MAR. 1] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 245

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

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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 6th day of February, 1945, 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:

Now, therefore, the Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 51 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the said land is taken for the settlement of a discharged serviceman, and hereby specifies the 21st day of March, 1945, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

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SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

ALL those pieces or parcels of land containing twelve (12) acres two (2) roods and nine and seventy-four hundredths (9·74) perches, more or less, being parts of Section 205 of the Taratahi Plain Block, and being also part of Lot 1 on Deposited Plan No. 994, Lot 32 on Deposited Plan No. 1286, Lot 1 on Deposited Plan No. 11172, and Lot 1 on Deposited Plan No. A/395, and being all of the land comprised in certificates of title, Vol. 449, folio 125, Vol. 456, folio 36, and Vol. 499, folio 38 (Wellington Registry).

As witness my hand, this 27th day of February, 1945.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/222.)

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

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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 had been referred is of opinion that the land to which the application relates is farm land suitable 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 9th day of February, 1945, 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:

Now, therefore, the Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 51 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the said land is taken for the settlement of a discharged serviceman, and hereby specifies the 21st day of March, 1945, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

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SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

ALL those pieces or parcels of land containing one hundred and sixteen (116) acres three (3) roods twenty-nine decimal three (29·3) perches, more or less, being Allotments 29 to 40, Block I, Henley Estate, D.P. 238, and Allotments 39 to 46 and 64 and 65, Township of Henley, D.P. 246, together with rights-of-way or passages in common with the owners or occupiers of other allotments shown on the said Deposited Plans 238 and 246, and subject to grant of rights created by Transfer No. 28358, Block VI, Maungatua Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificates of title, Vol. 191, folio 220, Vol. 54, folio 86, Vol. 112, folio 155, and Vol. 62, folio 299 (Otago Registry).

As witness my hand, this 27th day of February, 1945.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/228.)

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

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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 6th day of February, 1945, 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:

Now, therefore, the Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 51 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the said land is taken for the settlement of a discharged serviceman, and hereby specifies the 21st day of March, 1945, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

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SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

ALL that piece or parcel of land containing one hundred and six (106) acres two (2) roods, more or less, being Section 19, Block XIV, Apiti Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 89, folio 100 (Wellington Registry).

As witness my hand, this 27th day of February, 1945.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/191.)

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Authorizing the Laying-off of Roads of less Width than 66 ft.

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WHEREAS in the opinion of the Minister of Lands it is inexpedient, by reason of the fact that the land shown upon the plan of Town of Wainui-o-Mata Extension No. 6 affecting parts Sections 1, 2, and 26, Wainui-o-Mata District, situated in Block XVII, Belmont Survey District, Wellington Land District, is intended to be used wholly for residential purposes, that Homedale Road and Poole Crescent shown thereon should be of the width of 66 ft.:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the power conferred upon him by section 17, subsection (1), of the Land Act, 1924, and of every other power him thereunto enabling, the Minister of Lands doth hereby authorize the laying-off of Homedale Road and Poole Crescent of a width of not less than 50 ft.: Provided always that it shall not be lawful for any person to erect or cause to be erected any building at a less distance than 33 ft. from the middle of such roads.

Given under the hand of the Minister of Lands, this 26th day of February, 1945.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 25/1090.)

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Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed within the Waimarino County.—(Notice No. Ag. 4169)

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Office of the Minister of Agriculture,

Wellington, 23rd February, 1945.

THE following special order made by the Waimarino County Council on the 12th day of January, 1945, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

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SPECIAL ORDER

“ That, pursuant to the provisions of section 4 and under the authority of section 5 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, the Council of the County of Waimarino hereby declares that ‘Silybum’ (milk thistle) shall be declared to be a noxious weed in the County of Waimarino.”

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

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Approval of Testing Officers under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

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IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the persons named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officers under the said regulation for the authorities specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE

Column 1. Column 2.
Waikohu County Council . . . . David Stewart Aitkenhead.
Cook County Council . . . . Bernard Dinnan.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of February, 1945.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

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Approval of Testing Officers under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

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IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the persons named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officers under the said regulation for the authorities specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE

Column 1. Column 2.
Transport Department . . . . Peter Carthew Banham.
” . . . . John Oliver McDonald.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of February, 1945.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.