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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 23

Average Price for Apples and Pears for the 1976/77 Season Declared (No. 1649 Ag. 3328)

PURSUANT to section 27 (7) of the Apple and Pear Marketing Act 1971, notice is hereby given that the average price to be paid to growers by the New Zealand Apple and Pear Marketing Board for apples and pears grown during the 1976/77 season shall be 7.848 cents per kilogram of bare fruit ungraded and unpacked and delivered to the receiving depot of the board nearest to the orchard on which the fruit was grown.

Dated at Wellington this 21st day of February 1977.

R. M. RICHARDSON,
Chairman, Apple and Pear Prices Authority.

Land in the Otago Land District Acquired as State Forest Land

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

SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT—SOUTHLAND CONSERVANCY—BRUCE COUNTY

Lot 1, D.P. 15614, being part Sections, 10, 1 of 11, 2 of 11, 12 and 13, Block VI, Clarendon Survey District: area, 34.5218 hectares, more or less. Part certificates of title, Volume 270, folio 147 and Volume 4D, folio 631.

As shown on plan S. 172/19 deposited in the Head Office of the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of March 1977.

J. C. M. HOOD, for Director-General of Forests.
(F.S. 9/7/254, 6/7/104; L. and S. H.O. 10/100/44)

Land in the Nelson Land District Acquired as State Forest Land

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

SCHEDULE

NELSON LAND DISTRICT—NELSON CONSERVANCY—WAIMEA COUNTY

PART Sections 47, 48, and 70, Square 6, situated in Blocks IV and VIII, Wangapeka Survey District: area, 64.3399 hectares, more or less. All certificate of title Volume 4D, folio 1266, “limited as to parcels”.

Also Section 180, Square 6, situated in Block VIII, Wangapeka Survey District: area, 2.2257 hectares, more or less. All certificate of title Volume 2D, folio 852, S.O. Plan 11628.

As shown on plan S. 19/54, deposited in the Head Office of the New Zealand Forest Service at Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of March 1977.

J. C. M. HOOD, for Director-General of Forests.
(F.S. 9/4/311, 6/4/187; L. and S. H.O. 10/97/31)

Pork Marketing Board—Basic Minimum Price for Pigs—Notice No. 3, 1977

PURSUANT to regulation 13 of the Pork Marketing Board Regulations 1973, and regulation 5 of the Pork Marketing Board Regulations 1976, Amendment No. 2, the Pork Marketing Board hereby gives the following notice.

NOTICE

1. This notice may be cited as the Basic Minimum Price for Pigs Notice No. 3, 1977.

2. This notice shall be operable from the 28th day of February 1977.

3. This notice fixes the basic minimum prices for pigs, as specified in the following Schedule, delivered to export pig slaughterhouses.

SCHEDULE

45.5 kg/70 kg Weight Range

(a) North Island:
Prime grade ..... 108 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Choice grade ..... 98 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Standard grade ..... 80 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Mutilated grade ..... 77 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.

(b) South Island:
Prime grade ..... 104 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Choice grade ..... 94 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Standard grade ..... 75 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Mutilated grade ..... 72 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.

70.5 kg/83 kg Weight Range

(a) North Island:
Prime grade ..... 77 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Choice grade ..... 67 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Standard grade ..... 56 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Mutilated grade ..... 49 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.

(b) South Island:
Prime grade ..... 73 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Choice grade ..... 63 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Standard grade ..... 51 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Mutilated grade ..... 44 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.

27.5 kg/45 kg Weight Range

(a) North Island:
Prime grade ..... 97 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Choice grade ..... 87 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Standard grade ..... 73 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Mutilated grade ..... 66 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.

(b) South Island:
Prime grade ..... 93 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Choice grade ..... 83 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Standard grade ..... 68 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.
Mutilated grade ..... 61 cents per kilogram hot carcass weight.

Dated at Wellington this 25th day of February 1977.

For and on behalf of the Pork Marketing Board:

G. A. BEARD, Chief Executive Officer.

Duntroon Fire District

PURSUANT to section 26 of the Fire Service Act 1975, the New Zealand Fire Service Commission hereby gives notice:

(1) That on 1 April 1977 there shall be constituted a Duntroon Fire District, defined as all that area of land within an area circumscribed by a distance of 8 road kilometres (5 road miles) measured in all directions from the Duntroon Fire Station site excluding any Rural Fire District established, pursuant to the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1955, and to include the urban area of Duntroon.

J. K. HUNN, Chairman.

W. J. HENDERSON, Fire Commissioner.

F. A. HARDY, Fire Commissioner.

Customs Notice—Exchange Rates

NOTICE is hereby given, pursuant to the Customs Act 1966, that the following exchange rates to the New Zealand dollar relate to imported goods shipped from the country of export on and after 1 March 1977:

Australia ..... 0.88 Dollar
Austria ..... 16.02 Schilling
Bangladesh ..... 14.77 Taka
Belgium ..... 34.59 Franc
Brazil ..... 12.20 Cruzeiro
Burma ..... 6.64 Kyat
Canada ..... 0.98 Dollar
China ..... 1.79 Renminbi
Denmark ..... 5.56 Krone
Egypt ..... 0.37 Pound
Fiji ..... 0.89 Dollar
Finland ..... 3.62 Mark
France ..... 4.62 Franc
French Polynesia ..... 84.04 FP Franc
Greece ..... 35.04 Drachma
Hong Kong ..... 4.39 Dollar
India ..... 8.49 Rupee
Israel ..... 8.49 Pound
Italy ..... 832.24 Lira