Registrar of Brands and Inspector of Stock Appointed
(Note No. Ag. 5510)
PURSUANT to the Stock Act 1908, His Excellency the
Governor-General has been pleased to appoint on the 29th
day of September 1953
Allen David Knight
as Registrar of Brands for the Chatham Islands and an
Inspector under the said Act.
Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of October 1953.
E. J. FAWCETT, Director-General of Agriculture.
Member of the Potato Board Appointed (Notice No. Ag. 5511)
PURSUANT to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 4
of the Potato Growing Industry Act 1950, His Excellency
the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint on the 28th
day of September 1953 on the nomination of the New Zealand
Grain, Seed, and Produce Merchants’ Federation, Incorporated,
Arundel Turner, Esquire,
as a member of the Potato Board established under the said
Act.
Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of October 1953.
E. J. FAWCETT, Director-General of Agriculture.
(Ag. 67/9/201)
Import Control Exemption Notice (No. 12) 1953
PURSUANT to regulation 15 of the Import Control
Regulations 1938,* the Minister of Customs hereby gives
notice as follows:

1. (1) This notice may be cited as the Import Control
   Exemption Notice (No. 11) 1953.
   (2) This notice shall come into force on the 9th day of
   October 1953.
2. Goods of the classes specified in the First Schedule
   hereto, imported from and being the produce or manufacture
   of any country, other than the countries specified in the
   Second Schedule hereto, are hereby exempted from the
   requirement of a licence under the said regulations.
   FIRST SCHEDULE
   Tariff Item No.: Ex 357 (10) (a).
   Classes of Goods: Baling wire, plain barbing wire.
   SECOND SCHEDULE
   ALBANIA, Argentina, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia,
   Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador,
   French Somaliland, Germany (Russian Zone), Guatemala,
   Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Japan, Korea, Liberia,
   Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Roumania,
   Tangier, United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist
   Republcs, Venezuela.
   Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of October 1953.
   JACK T. WATTS,
   For the Minister of Customs.
   *Statutory Regulations 1938, Serial number 1938/161, page 695.
   Revocation of Notices of Schemes of Development and
   Reconstruction in the Auckland District
   PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 29 of the Finance
   Act (No. 3) 1944, I, William Stanley Goosman, the
   Minister of Works, hereby revoke the following three notices,
   viz:
   (1) Notice of a scheme of development and reconstruction
   in and adjacent to the Boroughs of Birkenhead and Northcote
   and the County of Waitemata dated 4 April 1946 and
   published in the Supplement to the Gazette of 4 April 1946
   at page 449.
   (2) Notice of a scheme of development and reconstruction
   in and adjacent to the Auckland Metropolitan Area, extending
   from Dairy Flat in the Waitemata County to Drury in the
   Franklin County dated 4 April 1946 and published in the
   said Supplement to the Gazette of 4 April 1946 at page 450.
   (3) Notice of a scheme of development and reconstruction
   in the Boroughs of Devonport, Birkenhead, Northcote, and
   Takapuna, the City of Auckland, and the County of Waitemata
   dated 6 September 1946 and published in the Supplement to
   the Gazette of 5 September 1946 at page 1237.
   Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of September 1953.
   W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Works.
   (P.W. 82/4)
   Notice of Intention to Take Land in Block X, Ohinemaiua
   Survey District, for an Employee’s House
   NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed under the
   provisions of the Public Works Act 1928 and section
   85 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928, to execute a certain
   public work, to wit, the construction of an employee’s house,
   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 a plan of the land so required to
   be taken is deposited in the post office at Taihape 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:
   5 acres and 2.5 perches.
   Being part Motukawa 2B 20.
   Situated in Block X, Ohinewairua Survey District.
   (S.O. 22707.)
   In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more
   particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 139715,
   deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington,
   and thereon coloured blue.
   As witness my hand at Wellington, this 6th day of October

3. W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Works.
   (P.W. 53/690; D.O. 5/79)
   Approving of Colour of Reflecting Material and Type and
   Colour of Background for Signs of Class E (Stop Signs)
   PURSUANT to regulation 2 of the Traffic Sign Regulations
   1937 (as amended by regulation 2 of the Traffic Sign
   Regulations 1937, Amendment No. 5) the Minister of Transport
   hereby approves in respect of signs of Class E (stop
   signs) (a) of the reflecting material being of a white, grey,
   or silver colour, and (b) of the background to the letters
   STOP on the sign being black in colour and in the form of
   an oblong which is approximately twenty-two inches long and
   ten inches high and the corners of which may be reduced.
   Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of October 1953.
   W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.
   Statutory Regulations 1936–7, Serial number 1937/159, page 583.
   Amendment No. 1: Statutory Regulations 1946, Serial
   number 1946/73, page 147.
   Amendment No. 2: Statutory Regulations 1948, Serial
   number 1948/3, page 3.
   Amendment No. 3: Statutory Regulations 1952, Serial
   number 1952/79, page 334.
   Amendment No. 4: Statutory Regulations 1953, Serial
   number 1953/54, page 221.
   Amendment No. 5: Statutory Regulations 1953, Serial
   number 1953/127.
   Plants Declared Noxious Weeds in the Hutt County
   (Notice No. Ag. 5512)
   PURSUANT to the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, the Director-
   General of Agriculture, acting under a delegation from
   the Minister of Agriculture for the purposes of the said Act,
   hereby publishes the following special order made by the
   Hutt County Council on the 10th day of September 1953.
   SPECIAL ORDER
   THAT the Council of the County of Hutt hereby resolves by
   way of special order, pursuant to the provisions of the
   Noxious Weeds Act 1950, that—
   Barberry (Berberis vulgaris),
   Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis),
   Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus and Rubus laciniatus),
   Common broom (Cytisus scoparius),
   Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare),
   Goat’s rue (Galega officinalis),
   Gorse (Ulex, any species),
   Greater bindweed (Calystegia sepium),
   Heath (Erica lusitanica and Erica arborea),
   Hemlock (Conium maculatum),
   Milk thistle or variegated thistle (Silybum marianum),
   Nassella tussock (Nassella trichotoma),
   Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea),
   Saffron thistle (Carthamus lanatus),
   Star thistle (Centaurea calcitrapa),
   Sweetbrier (Rosa eglanteria syn. Rosa rubiginosa),
   Tauhinu or New Zealand cotton-wood (Cassinia leptophylla
   or Cassinia fulvida),
   Tutsan (Hypericum androsaemum),
   Winged thistle (Carduus tenuiflorus and Carduus pycno-
   cephalus), and
   Woolly nightshade (Solanum auriculatum)
   are hereby declared to be noxious weeds in the whole of the
   County of Hutt, and this special order is in substitution of
   any previous special order relating to noxious weeds and any
   such previous special order is hereby revoked and shall cease
   to have any effect after the coming into force of this special
   order.
   Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of October 1953.
   E. J. FAWCETT, Director-General of Agriculture.
   (Ag. 70/10/148)