27 Oct. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1689

Plants Declared Noxious Weeds in the County of Kaitieke
(Notice No. Ag. 5985)

P
URSUANT to the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, and acting
under a delegation from the Minister of Agriculture for
the purposes of the said Act, the Acting Director-General of
Agriculture hereby publishes the following Special Order made
by the Kaitieke County Council on the 10th day of October
1955.

SPECIAL ORDER

That in pursuance and exercise of the powers and provisions of
section 5 of the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, and amendments
thereto, the Kaitieke County Council hereby resolves by way of
Special Order as follows:

‘That these plants be declared as noxious weeds in the
County of Kaitieke:

Barberry (Berberis vulgaris).
Bathurst bur (Xanthium spinosum).
Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus and Rubus luciniatus).
Gorse (Ulex, any species).
Hemlock (Conium maculatum).
Milk thistle or variegated thistle (Silybum marianum).
Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea).
Sweethrier (Rosa eglanteria syn. Rosa rubiginosa).
Montpelier broom (Cytisus monspessulanus).
Wild teasel (Dipsacus sylvestris).
Common broom (Cytisus scoparius).

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of October 1955.

R. B. TENNENT,
Acting Director-General of Agriculture.

(Ag. 70/3/124)

Specification Declared to be a Standard Specification

P
URSUANT to the Standards Act 1941, the Minister of
Industries and Commerce, on 12 October 1955, declared
the undermentioned specification to be a standard specification:

Number and Title of Specification: N.Z.S.S. 183: Laboratory
thermometers; being B.S. 593 : 1954; superseding N.Z.S.S.
183; being B.S. 593 : 1940.

Price of Copy (Post Free): 4s.

Application for copies should be made to the N.Z. Standards
Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay (P.O. Box
195), Wellington C.1.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of October 1955.

L. J. McDONALD,
Executive Officer, Standards Council.

Notifying Wilderness Area—Arthur Pass National Park

N
OTICE is hereby given that the Arthur Pass National
Park Board, in terms of section 34 of the National
Parks Act 1952, has by resolution dated 16 May 1955, set
apart as a wilderness area that part of the Arthur Pass
National Park containing 29,900 acres, more or less, and being
all that area in the Westland Land District, being part
Reserve 1065, situated in Blocks VII, VIII, XI, XII, XV,
and XVI, Otira Survey District, Blocks II, III, V, VI, VII,
and IX, Taramakau Survey District, Blocks III and IV,
Arthur Pass Survey District, and bounded as follows: Com-
mencing at the junction of the Main Divide (between the
Canterbury and Westland Land Districts) and the Aicken
Range; thence northerly along the summit of the Aicken
Range to the edge of the bush on the south bank of the Tara-
akau River; thence easterly along the bush edge on the
south bank of that river to Harper Pass on the Main Divide
aforesaid; thence southerly along the summit of the Main
Divide to the point of commencement. As shown on the plan
marked L. and S. 4/653A deposited in the Head Office, Depart-
ment of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon edged
yellow.

The wilderness area will be subject to the conditions imposed
by section 34 of the National Parks Act 1952, and to the
Arthur Pass National Park By-laws.

T. M. PRESTON,
Chairman, Arthur Pass National Park Board.

I certify that the National Parks Authority by resolution
dated the 21st day of September 1955 consented to the setting
apart of the above area as a wilderness area.

D. M. GREG,
Chairman, National Parks Authority.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

S
TEPHEN THOMAS HART, of Auckland, Labourer, was
adjudged bankrupt on 18 October 1955. Creditors’ meet-
ing will be held at my office on Monday, 31 October 1955, at
2.15 p.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.

Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East,
Auckland C.1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

C
UTHBERT WALTER HODGSON, of 2 Beach Road,
Takamini, Auckland, Motor Mechanic, was adjudged
bankrupt on 21 October 1955. Creditors’ meeting will be held
at my office on Friday, 4 November 1955, at 10.30 a.m.

T. C. DOUGLAS, Official Assignee.

Fourth Floor, Dilworth Building, Customs Street East,
Auckland C.1.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

P
AUL VALENTINE CLUNE, of Tiran, Cartage Contractor,
was adjudged bankrupt on 20 October 1955. Creditors’
meeting will be held at the Courthouse, Hamilton, on 3
November 1955, at 11 a.m.

C. P. SIMMONDS, Official Assignee.

P.O. Box 473, Hamilton.

In Bankruptcy

N
OTICE is hereby given that a second and final dividend
of 9½d. in the pound (making in all 8s. 9½d. in the pound) is now payable on all proved and accepted claims in
the estate of Ronald Thomas Dixon, of Waitara, Jeweller.

J. A. FYFE, Official Assignee.

Courthouse, New Plymouth, 21 October 1955.

In Bankruptcy—Supreme Court

S
TEVEN ROBERT GEORGE DALE, of 8 Papawai Terrace,
Wellington, Storeman-Driver, was adjudged bankrupt on
18 October 1955. Creditors’ meeting will be held at 57 Ballance
Street, Wellington, on Tuesday, 1 November 1955, at 2.15 p.m.

M. R. NELSON, Official Assignee.

Wellington, 20 October 1955.

LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES

E
VIDENCE of the loss of certificate of title, Volume 815,
flio 258, Auckland Registry, for 1 rood 28 perches,
more or less, being Lot 1 on Deposited Plan No. 31274 (Town
of Mangonui Extension No. 1), and being part of Lot 1,
Suburbs of Mangonui, in the name of ELIZABETH
THOMAS, of Mangonui, Married Woman, having been lodged
with me together with an application to issue a new certificate
of title in lieu thereof, notice is hereby given of my intention
to issue such new certificate of title on the expiration of four-
teen days from the date of the Gazette containing this notice.
(K.55232.)

Dated this 21st day of October 1955 at the Land Registry
Office, Auckland.

W. A. DOWD, District Land Registrar.

E
VIDENCE of the loss of Memorandum of Lease No. 7462
for part Section 1, Block IX, and part Section 5, Block
X, Kauroo District, containing 205 acres 2 roods 3 perches,
more or less, being part of the land in certificate of title,
Volume 180, folio 181, Otago Registry, in the name of JOHN
EVELYN AUSTIN, late of Five Forks, Oamaru, Farmer
(deceased), having been lodged with me together with an
application for a provisional lease in lieu thereof, notice is
hereby given of my intention to issue such provisional lease
on 11 November 1955.

Dated this 20th day of October 1955 at the Land Registry
Office, Dunedin.

E. R. C. MURRAY, District Land Registrar.