22 FEBRUARY

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

An Honourable Estate-Lane Kauffmann. Mayflower Books Ltd., London.

This is a very long and quite competent modern American novel. It is possible that the picture on the jacket could mislead an intending purchaser into expecting a higher erotic content than the book in fact possesses. Although it deals with love, divorce, an abortion, and an illicit love affair, and although one character is described as a homosexual, the text is not notably concerned with matters of sex but is primarily a study in human relationships. The Tribunal accordingly classifies the book as not indecent.

The Immoral Tradition-Fernando Henriques. Panther Books Ltd., London.

This is the paperback issue of the second volume of the study of “Prostitution and Society” by Professor Henriques who is Professorial Fellow and Director of the Research Unit for the study of Multi-Racial Societies at the University of Sussex. He traces the history of prostitution from early Christian to modern times, concentrating finally on the United States and its special problems, particularly among negroes. The subject is a legitimate one; the author's treatment of it is widely comparative and historical and he throws a good deal of light on social, institutional, and legal changes. Two sections of photographs and many illustrations in the text are genuinely illustrative. It is impossible to say that Professor Henriques treats his subject otherwise than as a student of history and sociology should, and even on such a subject serious work of this quality cannot be considered likely to corrupt. We therefore decide that this book is not indecent.

L. G. H. SINCLAIR, Chairman.

19 February 1968.

Acquisition of Land as Part of the Simson Park Domain

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired as a public domain, subject to the provisions of Part III of the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, as an addition to the Simson Park Domain, to be administered as a public domain by the Domain Board.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT-BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY LOT 33, D.P. 51470, being part Allotment 140, Kawakawa Parish, situated in Block XV, Kawakawa Survey District: Area, 1 acre 1 rood 22.3 perches, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 12D, folio 812.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of February 1968.

R. J. MACLACHLAN, Director-General of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 1/904; D.O. 8/3/88)

Alteration of Boundaries of Taieri County and Mosgiel Borough

PURSUANT to section 48 of the Local Government Commission Act 1967 and section 36 of the Local Government Commission Act 1961, it is hereby notified that the Local Government Appeal Authority has fixed 9.30 a.m. on Monday, 25 March 1968, as the time, and the Chambers of the Local Government Appeal Authority, Compensation Court, Fifth Floor, Dominion Farmers’ Institute Building, corner Featherston and Ballance Streets, Wellington, as the place, for the hearing of the appeal by the Dunedin City Corporation against the final scheme of the Local Government Commission dated 20 September 1967 providing for the exclusion of an area from the district of Taieri County and the inclusion of that area in the district of Mosgiel Borough.

This notice cancels the notice relating to the same appeal published in Gazette, No. 7, of 15 February 1968, page 219.

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of February 1968.

A. O. DARE, for Secretary for Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 103/5/267)

Consenting to Raising of Loans by Certain Local Authorities

PURSUANT to section 3 of the Local Authorities Loans Act 1956 (as amended by section 3 (1) of the Local Authorities Loans Amendment Act 1967), the undersigned Assistant Secretary to the Treasury, acting under powers delegated to the Secretary to the Treasury by the Minister of Finance, hereby consents to the borrowing by the local authorities mentioned in the Schedule hereto of the whole or any part of the respective amounts specified in that Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Local Authority and Name of Loan

Auckland City Council: Parks Loan 1967
Auckland Regional Authority:
Bulk Water Supply Loan No. 18, 1968
Bulk Water Supply Loan No. 19, 1968
Property Loan No. 4, 1968
Dunedin City Council:
Electricity Renewal Loan No. 1, 1968
General Renewal Loan No. 2, 1968
Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board: Renewal Loan 1968
Feilding Borough Council: Footpath Loan 1967
Matamata County Council: Rural Housing Loan No. 12, 1967
Papakura Borough Council: Pensioner Flats (Don Street) Loan 1967
Putaruru Borough Council: Baths Special Loan 1968
Taranaki Harbours Board: Loan No. 16, 1968
Timaru City Council:
Abattoir Reconstruction Loan No. 2, 1968
Special Renewal Loan No. 1, 1968
Waitemata County Council:
Redemption Loan No. 1, 1968
Redemption Loan No. 2, 1968
Redemption Loan No. 3, 1968
Wellington Harbour Board: Harbour Works Loan No. 1, 1968

Amount

$
104,000
2,000,000
1,250,000
194,000
96,000
23,000
30,000
20,000
200,000
66,000
5,000
1,548,000
34,000
76,000
7,400
15,300
9,500
600,000

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of February 1968.

J. D. LANG, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.

(T. 40/416/6)

Land in the Wellington Land District Acquired as Permanent State Forest Land

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired under the Forests Act 1949 as permanent State forest land.

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT-WELLINGTON CONSERVANCY-WAIRARAPA SOUTH COUNTY SECTIONS 7 and 8, Block I, Tiffin Survey District: Area, 417 acres, more or less. All certificates of title, Volume 279, folios 266 and 267 (S.O. plan 13850).

As shown on plan No. N 157/2 deposited in the Head Office of the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of February 1968.

A. L. POOLE, Director-General of Forests.

(F.S. 9/3/146, 6/3/31; L. and S. H.O. 10/95/62)

Land in the Otago Land District Acquired as Permanent State Forest Land

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired, under the Forests Act 1949, as permanent State forest land.

SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT-SOUTHLAND CONSERVANCY-TUAPEKA COUNTY

LOT 2, D.P. 11537, being part Sections 4 and 16, Block XII, Glenkenich Survey District: Area, 99 acres 2 roods and 34 perches, more or less. Part certificates of title, Volume 364, folios 114 and 115.

As shown on plan No. S 170/1 deposited in the Head Office of the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon edged green.

Dated at Wellington this 19th day of February 1968.

A. L. POOLE, Director-General of Forests.

(F.S. 6/7/68; L. and S. H.O. 43888)