Feb. 1] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 93

northerly direction across Shirley Road to and along the eastern
side of Quinn’s Road aforesaid to the southern boundary of Lot 20
on plan deposited in the Canterbury District Land Registry Office
at Christchurch as No. 4897; thence easterly along the southern
boundaries of Lots 20 and 8 on plan deposited as aforesaid as
No. 4897 to Marshlands Road; thence southerly along the western
side of that road and its production to the southern side of Shirley
Road to a point on the boundary of the City of Christchurch
aforesaid; thence westerly along that boundary to the point of
commencement.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 103/5/68.)

Classification of Road in Waitotara County

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the
Transport Department Act, 1929, and the Heavy Motor-vehicle
Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of
the Waitotara County Council’s proposed classification of the road
described in the Schedule hereto and situated in the Waitotara
County.

SCHEDULE

WAITOTARA COUNTY

Road classified in Class Five: Available for the use thereon of any
multi-axled heavy motor-vehicle or any trailer which with the
load it is carrying has an axle weight of not more than 2½ tons on
any one axle, or of any other heavy motor-vehicle which with the
load it is carrying has an axle weight of not more than 3 tons on
any one axle:—

Lower Waitotara Road.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of January, 1945.

P. C. WEBB,
For the Minister of Transport.

(TT. 10/112.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in the Town of Heriot for a Post-office

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 post-office—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 Heriot 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
days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of
Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 1 rood.
Being Lot 8 D.P. 515, Township of Oakleigh, being part Section 30.

Situated in Block IV, Greenvale Survey District (Otago R.D.).

(S.O. 9422.)

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 120799, deposited in the
office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured
yellow.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 29th day of January,
1945.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 20/748/1.)

Acceptance of the Resignations of the Commissioner and Deputy
Commissioner of Works and Appointment of Commissioner of
Works under the Ministry of Works Act, 1943

Office of the Minister of Works,
Wellington, 31st January, 1945.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General
has accepted the resignation of James Fletcher, Esquire, of
Wellington, from the office of Commissioner of Works as from the
31st day of December, 1944, and has further accepted the resig-
nation of Edgar Ravenswood McKillop, Esquire, of Wellington,
Civil Engineer, from the office of Deputy Commissioner of Works
as from the said 31st day of December, 1944, and it is hereby further
notified that His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, in
pursuance of section 3 of the Ministry of Works Act, 1943, has been
pleased to appoint the said

Edgar Ravenswood McKillop, Esquire, O.B.E., M.Inst.C.E.,

of Wellington, Civil Engineer, to be the Commissioner of Works,
to hold and exercise the duties of that office during pleasure, the
appointment to take effect on and from the 1st day of January, 1945.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 56/34.)

Kaitaia Swamp Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th January, 1945.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the
Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, the ratepayers
within the Kaitaia Rating Area are hereby notified that 10 per cent.
additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 31st March,
1945, unpaid on the 14th March, 1945.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office, or to the
Collector of Rates, Lands and Survey Department, P.O. Box 2205,
Auckland C. 1.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/42/5.)

Hauraki Plains Drainage District.—Penalty on Overdue Rates

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th January, 1945.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the
Hauraki Plains Act, 1926, the ratepayers within the district
constituted by the last-mentioned Act are hereby notified that
10 per cent. additional will be added to all rates for the year
ending 31st March, 1945, unpaid on 14th March, 1945.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office, or to the
Collector of Rates, Lands and Survey Department, P.O. Box 2205,
Auckland C. 1.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

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

Rangitaiki Drainage District.—Penalty on Overdue Rates

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th January, 1945.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the
Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, and its amendments,
the ratepayers within the district constituted by the last-mentioned
Act are hereby notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added
to all rates for the year ending 31st March, 1945, unpaid on 14th
March, 1945.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office, or to the
Collector of Rates, Lands and Survey Department, P.O. Box 2205,
Auckland C. 1.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/11/108.)

Poukawa Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th January, 1945.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the
Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, the ratepayers
within the Poukawa Drainage Rating Area are hereby notified that
10 per cent. additional will be added to all rates for the year ending
31st March, 1945, unpaid on the 14th March, 1945.

Rates may be paid to the Collector of Rates, Lands and
Survey Department, P.O. Box 2205, Auckland C. 1, or at any
money-order office.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/86/1.)

Waihi Swamp Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th January, 1945.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the
Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, the ratepayers
within the Waihi Rating Area are hereby notified that 10 per cent.
additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 31st March,
1945, unpaid on the 14th March, 1945.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office or to the
Collector of Rates, Lands and Survey Department, P.O. Box 2205,
Auckland C. 1.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/24/1.)

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

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 settlement of discharged
servicemen:

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 19th 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: