional Indication of the Presence and Position of Authorized Pedestrian-crossings.

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Pedestrian-crossing and Safety-zone Regulations 1939, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve the provision by any controlling authority of additional indication of the presence and position of any authorized pedestrian-crossing by the device described in the Schedule hereto: provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to authorize or approve any device, construction, or erection constituting a public nuisance.

SCHEDULE.

A DEVICE consisting of one or more reflectors of any kind placed in the roadway along one or both of the lines marking the boundaries of the crossing so that they reflect to a driver of a motor-vehicle which is approaching the crossing during the hours of darkness the light from the lamps carried on the vehicle.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of December, 1941.

D. WILSON,
For the Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/2/16.)

Approval of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940.

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve, until further notice, of the person named in the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officer under the said regulations.

SCHEDULE.

Alfred Errol Ansell .. .. Traffic Inspector, Transport Department.

Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of November, 1941.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)

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 doth 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 the maximum speed limit of thirty miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE.

SITUATED within Matamata County—

All that area of the Karapiro Hydro-electric Works Camp, and that portion of the Karapiro Main Access Road commencing at the intersection of the said road and the Low Level Road to the power-house and terminating at a line across the said road at a distance of two chains measured in a northerly direction along the centre of the road from the centre of the said intersection, the boundaries of the said camp and portion of the Access Road being indicated by a green border on the plan marked TT.1669, and deposited in the office of the Transport Department at Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 17th day of December, 1941.

D. WILSON,
For the Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/126.)

Revoking Portion of a Warrant declaring certain Areas to be Headlight-restriction Areas and Parking-light Areas respectively, and declaring an Area to be a Parking-light Area for the Purposes of the Lighting Restrictions Emergency Regulations 1941.

IN terms of Regulation 1 of the Lighting Restrictions Emergency Regulations 1941 (hereinafter referred to as “the said regulations”), as amended by the Lighting Restrictions Emergency Regulations 1941, Amendment No. 1, and the Lighting Restrictions Emergency Regulations 1941, Amendment No. 2, the Minister of National Service doth hereby revoke that portion of Part II of the Warrant dated the 15th day of October, 1941, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 87 of the 31st day of October 1941, at