28 JULY
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
1181

Appointment of Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph

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PURSUANT to section 183 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1928, the Minister of Telegraphs hereby declares that the officers whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto are authorized to sign certificates of the service of telegraphic copies of notices for the purposes of sections 179 to 184 of that Act, and hereby appoints those officers to be transmitting officers and receiving officers, at the addresses specified after their names in the Schedule hereto, for the purposes of those sections and of the regulations for the time being in force under that Act relating to the service of notices by telegraph.*

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SCHEDULE

Ethelbert Frank Codyre, Postmaster Lyttelton.
Frank Sampson David, Postmaster, Waipukurau.
William Alfred Davies, Postmaster, Gore.
Howard James Dunford, Postmaster, Lower Hutt.
Leo Vernon Fowler, Postmaster, Tauranga.
Arthur Wallace Murphy, Postmaster, Taihape.
Ernest Wilks Pearce, Postmaster, Milton.
William John Taylor, Postmaster, Paeroa.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of July 1955.

T. P. SHAND, Minister of Telegraphs.

Gazette, 21 May 1914, Vol. I, page 2105.

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Officiating Ministers for 1955 (Notice No. 16)

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PURSUANT to the Marriage Act 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:

The Roman Catholic Church

The Reverend Leonard McMahon.

Baptists

The Reverend Selwyn Walter Edward Marlow.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Elder James N. Chapman.

Seventh Day Adventists

Pastor Robert Armstrong Greive.
Pastor Alfred Frederick John Kranz.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of July 1955.

S. T. BARNETT, Registrar-General.

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Poukawa Drainage Area—Notice of Intention to Make and Levy General Rates, and Notice of Amendment of Annually Recurring Special Rates

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NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, pursuant to the Swamp Drainage Act 1915 and its amendments, to make and levy, on the unimproved value of all land within the Poukawa Drainage Area constituted under the said Act, the general rates described in the Second Schedule hereto to meet maintenance costs for the period 1 April 1955 to 31 March 1956.

Notice is also given that, pursuant to the said Act and its amendments, the annually recurring special rates made and levied on 30 March 1933, and payable on 30 August in each year on the unimproved value of all land within the Poukawa Drainage Area have been amended as from 1 April 1955 to the amounts in the First Schedule hereto.

The amount of the general rates will be payable in one sum on 30 August 1955, together with the amount of the annually recurring special rates already made and levied.

The Valuation Roll of the area will be open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, Room 8, First Floor, Government Buildings, Customs Street West, Auckland, and a copy of same may be inspected at the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Post Office Buildings, Napier, at all times at which those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

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FIRST SCHEDULE

SPECIAL RATES

CLASS A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by persons appointed to classify lands under section 3 of the Swamp Drainage Amendment Act 1928, twelve pence and seventy one-hundredths of a penny (12·70d.) in the pound.

CLASS B: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, two pence and twelve one-hundredths of a penny (2·12d.) in the pound.

CLASS C: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, forty-two one-hundredths of a penny (0·42d.) in the pound.

SECOND SCHEDULE

GENERAL RATES

CLASS A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by persons appointed to classify lands under section 3 of the Swamp Drainage Amendment Act 1928, ten pence and twenty-two one-hundredths of a penny (10·22d.) in the pound.

CLASS B: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, one penny and seventy one-hundredths of a penny (1·70d.) in the pound.

CLASS C: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, thirty-four one-hundredths of a penny (0·34d.) in the pound.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of July 1955.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.

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

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Rangitaiki Land Drainage District—Notice of Making and Levying Rates

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PURSUANT to the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act 1910 and its amendments, the Minister of Lands hereby makes and levies on the unimproved value of all land within the district constituted under the said Act, the general rates to meet maintenance costs for the period 1 April 1955 to 31 March 1956 as described in the Schedule hereto.

The amount of such rates will be payable in one sum on 30 August 1955, together with the amount of the annually recurring special rates already made and levied, to the Collector of Rates, Room 8, First Floor, Government Buildings, Customs Street West, Auckland.

The rate book of the district will be open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, and a copy of same may be inspected at the Land Drainage Office of the Ministry of Works at Thornton, near Whakatane, at all times at which those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

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SCHEDULE

CLASS A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under section 6 of the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act 1910, eightpence and six one-hundredths of a penny (8·06d.) in the pound.

CLASS B: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, fivepence and thirty-seven one-hundredths of a penny (5·37d.) in the pound.

CLASS C: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, twopence and sixty-nine one-hundredths of a penny (2·69d.) in the pound.

CLASS D: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class D, ninety one-hundredths of a penny (0·90d.) in the pound.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of July 1955.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.

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

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Declaring Portion of the Langdale Domain to be Set Apart for a Site for a Public Hall

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PURSUANT to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, the Minister of Lands hereby declares that that portion of Langdale Domain described in the Schedule hereto shall on and after 1 July 1955 be set apart as a reserve for a site for a public hall, subject to Part II of the said Act.

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SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 17, Town of Langdale, situated in Block III, Rewa Survey District: Area, 1 acre, more or less. Part certificate of title, Volume 115, folio 6. (S.O. Plan 16652.)

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of July 1955.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 1/119; D.O. 8/318)

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Land Reserved in the Land District of North Auckland

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PURSUANT to the Land Act 1948, the Minister of Lands hereby sets apart the land described in the Schedule hereto as a reserve for a site for a public school.

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SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 31, Block XV, Omapere Survey District: Area, 6 perches, more or less. (S.O. Plan 38967.)

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of July 1955.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 6/6/126; D.O. 8/516)