Wilfred Augustine Dowd

to be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Onslow for the
purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and
Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Onslow for the
purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and
from the 15th day of January, 1947.

William Vincent Morton

to be Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Riccarton for
the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on
and from the 15th day of January, 1947.

Owen James Mackey

to be Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Remuera for
the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on
and from the 15th day of January, 1947.

Percy Howard Woods

to be Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Otahuhu for
the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on
and from the 15th day of January, 1947.

Howard Dudley Rider

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, Inspector
for the purposes of the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, Inspector for the
purposes of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, and Inspector for the
purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, on and from the 1st day
of February, 1947.

Clifford Alexander Martin

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, Inspector
for the purposes of the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, Inspector for the
purposes of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, and Inspector for the
purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, on and from the 17th day
of February, 1947.

Charles Gordon Cross

to be Registrar of Marriages for the District of Taihape for the
purposes of the Marriage Act, 1908, Registrar of Births and Deaths
for the District of Taihape for the purposes of the Births and Deaths
Registration Act, 1924, Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris
at Taihape for the purposes of the Maori Births and Deaths
Registration Regulations 1935, Clerk of the Magistrates' Court at
Taihape for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1928,
Official Assignee at Taihape for the Wanganui Supreme Court
District for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Act, 1908, and Main-
tenance Officer at the Magistrates' Court at Taihape for the purposes
of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the
14th day of March, 1947.

George Marsden

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Maraenui, on and
from the 1st day of February, 1947.

William Frederick Leggott

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the
District of Ross, on and from the 28th day of February, 1947.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Defining Lands in North Auckland Land District (Te Maire Farm
Settlement) to which Water is supplied pursuant to Section 8
of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1939

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred
upon me by subsection (5) of section 8 of the Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1939, I, Clarence Farringdon Skinner, Minister of
Lands, hereby give notice that the lands defined in the Schedule
hereto are lands to which water is supplied under the said section.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Hobson County, situated in Blocks IX, XIII,
and XIV, Tokatoka Survey District, containing by admeasurement
1,706 acres 2 roods and 19 perches, more or less, being Allotments
35A, 37A, 46, 53, 109, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138,
139, 140, 141, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, and part 36A; also
part 36, being part lake and a reserve under section 129 of the Land
Act, 1924, Tatarariki Parish. As the same is more particularly
delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 36/546A, deposited in the
Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington,
and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 28th day of March,
1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 36/546.)

Defining Lands in Otakiri Farm Settlement, Auckland Land District,
to which Water is supplied pursuant to Section 8 of the Land
Laws Amendment Act, 1939

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred
upon me by subsection (5) of section 8 of the Land Laws
Amendment Act, 1939, I, Clarence Farringdon Skinner, Minister of
Lands, hereby give notice that the lands defined in the Schedule
hereto are lands to which water is supplied under the said section.

SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area in the Whakatane County situated in Blocks V and VI,
Rangitaiki Upper Survey District, containing by admeasurement
a total of 428 acres 3 roods and 35 perches, more or less, being
Allotments 285, 286, 287, 288, and 289 of the Parish of Matata.
As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked
L. and S. 36/1474, deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland
plan S.O. 32810.)

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 28th day of March,
1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 36/1474.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VI, Te Mata Survey
District, for Road

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 road--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
Pakipaki 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 piece of land required to be taken: 1 rood
8·5 perches.
Being part Peka Peka 2A 4 Block.
Situated in Block VI, Te Mata Survey District (Hawke's Bay
R.D.). (S.O. 2053.)

In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same is more par-
ticularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 124937, deposited
in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon
coloured yellow.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 28th day of March,
1947.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.
(P.W. 70/5/30/0/3.)

The Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943.--Notice
declaring Land taken for the Settlement of a Discharged Service-
man

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 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 27th day of February, 1947, 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 18th day of April, 1947, as the date on which the said
land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land containing two hundred and ninety-nine
(299) acres two (2) roods, more or less, being Lot 6 on plan deposited
in the Land Registry Office at Christchurch as No. 3849, being part
Rural Sections 16217, 24515, and 31172, situated in Block XVI,
Opuna Survey District, and being the whole of the land comprised
in certificate of title, Vol. 287, folio 180 (Canterbury Registry),
subject to the rights and easements created by Transfer 81163 and
the restrictions contained in section 8 of the Land Settlement
Finance Amendment Act, 1910, and also to the covenant contained
in Transfer 101544 in regard to fencing.

As witness my hand, this 24th day of March, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 36/1444/1090.)