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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 72

Declaring Land Taken for a Government Work and Not Required for That Purpose to be Crown Land

PURSUANT to section 35 of the Public Works Act 1928, the Minister of Works hereby declares the land described in the Schedule hereto to be deemed to have been Crown land subject to the Land Act 1948 as from the 2nd day of September 1955.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land declared Crown land: 1 rood 5·9 perches.

Being part of Eastbank Street, Block A, D.P. 210, being part Section 122s, Block V, Andersons Bay Survey District. Part Proclamation No. 6408, Otago Land Registry. (S.O. 11585.)

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 137916 deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of November 1955.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Works.

(H.C. X/20; D.O. 30/5/6)

Exemption Order Under the Motor Drivers Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Motor Drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport hereby orders and declares that the provisions of clause (1) of regulation 7 of the said regulations so far as they relate to the driving of heavy trade motors shall not apply to the person hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply:

A motor driver’s licence issued under the Motor Drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor in the course of his employment for the employer described in Column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the age of eighteen years, to drive a heavy trade motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver) Column 2 (Employer)
Mervyn James Richmond, Wharepuhunga Father.
No. 3 R.D., Te Awamutu

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of November 1955.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan

PURSUANT to the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1926, the following notice received by the Minister of Finance from the Chairman, Waitotara County Council, is hereby published.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of November 1955.

E. L. GREENSMITH, Secretary to the Treasury.

WAITOTARA COUNTY COUNCIL

I HAVE to advise, pursuant to section 13 (1) of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1926, that a poll of ratepayers of the County of Waitotara for the raising of the Tar-sealing Loan of £56,000 was taken on Saturday, the 8th day of October 1955, and the result of the poll was as follows:

For the proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Against the proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Informal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nil

I therefore declare the proposal was rejected.

J. MARTIN, County Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan

PURSUANT to the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1926, the following notice received by the Minister of Finance from the Mayor, Borough of Tawa Flat, is hereby published.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of November 1955.

E. L. GREENSMITH, Secretary to the Treasury.

BOROUGH OF TAWA FLAT

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Tawa Flat, taken on the 12th day of November 1955, on the proposal of the Tawa Flat Borough Council to borrow the sum of nine thousand pounds for the purpose of erecting three workers dwellings—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was . . . 107
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was . 143

I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 14th day of November 1955.

M. M. DAVIDSON, Mayor.

Electrical Wiring Regulations 1935—Plugs and Cord Connectors

PURSUANT to the Electrical Wiring Regulations 1935, notice is hereby given that—

(a) Synthetic resin moulded plugs, in addition to complying with the requirements (a), (b), and (c) of the notice published on page 1719 of Gazette No. 68, dated 3 November 1955, shall also—

(i) Comply with the requirements of N.Z.S.S. 198, August 1951 edition with amendment No. 1 dated April 1953 and amendment No. 2 dated November 1955; or

(ii) Be of such other type that has received my approval;

(b) Synthetic resin moulded cord-connector sockets, in addition to complying with the requirements (a) and (b) of the notice published on page 1719 of Gazette No. 68, dated 3 November 1955, shall also—

(i) Comply with such requirements of N.Z.S.S. 198, August 1951 edition with amendment No. 1 dated April 1953 and amendment No. 2 dated November 1955 as are applicable to a cord-connector socket; or

(ii) Be of such other type that has received my approval;

(c) Synthetic resin moulded plugs that do not conform to (a) above and synthetic resin moulded cord-connector sockets that do not conform to (b) above shall not be manufactured for sale, offered for sale, installed, or used;

(d) Plugs and cord-connector sockets which are submitted for my opinion as to their compliance with the above requirements, or for my approval, shall be accompanied by an acceptable report of tests conducted by a recognized testing authority, for example, the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of November 1955.

A. E. DAVENPORT, General Manager,
State Hydro-electric Department.

Amendment of Standard Specification

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 22 November 1955, amended the undermentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the amendment shown hereunder:

Number and Title of Specification: N.Z.S.S. 198. Plugs and sockets of the flat-pin type for use on 10-amp. 250-volt circuits.

Amendment: No. 2, November 1955.

Price of Copy (Post Free): 2s. 6d.

Application for copies of the standard specification so amended should be made to the N.Z. Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay (P.O. Box 195), Wellington C.1. Copies of the amendment will be supplied, free of charge, upon request.

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of November 1955.

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

Declaring Lands in North Auckland Land District to be a Water Area for the Purposes of Section 50 of the Land Act 1948

PURSUANT to subsection (6) of section 50 of the Land Act 1948, the Land Settlement Board hereby declares the lands described in the Schedule hereto (being lands on which waterworks are erected or are intended to be erected for the supply of water to the said lands) to be a water area for the purposes of the said section.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

Sections 3 and 5, Block VIII, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Block X, Sections 3 and 4, Block XI, and Sections 1 and 2, Block XII, Okaka Survey District: Total area, 1,740 acres and 5 perches, more or less. (S.O. Plans 37227, 37229, 37231, and 38645.)

Dated at Wellington this 21st day of November 1955.

D. M. GREIG,
Deputy Chairman, Land Settlement Board.

(L. and S. H.O. 36/1766; D.O. 24/855/1)