Amendment of Standard Specification

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 13 March 1956, amended the undermentioned standard specification by the incorporation of the amendment shown hereunder:

Number and Title of Specification: N.Z.S.S. 1240: Safety requirements for electric fires, being B.S. 1670 : 1951, amended to meet New Zealand requirements.

Amendment: No. 2A, March 1956.

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 15th day of March 1956.

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

Standards Act 1941—Draft New Zealand Standard Specification No. D 4749: Building Bricks

PURSUANT to subsection (3) of section 8 of the Standards Act 1941, notice is hereby given that the above draft New Zealand standard specification is being circulated. All persons who may be affected by this specification and who desire to comment thereon may, on application, obtain copies free of charge from the N.Z. Standards Institute, 201 Lambton Quay (P.O. Box 195), Wellington C. 1.

The closing date for the receipt of comment is 18 June 1956.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of March 1956.

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

Specification Declared to be a Standard Specification

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 7 February 1956, declared the undermentioned specification to be a standard specification:

Number and Title of Specification: N.Z.S.S. 1255: Steel fabric for concrete reinforcement. Part A: Hard drawn steel wire fabric. Part B: Twisted steel fabric. Part C: Expanded metal (steel) fabric, being B.S. 1221 : 1945.

Price of Copy (post free): 3s. 6d.

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 14th day of March 1956.

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

Specification Declared to be a Standard Specification

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 7 March 1956, declared the undermentioned specification to be a standard specification:

Number and Title of Specification: N.Z.S.S. 1275: Acrylic resin denture base materials, being B.S. 2487 : 1954.

Price of Copy (post free): 2s. 6d.

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 19th day of March 1956.

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

Standard Specifications Revoked

PURSUANT to the Standards Act 1941 and the regulations made thereunder, the Minister of Industries and Commerce, on 9 March 1956, revoked the undermentioned standard specifications:

Number and Title of Specification

N.Z.S.S. 815: Wrought aluminium and aluminium alloys—sheet and strip, being B.S. 1470 : 1948, with amendments PD 906, April 1949, and PD 1006, February 1950.

N.Z.S.S. 882: Wrought aluminium and aluminium alloys for general engineering purposes—tubes, being B.S. 1471 : 1949.

N.Z.S.S. 883: Wrought aluminium and aluminium alloys for general engineering purposes—bars, rods, and sections, being B.S. 1476 : 1949.

N.Z.S.S. 1070: Wrought aluminium and aluminium alloys for general engineering purposes—forgings, being B.S. 1472 : 1951.

N.Z.S.S. 1071: Wrought aluminium and aluminium alloys for general engineering purposes—plate, being B.S. 1477:1951.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of March 1956.

L. J. MC DONALD,
Executive Officer, Standards Council.

Boundaries of City of Gisborne and County of Cook Defined

PURSUANT to section 26 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1954, the Secretary for Internal Affairs hereby defines, as set out in the Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the City of Gisborne, the County of Cook, and the Whatapoko Riding of the County of Cook, the previous boundaries having been altered by Order in Council dated 29 August 1955 and published in Gazette, 1 September 1955, No. 56, page 1378.

SCHEDULE

BOUNDARIES OF CITY OF GISBORNE

ALL that area in the Gisborne Land District bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the northern side of Cochrane Street with part Section 9, Block II, Turanganui Survey District; thence south-easterly and north-easterly by the southern and eastern boundaries of Sections 11, 20, and part 9, to and across Gladstone Road, and by that line produced to the right bank of the Taruheru River; thence in an easterly direction along the right bank of the said Taruheru River to the north-western side of Lytton Road; thence northerly and easterly along the production of that side of Lytton Road, across the Taruheru River and by the left bank of said Taruheru River to the south-eastern corner of Lot 4, Deeds Plan 168, part Whataupoko No. 3 Block; thence northerly along the eastern boundary of the said Lot 4 to its intersection with Te Hapara Road, thence north-easterly across the said Te Hapara Road to the southernmost corner of Lot 62, D.P. 3101; thence north-easterly by the south-eastern boundaries of said Lot 62 and of Lots 60, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, and 54, all D.P. 3101, to its intersection with Ormond Road, and that boundary produced to the middle of said Ormond Road; thence north-westerly along the middle of Ormond Road to a point in line with the eastern boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 2844; thence north-easterly to and by the eastern boundaries of said Lot 1, Lot 2, D.P. 2882, and Lot 1, D.P. 2217, to its intersection with Howarth Street and that line produced to the middle of Howarth Street; thence south-easterly along the middle of said Howarth Street to the middle of Valley Road; thence south-westerly along the middle of said Valley Road to a point in line with the south-western corner of Lot 1, D.P. 4387; thence south-easterly to and by the south-western boundaries of said Lot 1, of Lot 14, D.P. 4387, and of part Lot 1, D.P. 4276, to the southernmost corner of said Lot 1; thence northerly and south-easterly by the eastern and south-eastern boundaries of said Lot 1, D.P. 4276, to the south-westernmost corner of Lot 1, D.P. 2266; thence southerly generally by the southern and south-western boundaries of Lots 1, D.P. 2266, part 3, D.P. 2192, 6, D.P. 1710, 10, D.P. 2499, 8, D.P. 2265; thence south-westerly and south-easterly generally by the western boundary of part Lot 4, D.P. 1699, the western and south-western boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 4251, the south-western boundaries of part Lot 4, D.P. 1699 aforementioned, Lot 1, D.P. 4007, and Lot 38, D.P. 539, to its intersection with Massey Road; thence across Massey Road to and by the south-western boundary of Lot 13, D.P. 2573, to the southernmost corner of said Lot 13; thence north-easterly by the south-eastern boundaries of Lots 13, 11, 8, 6, and 3, all of D.P. 2573, to the westernmost corner of Lot 6, D.P. 249; thence south-easterly generally by the southern boundaries of Lots 6 and 7, D.P. 249, to its intersection with Hill Road; thence by the northern side of said Hill Road to its intersection with Ballance Street; thence across the said Ballance Street to the westernmost corner of Lot 13, D.P. 249; thence in a south-easterly direction by the south-western boundaries of the said Lot 13 and of Lot 14, D.P. 249, to an angle in Hill Road at its junction with Sievwright Lane; thence south-easterly across Hill Road to the north-western corner of Lot 2, D.P. 2202; thence in a south-westerly direction by the north-western boundaries of said Lot 2 and of Lot 1, D.P. 2202, to and across Adams Road to the westernmost corner of Lot 9, D.P. 2202; thence in a south-easterly direction along the south-western boundary of said Section 9 and of part Lots 47 and 48, D.P. 1630, and the production thereof to the middle of Richardson Avenue; thence north-easterly along the middle of Richardson Avenue to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 3783; thence in a south-easterly direction to and by the south-western boundaries of said Lot 1 and of Lots 1, 2, D.P. 4027, part Lot 1, D.P. 649, and Lots 1 and 2, D.P. 1963, and that line produced to the middle of Valley Lane; thence north-easterly along the middle of said Valley Lane to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 1580; thence to and by the said south-western boundary to the southernmost corner of said Lot 1; thence north-easterly by the south-eastern boundaries of said Lot 1, D.P. 1580, of part Lot 11 and Lots 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, D.P. 1440, to the easternmost corner of said Lot 19; thence south-easterly by the south-western boundary of Lot 2, D.P. 239, and that line produced to the middle of Fox Street; thence south-westerly along the middle of Fox Street to a point in line with the south-western boundary of Lot 1, D.P. 3032; thence south-easterly to and by the said south-western boundary and by the south-western boundary of part Lot 1, D.P. 1160, and the western boundary of part Lot 35, D.P. 214, to a point being the south-easternmost corner of Lot 9, D.P. 4391; thence south-westerly generally by the north-western, north-eastern, and north-western boundaries of said part Lot 35, D.P. 214, and Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, D.P. 1863, to and across the Waiteata Stream; thence in a southerly direction generally along the right bank of the said Waiteata Stream to the Waimata River; thence along a right