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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 31st day of May, 1948, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land situated in Block VI, Aongatete Survey District, containing by admeasurement eighty-seven (87) acres nine (9) perches, more or less, being part of Section 2s, Apata Settlement, and being the balance of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. 720, folio 80 (Auckland Registry).

As witness my hand, this 24th day of February, 1948.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/1467.)

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 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, 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 17th day of March, 1948, 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 fifty-five (55) acres eleven (11) perches, more or less, being part Lot 1, Deposit Plan 2163, situated in Block III, Pareora Survey District, and being the whole of the land contained in certificate of title, Vol. 225, folio 127 (Canterbury Registry).

Also all that parcel of land containing two (2) roods eleven (11) perches, more or less, being part Lots 1 and 2, Deposit Plan 2163, part Rural Sections 10664 and 16863, situated in Block III, Pareora Survey District, and being the whole of the undivided moiety in the said land as held and contained in certificate of title, Vol. 225, folio 126 (Canterbury Registry).

As witness my hand, this 24th day of February, 1948.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/1474.)

The Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943.—Notice of Intention to take Lands

THE Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 24 of the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, hereby gives notice of his intention to take the lands described in the Schedule hereto under Part II of the said Act, and specifies the 24th day of March, 1948, as the date on which possession of the lands is required, and the 23rd day of March, 1948, as the date on or before which objections may be made under section 25 of the said Act.

SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land containing fifty-seven (57) acres and thirty-eight (38) perches, more or less, being Lot 8 on the plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Christchurch as No. 3996, being part Rural Sections 26852 and 34324, situated in Block V, Corwar Survey District, and being part of the land contained in certificate of title, Vol. 424, folio 280 (Canterbury Registry).

Also all that parcel of land containing seventy (70) acres, more or less, being part Lot 7 on the plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Christchurch as No. 3996, being part Rural Section 14808, situated in Block V, Corwar Survey District, and being part of the land contained in certificate of title, Vol. 319, folio 168 (Canterbury Registry).

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. Proclamation 2991, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red and blue respectively.

As witness my hand, this 20th day of February, 1948.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/577.)

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General Election of Members of Rabbit Boards.—(Notice No. Ag. 4500)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 17th February, 1948.

NOTICE has been received, under the hand of the Returning Officers of the several Rabbit Boards mentioned in the Schedule hereto, that the persons whose names are set under the name of each such Board in the said Schedule have been duly elected as members of that Board pursuant to the provisions in that behalf of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

SCHEDULE

CHELTENHAM RABBIT BOARD
Theophilus Edward Craine.
Robert Pearson Kilgour.
David Clune Old.
Richard Edward Stuart.
Francis Ernest Tappin.

WAIPAWA-NGARUROPO RABBIT BOARD
Cecil George Averill.
Frederick Henry Redvers Gilbertson.
Dugald John Riggir.
Charles Athol Williams.
Isaac Ross Williams.

NORTHERN HAWKE'S BAY RABBIT BOARD
Hugh Edward Crosse.
Alexander Cockburn.
Thomas Haliburton.
Robert John Heays.
David Lawrence Holt.

PUKERAU RABBIT BOARD
Patrick O'Hagan.
George Sutherland.
Alexander Marshall.
Archibald Herron.
James Albert Edwards.

RANGITOTO RABBIT BOARD
Kenneth Waring Dalyrymple.
Alexander Winks Amon.
Robert Julian Kirk Gray.
William Wilford Wilson.
Edward Hamish Simpson.

ROXBURGH EAST RABBIT BOARD
Thomas Alfred Michelle.
David Alexander Baillie.
Arthur Gentry Pitts.
Gerald Sanders.
Cecil Henry James Woodhouse.

Approval of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the person named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being a Testing Officer under the said regulations for the authority specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Column 1. Column 2.
Lower Hutt City Council Cyril Henry Berry.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of February, 1948.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

Notice to Persons affected by Applications for Licences under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936

Bituminous Roofing Industry

Bituminous Roofing Products, Ltd., P.O. Box 152, Christchurch, has applied for an extension of its existing licence to increase the productive capacity of the company's plant.

Manufacture for Sale of Footwear

Ovanix Ltd., 139 Albert Street, Auckland, has applied for a licence to manufacture infants' slippers and shoes, including nurseries, sandals, and hard-sole shoes, sizes 0's to 6's, by the lace-welt stitch with beaded and sewn uppers, cement, and cosy sole processes.

Dunlop (N.Z.), Ltd., P.O. Box 3039, Wellington, has applied for a licence to manufacture all types of shoes with canvas and/or plastic uppers and rubber and/or composition soles and heels. All types of rubber industrial boots, Wellingtons, goloshes, and overshoes; but not leather footwear.

C. M. Donald, 57 Cutten Street, Dunedin, has applied for a licence to manufacture infants' boots and shoes, sizes 3's to 6's, by the lasted, auto-sole, and cemented processes.

Applicants and other persons considering themselves to be materially affected by the decisions of the Bureau of Industry on these applications should, not later than 11th March, 1948, submit any written evidence and representations they may desire to tender. All communications should be addressed to Secretary, Bureau of Industry, C.P.O. Box 3025, Wellington.

J. D. KERR, Secretary.