Nov. 11
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
1349
Estimated Areas under Wheat, Oats, Barley, and Potatoes (Season
1943-44)
Census and Statistics Department,
Wellington, 5th November, 1943.
A S in previous years, cards were sent out by post to grain-growers
and to potato-growers throughout the Dominion asking them
to state what areas they had sown or planted, or intended to sow or
plant, in wheat, oats, barley, and potatoes this season. It may be
well to note that only holdings of l acre and over outside borough
boundaries are covered by the figures appearing below. In the case
of potatoes a fair amount is grown on the smaller holdings and on
holdings situated within boroughs.
WHEAT, OATS, AND BARLEY.-FINAL AREAS, 1942-43, AND AREAS
ESTIMATED AS SOWN OR TO BE SOWN IN 1943-44.
Areas, 1942-43
For threshing
For chaffing
Total harvested
Not harvested (fed off, &c.)
Grand totals
Areas, 1943-44 (estimated)-
North Island
South Island
Totals

Tabulation of statistics for potatoes gives the following results:-
POTATOES.-FINAL AREA, 1942-43, AND AREA ESTIMATED AS
PLANTED OR TO BE PLANTED, 1943-44.
Final
Area, 1942-43.
Acres.
North Island .. .. .. 7,493
South Island . .. .. .. 16,367
Totals for Dominion
.. 23,860
J. W. BUTCHER, Government Statistician.
Estimated
Area, 1943-44.
Acres.
7,000
18,000
25,000
Notice to Persons affected by Applications for Licenses under Part III
of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936
Taking of Fish for Sale
MESSRS. F. Mazzola and A. Martillone have applied for licenses
to take fish for sale by means of the 16 ft. fishing-vessel
" Kai," using drag-nets, long lines, hand-lines, catches to be landed
at Petone and Lowry Bay.
Manufacture for Sale of Footwear
S. E. Marler, on behalf of I. Miller and Sons (N.Z.), Ltd. (a
company to be formed), has applied for a license to commence and
carry on in the above industry to the extent of manufacturing
women's shoes by the Sbicca-Delmac process.
Persons considering themselves materially affected by the
decisions of the Bureau of Industry on these applications should
make any desired representations in writing not later than 25th
November, 1943, to G. L. O'Halloran, Secretary, Bureau of Industry,
G.P.O. Box 3025, Wellington.
G. L. O'HALLORAN, Secretary.
Decisions of the Bureau of Industry under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936
Bureau of Industry, G.P.O. Box 3025, Wellington.
NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to the authority conferred on the Bureau of Industry under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency
Act, 1936, the following decisions have been made in respect of applications for licenses.
G. L. O'HALLORAN, Secretary.
Applicant and Location.
Nature of Application.
Decision.
Date.
H. Goldsmith, 278 Gloucester Street,
For a license to commence and carry on in the above
Deferred for three
18 Oct., 1943.
Christchurch
industry
months
Manufacture of Paper Pulp and Paper Products
N.Z. Forest Products, Ltd., Auckland
For a license to engage in the industry of the manu-
Granted ... 1 Nov., 1943.
facture of paper pulp and paper products (as defined
in the Industry Licensing (Pulp and Paper Manu-
facture) Notice 1939) to the extent of manufacturing
multi-walled paper bags
Wilsons (N.Z.) Portland Cement, Ltd.,
For a license to engage in the industry of the manu-
Declined ... 1 Nov., 1943.
Auckland, on behalf of a company
facture of paper pulp and paper products (as defined
to be formed, in which the principal
in the Industry Licensing (Pulp and Paper Manu-
shareholders will be the applicant
facture) Notice 1939) to the extent of manufacturing
company, the Golden Bay Cement Co.,
multi-walled paper bags
Ltd., Wellington, and the Milburn
Lime and Cement Co., Ltd., Dunedin
CROWN LANDS NOTICES
Land in Hawke's Bay Land District forfeited
Department of Lands and Survey, District Office, Napier, 18th October, 1943.
NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been declared forfeit by resolution of the Hawke's Bay Land
Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provision of the Land Act, 1924.
SCHEDULE
HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT
Tenure.
Lease No.
Section.
Block.
Survey District.
Lessee.
Date of Forfeiture.
Small Grazing-
run
214
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Maungaharuru
James Herbison
14th October, 1943.
(L. and S. 8/2/77.)
D. WILSON,
For the Minister of Lands.