May 6] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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.
One Tree Hill Borough Council ... James Ferguson Thomas.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of April, 1948.
F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

Declaring Area to be a Closely Populated Locality for the Purposes
of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936, Section 3

IN terms of section 3 of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936,
the Minister of Transport doth hereby declare the area
described in the Schedule hereto to be a closely populated locality
for the purposes of the said section to the intent that a person
driving any motor-vehicle on any road, street, or other place to
which the public have access therein shall be subject to the maximum
speed limit of thirty miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE

SITUATED within Akitio County—

All that area at Pongaroa consisting of those portions of roads
hereinafter described :-

(i) Masterton-Weber via Alfredton Main Highway No. 816,
commencing at its junction with Rewarewa Street, pro-
ceeding thence generally in a south-westerly direction
and terminating at a point 15 chains measured along
the said main highway in a south-westerly direction
from its junction with the Pahiatua-Akitio via Pongaroa
Main Highway No. 834, a distance of approximately
45 chains.

(ii) Pahiatua-Akitio via Pongaroa Main Highway No. 834,
commencing at a point 9 chains measured along the
said main highway in a north-westerly direction from
the present position of the Pongaroa Post-office and
terminating at a point 15 chains measured along the
said main highway in a south-easterly direction from
the said post-office.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of April, 1948.
F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 9/15/65.)

Amending Speed Limitations imposed under the Motor-vehicles
Amendment Act, 1936, Section 3

IN terms of section 3 of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936,
and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the
Minister of Transport doth hereby revoke that portion of the
Warrant dated the 21st day of December, 1936,* in so far as it
applies to the road described in the First Schedule hereto, and
doth hereby exclude that portion of the road which is described
in the Second Schedule hereto from the limitations as to speed
imposed by the said section.

FIRST SCHEDULE

SITUATED within Henderson Town District—

Henderson Valley Main Highway No. 385 (all that portion from
the South-western boundary of Henderson Town District
to the Government railway-crossing, a distance of
approximately 1 mile 2 chains).

SECOND SCHEDULE

SITUATED within Henderson Borough—

Henderson Valley Main Highway No. 385 (all that portion
from the south-western boundary of Henderson Borough
to a point 5 chains measured along the said main highway
in a northerly direction from its junction with Domain
Road, a distance of approximately 62 chains).

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of April, 1948.
F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

• Gazette, 22nd December, 1936, page 2511.
  (TT. 9/15/210/1.)

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 25th day of March, 1948, 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 9th day of June, 1948, as the date on which the said
land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land situated in Block VII, Kumeu Survey
District, containing by admeasurement eight (8) acres two (2) roods
two (2) perches, more or less, being Lot 21, Deposited Plan 11482,
being part of Waikoukou No. 2 Block, and being all of the land
described in certificate of title, Vol. 317, folio 160 (Auckland
Registry), subject to a fencing covenant contained in Transfer 132506.
As witness my hand, this 4th day of May, 1948.
H. G. R. MASON,
For the Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 36/1444/1599.)

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

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 24 of the Servicemen's
Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, notice was given of
the intention of the Minister of Lands to take under Part II of the
said Act the land described in the Schedule hereto, and a copy of
the said notice was published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 70 on
the 27th day of November, 1947, at page 1837:
And whereas an objection was made by the owner in the manner
prescribed by the said Act objecting to the taking of the said land:
And whereas the Minister of Lands did not revoke his notice
of intention to take the said land:
And whereas the Land Sales Committee to which such objection
was referred did, on the 18th day of March, 1948, make an order
disallowing such objection and determining that the said land is
suitable or adaptable for the settlement of a discharged serviceman:
And whereas 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 owner has agreed to an amended vesting-date:
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 27 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the land described
in the said Schedule is taken for the settlement of discharged
servicemen, and hereby specifies the 1st day of October, 1948, as
the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in
His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area situate in Block VII, Mount Robinson Survey
District, containing by admeasurement twenty-eight (28) acres two
(2) roods and ten (10) perches, more or less, being Section 62,
Moutoa Block, and being all the land comprised and described in
certificate of title, Vol. 341, folio 62, limited as to parcels (Wellington
Registry).
As witness my hand, this 30th day of April, 1948.
C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 21/149/3118.)

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

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 24 of the Servicemen's Settle-
ment and Land Sales Act, 1943, notice was given of the
intention of the Minister of Lands to take under Part II of the said
Act the lands described in the Schedule hereto, and a copy of the
said notice was published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 12 on
the 4th day of March, 1948, at page 249:
And whereas no objection was made in the manner prescribed
by the said Act:
And whereas the Land Sales Committee did on the 25th day of
March, 1948, make an order determining that the said lands are
suitable or adaptable for the settlement of a discharged serviceman
or of two or more discharged servicemen:
And whereas 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 owner has agreed to an amended vesting-date:
And whereas the said lands are not the lands 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 27 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the lands
described in the said Schedule are taken for the settlement of
discharged servicemen, and hereby specifies the 7th day of May,
1948, as the date on which the said lands shall be deemed to be
vested in His Majesty the King.