Feb. 22] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 207

The road districts of—

First Column. Second Column.
Croixelles, Sounds County .. .. .. Wednesday.
French Pass, Sounds County .. .. .. Wednesday.
Kenepuru, Sounds County .. .. .. Wednesday.
Mount Roskill, Eden County .. .. .. Saturday.
Mount Wellington, Eden County .. .. .. Saturday.
Oraipu, Waiheke Island .. .. .. Thursday.
Ostend, Waiheke Island .. .. .. Wednesday.
Panmure Township, Eden County .. .. .. Saturday.
Taupo, Taupo County .. .. .. Thursday.

The counties of—

NORTH ISLAND

First Column. Second Column. || First Column. Second Column.
Akitio .. Wednesday. Otorohanga .. Wednesday.
Bay of Islands .. Saturday. Pahiatua .. Wednesday.
Castlepoint .. Thursday. Patangata .. Wednesday.
Clifton .. Thursday. Patea .. Saturday.
Coromandel .. Thursday. Piako .. Wednesday.
Dannevirke .. Wednesday. Pohangina .. Wednesday.
Eden .. Wednesday. Raglan .. Saturday.
Egmont .. Saturday. Rangitikei .. Wednesday.
Eketahuna .. Wednesday. Rotorua .. Saturday.
Eltham .. Saturday. Taranaki .. Thursday.
Great Barrier .. Wednesday. Taumarunui .. Wednesday.
Island
Hauraki Plains .. Saturday. Taupo .. Wednesday.
Hawke’s Bay .. Wednesday. Thames .. Thursday.
Hobson .. Saturday. Waikato .. Wednesday.
Horowhenua .. Wednesday. Waikohu .. Thursday.
Hutt .. Wednesday. Waimarino .. Thursday.
Inglewood .. Thursday. Waimate West .. Saturday.
Kairanga .. Saturday. Waipa .. Wednesday.
Kaitieke .. Thursday. Waipukurau .. Saturday.
Kawhia .. Thursday. Wairarapa Sth. .. Saturday.
Manawatu .. Wednesday. Wairoa .. Thursday.
Manukau .. Saturday. Waitomo .. Thursday.
Matamata .. Saturday. Waitotara .. Wednesday.
Ohinemuri .. Wednesday. Wanganui .. Thursday.
Ohura .. Wednesday. Weber .. Thursday.
Opotiki .. Wednesday. Whangaroa .. Wednesday.
Oroua .. Wednesday. Woodville .. Wednesday.

SOUTH ISLAND

Amuri .. Wednesday. Mount Herbert .. Wednesday.
Ashburton .. Saturday. Murchison .. Saturday.
Ashley .. Thursday. Oxford .. Saturday.
Awatere .. Wednesday. Paparua .. Saturday.
Bruce .. Wednesday. Rangiora .. Thursday.
Clutha .. Wednesday. Sounds .. Wednesday.
Eyre .. Thursday. Springs .. Wednesday.
Fiord .. Wednesday. Taieri .. Thursday.
Geraldine .. Thursday. Takaka .. Saturday.
Halswell .. Thursday. Tawera .. Thursday.
Kowai .. Saturday. Tuapeka .. Wednesday.
Lake .. Saturday. Waikouaiti .. Wednesday.
Levels .. Thursday. Waipara .. Wednesday.
Malvern .. Thursday. Waitaki .. Saturday.
Maniototo .. Saturday. Westland .. Saturday.
Marlborough .. Wednesday.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of February, 1945.

JAS. O’BRIEN,
For the Minister of Labour.

Exemption Order under the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, so far as they relate to the driving of heavy trade motors, shall not apply to the person hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply:—

A motor-driver’s license issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor for the purpose of the business of the respective employer described in Column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the age of eighteen years, to drive a heavy trade motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
Laurence William Harre, Stratford .. .. Father.

Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of February, 1945.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

Notice as to an Area in the Canterbury Land District declared to be a Fire District

WHEREAS by section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921–22, as amended by section 6 of the Forests Amendment Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Commissioner of Forests, on application by any owner or occupier of land, may constitute by notice in the Gazette such land and any other land as a fire district for the purpose of securing the safety from damage by fire of any trees on any private or other lands of an area of not less than 200 acres: And whereas the Waimakariri River Trust, being the owner of certain lands in the Eyre, Malvern, Paparua, and Waimairi Counties exceeding the said area, has made application to me dated the 15th day of November, 1944, for the constitution of a fire district: And whereas it appears expedient to grant the application:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said Act, I do hereby notify that on the recommendation of the Director of Forestry and the Land Board of the Canterbury Land District the area described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared by me to be a fire district, to be known as the “Waimakariri Fire District,” for the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked); and, with respect to the fire district constituted as aforesaid, I do further specify the period from the 1st day of November in any year to the 30th day of April in the following year, inclusive, as the period during which it shall not be lawful for any person, save pursuant to the written permit of a Forest Officer, to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any timber (whether standing or not), or any undergrowth, or any debris from forest operations or land-clearing operations, or any grass or other specially inflammable material without taking such precautions as may be prescribed by a Forest Officer.

SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CANTERBURY CONSERVANCY

Waimakariri Fire District

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, Oxford, Eyre, Malvern, Paparua, and Waimairi Counties containing approximately 53,000 acres, situated in Hawkins, Rolleston, Mairaki, Rangiora, and Christchurch Survey Districts, and bounded generally as follows: Commencing at the north-eastern corner of Rural Section 9608, Block XVI, Mairaki Survey District; thence proceeding in a northerly direction to the northern side of Eyreton Road South; thence easterly along the northern sides of Eyreton Road South aforesaid, Dixon’s Road, Eyreton–Kaiapoi Main Road, Maber’s Road, the western side of the road forming the western boundary of Rural Sections. 820, 850, 2380, the northern side of Greig’s Drain Road, and the northern side of the road adjoining parts of Rural Sections 809 and 801 to its junction with the Main North Road at the eastern corner of Rural Section 801 aforesaid; thence northerly along the western side of the Main North Road to the north-eastern corner of Rural Section 414; thence due east along a right line across the Main North Road aforesaid and the Old South Branch of the Waimakariri River to a point on its right bank; thence north-easterly generally along the said right bank to the eastern boundary of the Main North Railway land; thence south-westerly along that boundary to the south-western side of Marshland Road; thence north-westerly along the said side of that road to its intersection with the south-eastern side of the Main North Road at Chaney’s; thence south-westerly along the said south-eastern side of that road to the north-western corner of Rural Section 1463; thence across the Main North Road and north-easterly along the north-western side of a road to Dickey’s Road; thence north-westerly along the south-western side of that road to the south-eastern side of the road forming the north-western boundary of Rural Section 837; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern sides of the last-mentioned road, Waimakariri Road, Hack’s Road, Harewood Road, and Sinclair’s Road to the junction with the Yaldhurst and the Lower Waimakariri Roads; thence north-westerly along the south-western side of the Lower Waimakariri Road to a point due south of Trig. Station 55M in Block III, Hawkins Survey District; thence northerly along a right line to the said trig. station; thence north-easterly to the left bank of the Waimakariri River to a point on a right line between the said trig. station and the westernmost corner of Rural Section 32080; thence easterly along the left bank of the said river to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary of Rural Section 29684 in Block IV, Rolleston Survey District; thence north-easterly along a right line to the said south-eastern boundary and along that boundary, along a right line from the eastern corner of Rural Section 29684 aforesaid to the southern corner of Rural Section 32831, and along the south-eastern boundaries of Rural Sections 32831 and 32744; thence westerly along the northern boundary of Rural Section 32744 aforesaid and northerly along the eastern boundaries of Rural Sections 32744 and 9608 to the South Eyreton Road, the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 143/20, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington; and thereon bordered red.

C. F. SKINNER, Commissioner of State Forests.

(S.F. 12/8/6/8.)

The Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943.—Notice declaring Land taken for the Settlement of a Discharged Serviceman

WHEREAS an application has been made for the consent of the Land Sales Court to a transaction which relates to the land described in the Schedule hereto and to which Part III of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, applies:

And whereas the Land Sales Committee to which the application has been referred is of opinion that the land to which the application relates is farm land suitable or adaptable for the settlement of a discharged serviceman:

And whereas the said committee, not being satisfied that the Crown had decided not to acquire or arrange for the acquisition of the land, did on the 18th day of December, 1944, make an order determining the basic value of the land and no appeal from the said order was made within the time prescribed by the said Act or within any further time allowed by the Court:

And whereas the said land is not the land of any serviceman who is for the time being serving outside New Zealand in any of His Majesty’s Forces or in any British ship: