Jumb, 04. 1607

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MAY 4. 1916.

Declaring certain Area added to the CrYUnty of ·Kairanga to Land. set apart .tor Di,'posal by Way of Sale or Lease to be included in Fitzherbert Riding thereof. Discharged 8oldillrs, under Speciu.l '1'e",ures, in the Otago Land District. [L.S.] LIVEHPOOL, GoyernoJ'. A PROCLAMATION, fr..S.] LIVERPOOL. Governor. HEREAS by a Proclamation dated the eleventh A PROCLAMATION. W day of March, one thousand nine hundred and N pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon sixteen, and published in the Sew Zealand Gazette of the I me by seation four of the Discharged Soldiers Settle. sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and ment Aot, 1915, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of sixteen, the boundaries of the Counties of Kairanga and Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominiou of New Zealand, Horowhenua were altered by the exclusion of a certain do hereby proclaim and declare that the Crown lands area from the County of Horowhenua and the inclusion described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same are of such area in the County of Kairanga: And whereas it hereby set apart and deolared open for disposal by way of is desirable that the area so added to the County of Kairanga sale or lease to discharged soldiers, under speoial tenures, in should be included in the Fitzherbert Riding of that county: the manner provided in the said Act. Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the of New Zealand, SCHEDULE in pursuance and exeroise of the powers conferred upon me by section twenty·two of the Counties Act, 1908, do hereby OTAGO LAND DISTRIOT. declare that the area included as aforesaid in the County Or01L'n Land. of Kairanga shall be included in the Fitzherbert Riding ALI. that area in the Otago Land District, containing by of the said oounty, and that the boundaries of that riding admeasurement 21,100 Heres, more or less, being Rnns 536, shall be those set forth in the Schedule her.. to. 537, 538,539, 540, 541, 542, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, and 564, Ahuriri, Benmore, and Oban River Survey Dis· SCHEDULE. tricts, and bounded as follows: Commencing a, the soutb­ oast corner of Run 534; thence towards the west generally HOl;"DARIES m' FITZHERBERT Rmnw, (JOUNTY OF KAIRANGA, by Runs 534, 535, and "' proposed afforestation reserve; ALL that area .in the Kairauga (Jounty hounded by a line towards the north, west, and again towards the north by along the middle of the ",[an",watu Rivtlr frolll the northern Run 543; towards tbe east and south by a public road; boundary of Horowhenua Cuunty to the northern boundary again towards the east by a tree-planting reserve; towards of Kairanga (Jounty, along the northern boundary of that the EOuth and south.east geuerally by a chain· wide reserve county to the north-western corner of Pahiatua County, along the north bank of the Ahurrri River, a tree-planting thence along the boundary between Kairanga and Pahiatua reserve, and again by the reserve along the north bank of Counties to Horowhenua Couuty, and along the boundary the Ahuriri River to the point of c"mmencement: excepting between Horowhenua and Kairanga Counties to the middle from the above -described boundaries three public roads, of the l\1anawatu River, the place of commencement_ each one chain wide, and three gravel reserves. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Given under the hand of His Excellency the Hi"ht Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savi!e_ Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Most Distmguished Order of B"int Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Saint George, Member of the Hoya! Victorian Order, Governor aud Commander·in-Chief in Order, Governor and Commander-in·Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea· and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea· land and its Dependencies; g,nd issued under hnd and its Depend!'ncies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion. at the Govern­ the Sea! of the saiel Dominion, at the Govern­ ment House at Wellington, this twenty.ninth day ment JIouse at Wellington, this twenty.ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand of April, in the year of our Lord one thouRand nino hundred and sixteen. nine hundred and sixteen, G. W. RUSSELL, W. F. MASSEY. Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Lands

GOD SAVE THE KrNG! GOD SAVE THE KING! A 1608 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

Lands Bet apart for Disposal by Way 0; Sale or Lease to Land in Nelson Land Di8trict declared to be 81tbject 10 Di,charged Soldiers, nnder rl!'dinary Tent/res, ill the Wel­ Section 127 oj the Land Act, 1908. lington Land District. [L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor. [L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. A PROCLAMATION. HEREAS the Land Board of the Nelson Land District N pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon W has recommended that the Crown tenant of the land I me by section three of the Discharged Soldiers Settle­ desoribed in the Schedule hereto should be afforded relief, ment Act, 1915, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of owing to exceptional circumstances over which he has no Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zeala.nd, ~ontrol preventing the profitable occupation of such land: do hereby proclaim and declare that the area of Crown land Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is and authority conferred upon me by section twenty-five of hereby set apart fer selection by disoharged soldiers, under the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies the Land for Settlements Act, 1908. Empowering Act, 1911, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New SCHEDULE. Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare the land described WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.-SETTLEIIIENT LAND. iu the Schedule hereto to be su bject to the provisions of SECTION 17, Block XVI, Huangarua Survey District, section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Land Act, Featherston County: Area, 707 acres. 1908; and I do further fix four years from the date men­ tioned in the said Schedule as the period for which the said Given under the hand of His Exceilency the Ri~ht land shall be exempt from payment of rent. Honourable Arthur William de Brito SaVlle, Earl of Liverl?ool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most DistingUIshed Order of Saint Michael and SCHEDULE. Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian NELSON LAND DISTRICT. Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in SEOTION 9, Block X, Brighton Survey District: 1st July, and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea. 1915. land and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern­ Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right ment House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, of April, in the year of our Lord on, thougan'! Earl of Liverl?ool, Knight Grand Cross of the nin", hundred and sixteen. I Most DistingUished Order of Saint Michael and W. F. MASSEY, Saint George, Member of the Royal V.ictorian Minister of Lands. Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea­ GOD SAVE THE Knw ! land and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion. at the Govern­ ment House at Wellington. this twenty·ninth day I.and ",. apart luI' Disposal by Wa.y of Sale or Lease to of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand Discharged S"ldiers, under SpeCial l'enl

In the Hawke's Bay Land Distriot; as the Bame is more Declaring Land taken Jor a Public Wm'k, and not requ.ired particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39669, for 8uch Pul,lic Work. to be Crown Land. deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial Distriot, and thereon [L.S.] LIVEHl'OOL, Governor. ooloured green. .-\. ·PROCLAMATION. Given under the hand of H is Excellency the Ri~ht HEREAS it is provided by section thirty of the Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savde. W Public Works Act, 1908, that if it is found that any Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and this or any other Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise Saint George, Member of the Hoyal Victorian howsoever, for any puhlic work is not required for such Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief il public work, the Governor may, by an Order in Council and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea· publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold land and its Dependencies; and issued under under the conditions therein mentioned; the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern­ And whereas it is further provided by section five of the ment House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case of of April, in the year of OUr Lord one thousand any land so taken, purchased, or acquired for a Government nine hundred and sixteen_ work and not required for that porpose the Governor W. FTIASER. may, on the recommendation of the Minister, and without Minister of Public Works. complying with any other requirements of the aforesaid section thirty, by Proclamation declare such land to be (;UU SA VI': THE KI.>.:G: Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and thereupon the land may he administered and disposed of under that Act accordingly: And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto DeclarinlJ Land taken tor a Public Work, find not required was taken for the purposes of roads; And whereas suoh for such Public Work, t" be Crown Land. roads have been stopped, and it is desirable to declare the land oontained therein to he Crown land: And whereas a [L.S.] LIVEHPOOL. Governor_ plan has been prepared, and the Minister has recommended A PHOCLAMATION. the Governor to deolare such land to be Crown land; Now, therefore, in pursuance .and exercise of the powers W HEREAS it is provided by section thirty of the and authorities conferred upon me by the above-in-part­ Public Works Act, 1908. that if it is found that any recited Acts, and of all other powers in anywise enabling land held, taken, purchased, or acquired at any time under me in this behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl this or any othe~ Act or Provincial Ordinance, or otherwise of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, howsoever, for any public work is not required for such do hereby declare the land described in the Schedule hereto public work the Governor may, by an Order in Council to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and that publicly notified and gazetted, cause the same to be sold such land may be administered and disposed of under that under the conditions therein mentioned: Act accordingly. And whereas it is further provided by section five of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, that in the case of any land so taken, purchased, or acquired for a Government SCHEDULE. work and not required for tbat purpose the Governor may, on the recommendation of the Minister, and without APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road deolared to be complying with any other requirements of the aforesaid Crown land;- section thirty, by Proclamation declare such land to he 5 acres 0 roods 80 perches, adjoining or pas"ing through Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and thereupon Sections 4,64, and 65. Situated in Block XIII, Matiri the land may be administered and disposed of under that Survey District. Act accordingly: \! acres 0 roods 4 perches, adjoining or passing tbrough And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto Sections 79 and 80. Situated in Block I, Tutaki was taken for the purposes of a road: And whereas such S nrvey District. road has been stopped, and it is desirable to declare the In the Nelson Land District; as the same are more land contained therein to be Crown land: And whereas a particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37138, plan has been prepared, and tbe Minister has recommended deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at the Governor 10 declare such land to be Crown land: Wellington. in the Wellington Provincial District, and Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers thereon coloured green_ and authorities conferred upon me by the above-in-part­ recited Acts, and of all other powers in anywise enabling Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right me in this behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand. Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of tue do hereby declare the land described in the Schedule hereto Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and to be Crown land subject to the Land Act, 1908, and that Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian such land may be administered and disposed of under that Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in Act accordingly. and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea­ land and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern­ SCHEDULE. ment Hou~e at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day ApPROXIMATE area of the piece of stopped road declared of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand to he Crown land: 9 perches. nine hundred and sixteen. Adjoining or passing through Section 3 C.L .• Block XI, W. FRASER, Waihi South Survey District (S.O. 18(28). Minister of Public Works.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more nOD SAVE THE KING I particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.89864. deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works .. t Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial Distriot, and Land taken for a Further Portion oj the Hu.ntly-Awaroa thereon coloured green. Branch of the Kaipara-Waikato Railway, and for Road Approaches thereto. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savi/e, Earl of Liverl?ool, Knight Grand Cross of the [L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor. Most DistingUIshed Order of Saint Michael and A PROCLAMATION_ Saint George. Member of the R~yal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in HEREAS part of the land mentioned in the First and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea­ W Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a further land and its Dependencies; and issued under portion of the Huntly-Awaroa Branch cf the Kaipara.­ the Seal of the said Dominion. at the Govern­ Waikato Railway, and for road approacbes thereto: ment House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day And whereas all the conditions precedent required by law of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand to be observed and performed prior to the taking of such nine hundred and sixteen. land fer the purposes hereinafter specified have been observed W. FRASER, and performed: Minister of Public Works. And whereas it is desirable to take only the surface of such land for the purposes hereinafter specified, together GOD SAVE THE KING! with a portion of the subsoil thereof: 1610 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of And whereas all the conditions ~recedent required by law :lJiverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zea.!and, to be observed and performed prIOr to the taKing of suoh in pursuance and exeroise of the powers and authorities land for the purposes hereinbefore specified have been oonferred on me by sec~ion one hundred and eighty-eight of observed and performed: the Public Works Act, 1908, and section seven of the Public Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Works Amendment Ac~, 1911, and of every otber power and Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authoritiel proclaim and declare that the surface of the land mentioned conferred on me by section one hundred and eighty. sight in the First Schedule hereto, together with that part of the of the Public Works Act, 1905, and of every other power subsoil of such land below the formation-levels of th.. said a.nd au~hority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do railway shown on the plan marked P.W.D. 39959, deposited hereby proolaim and deolare tha~ the land described in in the office of the Minister of Publio Works at Wellington, the Sohedule hereto is hereby taken for 80 portion of the 80S is described in the Seoond Schedule hereto, is hereby sa.id line of railway hereinbefore specified, and for the road· taken for 80 further portion of the aforesaid line of railway diversion in connec~ion therewith as aforesaid. and for the said road approaches.

FIRST SCHEDULE. SCHEDULE. THill pieces of land mentioned in the list hereunder of which surlaoe is taken :- Situated Coloured Being Portion of in on Plan ApproxilUate I i Block Areas of Coloured on the Pieces of Being Portion of I PI .. n L ..nd. I. A. B. P. FOB RAILWAY. FOB RAILWAY. A. B. P. o 2 32'2 Qu.. rry res., Waihi Township XV ! Blue. 0 0 1'29 Lot 21, D.P. 752, Subdivision Blue. o 0 34'8 Section 150, Yellow. of part Seotion 53 o 0 13'55 149B, Red. 0 o 11'55 Lot 3, D.P. lO263, Subdivision Red. o 0 13'03 149, Green. of part Section 53 o 0 8'73 268, Blue. 0 0 0'91 Lot 14, D.P. 752, Subdivision Blue. ·0 0 27'39 120, Yellow. of part Seotion 52 o 0 0'73 121, Red. 0 o 19'17 Section 52 .. Red. o 0 0'2 135, Neutral I tint. FOB ROAD ApPBOACHES. 0 1 14'6 136, . Green. 0 0 9'57 Lot 14, D.P. 752, Subdivision Ora.nge. 0 o 20'9 137, I • Yellow. of part Section 52 0 1 0'1 137.1., . Blue. 0 0 3'04 Lot 12, D.P. 752, Subdivision Sepia. 0 0 5'17 ISlA, I • Red. of part Section 52 0 1 5'85 152.1., ,XV,XVI Neutral 0 0 1'04 Lot 12, D.P. 752, Subdivision tint. of p .. rt Section 52 0 1 1'5 152, XVI Yellow. (S.O. 18834) 0 0 5'25 153, Blue. 0 0 1'7(; 170, Neutral Situated in Taupiri Parish, Block XV, Rangiriri Survey , tint. District. 0 020'3 171, J Yellow. In ~he Auokland Land Distriot; as the same are more 0 o 23'46 17lA, Green. particularly delineated on ~he plan marked P.W.D. 89959, 0 o 39'03 472, Blue. deposited in the offioe of the Minister of Publio Works 0 o 1-6(; 472":, Yellow. at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincia.! District, and 0 o 25'7 ,,471, " Red. thereon coloured as above men~ioned. 0 o 7'8 Right-of-way, Section 47l. Blue. Waihi Township 0 o 22'7 Seo. 468, Waihi Township Neutra.J SECOND SCHEDULE. tint. SUJlSOIL TAKEN. 0 o 2S'73 467, Yellow. As to all the areas mentioned in the First Sohedule: All 0 o 20'2 466, Green. the subsoil down to a plane one hundred (100) feet below 0 o 17'7 465, Blue. and approximately parallel to the said line of formation· 0 2 6'4 • 34 .. Red. levels, such plane being horizonta.l transversely to the said 0 1 27'4 Quarry reserve Blue. line of form.. tion-Ievels. 0 1 12'6 Road Green. 0 0 1'6 Crown land Neutral Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right tint. Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, FOB ROAD-DIVEBBION. Earl of Liverl?ool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distingmshed Order of Saint Michael and o 1 13'3 Crown land .. I XVI Red. Saint George, Member of the Royal VictOrIan Order, Governor and Commander·in·Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea­ Situa~ed in the Borough of Waihi, Ohinemuri Survey land and its Dependencies; and issued under District (S.O. 17696). the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern­ In the Auckland Land Distriot; as the same are more ment Rouse at Wellington, this twenty.ninth day particularly delineated on the plan ma.rked P.W.D. 39748, of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand deposited in the offioe of the Minister of Public Works nine hundred and sixteen. at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial Distriot, and W. FRASER, thereon coloured as above mentioned. Minister of Public Works Given under the hand of His Excellency the Ri~ht GOD SAVE THE KING! Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Roy.. l Victori.. n Land taken lor a Portion oj the East Ooast Main n'unk Order, Governor and Commander-in· Chief in Railway (Portion 01 AthenTee Section) and for a Road· and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea· diversion in connection therewith. land and its Dependencies; and issued unller the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern· ment House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day [L.S.] LIVERPOOl" G(}Vel·nor. of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand A PROCLAMATION. nine hundred and sixteen. HJ<:REAS the land described in the Schedule hereto W. FRASER, W is required to be taken for a portion of the East Minister of Public Works Coast Main Trunk Railway (portion of Athenree Section) and for a road-diver~ion in connection therewith: GOD SAVE THE KING! MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1611

Land taken for the U8e, Oonvenience, or E1Ij01fment of a Road SCHEDULE. in Block XV, Wkakatane~Survey Di8trict. ApPROXIMATE area of the piece of land takeu: 4 acres 0 roods lO perches. [L.S.] LIVERPOOL: Governor. Portion of Education Reserve No. 1177, Blook III, Waitaki A PROCLAMATION. Survey District (Canterbury B.D.). HEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more W is required to be taken under the Publio Works particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39562, Aot, 1908, for the use, oonvenience, or enjoyment of a certain deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at publio work-to wit, a road in Blook XV, Whakatane Survey Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and Distriot: thereon edged green. And whereas agreementsl have ibeen entered into, in terms Given under the hand of His Excellency the Ritlht of section twenty·seven of the said Act, to take such land for Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, the public work hereinafter set forth: Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the And whereas a plan has been prepared, and the Minister Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and has reoommended the Governor to issue a Proclamation Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian taking the land as required by the said Act: Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de BritolSavile, Earl of and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea­ Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in land and its Dependencies; and issued under pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern­ in me by tho Publio Works Act, 1908, and of every other ment House at Wellingtou, this twenty-ninth day power and authority in anywise enabling me in this behalf, of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand and being satisfied of the suffioiency of the agreements herein· nine hundred and sixteen. before referred to, do hereby proclaim and declare that the W. FRASER, land desoribed in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for the Minister of Public Work. use, convenience, or enjoyment of the said road; and I also hereby deolare that this Proclamation shall take eHect on GOD SA VI! THI! KING! and after the thirteenth day of Ma.y, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. Land proclaimed as a Road in Block 1, Patetere South SCHEDULE. Survey District. ApPROXIMATE areas of the pieoes of land taken :­ [L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor. A.. B. P. o 1 14, portion of Seotion 246. A PROCLAMATION. o 3 13 241. N pursuance and exeroise of the powers conferred bV 101 242. I section eleven of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William o 0 19'3} de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the o 0 5.2 249. Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consents Situated in Waiotahi Parish, Block XV, Whakatane Survey of the owners of the land described in the Schedule hereto, District (S.O. 17445). proolaim as a road the land in Patetere South Survey In the Auokland Land District; as the same are more District described in the Sohedule hereto. partioularly delineated on the plan markedIP.W.D. 39801, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at SCHEDUU. Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon ooloured yellow. APPBOXIMATE areas of the pieces of land proclaimed as a road:­ Given under the hand of His Excellency the Ri~ht A. B. P. Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savlle. 5 0 0, portion of Waotu South C No.3; ooloured blue. Earl of Liverl?ool, Knight Grand Cross of the 4 1 19'4 C No. '" red. Most DistingUlshed Order of Saint Michael and 5 0 15'5 D No.7 blue. Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian o 1 7 D No.7 blue. Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in Situated in Block I, Patetere South Survey Distriot and over His Ma.jesty's Dominion of New Zea­ (S.O. 16724). land and its Dependencies; and issued under In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more the Seal of the Sald Dominion, at the Govern· partioularlydelineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39818, ment House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and nine hundred and sixteen. thereon coloured as above mentioned. W. FRASER, Minister of Public Works Given under the hand of His Excellency the Ri~ht Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, GOD SAVill THE KING ! Earl of LiverJ!ool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most DistingUIshed Order of Saint Michael and Land taken lur the Purpo.e. oj a Gravel.pit in Block Ill, Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Waitaki Survey District, Waimate County. Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majestfs Dominion of New Zea­ land and its Dependencies; and issued under [L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor. the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern­ .'\. PROCLAMATION. ment House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day HEREAS the land described in the Sohedule hereto of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand W is required to be taken, under the Publio Works nine hundren and sixteen. Act, 1908, for a certain public work-to wh, for the purposes W. FRASER, of a gravel-pit in Blook III, Waitaki Sarvey Distriot, Minister of Public Works. Waimate County: And whereas the Waimate County Council has laid before GOD SAVI! THl! KING! the Governor a memorial, aocompanied by a map in dupli­ oa.te, and also the statutory declaration, as reqnired by the said Act: Land proclai"lI!d a. a Road in Block I, 1'i"itiTi Survey Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of DistTict, Waitemata County. Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities [L.S.] LIVER,POOL, Governor. vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Counties Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority A PROCLAMATION. in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby proclaim N pursuance IIdld exeroise of the powers conferred by and deolare that the land described in 'he Schedule hereto I section eleven of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur Wil­ is hereby taken for the purposes of the said gravel-pit as liam de Brito Sa.vile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the from the date hereinafter speoified, and shan vest in the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, with the consents Corporation of the Chairman, Counoillors, and Inhabitants of the owner of the land described in the Schedule hereto, of the County of Waimate; and I do wso hereby declare a.nd of the Waitema.ta County Council, being the local that this Proclamation shall take effeot on and a.fter the authority in whose district the said land is situated, pro­ twentieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred IIdld claim as a road the land in Tiritiri Sarvey Distriot sixteen. described in fibe Schedule hereto. 1612 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

SCHEDULE. Stopping a Govll'T'nment Road in Blacks IX and XIII, CoZeridge Survey District. APPROXIlIIA'fE areIL of the piece of land proclaimed as a road: 6 acres 1 rood 7 perches. Portion of Section 6, Waiwera Parish (S.O. 18769), Block [L.S.] LIVERPOOL. Governor. I, Tiritiri Snrvey District (Auokland R.D.). A PROCLAMATION. In the Auckland Land Distriot; ILS the same is more particularly delineILted on the pllLn marked P. W.D. 39908, HEREAS by paragraph (c) of section Olle hundred deposiied in the office of the Minister of Public Works W and thirty. three of the Public Works Aot, 1908, it is at Wellington, in the Wellington Provinoial Distriot, and enILcted tbat the Governor may, by Proclamation publicly thereon coloured red. nOllfied, stop or alter the course of any Government road or ILny part thereof: Given under the hILnd of His Excellency the Right And whereas the Government road described in the Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Schedule hereto is no longer required for the purpose of Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cro~ of the a road: Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Now, therefore, I, Arthur WillilLm de Brito Savile. EILrl of Saint George. Member of the Royal Victoria.n Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, Order. Governor and Commander-in-Chief in in pnrsuance and exercise of the above.in-part.recited Act, and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea, ILnd of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this land and its Dependencies: and issued under behalf, do hereby proolaim ILS stopped the road described in the Seal of thp .aid Dominion, at the Go\·ern· the Schedule hereto. ment House at WAllington, this twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. SCHEDULE. W. FRASER. ApPROXIlIIATE areas of the pieoes of roa.d hereby stopped:- Minister of Pllblic Works 14 &oros 2 roods, ILdjoining or passing through R.S. 30100, (lOD SAVE THE KING! Blocks IX ILnd XIII. 3 roods 16 perohes, adjoiuing or passing through part R.S. 30100, Blook XIII. Situated in Coleridge Survey Distriot. Land proclaimed as a Road, and Road closed, in Block Ill, In the Canterbury La.nd Distriot; as the samo are more Whctngape Survey District, Rokiallga County. partioularly delinelLted on th,e plan marked P.W.D. 33552, deposited in the offioe of the lVIinister of Publio Works at Wellington, in the IN ellington ProvinciILI Distriot, ILnd thereon [L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor. ooloured green. A PROCLAM ATJOr> Given nnder the hand of His Excellency the Right N pursnance ILnd exeroise of the powers conferred by Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile. I seotion eleven of the Land Aot, 1908, I, Arthur William Earl of Liver!;'ool, Knight Grand Cross of th,; de Brito Savile, EILr1 of Liverpool, the Governor of the Most DistingUlshed Order of Saint Michael and Dominion of New ZeILland. do hereby, with tbe conSeD\S Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian of the owner ILnd mortgage.e of the land described in the Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in First Sohedule hereto, ILnd of the Hokianga Uounty Council, and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea, being the local authority 'in whose district the said land is la.nd and its Dependencies; and issued under situated, procllLim as a road tbe land in Whangape Survey the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern· Distrim described in the First Scbedule hereto; and also ment House at Wellington, this twenty·ninth day do hereby, wilh the like consents as aforesaid, procllLim a.. of April, in the yeILr of our Lord one thousand closed the road described in the Second Schedule hereto, nine hUDodred and sixteen. which is not required by rea.son of the rolLd described in W. FRASER. the First Schedule hereto. Minister of Public Works. FIRST SCHEDULE. GOD SAVE THE KING!

LAND PROCLAIlIIED AS A ROAD. ApPROXIlIIATB a.reas of the pieces of land proclaimed as a road: 1 acre 2 roods 17 perches ILnd 19'5 perohes. Portion of Section 37. Stopping Government Road. in Blacks IX and XIII, Maketu Coloured on pllLn: Red. Survey Di8trict.

SECOND SCHEDULE. [L.B.] LIVERPOOL, Governor. ROAD CLOSED. A PROCLAMATION. ApPlIOXIlIIATE areIL of the piece of road closed: 1 acre. HEREAS by paragraph (e) of section one hundred Adjoining or passing through Sections 37 and 38. W and thirty-three of the Public Works Act, 1908, it Coloured on plan: Green. is enacted that the Governor mILY, by Proolq,mation pub. licly notified, stop or alter the oourse of any Government All situated in Block III, Wha.ngape Survey District (S.O. road or any part thereof: 17635). And whereas the Government roads described in the All in the AucklILnd Land District; as the same are more Sohednle bereto ILre no longer required for the purpose of particularly delineated on the plILn marked P.W.D. 39909, roads: deposited in the office of the Minister of Pnblic Works at Wellington, in the Wellington ProvinoilLl District, ILnd Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of thereon coloured ILS ILbove mentioned. Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursnance and exercise of the above-in-part.recited Act. Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right and of all other powers in anywise enabling me in this Honourable Arthur William de Brito SaviIe, behalf, do hereby proclaim as stopped the roads described Earl of Liver!;'ool, Knight Grand Cross of the in the Schedule hereto. Most DistingUlshed Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in SCHEDULE. and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea, APPROXIlIIATE land and its Dependencies; and issued nnder area!; of the .p~e~es of roa~ hereby stopped:- the Seal of the said Dominion at the Govern- I A. R. P. AdjOIning or passIng through ment House at Wellington, this twenty-ninth day I ~ ~ 1~'4} Section 2.1., Blocks IX and XIII. of April. in the year of our Lord one thousand 0 0 0'3 Wh k N 9.1. C L BI k IX nine hundred and sixteen. I a auma o. ~ .., oc . W FRASER. I Situated in MILketn Survey District (S.O. 18213). Milllster of Public Works In the Auckland Land DistrICt; as the same ILre more particullLrly delineILted on the pllLn mILrked P.W.D. 38634, GOD SAVE THE KING! deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at MAT 4.J 'tHE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTR. 1613

Wellington, in the Wellington Provincia.l District, a.nd have force and effect throughout New Zealand 01' only in thereon coloured green. such waters or places as arc specified in the l'€ gulations : And whereas by Order in Council, dated the twenty.seventh Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right day of August, one thousand nine hundred and six, and pub. Honourable A.rthur William de Brito SaviJe, lished in the X ew Zeaw,nd Gazette No. 75, of the thirtieth Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the day of the same month, regulations for the Wellington Most Distinguished Order of Saint Mich'lel and Acclimatization District were made fixing, among other Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorial things, the open and clo"e season for trout and perch: Order, Governor and Commander·in·Chief i, and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea And whereas it is desirable to amend such regulations in land and its Dependencies; and issued unde, respect of perch: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do· the Seal of the said Dominion. ~t the Govern ment House at Wellington, this eleventh day of minion of New Zealand, in exercisc of the powers and authori· April, in the year of our Lord one thousa.rid nine ties conferred upon him by the said Act, and of all other hundred and sixteen. powers enabling him in that behalf, and acting by and with W. FRASER, . the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Minister of Public Work. Dominion, doth hereby declare that, notwithRtanding any· thing contained in the aforesaid regulations of the twenty. GOD SAVE THE KING' seventh August, one thouRand nine hundred and six, the Secretary of the Wellington Acclimatization Society, or any person authorized by the said Secretary in that behalf, may issue a license in the form set forth in the First Schedule Stoppitl9 a Gm',r'''f1IMIot Road in Block XVI, Maketu Survey hereto to any person on payment of the sum of five shillings, District. authorizing the holder to fish for perch in that part of the Wellington Acclimatization District described in the Second Schedule hereto, for the period commencing on the first day : L.s·1 1,1 VERPOOL, Governor of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and ending A PltOCLAMATION. on the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and Rixteen, both days inclusive. HEREA.8 by paragraph (e) of section one hundred W and thirty. three of the Public Works Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may, by Proclamation publicly notified, stop or alter the course of any Government road FIRST SCHEDULE. ur an y part thereof: LIOENSE TO FISH FOR PERCH. And whereas the Government road described in the Schedule hereto is no longer reqnired for the purpose of Fi8heries Act, 1908, and Amendments. a. roa.d: THE holder of this license [Same in full], of [Addres8], [Calling Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl (n' occupation], having this day paid the sum of 5s., is hereby of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, authorized to fish for perch within that part of the Wellington in pursuance a.nd exeJOise of the above.in.part·recited Aot. Acclimatization District described on the endorsement hereon, Itnd of all other powers' in anywise enabling me in this from the 1st day of May, 1916, to the 30th day of September, behalf. do hereby proclaim as stopped the roa.d described in 1916, subject to the said Acts and to the regulations made the Schedule hereto. thereunder for the time being in force in the said district. Dated at this ilay of , 1916. SCHEDULE. Secretary, Acclimatization Society. ApPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road hereby stopped :- A. R. P. Adjoining or pasaing through SECOND SCHEDULE. o (J 35'1 Road a.djoining Section 2A. 1 1 6'5 Section 4. THE following lagoons in the Palmer.ton North portion of Situated in Block XVI, :\Jaketu Survey District (S.O. the Wellington Acclimatization District :- 18591). Mr. F. Robin"o.n'B Lagoon, known as Himatangi. In the Auckland Land District j as the same are more Mr. C. S. Keeble's Lagoon, known as .Fitzherbert. . particularly delineated on the plan marken P .W. 1>. 39398, Mr. A. Grant'" Lagoon, known as Te Wi· Stoney Creek • deposited ·in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Mr. H. Akers' Lagoon, known as Riversdale, Linton. Wellington, in the Wellington Provinoial District, and Mr. J. C. Batchelor's Lagoon, known as Fitzherbert. thereon coloured green. The Hokowhitu Lagoon, and two lagoons on Ruakawa, about four miles from Ashhurst, on Palmerston North Gi ven under the hand of His Excellency the Right side. Honourable Arthur William de Brito SaviJe. J. F. ANDREWS. Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Clerk of the Executive Council. Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victoria" I Order, Governor and Commander·in·Chief in a.nd over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zea· land and its Dependencies; and issued under Approving Rl,nilejill Rlli/diny Society under II" Tr1l"tee the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Govern. Amendment Art. 1914. ment House at Wellington, this twenty·ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand L J V ~~R POOL. I:overnor nine hundred and sixteen. \\. FH .. \SF-fl. ORDER IN COU~CTL. Minister of Publie \Vor-kR. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty· "eventh day of April. 19111. Present: THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., l'RESlDINn IN COUNCIL. AItO'l'in:7 Regulations for Trout and Perch Fi8hing in the HEREAS it is expedient to approve the Blenheim IV flUng/on Acclimatization Di.• tricl. W Building Society as an institution for the purposes of section three of the Trustee Amendment Act, 1914: LIVERPOOL. Governor. Now, therefore. His Excellency the Governor of the Do· minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the ORDER IN COU1\'CIL. power and authority conferred upon him by the said Act, At the GoVtOl'l1ment Buildings at Wellington, this twenty· and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Ex· seventh day of April, 1916. ecutive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve the said Blenheim Building Society as an institution with Present: which, subject to the provisions of the sait! Act, it shall be THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING lawful for a trustee. unless expressly forbidden by the instru· IN COUNCIL. ment (if any) creating the trust, to invest any trust funds in '-Xl HERJ<~AS it is enacted in Part II of ~he Fisheries Act, his hands on deposit. at interest. V \ 1908, that the Governor in Council may from time J. F. ANDREWS, to time, by Order in Council gazetted, make regulations to Clerk of the Executive Council. 1614 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

Amending Order in Cuuncil ~ing Dues lor tke U8e 01 the I should be wholly disoontinued: And whereas a sufficient Alcaroa Wharf. cemetery not within the limits of any borough or town dis­ trict has been .provided. and has been prepared for the inter­ LIVERPOOL. Governor. ment of the dead, as required by the Cemeteries Act, 1908 : ORDER IN COUNCIL. Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, acting by and with the advice and oonsent of the Exeoutive Council At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty· of the Dominion of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the seventh day of April, 1916. authorities vested in him by the said Cemeteries Act, 1908, Present: doth hereby order and direct that, from and after the first THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Vi'. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING day of November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. IN COUNCIL. the Ma.ka.raka Cemetery, in the County of Cook, described in the aforesaid Schedule, shall be olosed and burials therein W HEREAS by Order in Council dated the fifteenth day discontinued; and, further. that t.he said cemetery shall. of December, one thousand nine hundred and thir· from and after the said first day of November. one thousand teen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 91, of nine hundred and sixteen, be vested in the Chairman. Coun· the eighteenth day of the same month. the dues and rates cillors, and Inhabitants of the Cook County. under the pro­ specified in the Second Schedule thereto were prescribed for visions and for the pUlposes of the seventy-eighth section the use of the Akaroa Wharf: of the said Cemeteries Act, 1908. And whereas it is desirable that certain of the dues pre· scribed in the said Order in Council should be altered: Now, therefore. His Excellency the Governor of the Do· SCHEDULE. minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the M.uuBAXA CEMETERY. power and authority conferred upon him by subsection two ALL that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District, oontaining of section thirteen of the Harbours Act, 1908. and acting by by admeasurement 10 acres 3 roods. more or less, being and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council Section 5, Block II. Turanganui Survey District. Bounded of the said Dominion. doth hereby' revoke the following towards the north by the Taruheru River; towards the east charges prescribed by the hereinbefore-recited Order in Council by the Mat&whero B or 5 Block. 835·6 links; towards the of the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred south by a public road. 68·3. 50'1, and 982·5 links; and and thirteen. namely:- towards the west by a domain reserve. 1079·9 links: be all s. d. the afcresaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated Calves, one year old and over, each 1 2 on the plan marked L. and S. 2/27, deposited in the Head Calves, under one year old; sheep. Iambs, goats, Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington. and pigs; per score (20) 3 4 and thereon bordered red. and doth hereby substitute the following charges in lieu J. F. ANDREWS, thereof:- Clerk of the Executive Council. Calves. one year old and over. each o 9 Calves, under one year old; sheep. Iambs. goats, and pigs; per score (20) or part of a BOore 2 0 G0n8t:11ting to 8topping a Road in Block XI, Newcastle SUNJey District, Xewcastle Road District, Waipa County. J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council. LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. OancelUng Portion 01 tke Liume authorizing tke InvercargiU At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty­ Boruugk Cuuneil to eroot Electric Lines within tke BO'fO'Il,{/k sevant h day of April, 1916. o/InfJ6'l'(',lJf'f1iU, Pewtion 01 tke Borough 01 South In __cargiU, Present: and Portion 01 tke SouthlandlCuunty.• THE RIGHT HONOL'RABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL. LIVERPOOl" Governor. HEREAS by section one hundred and thirty-three (a) ORDER IN COUNCIL. W of the Public Works Act, 1908. it is enaoted that a At the Government Buildings at Wellington. this twenty. local authority shall not declare any oounty road or district seventh day of April,.1916. road to be stopped until the consent thereto of the Governor, by Order in Council gazetted, is obtained: Present: And whereas the Newcastle Road Board has applied THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PBIliSIDING for such consent in respect of the road described in the IN COUNCIL. Schedule hereto : HEREAS by a license dated the seventh day of June, Now. therefore. in pursuance and exercise of the above­ W one thousand nine hundred and thirtflen, and issued in-part-reoited Act. and of all other powers in anywise under section two of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1911 enabling him in this behalf. His Exoellency the Governor (and hereinafter referred to as "the said license"), the of the Dominion of New Zealand. acting by and with the Invercargill Borough Council wa.. authorized. to erect electric advioe and consent of the Executive Council of the said lines within the Borough of Invercargill, portion of the Dominion. doth hereby consent to the Newcastle Road Borough of South Invercargill. and portion of the Southland Board stopping the road des('ribed in the Schedule hereto. County: And whereas the South InvercargiIl Borough Council has SCHEDULE. made application to have cancelled that port,ion of tho said license which refers to the Borough of South I ,vercargiIl. and Al'PBOXUUTE area of the piece of road permitted to be the Invercargill Borough Council has no objection thereto: stopped: I acre 2 roods 7'7 perches. Now. therefore; in pursuance and exercise of· the powers Adjoining or passing through Section 155, Horotiu Parish conferred upon him by the said section, and of all other (S.O. 17783), Block XI. Newcastle Survey Distriot. powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency In the Auckland Land District; &8 the same is more the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand. acting by partioularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37705. and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council deposited in the office of the Minister of Publio Works at of the said Dominion, doth hereby cancel and annul so much Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon of the said licf)nse as refers to the Borough of Invercargill coloured green. South. J. F. ANDREWS, J. F. ANDREWS, Olerk of the Executi\"e Council. Clerk of the Executive Council. Ocmaenting to the Raising 01 a Loan 01 £1,200 by the Palmer.ton Closing Makaraka Cemetery. County oJ Cook. North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor. LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the GovC\rnment Buildings at Wellington, this twenty. At the Government Buildings at Wellington. t,hiR twenty. Heventh day of April, 1916. seventh day of April. 1916. Present: Present: THE RIGHT HONOURABLE \V. F. :MASSEY, P.C., PRI;SIDINr: THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL. IN COUNCIL. HEREAS it appears to the Governor that burials in 'WH:EREAS by section twenty-six, subsectioll one, of W the Makaraka Cemetery, in the County of Cook, the Appropriation Act, 1915. it is provided that, whioh said cemetery is desoribed in the Sohedule hereto, notwithstanding any Act to the contrary. it shall not be MAY 4.J THE NE\V ZEAI... AND GAZETTJ1J. 1615 lawful or competent for any local authority OJ' for any Har­ And whereas application has been made for the consent bour Board. during the present war with Germany, to borrow of the Governor in Council to a mortgage of the block or or contract to borrow any money (otherwiso than by way of parcel of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto: And bank overdraft within the limit of its powers, if any.,in that whereas it is expedient that the precedent consent of the behalf). whether from the State Advances Office or from any Governor in Connril Rhoulrl issne : other HOurce whatever, and whether in pursuance of a special Now. therefore. His Excellency the Governor of the Act or under any other authority whatever, without the Dominion of New Zealand, acting uy and with the advice precedent consent of the Governor in Council : and cons''llt of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, And whereas application has been made for the consent doth hcrebv consent to the confirmation of an alienation of the G'overnor in Council to enable the Palmerstoll North by way of 'mortgage of the block or parcel of land sot out Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to raise a loan of one in the Schedule hereto. And it is hereby declared that this thousand two hundred pounds for the pnrchase of land Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf adjoining its present property: of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly And whereas it is expedient that the precedent consent of as a consent of the Governor in Council to the proceedings the Governor in Council should issue: hereby authorizPd. Now, therefore. His Excellency the Governor of the Do· mil,ion of New Zealand. acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of tho said Dominion, doth SCHEDULE. hereby consent to the borrowing of the said loan by the AUCKLAND PROVI~ClAL [)ISTRIC1~. Palmerston North Hospital and Charitable Aid Board; pro­ A. R. P. vided that the rate of interest at which the loan to be raised Waiomatatini Block: Approximate area. 686 0 0 sha.Ilnot exceed five a.nd one-qualter per centum per anQum. 'l'utarawananga No.1 Bloek 307 1 36 And it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made Tutarawananga No.2 Block 144 0 20 under the provision" in that behalf of the Appropriation Turitaka Block 165 3 0 Act, 1915, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of Turitaka No.2 Block 81 1 24 the Governor in Council to the raising of Ithe loan herehy Putiki Block 115 2 0 authorized. J. F. ANDREWS, J. F. ANDRKWS, Clerk of the Executive Council. Clerk of thp, Executive Council.

Oonsenting to a Mortgag' of Native Land. Oonsenting to a Mortgage 0/ NatIVe Land.

LIVEUPOOL, Governor. LIVEHPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. ORDER IN COUNCIL. 'S t t At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty- At the Government Buildings at Wellington, thl wen y. sev('nth day of April, 1916. seven th day of April, 1916. Present: Present: THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P .C .. PRESIDING IN COUNCIL. IN COUNCIL. HER.EAS by section two hundred and thirty of th,· HEREAS by section two hundred and thirty of the W Native Land Act, 1909, it is provided that no W Native Land Act, 1909, it' is provided that no instru­ instrnment of alienation of Native land by way of mort· ment of alienation of Native land by way of mortgage or gage or charge, other than a mortgage or charge in favoul' chargp, other tha.n a mortgage or cbarge in favour of a State of a State Loan Department, shall be confirmed hy 8 Loan Department, shall be confirmed- by a Board or the Board or the Court without the precedent consent of th~ Court without the precedent consent of the Governor in nnv~rnor in Council : Council : Aud whereas application has been made for the consont And whereas application has been made for ,he consent of of the Governor in Council to a mortgage of the block or the Governor iu Council to a mortgage of the block or parcel parcel of land mentioned in the Schedule hereto: And of la.nd mentioned in the Scbedule hereto: And whereas it whereas it is expedient that the precedent consent of the is expedient that the precedent consent of the Governor in Governor in Council should i.sue. : Council should issue: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Do­ Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the minion of New Zealand. acting by and with the advice and Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice consent of the Executive Counoil of the said Dominion, doth and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, hereby consent to the oonfirmation of n,n alienation by way doth hereby consent to the confirmation of an alienation of mortgage of the block or parcel of land set out in the by way of mortgage of the block or parcel of land set out in Schedule hereto. And it is hereby declared that this Order the Schedule hereto. And it is hereby dechtred that this in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Order in Council is made under tbe provisions in that behalf Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly as a of the Native Land Act, 1909, and shall operate accordingly consent of the Governor in Council t,o the prooeedings hereby as a consent of the Governor in Oouncil to the proceedings authorized. hereby authorized.

SCHEDULE. SCHEDULE. LOT 215, Parish of Waimana: Approximate area, 26 acres RUANGAR.JHF H 1 part Sub. 1 Block: Approximate area, 2 roods 29 perches; Aucklaud Provincial District. 8 acres 0 roods 6 perches; Auckland Provincial District. J. F. AXDREWS. J. F. ANDREWS. Clerk of the Executive Council. Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring thai t.li.P, PI'OII;8ions of Section 109 of the Nati"e Land Oonsenting to a Mortgage of Native Land. Amendment Art. 19 IS •.,hall apply to a re/'la.in Bloclc of .\'atire J:rmrl. LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. LIVEllPOOL. Governor. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty­ seventh day of April, 1916. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty­ Present: seventh day of April, 1916. THE RIGHT HO~OURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL. Present: THE R.IGHT HONOURABLE \V. F. MASSEY, P .C., PRESIDING HEREAS by section two hundred and thirty of the TN COUNCIL. W X ative Land Act, 1909, it is provided that no instrument of alienation of N ativ~ land by way of mort· HEREAS by section twenty-three of the West Coast gage or charge, other than a mortgage or charge in favour W Settlement Res{'fves Anwndment Act, 1913, it is of a State Loan Department, shall be confirmed by ~ enacted that the Gowrnor may by Ord{'l' in Council at any Board or the Court without the precedent consent of the time declare that the provisions of section one hundred and Governor in Council : nine of the Native Land Anwndment Act. 191:1, shall apply B 1616 THR ,~r:g\V ZEAI__ AND GAZETTK [No, 54

to any hloek, section, ot· subdivision of land comprise(1 in !Jel'ian./I-U Land 10 be no longer ,,,bjeet 10 Part X 11' ot Ihe leases granted or confirmed under the \Vest COltst Settlement Native .Land Act. If/09. Reserves Act, 1881, and the amendments thereof: And whereas it is expedient that the provisions of spetion LIVEHPOOL, Governor. one hundred and nine aforesaid shall apply to the land mentionf'd in the Schedule hereto, for tllt' purcha,,' of which ORDER IN COUNCIL. the Crown desires to negotiate: At the Government Buildings Bt Wellington. this tw"nt~'· Now, therafom, His Excellency the Governo" of the Do­ ,('venth day of April, 1916. minion of ~ew Zcai>,nd, in pursuance and exercise of the Present: power and authority conferred upon him by section twenty­ THE RIGHT HONOI'RABLE vV. F. MASRI;Y. P,C" I'ltESIDI:<" three of the WP,t Co",t Settlement Hesel'ves Amendment IN COUNCIL, Act, 1913, "nd acting by and with tllP ",Ivic(> and consent of the EX"cutiv" Council of the said Dominion, doth,hereby HEREAS by 8('ction ninety.six of th.. Nat.ivp Land deolare that thp provisions of I'wDtiol1 one hundrC"d and nin', W Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted thllt the Go­ of the Native L~nd Amendment Act, WI:!, shall apply to vernor in Council mav from time to timp bv Ordf'l' in Councj I the lanclmcntiOllpd in thp Schednl" hereto. declare that any la~d subject to Part.. xiv Or xv of th(' Native Land Act, Ul09, and Yested in a Maori Land Board, shall no longer be subject to such Parts of that Act, and SCHEDULE. shall be l'Cyested in t.he Native owners thereof: And whereas thc land described in the -Sch"dule htl'do. ISRf"rlO" :l, Block 1, Cape Rul'vcy DiKtrict '(Gmnt aH:lO): and known as \Vhangaihe No.3 Block, is now, by virtue of Approximate arPa, Iti acrt'S. an Order in Council made on the' thirtieth day of August. one thousand nine hundred and nine, and bv virtne of th,· J. F. A~DREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council. provisions of section two hundl'(·d and thirty-thr,,, of the NatiVl' Land Act, 1909, subject to Part XIV of the said Act. and vested in the Tokerau District Maor' Land Board accordingly: And whereas th(· Governor is satisfied that the said land DecZlll'irl9 J.and 10 be nu IOllger subject to Part Xlr Of II" is not subject to any lease, license, contract for salC', Or other Native Lalld Act, 1909. a.licnation, and that no moneys are charged on the said lan"nment Buildings ltt \Vellington. this twont~·· power and authority conferred upon him by section ninety. ,;"vonth day of April. HH 6. six of the N .. tive Land Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by Present: and with the advice aud consent of the Execntive Counoil THE HI(:HT H()~OURA"LE \V. F. M"",;y. p.e., PRE~II>ING of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the land IN COUNCIL. described in the Schedule hereto shall no longer be subject to Part XIV of the Native TJand Act, 1909. HEREAS by section ninety-six of the Native Land W . Amendment Act, 1913, it is enaoted that the Governor in Council may from t.ime to time by Order in Council deolare that any land subjeot to Part XIV or XV of the Native Land SCHEDULE. Act, 1909, and vest.ed in a Maori Land Bo"rd, shaU no longer ALL thos,' p~rcel8 of lalld in two pi,>ces, together c,mtaining be subject to Huch Parts of th"t Act, and shall be revested in by admeasurement 140 acreR 2 rooels l:l perches. more or less, the Native ownerR thereof: situated in the Hukprpnlli Surv,>y District, ill the Land Dis­ And wh"reas the land described 'n the Schedule hereto, trict of Auckland, and known as 'guapekapeka No. 70 Block, and known as Pipiwai :2n Rlock, is now, by virtue of all the north-western portion being bounded towards the north Order in Council made on the fourteenth day of June, one by the Hui .. ran Block; towards the cast generally by a thousand nine hundred and nin(', and by virtue .of the pro­ ro:tcl, th" crossing of a road, guapekapeka No. IE Block, and visions of section two hundred and thirty.thn., of the Native " ro"d; towi1rds thQ 8011th generally by Ruapckapcka No. 7n Land Act, 1909, subject to Part XIV of the said Act, and Block, the crossing of a road, and guapekapeka No. h' Block: vested in th,' Tokerau District :\iaori Land Hoard accord· and towards the north·west by Section 1 of Block I, Hukere­ inl'ly, !lui Survey District: save and excepting a marl interseetin/" And whereas the Governor is satisfied that the said land is t!l'J hnd h ,rein described, the south·castern portion bein/! not subject to any lease, lioense, contract for sale, or other I • haundcrl towtrds the north by Ruapek"peka No. 7n Block, alienation, and that. no moneys are charged on the said land towards the east by Ruapekapeka No. ,j Bl,x,k, and toward, or on the revenue thereof in a{lcordance with the said Aot the W~8t by a road. or under any other authority: J. F. ANDREWS, And whereas it is expedient that the said land should cease Clerk of tlie Executive Council. to be subject to Part XIV of the said Act: MAY 4.J rrHE NEW ZEALAND GAZE'l'TK

Now, therefore, His Exoellency the Governor of the declare that any land subject to Part XIV 01 XV of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exeroL,e of the Native Land Act, 1909, and vested in a Maori Land Board. power and authority conferred upon him by section ninety.six shall no longer be subject to such Parts of that Act, and of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, and acting by and shall be revested in the Native owners thereof: with the advioe and consent of the Executive Council of the And whereas the land described in the Schedule hel·do. said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the land described and known as Ruapckapeka No. 7c, is now, by virtue of on in the Schedule hereto shall no longer be subject to Part XIV Order in Council made on the third day of November, one of the Native Land Act, 1009. ' thousand nine hundred and nine, and by virtue of the provi. sions of section two hundred and thirty·three of the Native SCHEDULE. Land Act, 1909, subject to Part XIV 'of the said Act, and vested in the Tokerau District !\faori Land Board ac· ALL th'tt p~rcpJ of land known as P'piwai No. 2D Block, cordingly: contaming 116 acres 0 roods 15 pf'rches, situated in the And whereas the Governor is satisfied that th" said land ~hngakahia Survcy District, and being the lands described ,. not subject to any lease, license, contract for salf', or other in the p~rtition order of the Native Land Court dated th" alienation, and t.hat no moneys are charged on the sai d land 12th November. 190R. or on the revenue thereof in accordance with the said Act or J. F. ANDREWS. under any other authority: Clerk of the Executive Council. And whereas it is expedient that the said lanel should cease to be subject to Part XIV of the said Act: Declaring Land to be no longer subject to Part X V of the Now. therefore, His Excellencv the Governor of the Do· Native Land Act. 1909. minio,{ of New Zealand, in pllr~uancc and ('xrrcise of thE' POWN and authority conferred upon him by section nimty· six of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, and act'l]g LIVERPOOL, Governor. by and with the advice and consent of the EXfcuti\'(' COlll'cil ORDER IN COUNCIL. of the said Dominion, doth herebv declare that the land At the Government Buildings at Wellington. this twenty· described in the Schedule hereto shall no long<"r he sn bjt ct seventh day of April, 1916. t.o Part XIV of the Native Land Act. 1909. Present: SCHEDULE. THE RWHT HOKOt:RABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C.,. PRESIDING IN COUNCIL. ALL that parcel of land, containing hy admeasurelllent 14{1 HEREAS by section ninety.six of the Native Land acrcs 0 roods 16 perches, more or kss. situated in thc HukHf­ W Amendlll8Ilt Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Gover· nui Survey District, in the Land District of Auckland, and nor in Council may from time to time by Order in Council known as Ruapekapeka No. 70 Block. Bounded towards th" deolare that any land subject to Part XIV or XV of the north·east by a road; towards the south·east by Section 84. Nativc Land Act, 1909, and vested in a jUaori Land Board, Block V, Hukerenui Survey District; towards the south· shall no longer be subject to such Parts of that Act, and shall west by Ruapekapeka Nos. 6B, 6A, and again by 6B Blocks: be revested in the Native owners thereof: and towards the nort.h·west by Ruapekapeka No. 7B Block. And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto, J. F. AX DREWS, and known as Paeroa 2E 4 Block. is now, by virtue of an Clerk of the Executive Council. Order in Council dated the fourth day of June, one thousand aine hundred and seven, and issued under the provisions of ------,... ,-- .. -~.-~~---- section eight of the :Maori Land Settlement Act, 1905. and by virtue of the provisions of scction two hundred and thirty. DrlClnring Land to be no longer aubject te Part XIV of lite three of the Native Land Act, 1909, subject to Part XV of Native Land Act, 1909. the said Act, and vested in the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board accordingly. Ll V]i~HPOOL, UOVel'1l01'. And.whereas the Governor is satisfied that the said land is ORDER IN COUNCIL. not subject to any lease, license, contraot for sale, or othcr alienation, and that no moneys are charged on the said land AI th.· Goyernment Buildings at \VelliEgton. this hnnty. or on the revenue thereof in accordance with thc said Aot or seventh day of April, 1 !Jill. under any other authority: Present:

And whereas it is expedient that the said land should cease THE RIGHT HONOURABLE \V. If. l\fASSEY, P,C' l PRESJUr~~; to be subject to Part XV of thc said Act: IN COUNCIL. Now, therefore, His Excellency the Govemor of the Do· THEREAS by section ninety.six of the Native Land minion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power W Amendment Act, 1913, it is enacted that the Go· and authority conferred upon him by section ninety·six of vernor in Council may from time to time by Order in Council the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, and acting hyand doclare that any land subject to Part XIV or XV of the with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Native Land Act, 1909, and vested in a i}laori Land Board, said Dominion, doth hereby declare that the land described shall no longer be subject to such Parts of that Act, and in the Schedule hcreto shall no longer be subject to Part XV shall be revested in the Native owners thereof: of the Native Land Act, 1909. And whereas the land described in the Schedule hen to, and known as Te Pikinga Block, is now, by virtue of an SCHEDULE. Order in Council made on the fifth day of July, OEe thouea"d ALL th%t piece or p

Revocation of an Order in Council under Section 296 of the Declaring Portion of the lJ!Il1ngahoulwn ROl1d, in the Hawke's Native Land Act, 1909. Bay County, to be a County Road.

LIVERPOOL, Governor. LIVERPOOL. Governo!'. OlU)EJ: 1:\ COUNCIL. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At tllP Government Buildings at 'VdEngto", th;, twenty· At the Government Bnildings at Wellington, this twenty· seventh day of April, 191 n. seventh day of April. 1916. Present: Present: THE RIGHT HONOl'RABLE W. F. MASSEY, p.e., PRESIDn;:; THE RIGHT HONOURAHLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., I'RESIDIKG IN COUNCIL. IN COUNCIL. HEREAS by sootion two hundred and ninety-six of N pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him W th'e Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that any I by tho Publio Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers Order in Conncil made under Part XVI of that Act, or under in anywise enabling him in this he half, His Excellenoy the Part II of the Native Land Settlement Act, Hl07, may be at Govornor of the Dominion of New Zealand, ac(ing by and any time revoked, either wholly or as to any part or parts with the advice and cunsent of the Executive Council of of the land included therein, by tho Governor hy Order in tho said Dominion, doth hereby order anti declare that tIl!' Council; and thereupon the land "0 subject to that Part of portion of road doscribed in the Sclwtlule hereto shall, on that Act shall, to the extent of that revocation, cease to be and after the date of this Order in Council. heoomp a county 80 snbject: No land shall by reason 01 any such Order of road, • revoca.tion cease to be subject to that Part of that Act at any time during the continuance of the term of any lease of that land granted by a Maori Land Board under that Pa.rt i'lCHEDULE. of that Act (including in that term the term of any renewal ALL that portion of road ill the Hawko's Bay Land District, to which the lessoo is entitled) : Hawke's Bay County, knovm as Mangahouhou Road, com· And whereas a parcel of land known as Nuhaka 2» 2J~ 1 mencing at a point marked B on the castern boundary of has, by an Order in Council dated the eighteenth day of Soction 5, Block XI, Patoka Survey District, about a quarter February, one thousand nine hundred and Pight, been brought of a mile Oll the Ng:1roto side of the Manganoe Stream Bridge, under the provisions of Part XVI of the NatiYe Land Act, and proceeding tlwHoe in a Ilorth·wpsterly direction genel'aliy. 1909: And whereas application l:as been made to revoke adjoining or passing through the said Section 5, and termi· the said Order in Council in so far as it, affects the said parcel ating at a point F on the northel'll boundary of the said of land: section opposih. the 'Yaihau Homestead; being a distanc.. ~------~~------

MAY 4.J THE NEW ZlnALAND GAZET1i K 1619 of three miles, more or les8. As the said portion of road is said Dominion, doth, subject to the conditions set forth in more particularly delineated on the plan Illarke(l P.W.D. the Sohedule hereto, and to the regulations made under sec­ :19965, deposited in tile office of th,) Minister of Public Works tion two of the aforesaid Act, and published in the New Zea· at Wellington, in the Pr()vincial District of Wellington, and land Gazette dated the twenty. ninth day of April, one tho\lll8Jld thereon coloured blue. ~ nine hundred and fifteen, and hereinafter referred to as "the J. F. ANDREWS, regulations," hereby authorize the licensee to erec L and main­ Clerk of the Executive Council. ta.in eleotlic lines for lighting, power, and heating purposes within the area of supply hereinafter described.

Declaring PortWns of the Opotiki-Motu Road, in the Opotiki SOHEDULE. C01lnty, 10 be 001lnty Roads. 1. ABBA OF SUl'PLY. LIVERPOOL, Uovt'fllor. THE area of supply comprises the Borough of Pabiatua as at present constituted, the boundaries of such borough being ORDER IN COUNCIL. shown by a distinctive border coloured red on P.W.D. :l9591, At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty­ deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, Wel­ seventh day of April, 1916. lington, in the Provincial District of Wellington. Present: THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIUlNG 2. SYSTEM OF SUPPLY. IN COUNCIL. The system of supply shaJJ be as deseri bed in paragraph (b) (i) N pursuanoe and exercise of the powers vested in him of elanse 2 of the regulations. I '.]by the Publio Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers The generating voltage shall he appr.,ximately 4tiO to 520 in !3nyWise enabling himlin this behalf, His Excellency the voltR between the terminal,. Governor of the Domiuion of New Zealand, aoting by and with the advioe and consent of the Executive Council of 3. DA'l'UM TEMPERATURE. the saidJDominion, doth hereby order and declare that the For the purpose of calculating the stresses as provided ill portions of road desoribed in the Schedule hcreto shall, on clause 12 of the regulations, the datnm temperature sha.ll be and after the date of this Order in Counoil, become oounty taken as 12 degrees Fahrenheit. roads. 4. NOTIOES re EXTENSIONS, ETO. SCHEDULE. Records of results of tests (Regulation 37), and notices ,., commencement of work (Regulation 44) and re extensions ALL that portion of the Opotiki-Motu Road, situated in the and alterations (Regulation 49), should be sent to the Under· Auckland Land District, Opotiki County, commencing at a Secretary, Public Works DeI,artment, at Wellington, and to point in Section 5, Hlock V, Waiawa Survey District, at the the Telegraph Engineer of the distriot, or his deputy, at present cl'o~sing known as the Willow J<'ord (bridge-site) on the stationed at Wollingt.on. Waiawa River, near the junotion with the Te Whaiti Stream, and procoeding thence iu a south-easterly direction generally, 5. CHARGES FOR 1

r, I V E R P 0 0 L , Go v ern 0 I' . ORDER IN COUNCIL. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this tw"nty­ seventh day of April, 1916. At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of April, 1916. Present: Present: THE RIGHT HONOURABLE 'V. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDINU IN COUNCIL. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY. P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNC;IL. HEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred W and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1908, it HEREAS by section two of the Public Works Amend. is, inter alia, provided that the said seotlon shall not apply W ment Act, 1911, it is provided that no person shall in any ca.se where the local authority ha.ving oontrol of any lay, construct, place, put up, or use any electrio line except roa.d or street by resolution declares that the provisions under the authority of a license issued by the Governor in thereof shall not apply to any speoified road or street, or Counoil under that Act: any speoified part thereof, and such resolution is approved And wherelll!l the Pahiatua Borough Council (hereinafter by the Governor in Counoil : referred. to as "the licensee") desires to erect lines within And wbereas by subsection two of section one hundred the area of supply as defined in the Sohedule hereto, and and seventeen of the Public Works Aot, 1908, and clause (b) hereinafter oalled "the area of supply,n and it is cxpedient of subsection one of section thirteen of the Public Works accordingly to issue a license in respect thereof under the said Amendment Act, 1911, it is provided thllt such approval may seotion: be either absolute or subjeot to suoh conditions as the Go­ Now, therefore, in pursuance and exeroise of the powers vernor in Council thinks fit to impose, and mlty refe,' to one conferred upon him by the said section, and of all other or both sides of the road or street: powers in anywise enabling him in that behalf, His Exoellency And whereas the Christchurch City Cuuncil, till' lucal the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, aoting by and anthority having control of the portjon of street described with the advice and oonsent of the Executive Council of the in the Schedt!Ie hereto (hereinafter referred to a. "the said 1620 rtHE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54 portion of street") has passed the following resolution-viz., I Taranaki Provincial Will' Relief Association incorporattd ,. That the Christchurch City Council, being t.he local authority untie" the War Fund, Act, 1915. luwiug control of Charles Stred, Linwood Ward of the City I of Christchurch, hereby rpsolves t.hat the provisions of scction L I V .I<~ R P 0 0 L, U 0 \ e r no r. one hundred and seventeen of the Public vVorks Act, lOOK I shall not apply to th"t portion of the north side of Chades . ORDElt I~ COUNClh Htreet lying between Osborne Street and Ensors Road" : At tl", (;oVPl"Illllt'nt Buildings at Wdlingloll, this twenty­ And whereas it is deemed expedient that suoh resolution seventh day -of April, 19Hi. should be approved in so far only as it refers to the northern side of the said portion of street, subject to the Present: condition hereinafter mentioned: THE HIGHT IloxocRABLE ,Yo F. l\lAs:.. my, P.C., }>R,E~lnINtj Now, therefore, His Exoellenoy the Governor of the I!\ C'OU!\CII.. Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of XTHEREAS by section twelve of the War Funds Act, \ the powers conferred by the above,in-part-recited Acts, I V 1915 (hereiuafter referred to as .. the said Act "). it and acting by and with the advice and oonsenL of the is provided tbat the Go\eruor may, hy Ot'der in Council Executive Council of tbe said Dominion, doth bereby gazetted, incorporate a society possessing a war fand, or the approve of the said resolution to the extent hereinbefore trustees of snch fund: And whereas application, in Writing mentioned, subject to the conditiou that no new huildings addressed to tbe Minister, has been made hy the Taranaki or part of a building shall be erected at any time on the .Provincial War Relief Association (being a society possessing northern side of tbe said portion of street within a distance a war fund), praying for the incorporation of that associa­ of thirty feet of the centre-line of the said portion of street. tion: And whereas it is considered desirable to grant snch application: Now, therefore, Hi. Excellency the Governor of the ilCHEDULI';. Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of ALL tbat portion of Cbarles Street, Linwood \\'ard, City of tile power and authority vested in him by the said Act, g,nd Christchurch, CanterbUl"V Land District, situat-ed \wtwpen acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Osbornc Street and l';n~ors Road. As tilt' said portion of Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and street is more particularly delineated on the plan marked declare that the association known us the Taranaki Pro· P.W.D. :39734, deposit,," in the offiep of t.he ~linistH of Publie vincial War Relief Association is hereby incorporated for Works at Wellington, in the Pl"Ilvincial District of Wellington, the purposes of the said Act as from tbe publication hereof a.nd thereon coloured red. in tbe New 7.ealand Gazette, and shall be known as the J. F. ANDllEWS, •. Taranaki Provincial War Relief Association." Clerk of the Ex('cl1ti\"p l.'oUIl<·il. J. F. A:-.:nHEWil. Clerk of the l~xec11tivp (;o11n('il.

Portion of t.he Hope Jl"in Road, in the JVa.imea COllntil, eJ:ernpted the PI"0",:.,ion8 of Section ll"i of till' P"blic frail! Validating Proceeding"' ill cOlllleelion with (( [_ol/.n of £8,5IJO. Works .'leI, 11)0fi. Taihape Borough (·o1l.neii.

LIVERPOOL, Governor LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. tJRDEH IN COU~CIL. At the Clovernltlcnt Buildings at Wellington, this twenty­ At the Covel'IHnent Buildings M Wellington. this twcnt~'­ seventh day of April, 1916. sevent h day of April, 19H). Present: Present: THE RIGHT HONOURABLE \V. F. MA';SEY_ 1'.C., PRESIllING THE HJ(;HT HOSOUl1ABI.I': W. F. MAS,",''''_ 1'.C., PRESWING IN COUNCJJ•. IN COUNCIL. HEREAS by subsection one of section one hundred HEREA."! the 'l'aihape Borough Uouneillately proposed W and seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1\108, it W to raise a loan. of tbree thousand five hundred pounds. is, inter alia, provided that the said section shall not apply under the LoOtbl Bodies' Loans Ad_ 191:J (hereinafter referred in any case where the local authority having control of to as "the said Act "). for procuring and supplying supple­ any road or street by resolution declares that the provisions mentary plant for the water and electric-lighting works of thereof shall not apply to any specified road or street. or t he borough: any specified part thereof. and sucb resolution is approved And whereas tho proceedings in connection with the poll by tbe Governor in Council: of ratepayers taken upon the pruposal were inegular_ in that. And whereas by subsection two of section one hundred a.nd Hrst,ly. the notice pursuant. to section nine of the said Act seventeen of the Public Works Act, 1008, it i. provided that was nut published once in each week for fOUl' successivp such approval may be either absolute or subject to such w(leks as by the Haid section provided, and, secondly,.in that oondition. with respeot to the building-line as the Covernor, the tcrm of the proposed loan (namely. thirty-six y",>rs) was by Order in Council, thinks fit to impose: Olnitted frOJl1 the ~H:id nutiuu : And whereas the Waimea County Council, being the local And whereas it appears that th" mtopayers have not boon authority having control of tlIP portion of road describ"d misled by such irregularities. and it. is expedient to vlbhd!1te in the Schedule hereto did on the second day of Ylarch, one the said proceedings: thousand nine hundred and sixteen, pass the following !"eHolu­ Now. therefore_ His Excellelltv th" Uovernor of the Do­ tion~viz., "The Wainlca County Council, heing the local minion of Xew Zeabnd. ill pUI'~uance and exel'cise of the authority having control of that portiun of t.he Hope :'train power and !1uthority confelTed 011 hilll by section one hundred H.oad fronting Section 114, Block YI, Wailllea Smwy District, and elevon of the said Act. and acting hy and with t.be adviee hy resolution declares that t.he provisions of section one and consent of the Exeeutivp Council of the said Dominion. hundred and seventeen of the Public ,Yorks Act, 19U8, shall doth hereby validate th" ,aid proceedings, and declare that not apply to the said port.ion of the Hope :\Iain Road" : th" Hame shall he as valid as though the saicl notice hacJ been And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution duly publisbed and h"d conlaiJl.,·d the said term of the PI"O­ sbould be approved: posed loan_ and that the Haid proceedings shall not be called Now, therefore, His Excellency tile Governor of the in question hy reason only of the irregularities aforesaid. Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by tbe above-in.part-reoited Aot, and J. F. ANDltEWS, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Clerk of the Exe("utiyc Council. Council of the said Dominion, dotb hereby approve of the said resolution. Spe(,ial Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, 8CHlWULK License Fee, mC., Oommandel Accl·i1l1ofization O':8t,.;ct. ALL that portion of" the Hope Main l{oad, situated in the Nelson Land District, Waimea Gounty, adjoiuing Section 114, LIVERPOOL, Govet'nor. Block VI, Waimea Survey District. As the said portion of N exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals roacl is tl\ore- particulady delineated On the plan marked I Protectiou Act. 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito P.W.D. :l080:;, deposited ill t he office of the '\HIlister of Saviie, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of Public 'Yorks at Wellington, in the W"llillgt,OIl Pl"Ovillcilll New Zealand, do herehy cXl"mpt from th(· operation of Distriet_ an!! the-reon eololll'ed red. s('etion tw('nt,y-six of the said Act. t.he Coromandel Acclima­ J. F. A~VnEWS, tization District. and do hereby notify that the following Clerk of the E,""'utin cOllncil. imported game-viz., cock pheasants-may be killed within MAY 4.] rrH]~ NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1621

'the Coromandel Acclimatization District, comprising tho REUULATIONS. County of Coromandel and Gannet Island (except in the areas t. NOTwrrH~TA"UINn auything contained in till' regulations mentioned in the Schedule hereto), from the first day of May, made under thl' Animals Protection Act, 1908, dated 21st one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, to the thirty-first March, 1916, the Secretary of the Otago Acolimatization day of Jul~, one thousand nine hu~dred and sixteen, both Society at Dunedin, or any pel'son 01' persons duly authorized days mc!uslve; and do ~ereby restnet the numb~r of cock I in writing hy such Secretary, may, during th.. period here­ pheasants that may be kIlled by any. one pers~m m any o~e Iinafter men Honed, kill red and fallow de .. r of either sex and day t? twelve. And I ~o. further ~otlfr t~at lIcenses ~ kill of any age which, in the opinion of the Raid Secretary or such nnported game wlthm the saId distrICt shall be ~ued of the said authoriz.. d persons, should be destroyed either to any person on payment of the su.~ of twenty shillings by reason of agp, deformity, or other physical imperfection. each; and the Postmasters at Whltlanga, Cabbage Bay, 2. Suoh 'leer mav be destroyed as aforesaid from th" Kuaotuna, and Coromandel are hereby appointed to sign date hereof to 31st December, 1916. and issue the said licenses to kill imported game. :l. A return shall be furnished to the )lini8t"r of lnt!'l'nn I . And I do further no~ify that the following native game-:- Affairs by the said Secretary within onp calender month VIZ., grey duck, spoonbIll duck, teal, black swan, and pukeko after the expiry of the aforesaid period and such return -may be killed within the above· mentioned district (except shall state the number and sexes of all r;d and fallow deel' in the areas mentioned in th? Schedule hereto) .from the first so destroyed as aforesaid, tL~ dates and name of pel'son day of May, one thousand mne hundred and SIxteen, to the by whom and the looality in which the deer WeI.,. destroyed. t~irty.first day ot ~uly,. one thousand nine hundr~ and . 4. Nothing herein cOIitained shall extend to authorizing "Ixteen, both days .mcluslve; and do h~by restnct the any person to sell any deer or any portion thereof. number. of such natIve game that may be kIlled by any o~e ii. Any person who commits a breach of any of the pro­ person m anyone day to not more than twenty-five head m visions of these l'l'gulations shall be liable to It penalty not all. exce!'ding £20. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, SCHEDULE. this twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand AREAS WHEREIN IMPORTED AND NATIVE GAME SHALL NOT nine hundred and sixteen. BE KILLED. G. W. RUSSELL, GANNET Island. Mini~ter of Internal Affairs. All lands notified or set apart as sanctuaries or reserves for the preservation of imported or native game. As witness the hand of His Exoellency the Governor, Special Shooti"fI Seasoll for Xati1Je Gf/.me, Chatham Islands. this first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. L I V ER POOL, Governor. G. W. RUSSELL, Minister of Intern.1 Affairs. N exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals I Protection Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile. Earl of Liverpool, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, Spec·inl Rll(fUlalioM for De"'-shnotiny, Waitaki. do hereby exempt from the operation of section twenty-six of the said Act the Chatham Islands County, comprising L I V E R P 0 0 L, Go v ern 0 r . thc Chatham Islands; and do notify that the following . .. native game-namely, grey dunk, blaek swan, pukeko, and I N exerClS~' of the powers vested I~ ~e by th~ AIlln~als teal-inay be killed within the said Chatham Islands County Prote.ctlOn Act, 190~, I, Arthur Wilham d~ ~rIto Savile, I from the first day of l\Iay, one thomand nin.. hundred and .Earl of Liverpool, the (,overnor ?f the DOt,nl1llon of .~ew I sixteen, to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine Zealand, do hNeby make the followmg regulatIOns prescrIbmg I hundred and sixt .. en, both days inclusive. the conditions under which certain red and fallow deer may hI' destroyed in tlw Waitaki Acclimatization District. I As witness the hand of His Excelleney the Gove;nor, this second day of l\Ia y, one thousand nine hun-

REGULATIONS. 1 dred and sixteen. U. W. RUSSELL, \. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the regulations Minister of Internal Affairs. made under thc Animals Protection Act, 1908, dated 11th March, 1916, the Secretary of the Waitaki Acclimatiza~io~l I--~- Society at Oamaru, or any person or persons duly authOrIzed App ,inti"g Commissioners to claSsify Pa.• toral Rllfl in in writing by such Secretary, may, during the period herein- . ( Nel.on Lafld Didl'iet. after mentioned, kill red and fallow deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said Secretary or of thl' said authorized persons, should be destroyed either by reason L I V E n P 0 0 L, G 0 v ern 0 r . of age, deformity, or other physical imperfection. IN pursuance and exercise of ~he powers and authorities 2. Such deer may he destroyed as aforesaid from the dat<> I vested in me by the two-bundred-and-tw.. nty-fifth hereof to 31st December, 1916. section of the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito 3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal I' Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the. Governor of the Dominion of Affairs by the Raid Secretary within one calender month New Zealand, do hereby app01l1t after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return I GEORGE WALKER, shall state the number and sexes of all red and fallow deer I WILJ,IAM CHARJ,E8 BAIGENT, and so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates and name of person FREDERICK AUGUSTUS THOMPSON by whom and the localitv in which the deer were destroyed. . . . 4 N thi her in oti'tained shall extend to authorizing r Comm.lsslOners to claSSIfy and r?port to me upon the rural . 0 ng e c . h f iJands 111 the NeJ.on Land Dlstnct known as Pastoral Rnn any person to sell any deer ?r any portIOn t ereo . . No. l!) Tlundale con~aining 160000 acres as provided by .~. Any person who C?mmlts a bre,,:ch of any of the pro- ~he said sec~ion t:.vo hundred and' twenty-fi~e. VISIOns of these regulatIOns shall he liable to a penalty not exce .. ding £20. As witness the hand of His Excellenoy the Governor, .. this twenty-ninth day of April, olfe thousand nine As wltnoss the hand of H1S Excellency the GovernQr, hundred and sixteen t~is twenty-ninth. day of April, one thousand W. F. MASSEY, nme hundred and sIxteen. l\Iinister of Lands. G. W. lWSSELL, Minister of Internal Affairs.

1Y otice oj Intention to change the Purpose oJ a ReBerve in Special ReyulatioM for Deer-shooting, Otago. the Tow/! of Fox/on, WeUi"gfon Land District.

LIVEHPOOL. Governor. LIVER-POOL, Governor. N eJ(ercise of t,he powers vested in me by the Animal. HEREAS b~ the Public Reserves and Domains Act, I Protection Act, 1908, I Arthur William de Brito Savile. W 11108, ib is, amongst other things, enacted thab the Earl of "Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of .New Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, Zealand, do hereby make th" following rOglllations pre· or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or here­ scribing the conditions under which certain red and fallow after vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the deer may be destroyed in the Otago Acclimatization District. purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said 1622 TH:BJ NEW ZEALAND GAZE'l"rK [No. 54

Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the caBe of I Situated in Borough of Ohakune, near Mangawhero River. any reserve made under the authority of section .th~ee hun· , Open land. with Roil of a pumiceous nature on volcanic·grit dred and twenty·one of the Land Act. 1908, If It shall, I formation. in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the' purpose for which such reserve was set apart to any other ; As witness tho hand of His Exoellency the Governor, purpoBe, or if h shan, in the opinion of the Governor, I, this twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised iu such i nine hundred and sixteen. reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one I W. F. :\lASSEY. or more of the purpoBeB named in the Baid Cla.BB II, the I Minister of Lands. Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, , ~ ___. exchange, or dedication, aB the case may be, and in such uotice declare the manner and termB in which the same is S(dl/'liIl1l lAIn,/., III Wellingtart Law} Di"f1'ict frY/' Sale by intended to be so ma.de: Public Auction. Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile. Earl of : Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, L I V E R P 0 0 L, G a v ern 0 r. do herebv, in pursuance and exerciBe of the powers and .. autho:ities conferred upon m~ by the Public Reserves and IN u~~~~~c~y o/hetho~/h~~~~~ed~l\~d~~!~~~~~s~~th~!~~f~~ Domams Act, ~908, aforesaid, declare my ID.tentl?n to I of the Land Act, 1908, 1, Arthur William de Brito Sftvilp. change the specific purpo.se of the reserVe deSCribed 111 the, Earl of Liverpool, tbe Governor of the Dominion of New Sc~~dul~ hereto from a s~te for a post·office and telegraph- I Zealand, do bereby appoint Thur,day, the twent.y.second st.. Ion 0 a reserve for railway purposes. ' clay of June, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, as the time at wbich the lands described in the Schedule SCHEDULE. hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix ALL that area in the Wellington I.and District, containing the prices at which the .aid lands shall be sold aB those by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section 583, mentioned rn the said Schedule hereto. Town of Foxton. Bounded towards the north by Govern· ment reserve, 200 links; 'towards the east by Main Street, SOHEDVI.E. 125 links; towards the south by a closed street, 200 links; WELLINGTON LAXD DISTRICT. and towards the west by GQvernment reservt', 125 links: be all the aforesaid linkages moro or less: !IS the same is deline­ ated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/3 (35), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wel­ lington, and thereon bordered red. Town of VU'hango.---Kaitieke Uounty. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, A. R. P. £ s. d. this eighth day of ApriJ. one thousand nine V TTl o 0 32 :{5 0 0 hundred and sixteen. o 0 32 35 0 0 W. P. MASSEY, o 0 32 :35 0 0 M iniste .. of Lands ,J 0032 5000 n 0030 3000 7 0030 5000 'l'r'IUtee8 jar Ihe Ranr;m'u Public Cemetery appointed. s o 0 33 30 0 0 o 0 :l:l 30 0 0 LIVERPOOL, Governor j()" o 0 33 50 0 0 I LX OO:W 5000 I N pursuance and exercise of the powers and authoritieB 2 o 0 32 25 0 0 . vested in me by the fourth section of the Cemeteri, s :1 o . 0 32 25 0 0 Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Sawe, Earl of Liver· Ii 0032 5000 pool, the GQvernor of the Dontinion of New Zealand, do i o 0 32 25 0 0 hereby appoint n o 0:12 25 0 0 WILLIAM CRm-l', 10 00:32 4000 JOHN CONNORS, and 1 0032 4000 BENJAMIN LENORD KNIGH1' OO:W 2000 to be Trustees, in the place of Charles Philip Smith, William OO:W 2000 .Joscph Woolston, and Thomas Ernest James Mincher, reo (I 0 ,12 20 0 () signl'{l, to provide for th,' maintenance and care of the ;) (I 0 :32 3i, 0 0 Raurimu Public Cemetery, in conjunction with John McLennan Ii 00;12 3.';00 '''HI Fl'e,l<"rick Rowland Lacon, previously appointed. (I 0 :)"> 20 0 0 \1 o 0 :3:? 20 0 0 As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, IV () 0 32 :30 0 0 this twenty-ninth day of April. one thousand nine I Xl o 0 32 20 0 0 bundred and sixteen. S () 0 32 15 0 0 W. F. MASSEY, II o (I at 15 0 0 Minister of Lands. 10 0032 2000 Xll 0033 4000 r. 0033 3000 Notifying Lauds in Wellington Land District for 8,,/e hy Ii o 0 33 40 0 0 Public Auction. I X(II (I I () 25 0 0 () I 0 25 0 0 LIVERPOOL.Oo\·e1'no1'. 3 o 1 0 25 0 0 N pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred 4 () I () 25 0 0 I upon me by the one·hundred·and-twenty.sixth section fl 010 :WOO of the Land Act, 1908, I, Anhnr William de Brito Savile, I XTV () I () :~O 0 0 Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New o I () 15 0 0 Zealand, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the twentieth day X\" 0 I () 25 0 0 of .June, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, as the 2 0 I 0 ' 15 0 0 time at which the lands described in the Schedule hereto Owhango is situated on ~he North 'Island Main Trunk Rail­ shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the way, 191 miles from Auckland and fifteen miles south of prices at which the said lands shall be sold o.s those men· Taumarunui. The main "oad passes through the town, tioned in the said Schedule hereto. and Hikimutu, Kawatahi, and Oio No. 2 Roads converge upon it. The sections for the most part comprise flat land, SCHEDULE a small portion being natural clearing. The remainder is WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.-ToWN OF OHAKUNE. covered with bush and scrub. The soil varies in quality from light pumice to "andy loam, partly on clay and partly on Pllmice su bROil. --;ectio~'--I-' Block. Area. Upset Price. As witness th!" hand of His Excellency the Governor. A. R. P. £ s. d. this twenty.ninth day of April, one thousand 3 VI o 0 33 40 0 0 ninf' hund"f'd "nd sixt,pcn. 4 o 0 38 50 (I 0 W. F. MASSEY. 6 010 50 0 0 Minister of Lands. MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1623

Limit8 of Upper Waih

LIVERPOOL, Governor. Registrar-General's Office, N pursuance of the power and authority in me. vested by Wellington, Srd May, 191£ r the sixth section of the Harbours Act, 1908. I. Arthur T is hereby notified that the undflrmentioned persons William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor of the I have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Regis­ Dominion of. New Zealand. do hereby define the limits of the trars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts Ha.rbour of Upper Waihou, in the said Dominion, to be- set respectively opposite their names, viz.:- " All that part of the Waihou River extending downstream :Same. District. from the Shaftesbury Bridge to the southern boundary of .lOHN CORMACK ERSt Taieri . the Thames Harbour District, together with portions of the ALBERT ERNERT MooRI! N garnawahia. tributaries Hikutaia Stream and Ohinemuri River. As the LILIAN SOPHIA HILL Orepnki. said area is delineated on the plan marked M.D. 4610, de­ pasited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington." W. W. COOK, Deputy Registrar-General. As witness the hand of His Excellenoy the Governor. this twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. ROBERT McNAB, Appointments of Officer8 of the New Zealand 8taff Corps and Minister of Marine. Royal New Zealand Artillery.

Members of Raurimu Domain Board appointed. Department of Defence, Wellington, 22nd April, 1916. Department of Lands and Survey, IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve Wellington, 17th April, 1916. H. of the appointments of the nndermentioned officers IS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of of the New Zealand Staff Corps and the Regiment of Royal H section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, New Zealand Artillery :- 1908, been pleased to appoint New Zealand Staff Corps. WILLIAM CROFT, JOHN CONNORS, and I The undermentioned Staff Cadets (Royal Australian BENJAMIN LENORD KNIOHT Military College) to be Lieutenants. Datpd 4th April, 1916 :- to be members of the Raurimu Domain Board, in place of Le~nard. George Goss. Charles Philip Smith, William Joseph Woolston, and John KeIth Linds~y Ste~~rt. Singleton, who have resigned. Donald HamIsh WIlham Hawken Donaldson. W. F. MASSEY, The Regiment of Royal New Zealand Artillery. Minister of Lands. The undermentioned Staff Cadets (Royal Australian Military College) to be Lieutenants. Dated 4th April, 1916 :­ Inspector of Factories appointed. Graham Beresford Parkinson. James Byrt Jordan. Department of Labour, James Thomas Kibblewhite. Wellington, 1st May, 1916. William Ivory. IS Excellency the GoVel'nol' has been pleased to Ronald Stuart Park. H appoint J. ALLEN, Sergeant WILLIAM JOHN QUINN Minister of Defence. to be an Inspector under the Factories Act, 1908. The appointment is dated the 22nd day of April, 1916. W. F. MASSEY. New Zealand Military Forces. Minister of Labour. Department of Defence, Appointment of Members of Westport Harbour Board. Wellington, 29th April, 1916. IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make Marine Department, H the following appointments :- Wellington, 29th April, 1916. T is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor CO'Inmands and Staff. I has. in pursuance of the provisions of section 5 of the Major-General Sir Alexander John Godley K.C.M.G., C.B., Harbonrs Amendment Act, 1910, and of subsection (2) of to be temporary Lieute

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ESTABLISHMENTS.-MolJ~TED 'i'ROOPS. I J"ieutenant Frank Kingdon Turnbull to be temporary Capt ain. Dated 21st· October. 1915. Anckland lv[o"nl~Al Rifles. 2nd Lieutenant Percy .James North to be t.emporary Quarter. The unuermontionC'd to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 21st I master. Dated lIth October, 1915. October, 1915:- No. 11/102, Sergeant Ewen MaeInt.yre to be 2nd Lieut,enant, No. 13/6:n. Rogimontal Sergeant.Major Douglas Manners. and is temporarily appointed Adjutant. Dated 218t No. 13/264, Staff Sergeant.major Frank Allsopp. October, 1915. No. 13/404. Staff Sergeant.. major Alox"nder Martin. The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenant.. Dated 21st No. 13/301. Regiment• .! Qua.rtcrm"stcr·Sergcant Vernon October, 1915 :_ Clifton Bigg·Wither.~. No. 10/281, Sergeant.major C. C. Brinsl<>y. No. 13/991. St"ff Scrgeant·nw.jor William Henry Coates. No. 10/990, Sergeant S. G. Guthrie. No. 13/70. Sergeant Arthur Charks Hinman. No. 10/132, Sergeant C. A. Bicknell. Welling/on Mwnted R·\f!e..•. No. 11/1400, Sergeant D. E. Batchelor. No. 11/1398. Corporal E. G. Williams. Lieutenant .Tohn Burnett Davis to be temporary Captain. No. 11/74, Sergeant Caro .Tames Pierce. Dated 22nd October. 1915. No. 1I/489. Sergeant Cecil Howard M~lbon Allison. No. 11/1395. Corporal A. L. O. Hewitt. CanterbUl'Y Monnted Rif/e.•. No. 11/31. Sergeant Ian Barton Cruickshank. Lieutenant Cuthbert William Free t,o be temporary Captain. No. 1l/736A, Sergeant Edward Stewart Fossett. Dated 21st October, 1915. No. 11/1247, Sergeant W. G. Lyons. No. 11/179. Sergeant C. B. Easther. The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated No. 15/47, Sapper Abraham Hall. 21st Oct·ober. 1915:- No. 10/162, Regimental Quartermaster.Sergeant James No. 7/109, Sergeant A. E. T. Rhodes. Type Dallinger. No. 7/612, Regimental Sergeant-major Gerald Lomax No. 11/74, Sergeant·major Edward Levien. Stedman. No. 7/92. Sergeant William Barnet Menzies. Oanterbury Regiment. No. 7/735, Sergeant Duncan BainMurchuson. Major Robert Amos Row t.o be temporary Lieutenant· No. 7/10:1, Sergeant Roy Simpson Priest. Colonel whilst in command. Dated 3rd November. Hl1.5. No. 7/149, Staff Sergeant·major .John Leslie Wilson. )Iajor Robert Amos Row relinquishes the temporary rank No. 517. Sergeant, Robert Paul Harper. of Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 20th November, 1915. No. 7/516. Sergeant C. G. Harper. No. 7';lfi7. Quartermaster·Sergeant A. Anderson, and to Major (temporary Lieutenant.Colonel) to he he temporary Quartermaster. Lieutenant·Colonel. Dated 20th November. 1915. The undermentioned Captains to be Majors :- New Zealand Field A rtilleT!!. Peter Bain Henderson. Dated 11th August, 1915. Major Ivon Tatham Standish to be temporary Lieutenant· Arthur Cunliffe Bernard Critchley.Salmonson (Adjutant). Dated 25th September, 1915, and to remain seconded. Colonel. Dated 3rd February, 1916. Nathan William Benjamin Butler Thoms. Dated 25th The underment.ioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenant.s. September, 1915, and to remain seconded. Dated 5th December, 1915 :- Felix Ballard Brown. Dated 25th September, 1915. Frederick Malcolm Turner. Captain Hugh Stewart to be temporary Major. Dated Stanley William Morton. 21st October, 1915. Norman Harry Purdy. Lieutenant Albert Edward Conway to be Captain. Walter Lancelot Moore. Dated 25th September, 1915. James Gordon Jeffery. Henry Purse Warnock. The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. D&ted 21ft William John Baxter. October, 1915:- Henry Macdougall. No. 6/718. Company Quartermaster Sergeant T. W. L. Philip John Ellis. Rutherford. Victor George Jones. No. 6/838. Company Sergeant.major .J. W. Langridge. James Girdwood McKenzie. Otago Regiment. Oorps of New Zen,land Engineers. The undermentioned Captains to be temporary Majors Dated 21st October, 1915:­ The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains:­ Duncan Colquhoun. Charles Darwin Cooke. Dated 17th November, 1915. David Wbite. Edward James Hulbert. Dated 18th November, 1915. Lieutenant Louis Geldart Wilson to be temporary Capta.in. 2nd Lieutenant Henry Masterton Clark to be temporary Dated 21st October, 1915. Lieutenant. Dated 23rd .January, 1915. The undermentioncd 2nd Lieutenants to be temporary The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be temporary Lieutenants. Dated 21st October, 1915:- Lieutenants :- Alexander Smith Falconer. Ralph John Black. Dated 15th November, 1915. Henry Robert Ker. C. W. Salmon. Dated 15th November, 1915. The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 21st Horace William Newman. Dated 15th November. 1915. October, 1915:- The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants :- No. 9/571. Regimental Sergeant-major Sydney Wood. No. 4/881, Staff Sergeant.major (temporary Second No. 11/1623. Sergeant James Edward Biggar. Lieutenaut) Thomas Dollimore. Dat.ed 21st October, No. 9/688. Quartermaster.Sergeant Albert Arthur Chap- 1915. man. No. 4/115A. Sergeant (temporary Second Lieutenant) No. 9/573. Sergeant Phillip Dorham Russell. Horace William Newman. Dated 21st October. 1915. No. 9/783. Sergeant Ernest Richard Black. No. 4/501, Sergeant Wilfred Fosberry Stilwell. Dated No. 8/626. Quartermaster.Sergeant Augustus Phillip 9th November, 1915. McCormac. New Zealand Medical Oorps. NEW ZEAf_AND INFANTRY. Lieutenant·Colonel Charles Mackie Begg, to be temporary Staff· Colonel whilst employed as Assistant Director of Medical Major Robert Oswald Chesney to be Brigade Major. Dated Services. Dated 12th November. 1915. 10th November, 1915. Lieutenant·Colond (temporary Colonel) Charles Mackie Pegg Captain Francis Henry Lampden to be a Staff Captain. relinquishes his temporary rank and appointment. as Dated 11th November. 1915. Assistant Director of Medical Services. Dated 5th January, 2nd Lieutenant Alexancl.er Smith Falconer to be Orderly 1916. Officer. Dated 9th August, 1915. Lientenant-Colonel Eugene Joseph O'Neill to be temporary Assistant Dil'< ctor of Medica.! Services. Dated 5th January, A uckland Regiment. 1916. Lieutenant.Co10nel Percival Clennell Fenwick to be Senior Captain Charles Eric Andrews to be temporary Major whilst Medical Officer. Dated 1st August, 1915. in command of a company. Dated 18th November, 1915. Majol' Mathew Holmes to be Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services. Dated 12th November, 1915. Wellington Regiment. Lieutens.nt·Colonel William Henry Perhs, M.D., to be tern· Lieutenant William Eugene Stafford Furby to be Captain. porary Colonel whilst employed as Deputy Director of Dated ~2nd September, 1915. Medical Services. Dated) st January. 1915. MAY 4.) THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1625

New Zealand Ohaplains Department. Lieutenant (temp. Captain) John HenrylGrover, NewlZealand Staff Corps. The Reverend Arthur Mitchell, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Lieutenant Ernest Edmund Somcrvell, Unattached List (b) . .Glass, to be 3rd Class. Dated 1st January, 1916. Lieutenant Lawrence Henry Gillett,16th (Waikato) Regiment. Lieutenant Oolin McGrogor Littlejolm, Unattached List (b). Ordnance Corp •. Lieutenant Alfred George Bryan, Unattached List (b), Geneml No. 12/689. Sergeant Alfred James Bond to be 2nd Lieu. List. tl'nant. Dated 19th January, 1916. Lieutenant George Brooke Carter, Reserve of Officers, New Zealand Garrison Artillery. New Zealand Pay Oorps. 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Brewer, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly's Own), Coast Defence Detachment. No. 15/121. Sergeant James Seaton Martin to be Honorary 2nd Lieutenant John Southward, Unattached List (b). Lieutenant. Dated 1st February, 1916. . 2nd Lieutenant John James Kernohan, 4th (Otago) Regiment, Coast Defence Detachment. New Zealand Rifles. 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Sager Bailey, Unattached List (b). Major Murray Menzics Gf.rd'nu to be Brigade Major. 2nd Lieutenant Frederick Russell Baker, Unattached List (b), Captain Thomas Ralph Eastwood to be Staff Captain. General List. Captain Alfred James Powley to be temporary Adjutant. 2nd Lieutenant Reginald George Armitage, Unattached List B"nd.Sergeant P. E. Cole to be Honorary 2nd Lieutenant. (b), General List. Dated 11th January, 1916. 2nd Lieutenant Frederick Edwin Ashby, Unattached List (b), General List. Maori Oontingent. 2nd Lieutenant Walter George Gibbs, Unattaehed List (b), General List. The underlllentioncd to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 15th 2nd Lieutenant William Nixon Elliott, Unattached List (b) Noyember, 1915:- General List. • No. 15/161. Sergeant·major Henry Ray Vercoe. 2nd LicutcnantWilliam Scott.Higginson, Unattached List (b) No. 16/518. Sergeant Edward Renata Muhunga Brough. General List. ton. 2nd Lieutenant John Grierson Foster, Unattached List (b), J. ALLEN, General List. Minister of Defence. 2nd Lieutenant Henry Sorley Maclean, Unattaohed List (b), General List. 2nd Lieutenant Walter William Chapman, Unattached List (b), General List. 2nd Lieutenant Lionel Marmaduke Dixon, Unattached Appointment oj Officers to New Zealand Military Forces. List (b), General List. 2nd Lieutenant And~ew Douglas Bremner, Unattached List (b), Department of Defence, General List. Wellington, 29th April, 1916. 2nd Lieutenant Frederick William Medcalf, Unattached IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap. List (b), Gcneral List. H prove of the undermentioned appointments of officers 2nd Lieutenant Digory Warne Pearce, Unattached List (b), to the New Zealand Military Forces with the ranks specified, General List. and with effect from 29th April, 1916:- 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Armstrong Edward Pennefather, Unattached List (b), General List. 2nd Lieutenant Victor R. S. Scott, Unattached List (b), General Mounted Rifles. List. Captain Thomas Butler Bax, late 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles. New Zealand Rifles. 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Rueul Livingstone, Unattached List (b), General List. Captain Charles John Hollard, Reserve of Officers, 17th 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Byers Johnstone, Unattached (Ruahine) Regiment. List (b), General List. Lieutenant John Pcter Shea, New Zealand Garrison Artillery, Auckland Division. 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Brown, Unattached List (b). New Zealand Field Artillery. 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Hamilton, Unattachcd List (b), Lieutenant William Henry Jones, "F" Battery. General List. 2nd Lieutenant William Eric Maitland Lees, Unattached 2nd Licutenant John Patterson Jerrat, Unattached List (b), List (b) General List. General List. 2nd Lieutenant James Alexander Guild, Unattached List (b), 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Clifford Long, Unattached List (b), General List. General List. 2nd Lieutenant James Harold Clark, Unattached List (b), New Zealand Engineer•. General List. 2nd Lieutenant Geoffrey Fitzhardinge Kingscote, Unattached Lieutenant Silston Cory·Wright, New Zealand Garrison List (b), General List. Artillery, Auckland Division. 2nd Lieutenant Selwyn Gorton Woods, Unattached List (b), 2nd Lieutenant Edward Morton, Unattached List (b), General General List. List. 2nd Lieutenant Francis Taylor Pennington, Unattached Signal Units. List (b), General List. 2nd Ideut.mant William Robert Setter, Unattached List (b), 2nd Lieutenant James Francis Flynn, Unattached List (b), General List. General List. 2nd Lieutenant Charles Cairns Best, Unattached List (b), General List. . Oyclist Units. 2nd Lieutenant Robert JOHcph Grant, Unattached List (b), !\lajor Charles Hellier Davis Evans, Reserve of Officers, 9th Genoral List. (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles. 2nd Lieutenant Athelstono Harold Marshall, Unattached 2nd Lieutenant James Thompson Steven, 8th (South Canter. List (b), General List. bury) Mounted Rifles. 2nd Lieutenant Robert Goldsman, Unattached List (b), 2nd Lieutenant George Leslie Comer, 10th (Nelson) Mounted General List. Rifles. 2nd Lieutenant Edward Hulbert, Unattached List (b), General 2nd Lieutenant George Clark·Walker, Unattached List (b), List. General List. 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Gunn Polson, Unattached List (b), 2nd Lieutenant Charles George Gordon Johnston, Unattached General List. List (b), General List. 2nd Lieutenant .James Russell, Unattached List (b), General 2nd Lieutenant Reginald William Kebbell, Unattached List. List (b), General List. 2nd Lieutenant Robert William Turner, Unattached List (b), General List. Infantry. 2nd Lil'utenant Erling Zil'sl"r, Unattached List (b), G(lneral Lieutenant·Colonel Roy William Cumming, 16th (Waikato) List. Regiment. Captain Lawrence Victor Porteous, Unattached List (b). New Zealand Arn.y Service Oorps. Captain James Blackwood Neely, 3rd (Aucldand) Regiment 2nd Lieutenant George Gabriell Stephenson, Unattached (Countess of Ranfurly's Own). List (b), General List. ---~----~-,------

t626 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

LV ew Zeqland Medical Corps. Result of Poll for Proposed Loan. U'1ptain Herbert Miller Hay. Captain Rex (~arrington Hrewtlll'l'. Wellington, 28th April, 19Hi. Captain O,'wald .Tames Reid. HE following ~otic~. roceived from the Chairman of the Captain Alexander Kinder. T County of Kawhla, '" pnhltHhed III accordance with Captain 'Villiam Henry Simpwll, thc provisions of thc Local Bodi(s' Loans Act, 1913. New Zealand Chaplains Department. J. O. WARD, The Rev. Henry Clark, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th cl",ss . ~Iil\ister of Finance. .T. ALLEN, )lillister of D"fon"",' KAWHIA UOUNTY COUNCIL. N Di8banrimeni of a D4enrr H(fle OI71b. ut,:"e oj Re8'1/./t of Poll. PUI{Hl'Al<'1' to sect,ion 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, n"p;,rtnwnt of Defenct', 1913. I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers Wellington, 22nd April, 1916. of the County of Kawhia taken on the lith day of April, 1916. IS Excell(,llcy 111-,' (iovi'mor has hi'"n pleas<,d to approw ou thc proposal of the Kawhia County Council to borrow the H of the disbandment, under section 43 (1) and (2), sum of £800 for aw construction of ;. wharf, wit,h shed and and section 44 of the Defence Act, 1 !l0!l. of th" undel'­ approaches, at, Kawhia, and to expend the loan of £1,000 mentioned Def"nce Rifle Club :- already raised for the extension of the present wharf and Th" Pohokma Defer",,, Rifle Club, shed at Kawhia. together with the said sum of £800, in the construetion of a new wharf, with shed and approaches, the with hcar14Uflrter3 at Pohokura, i-ltratford (W cllington ~lilitary number of rotes recorded for thc proposal was 77. and the Di

Department of Internal Affairs, Result of Poll for Proposed LOltn. Wellington, 3rd May, 1916. HE following special order, mad., by the Taranaki ('ounty Wellington, 28th April. WIG. T Counoil, is published in aooordance with the provisions HE following notice_ received from the Chairman of tlw of the Counties Act, 1908. T County of Hokianga, is published in accordance with G. W. RUSSELL, the provis,ions of the Local Borlies' Loans Act, 191:1. :Minister of Internal Affairs. J. G. WARD, Minister of Finance. COUNTY OF TARANAKI. IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 10 of the Road Boards Act, 1908, and section 34 of HOKIANUA COUYL'y COLNCIL. the Counties Amendment Act, 191:1, the Council of the County Prupu."rl Hureke Loan. £400.-.'1'otice of Result of Poll on of Taranaki resolves, by way of special order, that the portion Proposal to raise a, Loan. of the Moa Road District as described in the Schedule here­ under be annexed to tho adjoining outlying dietrict of the l'URSLAN'I' to soetion 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act. )[angorei Riding of the County of Taranaki, and c"aHO to 1!l1:!. I hereby give notice that It poll of the ratepayers of th" form part of the Moa Road District as from the date of the Horeke Riding was tfLken on the 6th day of April, 1916, Oil the proposal of the Hokianga County Council to borrow thc coming into force of this special order-namely, 31st March, sum of £400 for the purpose of metalling the Okaihau to 1917. Schedule. Horeke Road. The number of votes recorded for the proposal was fifteen All that area in the Provincial District of Taranaki bounded (15); the number of rotes recorded against the proposal was as follows: Commencing from a point the summit of Mount five (5). Egmont; thence bounded generally towards the north-west T t}w,."fo,·e declare that. the proposal was carded. by a right line to the source of the Waiwakaiho Stream; Dated this 7th day of April, 1916. thence by a line along the middle of the Waiwakaiho Stream to a point where the Waiwakaiho Stream is intercepted by l{,EDDY O. COCHRA!'fE. the .Tunction Road; thence along the northern boundary of Chairman. the said Junction Road to the Waiongona Stream; thence generally towards the south-west by the east side of the Waiongcina Stream to the Bedford Road; thence hy the north side of the Bedford Road to a point in line with the north­ Result of Poll for Proposed Loan. west boundary of Section 1, Block 8, Egmont Survey District; thence by a right line across the Bedford Roa,' and the north­ Wellington, 28th April, 1916. west and part of the south· west boundaries of the saiiI Sec­ rrlHE following notice, received from the Woodlands tion 1 to the northern coruer of Section 14, Rlock 7, Egmont ..L Drainage Board, is published in accordance with the tlurvey District; thence by the north-west boundaries of provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913. Sections 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, and 20, Block 7, Egmont Survey .T. G. WARD, District, to the Cambridge Road; thence by the northern Minister of Fillance. side of the Cambridge Road to a point in liue with the north. west boundary of Section 1, Rlock 11, Egmont i-lurvey Dis­ triot; thence by " right line across the Cambridge Road and 'VOODLANDS DRAINAGE BOARD_ the north-west boundary of the said Section 1 ; thence to the Result of Poll for Proposed Loan. south-west corner to same Section I ; thence by a right line to the summit of Mount Egmout, the commencing-point. PI'HSl:A1'i'.l' to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Luans Act, 'fhe foregoing resolution, intended to operate as a special 191 a, 1 hereby giyo notice that at a poll of the ratepayers order, will be submitted for confirmation at thc ordinary in that portion of the Woodlands Drainage District known meeting of the Council at 11 a.m. on Monday. the 7th Feh­ as t.he Woodlands Spccial-mting Area, taken on the 6th day ruary, 1916. of April. 1916, upon thc proposal of the Woodlands Drainagc .JOSEPH BROWN, Roara to borrow the sum of £1,000 for the purpose of widen· C;onnt,y Chai I'man. iug and deepening main drains, the number of votes recorded New Plymouth. 14th January, l!H6. for the proposal was 7. and tho number of votes recorded against the Pfllpo"",l waR nil. Description certified as corrcct.--O. H. Bullard. Chid 1 therefore declare that the proposal was carried. Surveyor, New Plymouth, 26th April, 1916. EDWIN THOMAS, I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly Chairman, Woodlands Drainage Board. made. ROBERT ELLIS, , T. B. INSOLL, County Clerk. :R.etnmmg "1Mer. MAY 4.J THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1627

Re8Ult of Poll for Proposed Loan. Notice fixing the Olosing-hours of Ohemists' Shops in the Borough of Dannevirke, under the Shop8 and Offices Act. Wellington, 28th April, 1916. HE following notice, received from the Chairman of the HEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority T County of Makara, is published in accordance with the W of the occupiers of all the chemists' shops within provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913. the Borough of Dannevirke has been forwarded to mo, desiring that all such shops in the district shall be closed in J. G. WARD. the evening of working-days as follows: Mondays, Tuesdays, Minister of Finance. Thursdays, and Frida,ys at 6 p.m.; Wednesdays, 12 noon, open from 7 to 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Sundays, open COUNTY OF MAKARA. from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. : And whereas the Dannevirke Borough Council has certified Result of Poll. that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, of the occupiers of chemists' shops wit,hin the Borough of 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers Dannevirkc: of the No. 3 Special-rating District of the Porima Riding of "Now, thereior". I, 'Villiam Ferguson Massey, Misister of County of Makara. taken upon the 12th day of April, 1916, Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices on the proposal of the Makara County Council to borrow the Act, 1908. do hereby direct that from and after the 8th day sum of £1,000 for the purposes of re-erecting bridges destroyed of May, 1916, all chemists' shops in the Borough of Danna­ by flood, and efiecting other extraordinary repairs occasioned virke shall be closed as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, by the same flood. throughout the Porima Riding of the said Thursdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m.; on Saturdays at 10 p.m., county, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was subject to the closing at not later than I p.m. for the statutory 89, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal half-holiday in each wel,k: Provided, however, that on the was 21. statutory half-holiday chemists' shops may reopen from I therefore declare the proposal carried. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. only for the supply of medioines and surgical Dated this 14th day of April, 1916. appliances. H. J. MONAGHAN, The notice gazetted on the 28th September, 1911, is hereby Chairman, Makara County Council. cancelled. Dated at Wellington this 1st day of May, 1916. W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Labour. ReBUlt of Poll Jor Proposed Loan. Wellington, 1st May, 1916. Ashburton Borough Oouncil's Abattoir 'nude available for the HE following notice, received from the Chairman of th" Purposes of the 'flown Boards of Hamp8tead and Tinwald. T Ngaruawahia Town Board, is pUblished in accordance -Notice No. 1830. with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913. N pursuance of section 15, paragraph (f), of the Siaughter­ J. G. WARD, I iug and Inspection Act, 1908, it is hereby notified that Minister of Finane,>. the abattoir authoriztid to be established by the Ashburton Borough Council for the district comprising the Borough of Ashburton has, by agreement between the said Borough NUARUAWAHIA TOWN BOARD. Council and the Hampstead and Tinwald Town Boards, IN pursuance of liBction 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, been made available for the purposes of the Hampstead and 191:3, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Tinwald Town Districts; and that the Ashburton Borough Ngaruawahia Town District was taken on the 2nd day of Council is the controlling authority of the said abattoir. October, 1915, upon the proposal to borrow the sum of £2,500 Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 26th day of for the purpose of duplicating the plant for generating elec­ April,1916. tricity for street and house lighting in the Ngamawahia A. L. HERDMAN, Town District. For Minister of Agriculture. The number of votes received for the proposal was 69. ------The number of votes received against the proposal was 19_ I therefore declare the proposal is carried. Ashburton Borough Council's Abattoir made available for the Purposes of Purt of Ashburton Oonnty.-Notice No. 1831. J. R. HETHERING'fON, Chairmqn. N pursuance of section 16 of the Slaughtering and In­ I spection Act, 1908, it is hereby notified that the abattoir authorized to be established by the ABhburton Borough Council for the district of the Borough of Ashburton has RfJ8'ult of Election of a Member of the Olutkune F'ire Board been made available for the purposcs of the district com­ by Fire-'insurance Oompanie.s. prising part of the Ashburton County described in the Schedule hereto, and that the Ashburton Borough Council Department of Internal Affairs, is the controlling authority of the said abattoir. Wellington, 1st May, 1916. rrHE following result of the election of a lll"mber of the Ohakune Fir" Board by fire-insurance companies has SCHEDULE. been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded notified in accordance with the rules made under the Fire towards the west by the north branoh of the Ashburton Brigades Act, 1908. River from the Borough of Ashburton to Rural Section 20864, G. W. RUSSELL, and along the western boundary of that section for about Minister of Internal Affairs. thirty chains; thence towards the north-west by a right line to the northernmost corner of Rural Seotion 10091; thence Ohakune Fire Board- towards the north-east by the road forming the north-eastern William Ernest Albert Gill, vice R. J. White, resigned. boundaries of Rural Sections 10091, 10092, and 4109 to the railway-line; thence towards the Bouth-east by the railway. line to the Borough of Ashburton; and towards the south west and aga,in towards the south-east by that borough to the north branch of the ABhburton River, the place of COlli­ The Shop8 and OfficlY; Act, 1908.-Amended Notice specif'ling mencement. Oombined District of A,wkland. Signed at Wellington this 26th day of April, 1916. URSUAN'[' to the provisions of section 10 of the Shops A. L. HERDMAN, P and Offices Act, 1908, I, William Ferguson Massey, }<'or Minister of Agriculture. Minister of Labour, do llflrcby specify that the Combined ------District of Au?kland comprises the City of Auckland, the Notice of Intention to take La,nd in Blocks IV, AwakirlO Ea..t, Boroughs of Blrkenhead, Devonport, Mount Albert, ~Iount und XII, Otanake S1lrvey Districts for Road. PUryOseR. Eden, Newmarket, Northcote, Onehung!t, !tnd Takapuna, ' and the Town Di.stricts of.Ell~r"lic and Ne,,:. Lynn. I NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed. under the Dated at,Wellmgton th,e 11th day of Aplll, 1916. provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute W. F. MASSEY, a certain public work-to wit, the oonstruction of a road Minister of Labour. I in Blooks IV, Awa..kino East, a.nd XII. Ota.na.ke Sarvey 1628 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

Districts; and for the purposes of such public work the objections to the execution of the said public work or to l ..nd described in the Schedule hereto is required to be the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan and send such writing, within forty d8oy. from the first of the land SO required to b~ ta.ken is deposited in tbe post­ puiJlication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works offiee at Piopio. and is there open for inspection; and that at Weilington. all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the t .. king of the said land should, if they have any well. grounded objections to the execution of the said publio SCHEDULE work or to the taking of suoh land. set forth the same in ApPROXIMATE area of the piece of l80nd reqllired tn be taken; writing, and send suoh writing, within forty days from 1 acre 1 rood 38 perohes. the first publioation of this notice, to the Minister of Public Portion of Pukekowhai No. :I, Block XI, Waip80kura Survey Works at Wellington. District. In the Wellingtou Land District; as the same is more SCHEDULE. particul80rly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 99645, depo"ited in the office of the Millister of Public Works ApPROXlllJATE areas of the pieoes of land required to he at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, a.ud taken ;- thereon cOloured yellow. 9 sores 0 roods 19 perches, portion of Karu-o·te· Whenua n No. 2B No.4, Block IV, Awakino East Survey As witnp."s my hand, I\t Wellington, this 1st da.y of May, Distriot. Coloured red on pilln. 1916 l ..ore 1 rood 8 perohes, portion of Karu-o.te-Whenua W. FRASER, B No. 2B No.7, Blook IV, Awakino East Survey 1\1 inistel' of Public Works. Distriot. Coloured blue on plan. 0'2 perch, portion of Section 9, Block XII, Otanake Survey District. Coloured blue on pl.. n. In the Auokland Land District; as the sa.me are more Nollee fI,. Intention to tu,ke Lund i" Block X, Gordo" partioularly delinea.ted on the plan marked P.W.D. 39877, Survey District, for Road Purposes. deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and OTICE is hereby !liven that it is proposed. under the tbereon ooloured as above mentioned. (S.O. 18521.) N provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certa.in public work-to wit, the construction of a road As wHness myhand, at Wellington, this 1st day of May, in Block X, Gordon Survey Distriot; and for the purposes 1916. of such public work the land desoribed in the Schedule W. FRASER, hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby Mmister of Public Works. further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-offioe at Golden Downs, and is there open for inspeotion; and th80t all persons affected by ,Votic. of Intention to take Lana in Block IX, Awakino East the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the Survey District, for Rnlta Purpose •. said l80nd should, if they have a.ny well-grounded objections to the execution of the sa.id public work or to the taking of such la.nd, "et forth the s80me in writing, and send such N OTICE is hereby given that it 1S proposed, under the writing, within forty days from the tirst pUblioation of this provisions of the Publio Works Act, 1908. to execute notice, to the Minister of Public Works a.t Wellington. a certam public work-to wit, the construction of a road in Block IX, Awakino East Survey District; 80nd for the pur­ poses of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby SCHEDULE. further given that the plan of the land so required to be APPROXlMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Mahoenui, and is taken :­ there open for inspection; and th80t 0.11 persons affected by A. R. p. the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the 6 0 24, portion of Reserve B, Upper Motueka Original. said land should, if they have any well-grounded ohJections 1 3 33, Section 11. to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of Situated in Block X, Gordon Survey District. such land. set forth the same in writinlO1, and send such In the Nelson L80nd Distriot; as the same are more writinj!. within forty day. from the tirst public8otion of this partioularly deline80ted on the plan marked P.W.D. 39932, notice, to the 1\Hnister of Public Works a.t Wellington. deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial Distriot, and thereon coloured pink. SCHEDULE. As witness my hand, a, Wellington, this 28th day of ApPROXIMATE 8ore8os of the pieces of l80nd required to be April, 1916. taken ;- W. FRASER. A. R. P. Minister of Public Works 4 5 20, portion of M8ohoenui A No. 2B. o 3 11 2A. Situated in Blook IX, Awakino East Survev Distriot (S.O. 18364). - Notice W Mariner8 No. 31 of 1916. In the Auckland La.nd Distriot; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan markeil P.W.D. 39085, AUCKLAND HARBOUR.-AMENDED POSITION OF KOHIMARAMA deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at WHARF. Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, a.nd thereon coloured red. M80rine Department, As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 1st day of May, Wellington, N.Z., 2nd May, 1916. 1916. HE Auckland Harbour Bo8ord have notified th80t Kohl· W. FRASER, T marama Wharf and light is incorrectly charted on the Mimster of Public Works latest Admiralty Chart (No. 1970) of Auckland Harbour, and that the correct position is determined by the following bea.r­ ings from light on end of Kohimarama Wharf :- Nonce of Intention to tu,ke Lana in Block Xl, Waip"kura St. Heliers Wh80rf light bears 96° 7' (N. SOO 37' E. m8og­ SU"vey District, jor a Native School. netic ). Orakei Wharf light be80rs 274° (S. 78° 30' W. magnetic). OTICE i. hereby given that it is proposed, under the Mount Victoria Trig. Sta.t.ion bcars 302° 11' (N. 73° 19' N provisions of the Pnblic Works Act, 1908. to execute W. magnetic). a certain public work to wit, the construction of a Native Bean Rock Lighthouse bears 342° 16' (N. 33° 14' W. school in Block XI, Waipakura Survey Di.tl'ict; and for magnetic). the purposes of such public work the l80nd described in The direction of the wharf from the light on the end is the Schedule hereto is required to be takelJ. And notice 140° (S. 241° E. magnetic). is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required Uharts, &c., a.1lected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 1970 and to be taken is deposited in the post-office at ;lfakirikiri, and 1896;" New Zealand Pilot," eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ii, is there open for inspection; and that. all persons affected Ipage 38. by the execution of the said publio work or by tbe taking GEORGE ALLPORT, of the slLid land should, if they have any well-grounded Secretary. MAY 4.1 'THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1629

Notice published purB'OOnt to the Provision" of Section 15 of the Publie Trust Office Act, 1.908, and Sections 18 and 19 of the Public Trust o.ffiCR. Amendment Act, 1913.

OTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, tho Public Trustee has filed in the Office of the Supreme N Court at Wellington an election to administer the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residenoes, and occu­ p

_N_,o_.-:.I ______N_'._m_e_O_f_Dc_ce_a_se_d_. ___-'--l=~~·~idenc~. ---,-- _~ccupatio_n_. _'__ --_"LI _O_f_~_:_!t_h_.--1- 1 O_'f_'f_l_:i_~I_.o_n~If-In_T~_~_t_:_.

1 Adamson, William Albert Invercargill Clerk 4/9/15 21/3/161 Testate. 2 Anderson, Frederick Napier S.. ttler 2/3/16 4/4/16 " 3 Andrews, James Edward Hastings .. Gardener 20/2/16 15/3/16 i 4 Bailey, Reginald Henry .. Sutton Farme,· 10/8/15 23/2/16 i 5 Bain, George Traill Roslyn Contractor .. 3/12/15 5/4/16 Int;~tate. 6 Bain, James Gisborne .. Painter 5/8/15 11/3/16 Testate. 7 Bassett, Samuel Eric Washdyke Farm Labour.. r 23/1/15 6/4/16 Intestatf'. 8 Bayne, George Anderson Morrinsville Soldier 3/8/15 19/4/16 Testatl'. 9 Becker, Henry .. Coromandel Settler 20/3/13 26/2/16 10 Border, Henry .. Rotorua .. Pastrycook 2/4/15 13/4/16 Int~~tate. 11 Bradley, James Flynn .. Hinuera Farnler 17/il/11l 31/3/16 Tostat... 12 Bradshaw, Edward Bluff Miner 6/1/16 23/2/16 13 Burgess, Arthur Clements Timaru .. Labourer 8/10/15 11/4/16 14 Burns, Henry John Tuakau }'1armeJ' 29/6/15 11/4/16 " 15 Butler, Ellen Auckland Married Woman 31/12/15 5/4/16 Intestate. 16 Campbell, Edward Christchurch Labourer 16/5/10 31/3/16' Testate. 17 Chapman, Robert Sampson Queenstown Farm Hand 1/5/15 11/3/16 " 18 Clark, Mary Kohekohe Widow 5/6/14 11/4/16 Intestate. 19 Colley. William Latham .• Mercer Engiue·driver 3/12/15 29/3/16 Testate. 20 Constance, John Edward Belfast Butcher's Assistant 2/9/15 29/3/16 21 Cowley, Ralph Tugi Auckland Farm Hand 27/7/15 10/4/16 Intestatf'." 22 Craig, Andrew .. InvercargilJ Cabinetmaker 1I/2/16 7/3/16 Testate. 23 Cross, Jennet Auckland ;\Iarried W olllan 21/1/16 1I/4/16 Intestat£'. 24 Croudis, Hannah Mary Grovetown 18/2/16 29/3/16 i Testatf'. 25 Cuff, Nora Edwood .. 14/2/16 16/3/16!1 26 Dunham, Herbert John .. Hawera Sergeant-major 2i/8/15 23/2/16 27 Egglestone, Richard Ewen Dunedin .. Telegraphist 3/5/15 29/4/16, 28 Elwood, Alfred Terah Sydney Carpenter 17/5/15 18/4/16 29 Feeney, Hugh Morrison .. Eketahuna, Timber-worker 27/7/15 20/4/16 30 Finch, Frederick Arthur .. Wellington Retired Blacksmith 5/2/16 9/3/16

31 Foster, .John William Printer 23/8/15 15/3/16 I' 32 Frazer, Robert McKinley Seacllff .. Carpenter 4/9/15 24/3/16 33 Galgey, Christopher Davis Auckland Sigualman .. I 31/8/15 29/3/16' 34 Gillett, William John In vorcargill W ool-classer 26/8/15 20/4/16 I 35 Giant, Charles William (or Charles) Doyleston Retired Engine-driver 30/12/15 4/3/16 : 36 Gundry, George Pukekohe Farmer 30/5/15 27/4/16 :17 Hall, Stanley .. Wellington Coaoh Aglmt 11/9/15 16/3/16 38 Hall, John Ticehurst Westport Saddler 30/3/16 13/4/16 Intestate." 39 Hanson, George Masterton Carpenter 16/12/15 6/4/16 Testatf'. 40 Harris, Charles Henry (or Harris, Henry) Clarkville Farm Labourer 4/1/16 6/4/16 Intestatf'. 41 Harwood, August Te Aroha West Labourer 5/5/15 16/3/16 Tl'statf'. 42 Hellyer, Philip .. Owaka Farmer 13/2/16 11/4/16 43 Hunter, James .. Wellington Civil Servant 8/8/15 9/3/16 44 Jones, Walter Hunterville Shepherd 8/5/15 12/4/16 45 Knowles, Thomas Edward Taihape .. Railway Employee 11/5/15 26/2/16 46 Levie, Ma,ggie Cargill Napier Domestic 19/2/16 23/3/16 47 Lewis, Henry Josiah New Plymouth Presbyterian MinistE'T 18/2/16 6/4/16 48 Looney, Wilfred George .. Opunake .. Carpenter .. 26/4/15 22/2/16 49 Lusk, Robert Christchurch Shepherd 7/8/15 15/3/16 50 Madden, Catherine (or Kate) Ashburton )farried '''oman 25/10/12 24/3/16 51 I Madden, Patrick .. Labourer 9/8/15 20/~/16 52 Marshall, Minnie Ann .. Styx )farried Woman 24/2/16 12/4/16 53 Meadowcroft, James Gregory Parenga .. PhotographN 9/8/15 I 1l/4/16 Int~~tatl'. 54 Miller, Andrew Gordonton Labourer 4/12/15 23/3/16 Testate. 55 Moriarty, Timothy StiliwatN Tally Clerk :1/5/15 .23/2/16 56 Morrison, Edward Duncan Rutherford (othor­ Napier Labourer 23/8/1.5 15/3/16 wise known as Edwin Duncan Rutherford Morrison) 57 Morrison, Edward Connell W ool·drier .. 8/2/16 5/4/16 Intestate. 58 Mylroi, Sophia R~anga DomeRtic .. 31/12/15 20/4/16 59 McCarthy, Justin Francis Gisborne Baker 8/5/15 20/4/16 Testate." 60 McEachen, Percy James .. Dunedin .. Railway Porter 1:3/7/15 11/3/16 61 McFarlane, David Stewart Wellington R

1630 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

Date I Date 1 Testate Name of Deceased. Residenre. Occupation. of Election or No·1 _of Deat~ ___ ftJed. __I Intestate. --+------~------83 Smale, Henry Thomas .. Dannevirke I Salesman 9/5/15 1/3/16 Testate. 84 Smith, Georgine Picton Married Woman 16/8/15 29/3/16 85 Stephens, John (also known as Stephens, John Winton .. Labourer 13/3/16 19/4/16 Intestate." Alexander) 86 Taylor, Archibald Wanganui School-teacher 8/8/15 9/3.116 Testate. 87 Torrie, Robert .. Dunedin .. Gardener :3/5/15 21/3/16 88 Wells, Robert Wilford Glenham Bushman 3./5/15 26/2/16 89 Williams, George Auckland Storeman 9/6/15 11/3/16 90 Willetts, Alice Maud Mary Hokitika , Domestic H/3/16 1314/16 Int;,'state. 91 Wilkie,JaneAnn(alsoknown as Wilkie, Jane Waikaia I Widow aO/l1/1;; 19/4/16 Testatl'. Ann Leavers) 92 Williams, Cecil Horatia Childc Suva Overseer 26/4/15 23/3/16 93 Wyse, Charles .. Kelso W oolclasser 11i/1/11i 8/4116 Intestate." 94 Yeoman, George Frederick Christchurch Carpenter .. 8,/7,115 29/3/16 Testah'. 91i Young, Cha,rles .. Westport .. I Cook 7/10/15 :U/a/16 '96 Young, Francis (or Frank Young) Brighton .. : Fruitgrower 27/12/15 29/2/16 97 York, George William I Ohaknne ! Sawmill Hand 1115/15 22/2/16

------~----- FRED FITCHETT, Wellington, 2nd May, 1916. Public Trus tee.

EIIJ1'lWt •• -WeekZy.

ETURN of PBINCIPAL EXPOBTS of NEW ZEALAND PBODl1C1!! from the Dominion during ~he Week ended Tuesday, R 2nd May, 1916. NOTE.-These figures are subject to alteration. They represent the entries from the ports received at Head Office, Wellington, up ~o 5 p.m. on Tuesday. • Goods exported are credited as far as possible to each district of produotion (as per list appended to return for week ended 31st August, 1915, New Zealand Gazette No. 103, page 3117), whether exported through the port for such district or not.

Frozen Mea.ts. Buner. Cheese. Gold. Lamb. Mntton. Other. ----'c----.------.-----'------~-----'------'------'------I .I: £ £ £ £ £ Auckland 33,976 28.416 36,307 23,209 Kaipara •. Tauranga Gisborne New Plymouth Waitara •• Patea Wanganui 2,699 17,361 Wellington 132 12,891 3,392 3,254 Napier .. 528 6,177 3,313 7,052 Wairau (inoluding Pioton) .• Nelson •• 771 Westpor, Greymoutb Hokitika 5,524 uyttelton 2,259 2,548 Timaru •• Oamaru .. Dunedin •. " 1 2,338 "I" I 12,009 rnvercargill 2 __" __ 1 ___,01_4 -- __"_1 -_"- --"--1-- 1 Totals 36,235 39,444 19,068 i 6,705 I 75,983 28,733

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Distrlots.' Grain and I' Hide~ and I Kauri.gum. I ~i~~I~Jil~': Tallow. Timber. Wool. I Pnlse. Skins. I Tow).

-----£-.--- --£-·------~--I-_____:_- ----L- £ £ Aucklr.ud S4 18,696 23,159 6,2!10 751 69,861 Kaipara •. 9,138 Tanranga Gisborne New Plymou'h Waitara •• 700 Patea Wanganui .. I Wellington .. .. 756 4,171; 18,373 Napier •• .. .. 16,610 Wairau (inoluding Pioton) •. 21 Nelson •. 193 235 2,986 Westpor~ Greymoutb Hokitika uyttelton 44 9,338 1,284 42,!l73 Timarn •• 1,005 649 Oamaru •. Dnnedln 3,743 672 11,742 Invercargill 1,478 i " -"7- - --51-,-78-4-!-2-3-,1-59- Totals 834 9,889 146,584

Customs Department. W. B. MONTGOMERY, Wellinglon, 3rd May, 1916. Oomptroller of Oustoms MAY 4.J THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1631

Tt-affic Returns.

EW ZEALAND BAILWAY8.-Traflie Be,urns lor the period ending 31st Maroh, 1916, and lor the oorresponding N period 1915:- WHANGAREI SECTION. 1916. 1915. PA88I11BGIIIB8,- S. R. Total. S. R. Total. 1st OIass 1,162 350 1,512 1,347 552 I,B99 ;lnd OIass 4,954 5,596 10,550 6.302 6,924 13,226 Total 6,116 5,946 12,062 7,649 7,476 15,125 Season Tlokets 96 70 1916. 1915. 1916. 1915. GOODS,­ No. No. No. No. Drays .. 18 3 PAROIIILS, IIITC. 1,149 1.237 Oattle .. 381 327 Oalves .. 1 . 99 Sheep 3,255 1,383 Pigs 37 55 RBVEI!IUB,­ I!. 8. d. I!. s. d. Total 3,687 1,867 Passengers 812 17 4 923 13 3 Tons. Tons. Parcels, Luggage, and Chaft, Lime, &c .•• 174- 60 Mails 149 12 8 129 15 6 Wool .. Firewood 180 126 Goods 3,358 2 0 3,104.17 3 5,117 Timber .. 4,453 56 16 10 35 14 7 Grain 482 584 Miscellaneous •• Merohandlse 692 861 Rents and Commission 76 12 11 75 11 7 Minerals 9,711 9,177 ------Total 15,692 15,925 Tota.l £4,454 1 9 .£4,269 12 2 KAIHU SECTION. 1916. 1915. PASSIIIBGBBB,- S. B. Total. 8. R. Total. 1st OIass 72 102 174 61 146 207 :lnd OIass 1,031 1,072 2,108 1,393 1,286 2,679 Total 1,103 1,174 2,277 1,454 1.482 2,8B6 Season Tiokets 2 1916. 1915. 1916. 1915, GOODB,­ No. No. No. No. Drays 1 PAROELS, IIITO. 932 765 Oattle 2 Oalves Sheep 7 22 Pigs RIIIVENt;!E,- .£ B. d . .£ 8. d • 9 23 Passengers 122 16 0 163 15 0 Ton •. Tons. Paroels, Luggage. and Ohaft, Lime. &0 ... 168 6 Mall. 47 0 5 38 12 6 Wool 383 8 1 Firewood 6 Goods 364 7 0 Timber .. 1,559 1.733 Misoellaneous 22 2 1 5 12 4 Grain 88 80 Merohandlse 158 167 Rents and Commission 7 0 4 9 12 6 Minerals 15 83 ----- Total 1,988 2,025 Total £563 5 10 £601 0 5 GISBORNE SEOTION. 1916. 1915. PASSBBGBBI,- S. R. Total. 8. R. Total. 1st OIaB8 550 438 988 800 462 1.262 ;lnd OIass 2.719 2,404 5,123 2,932 3,522 6,454 3,269 2,842 6,111 3,732 3.984 7,716 Total --- Season Tloket. 13 3 1916. 1915. 1916. 1915. No. GOODS.­ No. No. No. Drays 1 PAROELS, ,,"rc. 973 742 O.ttle 5 94 Oalves 48 Sheep 23,086 30,054 Pigs 21 14 RIIIVENUIII, ~ A; 8. d. .£ B. d • '6 Total 23,161 30,162 Passenger. 617 15 1 665 19 Tons. Tons. Parcels, Luggage, and Ohaft. Lime, &0 ... 180 126 Mall. 109 13 6 92 1 10 28 22 Wool 2 2 1,475 0 3 Firewood 168 336 Goods 1,705 1,121 Timber •• 1,802 MisceUaneoUE 3 3 8 84 6 6 Grain •• 409 278 Merohandlse 264 252 Rent. and Cnmrnhsion 40 0 9 87 16 8 Minerals 1,713 1,544 ------Total 4,564 3,6'19 Tot.1 '£2,475 15 2 £2,405 4 9

p 1632 'rHI'.} NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 54

NORTH ISI,AND MAIN LINES AND BRANOHES. 1916. 1915. PAS8ENGER8.- 8. R. Total. S. R. Total. 18t Class 18,374 41,470 59,844 22,167 54,566 76,733 2nd Ola8s 120,394 386,182 506,876 136,713 440,242 576,955 Total 138,768 49.7,952 566,720 158,880 494,808 653,688

Season Tlokets 17,304 17,856 1916. 1915. 1916. 1915. GOOD8,­ No. No. No. No Drays 118 117 PARCELS, ETC.• 64,134 71,231 Oattle 17,480 17,527 Oalves 3,270 4,753 Sheep 430,315 547,117 Pigs 20,831 19,206 amvENUE,- £ s. d. £ s. d. 472,014 588,720 Passengers •• 81,354 13 80,402 1 4

Tons. Tons. Parcels, Luggage, and Ohaff, Lime, &0 ... 9,636 8,402 Mails 9,017 111 11,645 1 8 Wool 2,069 1,605 Firewood 4,086 4,968 Goods 106,438 19 10 101,482 611 21,953 23,441 Timber •• Miscellaneous 13,302 13 11 2,206 17 4 Grain' 28,962 33,557 Merchandise 34,378 29,284 Rents and Commission 1,960 17 7 2,432 1 10 Minerals 56,669 60,606 ------Total 157,753 161,863 Total .. £212,074 6 4 £19S,168 9 1

SOUTH ISLAND MAIN LINES AND BRANOHES, 1916. 1915 PASSJllNGER8,- S. R. Total. B. R. Total. 1st Olass 12,522 38,492 51,014 16,024 51,202 67,226 2nd Class 61,436 203,984 265,420 76,077 267,274 343,351

Total 73,958 242,476 316,434 92,101 318,476 410,577

Season Tlokeh 9,015 9,555 1916. 1915. 1916. 1915. GOOD8,­ No. No. No. No. Drays 115 150 PAROELS, ETO. 51,420 68,022 Oattle 8,749 8,425 Oalves 591 682 Sheep 557,661 527,896 Pigs 3.851 4,509 REVENUE,- £ s. d. £ 8. d. Total 570,967 541,662 Passengers •. 40,091 3 4 44,544 16 6 Tons. Tons. Parcels, Luggage, and Ohall, Lime, &0,,, 7,60S 10,210 Mails 7,126 12 8 7,965 13 7 Wool 4,133 8,920 Firewood 1,848 2,592 Goods 79,560 8 2 89,849 9 7 11,724 14,853 Timber •• 2,062 4 11 Grain 63,634 88,633 Miscellaneous 3,15815 6 Merohandise 30,803 40,974 Rents and Commission 1,445 15 3 1,670 5 3 Minerals 52,116 75,428

Tot ..l 171,866 211,610 Total £130,286 4 4 £147,189 0 5

WESTLAND SEOTION. 1916. H1l5. PAS8J1lNGERS.-- S. R. Total. S. R. 'rotal. 1st Class 968 1,336 2,30<1 1,386 2,364 3,750 2nd Class 6,638 13,288 19,926 9,589 24,642 34,231 Total 7,606 14,624 22,230 10,975 27,006 37,981

Season Tickets 494 535 1916. 1915. 1916. 1915. 800D8,-­ No. No. No. No. Drays 2 7 PARCELS, ETC., 2.887 3,522 Oattle 267 382 Oalves 35 46 Sheep 4,725 3,168 Pigs REVIllNUE,-' £ s. d. £ s. d. Passengers .. 1,914 17 4 2,703 18 10 Total 5,029 3,603 Parcels, Luggage, a.nd Tons. Tons. 469 14 4 Ohaft, Lime. &c .•. 276 110 Mails 423 16 3 36 23 Wool Goods 9,883 6 10 10,480 17 0 Firewood 540 836 Timber •. 7.833 9,741 Miscellaneous 358 4 7 404 14 3 Grain 765 906 Merohandise 2,212 1,592 Rents and Commission 129 0 6 166 7 8 Minerals 43,005 46,053 ------Total 54.667 59,261 Total .. £12,709 5 6 £14,225 12 1 MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 16;:33

WES'rPORT SEOTION. 1916. 1915 • . PASSIDNGBBS,- S. R. Total. S. R. Total. 1st OIass 12 108 120 62 184 246 2nd OIas. 1,646 3.548 5,194 2,103 5,134 7,237 Total 1,658 3,656 5,314 2.165 5,318 7,483 Season Ticket. 43 87 1916. 1915. 1916. 1915. GOODS,- No. No. No. No. Drays 1 2 PABCIDLS, IDTC. 620 590 Cattle 4 3 Calves 1 48 Sheep 40 786 Pigs RIDVENllE, - £ s. d. £ .. d. Total 46 839 Passengers 361 <1 8 454 15 0 Parcels, Luggage, and Tons. Tons. Uhafi, Lime, &0 .. 240 36 Mails 84 14 5 72 2 6 Wool Firewood 306 486 Goods 7,540411 8 7,763 15 9 Timber •. 153 160 lInseellaneous 226 11 5 453 8 3 Grain 239 221 Merohandise 291 348 Rents and OommissioD 36 3 11 49 2 4 Minerals 52,013 59,805 ----- Total 53,242 61,056 Total £8,253 6 1 £8,793 3 10

NELSON SEOTION. 1916. 1915 PASSENGBBS, .- S. R. Total. B. R. Total. • 1st Olass 246 1,418 1,664 254 1,182 1,436 2nd Class 2,961 4,766 7,19.7 3,901 8,014 11,915

Total 3.207 6,184 9,391 4,155 9,196 13,351 Season Tiokets 16 47 1916. 1915. H1l6. 1915. GOODS,- No. No. No. No. Dra.ys 2 3 PAHCH:LS, I1!TC, 639 847 Oattle 4 22 Oalves 1 8,051 Sheep 7,248 .£ s. d. £ s. d . Pigs 57 HEVENUE,- Passengers 693 12 10 890 6 3 Total 7,311 8,077 Parcels, Luggage, and Tons. Tons. Mails 124 19 4 162 15 1 Ohaft, Lime, &0 .•. 390 424 Wool 30 23 Goods 1,868 16 6 1,833 7 6 Firewood 396 282 Timber ., 322 276 Miscellaneous 187 10 0 178 16 6 Grain 561 963 Merohandise 751 851 Rents and Oommission 36 12 10 63 19 4 MiDerals 690 1,087 ------£3,129 4 8 Total 3,140 3,906 Total £2,911 11 6

PIOTON SEOTION. 1916. 1915. R. Tot .. l. PA8SBNGBBS,- S. R. Total. B. 452 1,256 1,708 607 1,734 2,341 1st OIass 7,300 9,637 2nd OIass 1,647 3,778 5,425 2,337 9,034 11,978 Total 2,099 5,034 7,133 2,944 17 Season Tiokets 42 1916. 1915. 1916. 1915. No No. No. No. 300DS,- 626 . Drays 1 1 PABCELS, BTC • 547 Oa.ttle 5 25 Oa.lves 150 3 19,061 3,876 Sheep £ s. d. £ s. d. Pigs 17 116 l{EVENUB,- Passengers 564 0 8 725 3 5 Total 19,234 4,021 Pa.reels, Luggage, a.nd Tons. Tons. 109 511 110 6 4 Chall, Lime, &0 .•• 1,944 1,386 Mails 26 Wool 41 Goods 1,473 13 3 1,267 3 8 Firewood 42 78 Timber •• 52 90 MiseellaDeouB 356 10 2 330 19 2 1,258 1,159 Grain 92 16 4 Merohandise 748 576 Rents and Commission 42 III Minerals 482 1,131 ---- £2.545 11 11 £2,526 811 Tota.l 4.567 4,446 Total 1684 'FHE N1£W ,mALAND GAZETTK [No. 54

LAKE WAKATIPU STEAMERS. 1916. 1915. PASSBNGERS,- S. R. Total. B. R. Total. 1st Olus 178 890 1,068 217 1,532 1,749 2nd Olus 269 434 703 290 586 876

Total 447 1,324 1,771 507 2,118 2,625 Beason Tlokets 1916. 1915. 1916. 1915. GOOD8,­ No. No. No. No. Drays Oattle 23 6 PABOELS, ETC. 723 770 Oalves 3 Sheep 1,290 4,959 Pigs REVENOE,- £ S. d. £ s. d. Total 1,313 4,968 Pa.ssengers 324 6 1 482 Ie 7 Paroels, Luggage, and Tons., Tons. Mails 76 0 5 72 4 4 Ohaft, Lime, &e .•. 12 291 2 9 Wool 62 57 Goods 227 5 10 Firewood Miscellaneous o 13 8 8 16 0 Timber •. 32 57 Rents and Oommission 2 16 7 1 6 7 Grain 95 138 Merchandise 117 148 ------Minerals 130 179 Total £631 2 7 &l856 8 3

Total 436 591 J. MAO DONALD, Hailway Department. 1st May, 1916 . Ohlef Aooounsant, New Zealand Railways.

• N.Z.R.-FINANOIAL YEAR 1915.16. RAILWAY WORKING ACCOONT, showiDg REVENUE and EXPENDITORE to the Termination of the Period ending 31st March, 1916. - ,-, ._ ....._.---

! For a Twe;ve.m:nthly Period. Revenue. Expenditure. Average to Date. I Beetlon Four-weekly. Total 10 Date. i F~ur~:e~~~:'-lTolalto D.. t~~,15~ i fR::':i~: I E -fx~~n~i:~re I i ~ I; 0 R ..ilway. 0 Railway.

NO~~~n~~~!rD'- .. 74!' 4.4~4 ~. ~ 51}49 ~7 dlil 2,:86 ~8d.;I-:2~2:-S~dJ::':3;-~~-1-~ -~3 4~-~ di Kalhu. ., 20 563 5 10 5,884 2 6 590 4 11 5,569 17 9, 94'661 294 4 1 278 9 11 G1sborne .. .. 44 2.475 15 2 28,777 Hi 10 1,311 7 61 18,228 2 10 63'34 654 0 10 4014 5 6 North Island Main 11,108'212,074 6 412,503,216 10 4119,5211 17 211,528,832 16 11 61'0712,269 8 51,386 0 11 Lines and Branches I Total.. .. 1,246~219,56: 9 i ?,589,028 7 i'123'91~~ll'584'9~ 61'!A2 BOOTH ISLAl'ID,- I South Island Main 1,4041130,286 4 411,618,740 3 8 85,126 18 101,122,910 7 7 69'371,152 19 0 799 15 10 Lines and Branohes I i Westland.. 157 12,709 5 6 162,735 \I 21 6,500 19 1 97,431 3 7 59'871,036 10 762011 7 Westport.. 36 8,253 6 1 108,452 5 1'1 3,504 13 2' 52,182 16 5 48'123,012 11 31,44910 3 Nelson 61 2,911 11 6 33,932 13 51 1,925 13 7 24,368 11 2 71'81 556 5 5 399 9 8 Picton 56' 2,545 11 11 28,224 1 41 1,638 1 5, 22,691 16 6 80'40 557 12 4 448 6 4 Lake Wakatip n 631 2 7 7,242 14 9! 500 7 7' 6,376 15 3 88'04 Steamers i Total. , .. [1-,-71411-5-7-.3-37-1-111-1,-95-9-,3-2-7 -7-5 -9-9-,1-96-1-3-81-1,-32-5-,96-11-0 -6-6-7-'6-7 Grand total .. 12,9601376,904 11 0-4,548,355146223,107~12,910,882 10 4 64'00 ------CORBESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR. I NORTH IsLAl'ID- £ s. d.1 £ s. d. £ s. d.: £ 8. d. £ 8. d. £ B. d. Whangarei 74 4,269 12 2 49,232 13 10 2,459 11 2, 31,196 6 9: 63'37 679 88430105 Kalhn.. .. I 20 601 0 5 5,575 9 3 172 2 5 5,447 14 21 97'71 286 4. 1 279 12 11 Gisborne .. .. i 44i 2,405 4 \I, 22,857 5 2, 753 3 3, 15,396 10 0' 67'36, 620 6 10 4017 17 2 North Island Main 11,1011198,168 9 11'2,166,669 2 71136,105 15 1011,535,137 3 71 70'8511,972 9 21,397_ 10 8 Lines and Bra.nohee ! " , Total.. .. !11~2391~05'44i--6 5, 2,244,:3~ 10 101~39,490 12 8 1,587:~ 77 14 6! 70'72!

BOOTH lSLAND t -: : I South Island Main [1,40"1,147,189 0 51,513,191 11 7197,713 17 811,121,219 1 3 74'1011,095 7 1 811 12 5 Lines and BrancheeIii Westland.. .. I 157' 14,225 12 1 161,075 7 4 6,728 9 51 94,415 13 8 58'62'1,047 12 11 614 1 9 Westp0r$.. .. i 361 8,793 31°' 117,118 8 S 5,096 11 9: 59,243 1 7 50'58,3,253 5101,6451210 Nelson ' 61 3,12~ 4 8 1 31,477 12 8 2,292 14 1; 25,212 4 1 80'10\ 516 0 6 413 6 4 Picton 481 2,526 8 111 31,408 7 8 2,088 15 4 27,101 12 10 86'29 654 6 10 564 12 4 Lake WakaUpu .. I 856 8 3 6,851 1 11 552 12 7' 6,085 9 8 88'83 Steamers :.

Total.. .. 1,7061176,7191s2i 1,861,122'9i0114,473 '01011,333,27731 71'64

Grand total •• 12,9451382,164 4'7 1 4,105,4;-;T08253,96313 612,920,45!l17 {71-U1

J. MAODONALD, Railway Depa.rtment, 1st May, 1916. Ohief Accountant, New Zealand Railwa.ys. MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1635

OOIiPABATIVB BTUBIIB1'IT Oil' TBd'l'Io on ALL BilOTI01'lB from 1st April, 1915, to 31st Maroh, 1916.

____Al_I_S_eo_'_io_D_s_, ____+ __F_~_~t_-c_I_IIo8~_-:-_;_~_ss_e_~-_~e~~,-----I~-_-_ Second-class Pa_S_Be_n_lI_er_s_. _+__ T_o_ta_I_'_--,-_T_srs_c_ke_ o:;_,_

S, R. 1 S. R. 1916 463,532 1,395,812 I 2,872,006 9,4070,156 14,201,506 380,622 1915 467,691 1,502,530! 2,766,263 8,829,288 13,565,772 302,912 -----;-----1------. ------Inorea.se . 105,743 640,868 i 635,784 27,710 1-----1__ ._. __ 1 1------Decrease 4,159 1 106,718 ' I

All SectioDs, I P ..rcels. &c. II Drays. 1 OaUle, O&lves, Sheep, Pills. Total.

1 No, No. i No. No. No. No. No. 1916 1,488,806 3,406, 333,929 37,600 7,204,826 182,443 7,762,204 1915 1,485,977 3,090 I 273,443 40,776 6,923,306 163,155 7,408,770 Inorea.se _. --2-.829 -3161-60,486'-- -..--. 281,520 19,288 358,434 " --'-'-1 " i 3,i76:---,,---~'--.--.-- 1 !

Ch.. ff, All SectioDs, Lime,&c. Wool. [FirewoOd.j Timber, GraiD, [Meroh .. ndise.! Minerals.

, 1 I . ; Tons o. 1 Tons o. I Tom o. Tons o. I Tons c.. Ton. o. Ton. o. Tons o. I 916 " " 291,380 0 1154,633 4 103.470 0 '1625,865 14,1061987 6 891,266 102,831.958 17 5,960,561 11 1 915 .. .. 218,668 0 162,001 12 :119,478 0 621,963 31103352 8 1 861,790132,988,02719 6,075.28115 noreaBe .. " 72.7120 "=1-3~902 11 --,,- i 29~4~5 17 1_" -- 1 =.. _.. D eorease " .. .. 7,368 8 16,0080 , .. I 41,365 2, .. 156,069 2 114,720 4 ------'------__'-- __---'1 ____ - __ ~ ______-'-____.~ ___'______'______

HlSTIIiATIlD COST of OOI!lST&OOTIOI!I of RAILWAYS, BOLLING-STOOK, ETC., $0 :lIs' Marob, 1915, as furnisbed by Publio Works Deparsmen\ a.nd by Greymouth a.nd Wesspon Ha.rbour Boards respeotlvely.

------~------Cost of Cost of Sec"on. Opened Lines, Unopened LiDe ••

I! s. d. I. s. d. Whangarei 754.565 0 0 35,799 0 0 Ka.ihu 103.913 0 0 99 0 0 Taura.nga. 194,459 0 0 Gisbome .. .. 573,189 0 0 175,598 0 0 North Isla.nd Ma.in Lines and Branohes 14.554,271 0 0 676,960 0 0 South Isla.nd Ma.in Lines and Branohes 14,321,252 0 0 60,798 0 0 Westland "I 2,052.264 0 0 514,115 0 0 Westport .. I 591,045 0 0 86,688 0 0 NelsoD .. I 538,615 0 0 26,807 0 0 Pioton •• e. •• 587.961 0 0 79,128 0 0 0 0 La.ke Wakatipu Steamer Servioe " 43.661 InSuspenBe- "I Surveys, North bla.nd .. i 34.368 0 0 Misoellaneous, North Isla.nd .. 5,169 0 0 :: I 5.752 0 0 Surveys, South Island .. " Misoellaneous, South Island 5.168 0 0 P.W.D. Stook of Perma.nent-way :: I 98.592 0 0 W.R.D. Stook of A.O.L. Stores "I ---I13.689 0 0 . To,als .. " £34,139,825 0 0 I £1;999,330 0 0

J. MAODONALD, Railway Depa.r'ment, 1st; Ms.y, 1916, Ohief Acoountant, New Zealand Railways. ~ STATEMENT showing the NUMBER, AMOUNT, &0., of MONEY-ORDIIIR AND SAVINGS· BANK TRANSAOTIONS in the aevere.\ POSTAL DISTRIOTS of the DmlINIoN of NEw ZEALAND during ~he Que.ner ended 0) . 31st Me.roh, 1916. ~ ~ ------~------.. -- lil ~ . i MONEY-ORDERS. ~. I SA VINGS-BANKS. ''S ~ ~! ---~------~ ~ ~ --.----- 9d:r "'?~-: t' 8. p II bsued. Pe.id. ~ 8. ~ Aooounts. POSTAL DISTRIOTS. Excess of. Exoess of ~ 00' f'loO' Number Number Amount of Amount of Withdra.wa.ls ~ gJ c: ' - -1--- .~ gJ c: of of With- Deposits. Withdra.wa.ls. Deposits over Withdra.wa.ls. over ___-'-, _~ 1 Number. , Amodnt. Number. Amount. (2 ~ Opened, I Closed. ,Deposits. dra.wa.ls. Deposits. ------£ s. d. £ B. d. £ s. d. .£ 8. d. £ 8. d. £ s. d. Auokla.nd 234 39,911 188,371 10 3 41,999 221,076 7 11 227 4,684 2,713 50,543 34,615 676,941 2 3 537,284 1~ 0 139,656 9 3 8 Blenheim 16 2,352 11,724 011 I 1,267 10,457 9 11 16 279 208 3,102 1,677 51,189 9 0 37,220 6 3 13,969 2 9 Ohristohuroh 72 13,727 72,829 7 4 16,856 112,520 11 5 72 2,324 1,701 36,701 26,189 516,266 14 1 I 439,889 3 5. 76,377 10 8 ~ Z Dunedin 69 13,845 65,440 13 10 14,683 83,:120 10 2 66 1,972 1,228 28,849 16,723 382,963 8 1 300,557 6 61 82,406 1 7 t?;j Gisbome 22 4,336 26,785 12 0 1,719 10,535 10 2 22 722 421 7,364 4,198 103,572 0 1 I 69,488 0 7 34,083 19 6 ~ Greymouth 19 4,181 19,936 14 11 2,056 , 12,399 19 3 19 234 311 3,009 2,031 40,666 4 44,682 4 7 4,016 0 3 N 41 t?;j 1 Hokitika. 9 853 4,198 8 4. 731 3,286 2 9 9 69 72 619 ! 461 8,596 15 5, 7,813 17 7 782 17 10 "1 ~ lnveroa.rgill .. ! 34 6,756 31,563 10 9 4,481 , 22,865 3 11 32 851 562 9,129 4,876 140,550 11 9 I 89,643 4 3 50,907 7 6 > Z Ne.pier 49 8,543 i 56,990 1 5 6,025 46,818 17 8 45 1,340 798 14,080 7,002 221,900 8 5 141,222 3 6 80,678 411 t;; Nelson 27 4,286 21,446 4 9 3,663 20,562 18 7 27 471 292 5,208 2,795 89,397 7 10 i 63,654 11 6 25,742 16 New Plymouth 32 7,048 41,947 8 1 4,280 34,115 4 1 I 30 1,362 543 10,794 4,320 1 206,835 HI 2 96,203 18 10 110,632 0 4 ~ N Oa.ma.ru 11 2,098 22,074 2 4 1,108 7,00419 9 276 205 2,818 1,613 I 51 , 170 17 0 I 38,338 {I 12,832 12 11 t;j 111 8 Tha.meB 31 6,745 35,188 8 4 2,983 17,987 11 6 30 699 488 5,758 3,332 I 80,43815 71 1)5,861 12 8! 14,577 2 11 8 trj Tima.ru 16 . 4,230 52,971 2 4 2,501 14,427'11 4 1 16 679, 423 7,174 4,110 1 115,534 13 9 96,495 19 10 I 19,038 13 11

Wa.nga.nui 43 I 9,193 58,77417 2 5,690 35,23216 I 43 1,243 1 1,098 13,078 7,100 I 191,896 3 7 i 141,018 0 3. 50,878 3 4 Wellington 100 I 33,916 187,3796 5 32,588 185,725 13 1 1101 , 5,864 I 3,082 I 68,355 39,567 ! 846,694 7' 8 577,06614 21269,62713 6 ,

Westport 19 ' 3,068 1 14,495 6 2 I 1,291 7,08417 5 t 18 I 176 ~ 210 1,957 1,288 1 29,777 4 1 27,159 7 2' 2,617 16 11 1 .. 1_-- ._. __ -11_---1-----1-'1--1--1--1 ._1 __• __ To'e.ls 1st que.rterin 1916 803 165.088! 912,116 15 4 ! 143,921 845,322 5 0 I 784 23,245 114,355 ; 268,538 161,897 13,754,392 2 1 2,773,599 8 2 i 980,792 13 11 1 To'a.ls 1st qua.rterin 1915 788 1163,441 1854,405 9 8 1139,328 781,136 9 10 ! 770 I 21,022 , 12,714 1234,983 I 156,368 i3,159,907 4 7 12,405,182 15 71754,724 9 0 1 z' --_ ... _- - ---_.. o Genere.1 Post Offioe, Wellington, 2nd Ma.y, 1916. W. R. MORRIS, Seoretary. en fI>. RETURN of REVENUE oolleoted at the GENEBAL POST OFFIOE &Ild In the sever80l POSTAL DISTBlOTS of the DOMmION 01 NEW ZlULAND lor tbe Qu80rter ended Sht M8orch, 1916. ~ ~ , POSTAL REVENUE. TELEGBAPH REVENUIil. -- ~------~--- I ------I Tota.l POBt ~ 80nd Priv80te Box Misoell8oneousl Tota.l Telephone IMisoell8oneous Tota.l Telegr80ph Money-order Posta.l-note Reoeipts Telegra.ms. &Ild Commission. Post8oges. Commission. Post8ol. Exoh8onges. Telegr8oph. 'felegr8oph. Revenue. B80g Rents. (Post8ol). I I -----_._------.' ,------£ s d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s . d. £ s. d.1 £ B. d. £ s. d. .£ s. d. ;£ s. d. ;£ s. d. £ 8. d. Genera.l Post Office •• [ 39 18 2 346 2 9 505 810 12,441 15 9~ 13,333 5 6~ 9,310 17 8 156,656 14 9165,967 12 5 179,300 17 11~

662 16 2 6 13 10 I 52,177 14 7~ 21,566 12 O~ 1,202 8 6g 188 15 o 22,957 15 7 75,13510 2t Auokl8ond •• ! 2,212 11 1 920 15 1 48,374 18 5~ I-:i 9 ; 3,534 18 2 6,252 8 Blenheim •• I 29;) 5 51 47 13 0 2,334 3 4~ 35 10 9 o 17 10 I 2,71710 4t 1,733 13 5 1,747 9 53 15 C 6~ ~ t.;t;l Ohristohurch 1,523 18 336 9 7 27,73:! 8 1~ 220 9 9 7 4 0 29,820 10 1~ 10,559 10 2 9491410 234 12 11 11,743 17 11 41,564 8 ~ 81 Z Dunedin 1,006 15 4! 318 7 6 18,578 11 2~ 233 51~ 17 15 8 20,154 15 7 8,419 11 11t 13,276 13 9 159 15 3 21,856 o 11t 42,010 16 SO l?;j Gisborne 696 o 111 108 5 7 3,960 19 7 53 610 4 12 6 4,823 5 5 3,371 2 10 4,363 17 1 12 14 6 7,74714 5 ]2,570 19 10 ~ I Greymouth 20518 0' 89 17 7 2,493 19 3 37 15 6 114 2' 2,829 4 6 1,688 6 2 1,046 17 9 41 12 11 2,776 16 10 5,606 1 4 ~ 1 ~ 1 0 1,852 19 Hokitika. 87 7 6 16 7 6 770 7 9~ 13 710 0 4 887 14 7~ 632 15 9 326 7 9 6 1 6 965 5 7~ > 01 t"4 0 5 5,030 18 1 29 9 5 9,618 711 19,595 7 9 I nverol\rgill .. ~ 811 15 2' 132 15 2 8,897 810 130 12 6 4 8 2 i 9,976 19 10 4,558 ;:.- Z 30,851 11 Na.pier .. I 1,544 12 5 192 4 7 10,974 3 O~ 141 19 8~ 9 4 6 I 12,862 4 3 7,164 11 4 10,780 3 9~, 44 11 9 17,989 6 10~ 1~ V 1 Nelsoll 239 17 9 90 310 2,840 6 11; 55 5 8 2 3 8: 3,227 17 1~ 2,496 1 1 2,228 0 2 I 25 2 1 4,749 3 4 7,977 2; I Q I I 9 9,141 13 2~ 18,114 511 New Plymouth .. 659 19 0, 145 2 6 8,047 7 5~ 118 9 3 1 14 6 ! 8,972 12 8; 4,139 17 6 4,966 3 11~: 35 11 > I ~ ~ Oama.ru 158 14 5 37 5 3 2,643 10 0 40 7 1~ 1 16 2 2,881 12 1l~ 1,526 14 1~ 1,169 18 0' 5 10 0 2,702 2 109 5,583 15 10 I I Tha.mes .. •• I 355 0 123 2 0 5,649 16 5 i 110 19 6~ 0 4 6 ! 6,239 2 6~ 3,011 9 8 2,325 4 6 49 11 7 5,386 5 9 11,625 8 3~ ~ ! ~ -rimaru _. 452 3 5 79 13 9 6,715 10 9 i 59 8 5 2 16 0' 7,30912 4 3,042 111 124 4 9 I 47 4 6 3,213 11 2 10,523 3 6

Wanganui 808 7 5 173 18 0 10,460 14 5[ 142 4 6i 2 14 2 : 11,587 18 €~ 5,057 8 81 6,933 19 2~i 49 6 3 12,040 14 2 23,628 12 8D i Wellington 2,261 9 871 10 S 55,296 15 U~: 436 8 1 I 6 6 4 1 58,872 10 41 25,310 9 1 1,471 12 0 253 14 4 27,035 15 5 85,908 5 9i

Westport 79 18 66 710 1,382 3 4 24 0 7 o 9 0 I 1,552 19 5 1,003 8 1 448155: 11822 1,570 5 8 .3,123 5 1 :i _____1 ______----I ------i-----I ------'ro~als 1st qu80rter in 1916 13,443 13 2! 4,096 9 217,65813 9; 2,516 8 1; 12,512 14 9§1250,227 11 7~ 105,281 15 0 67,703 7 0 1158,012 5 8 330,997 7 8 581,224 19 3~ Tot8olslst qu80rter in 1915 13,107 11 41 4,089 16 6 151,214 15 5;\2,516 3 41 9,606 11 11 1180,534 18 7 88,373 10 10 63,323 1 11 I 5,038 18 11 156,735 11 8 337,27010 3 I-' ~ w. R. MORRIS, Secret8ory. ~ General Post Office, Wellinl(ton, 2nd M8oy, 1916. -.'3 f-' ~ <:I:l STATEMENT of TELEGRAPH HUSINESS within the severeJ POSTAL DISTRICTS of the DOMINION 01 NEW ZEALAND during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1916. a;

_ ...e ~ . Ordinary T~legrams, I Urgent Ordinary. Bureau o

£ s. d.! ' £ s. d_ £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 8,046 778 14 10' 201,532 ,5,860 I 2! 57\1,493 21,566 12 O~ Auckland 622 ' 352,876 13,626 4 10 117.039 ' 1,301 11 2 ! 94 5 10 65 120 1 O~ 22,975 i 5131910 50,189 1,73313 5 1-:3 Blenheim 97 25,874 1,005 6 8~! 1,275 ::q 81,9222,500 4 4 250,553 10,559 10 2 Christohuroh •• I 231 156,743 6,485 I!: 8,311 727 17 6 3,577 846 7 2! Q:j 398 15 67,955,2,11914 11k 210,037 8,419 11 1l~ Dunedin 246 133,430 5,476 7 3~ 4,957 424 14 0 3,695 8! Z Q:j 246 16 9~ 34,9581,296 3 1~ 76,909 3,371 210 Gisborne 38 39,046: 1,654 2 8 2,120: 174 0 3 785 ::?j 38 28,045 1,145 13 5 895 70 10 2 409 223 4 9 9,390 I 248 17 10 38,739 1,688 6 2 Greymouth N 113 2 4 7,554 I 164 18 4 16,576 632 15 9 Q:j Hokitika 52 8,633 336 16 5 233 17 18 8 96 ~ 52,984 2,008 5 6 1,276 94 12 0 787 259 19 7~ 76,16512,195 3 3! 131,212 4,558 0 5 ....., In verca.rgi II 203 ti-­ 300 II:! 10 2,028 422 2 3~ 127,730 3, 2flO 4 5~ 214,056 7,164 11 4 Napier 93 80,024 3,161 5 9 4,274 ;--:

Nelson 99 38,822 1,549 0 8~ 1,661 117 18 0 23,483 232 14 2~ 22,261 i 596 8 2 86,227 2,496 1 Q New Plymouth 112 60,012 2,381 14 8~ 3,207 19012 7 964 34214 7 57,22311,224 15 7~ 121,406 4,13\) 17 6 ;;..- 51 16,299 674 5 653, 46 13 7 307 18915 I) 15,880 I 616 () il 33,139 1,526 14 ~ Oa.maru O~ 1O~ t:rj 81 50,425 1,87613 8 2,059 I 153 7 9 423 220 10 2~ 29,513, 760 18 ()~ 82,420 3,011 (l 8 1-:3 ThameR 1-:3 1'imaru 74 33,972 1,295 5 O! 1,325, 81 11 [; 838' 239 8 1O~ 45,58911,425 16 7 81,724 3,042 1 11 108 75,174, 2,931 1 11 4,510 281 13 () 1,599 288 4 5 60,068 11,556 8 7~ 141,351 5,057 8 8~ Wa.nganui

Wellington 217 361,985116,849 0 1 21,406 1,810 2 27,041 1,014 18 3 193,()

STATEMENT showing the NUMBER, AMOUNT, &0., of 'POSTAL-NOTE TRANSACTIONS. in the several POSTAL DISTRICTS of the DOMINION of NEW ZEALAND during the Quarter ended 3let Ma.rch, 1916.

-NUMBER OF POSTAL NOTES SOLD. Total Commis­ Amount of sion POSTAL ------.. --- Postal Notes 'sold, on Postal IlISTRICTS. Notes At , At I At I At At At i At I At At including sold. I/O i 1/6 2/0: 2/6 3/0 5/0 10/0 15/0 20s. I Total. Commission. I I 1 --I-T -1- 1-1-: ~!----I----£ s. d. -r----- R. £ d. Auckland 296 112,578: 7,8161 21,176 24,90817,9411 ilO,45220,544 6,6281 11,5491 153,592! 44,205 3 2 662. 16 2 1 Blenheim 22 638\ 350i 1,161! 1,281 936, 1,4.9911,0561 375 7,,9 8,059 2,45115 3 35 10 9

Christohuroh .. 81 3'5361.2'028' 6,22(l, 6,597 4,890 9,296,7,3651 2,424! 4,979 47,344 15,53318 3 220 9. 9

Dunedin 92 4,27512,576 1 7,3341 7,716 5,706 1O,446!7,559 2,5951 4,290 52,497 15,821 5 10~ 233· 5 1O~

Gisborne 25 1,0281 648, 1,;394, 1,822 1,443 2,199, 1,5491 4981 1,335 11,816 3,762 310 53.: 6 10 Greymouth 20 654, 387 949: 1,220 974 1,529 1,16u, 4501 863 8,192 2,65815 0 3715 6

Hokitika 14 256[ 1.47 279: 452 346 5331 4291 140, 315 2,897 1 941 5 4. 13. 7 10

In veroargi1l 55 2,310, 1,4201 3,9781 4,328 3,206 5,840 4,2331 1,474.1 2,436 2g,2~5I' 8,890 6 6 130 12 6 : . I Napier 62 I 2,476i 1,63~ 4,327' 5,207 3,714 6,287,4,220 1,49..,1 2,912 32,271' 9,743 18 8~ 141 19 8~ 1 1

Nelson 36 I 999: 772! 1,813 1 1,996 1,500 2,448' 1,585 ' 543 1,137 12,793 3,76713 8 55 5 8 1 1

New Plymouth 33 1,809! 1,379 3,652' 4,146 2,7661 5,004 3,60::1 1 1,387! 2,594 26,340 8,297 8 9 118 9 3

O.. maru 14 9001 363 1,17811,222 1'0351 l,5r;911,375, 482 763 8,897 2,745 2 7~ 40 7 1~ Thames 40 2,06011,555, 3,456: 3,916 2,822 1 4,853 3,3861 1,208 2,139 25,395 7,540 5 O~ 110.19 6~ Timaru 16 7991 M21 1,6781 1,933 1,430! 2,45311,8871 7111 1,325 12,861 4,188 1311 59 8 5 Wanganui .. 67 2,45711,504: 4,167 5,001 3,408 6,276 4,2801 1,6101 3,053 31,756 9,900 8 O~ 142 4 6~ 1 Welllllgtoll 121 6,298: 4,068112,042114,50810,111 19,844113,728 4,801 1 9,633 95,033 30,64910 436 8 1

22 4311 3101 704 987 728 981, 686 252, 483 5 562 1 632 1 1 24 0 7 Totals 1st qr. 1,016 43,50427,5041 75,5171 87.24062,956 ru.519i78,651 27,076150,563 564:530'1172:729-1-5-1-~ 2,516-8li in 1916 Totals 1st qr. 988 44,309127,1501 76,170 85,25065,4HJ11l0,992i79,114 25,64150,754 564,805 ! 172,148 4 4~ 2,516 3 4~ in 1915 1 NUMBER OF POSTAL NOTES PAID. Total

POSTAL 1 Amount of DISTRICTS. At At At At At At Postal Notes At I' At At At I' 1/0 1/6 2/0 2/6 3/0 5/0 . 10/0 I 12/6 15/0 20s. 1 Total. I pa.id. , 1 £ s. d. I Auckland .. 12,560; 8,574 123,425122,192 16,341 128,504 22,444 ! .. 7,530 12,8821154,452 45,716 4 0

Blenheim .. 251 139 476 j 382 326 i 559 513 .. 151 342, 3,139 1,018 14 6 I i 1 Christchuroh 4,058 2,452 7,519 7,562 835 10 8,884 .. 2,824 6,107 18,241 9 0 5, 1 ,461 I 50.7" Dunedin 4,968 3,240 9,373 8,777 6,634 ! 11,998 . 9,574 .. 3,287 5,186 63,037 18,958 13 6 Gisborne 393 240 646 628 517 ; 871 . 668 .. 280 533 4,776 1,553 1 0 I Greymouth 328 227 543 1,160 456 i 883 , 773 .. 267 572 1 5,209 1,680 12 6 I Hokitika " 95 47 152 172 133 I 313 i 246 .. 78 152 1,388 476 13 6 Inveroargill 1,577 823 2,563 2,241 1,787 3,231 2,817 .. 961 1,648 : 17,648 5,530 1 0 I, Napier 1,564 980 2,923 . 2,854 2,160 4,617 ! 3,051 .. 1,090 1,882!21,121 6,504 0 0 595 467 1,064 908 1,552 1,140 , 439 792 8,202 2,537 14 6 Nelson 1, 245 1 .. New Plymouth 975 700 2,046 , 1,974 1,413 2,590 2,105 .. 889 1 ,612 114,304 4,743 6 0

Oa.maru 269 166 506 461 362 616 619 .. 208 457 I 3,666 1,265 2 6 1 i Thames 649 460 1,226 1,146 848 1,586 ' 1,354 .. 516 854 1 8,639 2,774 10 0 ! Timaru 656 368 1,128 1,143 951 1,613 ; 1,458 .. 492 1,035 8,844 2,994 19 6 , Wanganui 1,248 775 2,372 2,320 1,787 3,103 I 2,604 .. 885 1,904 1 16,998 5,561 5 6 Wellington 12,092 7,221 18,120 33,030 20,689 37,215120,285 .. 6,478 14,448 '169,578 48,943 0 6 I Westport •. 161 114 319 268 219 351 ' 381 .. 136 297 2,246 792'2 0 ------! ------1 Totals 1st qr. in 42,439 26,993 74,584 87,374 61,366 1l0,06ST78,916 .. 26,511 50,703 558,949 169,291 9 6 1916 Totals 1st qr. in 43,052 26,532 74,979183,989 62,902 108,749 78,932 .. 25,219 50,751 555,1051167.89216 6 1915

General Post Offioe, W. R. MORRIS, Wellington, 2nd May, 1916. Secretary. E r 1640 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

TATEMENT showing DISCOUNT-STAlIlP TRANSACTIONS in the several Posi'AL DISTRICTS of the DOMINION of NEW S ZBALAND during the QUARTER ended 81st March, 1916.

Unsold Discount­ Discount-stamps Discount-stamps stamps on Hand on sold. redeemed. 81st March, 1916.

£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Auckland 2 10 0 2 18 0 9 5 0 Blenheim 3 0 0 Christohuroh 400 5 19 0 30 0 0 Dunedin 30 0 0 Gishorne 7 0 0 Gz:eymouth Hokitika 2 0 0 Inveroargill 2 10 0 Napier ,. 3 10 0 Nelson •• 11 15 0 New Plymouth 12 15 0 Oamara •• 4 0 0 Thames •. 5 0 0 TiIl)aru •• 5 0 0 Wanganui 5 0 0 Wellington 201 19 0 167 0 0 64 0 0 Westport 2 0 0 Totals, 1Bt quarter, 1916 208 9 0 175 12 0 196 15 0

Totals, 1st quarter, 1915 193 0 0 175 5 0 282 15 0

General POBt Office, W. R. MORRIS, Wellington, 2nd May, 1916. Secretary.

Tenders for Cartage.

General Post Office, Wellington, 26th April, 1916. THE following liBt of tenderB for oartage at Wellington is pnblished for general information. W. R. MORRIS. Secretary_

Description of Service and Amount of Tendello ------,------One Two Express with One I Lorry witb Two I For each Additional Name of Tenderer. TiP-drWo;!~~h I TiP-dr~~~~~ I Horse. , Horses. Horse. I

(6) 1 (6) 1 (7) I (8) : (9) I (10) pe?6ay·1 Per ~our·l per(~aY·1 Per (:tour 1 Per Day. Per Hour. Per Day. ~er_Hour.1 Per Day. Per Hour.

A.ccepted. 1;£ B. d. I s. d. ;£ B. d. s. d . £ B. d. S. d. 1;£ s. d. s. d. 'I B. d. Alfred Reeve • .. ! 0 14 6 i 2 6 100 8 9 o 19 0 2 6 1 5 0 6 0 1 6 , ~ ~'I

Declined. I' I Munt, Cottrell, and 1 3 0 160 4 0 100 3 0 6 0 1 0 2 0 0 I 5 6 I Co. (Limited) _ . _

Description of Service and Amount of Tender: Between any Two of tbe Places named in the Footnote.

(11) I (12) (13) I (14) !l5) Name of Tenderer. Per Ton or Part Ton Dead- Iron and Timber T6legraph Poles: Per Pole. Iron and otber ~ban weigh' or Me&BUrAment, .Steel Steel Telegraph RaUs: Tubular Pales: cal!~ra~~~eo~e~'i',ip's 1'------.------,-,------"------.------Poles: Measurement. 20 ft. 25 ft. SO ft. 35 40ft. and Per Ton. Per Ton. Per 100 1 n. 1 upwards. Sup. Ft.

.Accepted. B. d. s. d. B. d . B. d. B. d. B. d. s. d. B. d. s. d. A1lred Reeve • 1 2 o 4 o 5- o 6 1 0 2 0 1 6 1 S o 4 Declined. Munt, Cottrell, and 1 6 o 6t o 9t 1 Ot 1 6t 2 0 1 9 1 9 o 6t Co. (Limited) • AlI carting to and from Clyde Quay Wharf on time rates. t MlDimum load, Is. ed. NOTE.-The followIng are the places mentioned in colnmns Nos. ll-16: Post and Telegraph Department fltores Yards, Pipitea Point; Po"t ..nd Tel_graph D.partment Slores, Rtout. and Maginnity !:Itreets; Post .. nd Telellrarb Department Stores, Harris Street; Tele­ phone Exohange; Railway ..t&tion and Yards.; Government Printing Office; Departmenta Offices at General Post Office; and wharves. MAY 4.l TIlE NEW ZEAlJAND GAZETTE. 1641

Government Meteorological Obtervatorl/. CLIMATOLOGICAL ·I'ABLE.

MEANS ANn TOTALS FROM THE CHIEF STATIONS. ETEOROLOGIOAL Observations, Wellington, for M the month of March, 1916. Observations t .. ken 9 ... m. March, 1916. Altitude of Observatory, 8 ft. «I I =C n.xtremeB.~ I _ «I~ ,I .....='i From self-regis.t.e.rlng Instruments. I"; ~-= G!._ ----- ~~o I' ~ ..g tor Twenty-four Hours previously. g ~ e I ~.e: Q. Q. I = ,.o.j ~ <1>, I NRmA 01 Station ~Dd I ,,13 ,,~ ';;i~ I ~ -'-i--:--, .;.--- -I-.. -I ~ 5 'i:-.0 ~S~ ~ al~ E-r,,~ G5 ::t: 1 J.I:,sg ;.>~ -1=0 .;1 . ~c2 i 0;3 ~g i:a c3~ g,; ~ :': __' ____ ._.. ___---;-' "l __ ,' _li'l_-;-_~---'_E<__'~=--__+-~--=~ II'l ~ 'c 1 c:a Q ciS 0 '"' ciS 0 = o~ " ".~ ',.~.!'! ".~ '0';;. ~~ q;'- So ".. I :!! :!! .:Ii 00 ,Eo< ~-<1 is Ft. NORTH ISLAND. Deg. " Dog. Deg. Points. Dys. - -- -- ,- -~,- 125 AucKLANn .. 67'8 73'3 62'2 378 11 Fah. Fah.1 F~h. Fall. 1 Fah. F. A. F. Burnett 1 30'090 72'0 634 67'7 l13'6 56'0 340 8,' N. I 46 TE AROHA •• 63'4 76'0 50'8 806 16 2 30'062 73'2 65'0 6\1-1 119'0! 60'0 350 8 N. G. F. McGirr 3 30179 72'4 61'8167'1 69'S: 59'6 310 10 S. 925 ROTORUA 65'1 74'2 5H.0 465 15 S. R. Edward. 4 30'l19 74'0 58'8 66'4 fl9'6 154'4 110 8!Calm l 5 30'049 77"8 62'6 70'2 85'8158'2 190 8' N. , 340 WAIHI 6 30'049 75'6 65'0 170'3 96'4 60'6 220 51' N. 34 P. A. Olifford 7 1l0'289 79'0 59'6 69'3 71'8' 58'0 230 )0 S. 1 TAURANGA .. 66'7 76'2 57'3 6H2 13 "I C. J. Butcher 8 30'229 64'S 58'8 61'8 69'61.57'4 330 10 S. 9 30'149 65'0 59'4 62'2 I 99'8 58'6 310 6 S. : 160 NEW PLYMOUTH 67'8 76'3 144 10 10 30'050 73'6 60'2 66'9 lll'6 55'2 183 8[ S.E. W. W. Smith 1 11 29'949 79'8 61'2 70'5 S7'8156'4 107 SIN.E., 250 MOUMAHAKI 64'9 74'3 258 7 12 29'813 79'S 56'6 6S'2 111'4 48'6 70 0 N. J. Kirkland 13 29'919 75'0 60'2 67'6 67'8 588 20011°1 S. " 2080 'I'AIHAPE 61'4 69'6 53'3 484 10 14 30'050 66's 59'4 63'1 S3'6 53'6 100 8 N.B. A. R. Fannin 15 30'120 SO'4 62'6 71'5 94'8 59'4 120 8 S. 100 PALMERSTON NORTH.. 66'1 75 \J 56'3 137 6 16 30'139 75'6 54'4 65'0 112·6 45'2 87 4 N E , J. E. Vernon 17 110049 80'0 62'8 71'4 85'8 56'4 1601 1°1 S. i 6 186 GREYTOWN 66'1 7tH, 56'7 317 14 IS 30'029 75'2 61'8 68'5 72'4 60'0 303 10 S. 3 W. C. Davies 19 29'939 73'4 65'2 69'3 112'6 62'0 177 5 S. 377 MASTERTON 66'4 77'2 55'7 302 16 20 29'899 80'0 60'8 70'4 1I8'8 55'4 731 6 N. 70 Wm. Hood 21 29-672 78'6 64'6 n'6 117'4 62-2 350 8 N.W. 1 70 GREENMEADOWS, N A- 68'8 78'1 59'6 314 8 22 29'940 61'2 57'4 59'3 71'6 53'6 530 10 I S. PIICR 23 29'983 61'6 54'4 58'0 86·0 48'6 4001 8 N.E.' W. B. Buckle}" 24 29'602 69'6 52'4 61'0 114'6 52'0 240 81 N I 2 10 W EJ,I,ING'rON 66'0 725 59'4 142 7 25 29'499 68'6 56'8 62'7 ,106-8 4tHI 247 51 W .. I F. W. Simms 26 29'\)39 72'4 47'8 60'1 '104'0 37'4. 170 3 N. 27 30'120 6N 60'6 64'21108'6 53'2: 310i 31 N. I' 28 30'109 700163'8 66'9102'8 59'615631 8 N .. 26 29 30'399 69'6 55'4 62'5: 59'8 53'0 3(7) 10 s. . bOUTH I~H.AND. Deg. Deg. Oeg. Points. DYB. 30 30'330 62'8! 52'4 5761 996 42'4, 123 O'Calm .. ~4 NELSON 6tl-! 73'0 59'2 263 10 31 30'359 73'4' 56'8165'1 . 87'8 54'21237; 5 S. .. A. E. Hedges --1------!-----:------.------1220 HANMER SPA 58'S 65'8 51'9 1135 8 • I 30'036 72'5 i 59'4 66'0 94'6 54'S, 242: 7'0 . . 142 J. F. Robieson 25 CHRISTCHURCH 69·0 54'8 154 17 --;:-130'029- 66.8-i 54'0l60'5 !iiilI47~123s1-'~ --"-1-334 H. F. Skey 42 LINCOLN 70'0 54'8 184 11 L. J. Wild .. MeaDS, &c. t Means previouB years . RAKAIA 61'2 69'4 53'1 208 14 DIRECTION OF WIND. Miss A. H .. rdy 1 1301 TIMARU • • .. , 61-5 E. S.E. 69'0 54'0 148 12 N. N.E. S. S.W. W. N.W.O ..lm. . O.. retaker of Domltin I 10 1 4 I I 1 I 12 I •• 1 1 I 2 90: W AIMATE •• . . 589 66'4 51'5 25t 11 , w. M. Hamilton 1 NOTE.~ A fine autumn month, with temper.. tures con­ 300 I DUNEDIN • . .. ! 58'8 65'7 51'9 224 9 siderably above the mean of previous years, and rainfall . D. Tannock 1 58 per cent. below the mean. Tot.. l bright sunshine, 186 2451 GORS .. 69'2 47'2 400 14 hours 31 minutes, and two sunless days. Thunder and H. Dolamore lightning occurred on the 6th, 21st, .. nd 24th, and fog on 12 HOKITIKA .. 69'4 57'0 1096 16 the 9th. The mean earth-temperature at 1 ft. was 68'T, F. T. Sa.ndford and 68'5° at 3 h. Me .. n dew-point, 157'4°; me.. n elastic 121 INVERCARGILL 59·0 69'0 49'0 533 13 force of vapour, 0'472 in.; and mean relative humidity, I L. Lennie 74 per cent. of satur.. tion.

SUlIlMARY FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, 1916. The outstanding feature of the month of March was the continuous exceedingly warm weather between the 1st and 20th. On the night of the 20th wi

NEW ZEALAND RAINFALL FOR MARCH, 1916. NetIJ Zealand Rainfall for March, 1916-oo~Unued.

Total Fan" Dayo .wlth [NoTII.-Late returns for stations appear at end of table.] PolDu RaID I1100 '0 Inch). Tolal Fan, ID .. yo wi\h StaUon. (l00PtC:~!~h). Rain. I NORTH ISLAND-continued. (0.) SOUTH-WEST ASPIICT- OAPE EGMONT TO CAPII PALLISlI:B NORTH ISLAND. -continued. (A.) NORTH·BAST ASPJICT-NoRTH CAPB TO EART CAPlI:. Mataimoana 339 9 Oruama.tua, Moawha.ngo Mangonui 371 9 .509 Pakaraka, Obaeawai 868? Whangamomona 13 Taumarunui Waimatenui 511 13 173 1.'ahunakura, Bay of Islands •• Okahukura 8 Pnhipuhi Plantation, WhakApara, 832 11 Manunui Whangarei Raurimu (l,920n.) Aponga 667 18 Ohakune 466 12 Ruatan!!ata •. 566 14 Ra.etihi 488 10 Wairau Falls, Power Station 435 12 Horopito 402 16 Whangarei 500 15 Waiouru 251 9 Whangarei Heads •. 606 9 Mangaporau • • . 586 \I Newtonlees, Kaitoke, Wanganul 115 \I MOunt Eden, Auokland •• 359 8 120 Kilukapakapa, Auokland 346 13 Parikino, Wa.nganui River !I Cuvier Island 750 19 Marybank, Wanganui •• 80 8 Rocky Bay, Waiheke 508 10 Belmont, Tayfor'h, Wanganui 1~6 6 Tairua 600 12 Wanganui 159 6 Turua, Thames 224 12 Ruanui The Domain, Paeroa 541 10 Dalvey, Turaklna •• 191 7 Karaka 441 Erewhon Sta.tion, Moawhango 296 10 10 Hunterville Riverside, Clevedon 432 10 179 8 Morrinsville 217 Awakilta, Hunterville (1,4111 ft.) 9 Waituna West, FeUding 330 Whakarewarewa, Rotoroa 400 13 13 Thoresby, Marton 173 6 Waiotapu 300 10 Haloombe Ruatoki . Waitatapia, Bull's Opotiki 293 6 151 7 621 Glen Oroua. 129 6 Maraehako, Opotiki 7 Foxton Strathmore, Opotiki 746 9 59 7 Mautotara, Te Araroa 2225 Ngahiwa., Hima.tangi 97 5 18 Feilding 227 Raukokore, Thames 717 8 7 Te Kaha 428 13 Komako 256 8 Kairanga •••• 85 4 Pakira Station, Cape Runaway Fltzherbert West, l'almerston North AraPl!ti, Tokomaru 222 11 (B.) NORTH-WBST ASPEOT-OAPB MARIA VAN DIIIlMKN TO OAPlI: Otaki 41 7 EGMONT. " Tiroroa.," Hautere Cross Rangitihi 304 10 Kapiti Island 61 \I "Omawera, Hokianga Wa.ikanae Waoku, Taheke 784 15 Pahautanui Te Karae, Broadwood 68 4 Kha.ndallah 228 \I Wekaweka 475 Hi Opau. North Makara 106 Rangiabua, Hokianga Harbour 792 15 6 Kohuk6hu 336 7 Kqretoki Station, Waimatenui 593 13 (D.) SOUTH-EAST ASPEOT-EAST CAPlI: TO CAPB PALLISIllR. Matakohe, Kaipara • • 275 10 Wa.itakaro. Tera.whati, Pakotai 641 1769 21 18 Pakihiroa 2114 13 Holensville 236 10 I Tolaga Bay •• Onehunga 361 918 15 7 Ka.haroa, Waima.ta Va.lley 996 17 Mangere Sohool, Auokland 506 9 Motu 1417 Waiuku, Auokland.. 223 5 11 Koranga Va.lley 18G8 Onewhero 521 10 18 Waiha.u, Gisborne 751 18 Kawhia 121 6 Otoko Ttirangaomoana, Matamata 529 13 975 17 Waitahoata, Whatatutu •• 980 18 Taupo" ".. 219 6 Te Ka.raka Tabarua Station, East Taupo 799 17 Glenroy Sta.tion, Gisborne 1167 20 Otewa, Waitomo Oounty 185 8 Wa.ihuka., Gisborne 722 14 Waitomo Oaves 144 6 Ormond 823 Te Kuiti 218 11 10 Patutahi, Gisborne 685 14 M~ngakohi, Piopio 233 10 Wha.kapunake Pukedti, Piopio 358 808 18 9 Stra.thblane, Hangaroa 715 17 Hamilton, Waikato Lower Hangaroa State Farm, Waerenga •. 471 9 Muriwai Glen Murray 297 12 I Tabora, Gisborne 1003 19 Ngaruawahia 188 9 Tiniroto, Gisbome .. WaUere," Kihikihi 123 5 Putaruru .\ Morere •• 719 17 Mangaone Va.lley, Tangitere 868 17 Waiatua, Kaitieke, Raurimu 520 13 Spring Hill, Mohaka Mangaotaki (560 ft.) 406 6 Portland Island 348 16 Paekaha, Paemako 262 8. Patunamu. Wairoa Okoke 281 12 Puketitiri Purangi 312 608 11 12 Ta.rawera 229 14 Ngatimaru, Tarata 321 6 Tutira Lake Riversdale, Inglewood (817 H.I 311 432 10 13 Eskdale, Hedgeley 300 10 Inglewood • • 342 11 Riverbank, Rissington, Napier Upper Mangorei (1,000 ft.) 428 380 13 18 Napier ••• 244 8 Wahine, Sherenden, Hastings 552 11 (0.) SOUTH-WEST ASPIIlOT-OAPE ESMONT TO CUK PALt.lHltR. Mokopeka., Hastings 342 14 OpllDake 190 12 Frimley, Hastings 314 10 Riverlea, Ka.ponga. 384 10 Whanawhana, Hastings 551 19 Eltham435 9 Maraekakaho, Hastings •• 299 13 Omoana 873 9 Te Roto, Poukawa 357 15 StraUord (1,020 ft.) 353 12 Pukehou, Te Aute 336 14 Ohawil, Hawera"' 238 9 I Gwavas. Tikokino 492 22 Patea. 283 10 Aramoa.na, Waipawa 478 11 MAY 1.J THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1643

New Zealand Rainfall tor ff/arch, 1916--continued. I ____N_e_w __ Z_e_a_~ __ n_d __ R_a_i-_nJ_a_I_I_J_Q_r_'_~L_a_r_c_h _,_1_9_1_6_--_o_0_n_t_in__ u_ed_. __ _

Total Fon, IDays with I Tot ..! Fan, i D .. ys with St .. tIOD_ I POIDtS St.. llon. POlOts I • _ . ______~_ ~oo ~~:~_).__ ~~n_'_ . __ .______.~~oo to ~Ch).1 R:~. NORTH ISLAND-continued. SOUTH ISLAND--continued. (D.) SOUTH· EAST ASPECT-EAST CAPE TO CAPE PAT,T,ISRR-­ (F.) \VEST ASPECT--CAPE FAREWELL TO PUYSEGCR POINT-­ continued. continued. Ra.ngitapu, Wa.ipa.wo. 542 12 Greymouth 883 15 Mount Vernon. Wa.ipa.wa. 422 20 Lake Hochstetter, Greymouth 495 14 Norsewood Otira 1505 13 Wa.ima.ra.ma., Ha.wke's Ba.y 393 14 Otira (1,255 ft.) 1543 17 Mangakuri Ross, Westland 1076 18 Waipukura.n 379 14 Okura Motuota.ra.ia., Wa.nstea.d •. 285 10 Pnysel/nr l'oint Maka.retn 643 19 Orna.wharo, '.raka.pa.n 488 19 (G.) I<:AST ASPECT-KAIKOURA TO GUK SAUNDERS. Ormondville 428 16 Da.nnevirke Ranmer Springs Nursery 388 12 Umutaoroa. (top end) 695 18 Culverden Pora.nga.hRu 434 7 Highfield, Amnri 373 13 Pourerere 466 13 Keinton Combe, Waiau, Amuri 401 10 Woodbank, Wimbledon 454 14 Waiau 316 12 Pine Grove, Dannevirke Maokenzie. Cheviot 402 11 Manga.ta.inoka 26\1 14 Gore Bay, Cheviot 540 15 Pa.hia.tIlR 361 13 Oxford East 375 13 Makari, Pa.hiatlla. 613 18 Amherley 245 14 Eastry, Ta.ne, Eketahnna 181 15 Singletree, Alford }<'ore8t 186 5 Ta.wa.taia., Eketahnna 408 16 Mount Somers 377 16 Nireaha, Eketahuna. 303 6 Bealey 361 10 Eketahuna 225 11 Bealev Flat Ca.stlepoin I 324 13 Ithod~s Conva.lescent Home, Cash- 164 11 Annedale, Te Nlli 360 15 mere Hills Ditton, Masterton 325 18 New Brighton ~O!J 14 Bush Grove, Masterton •• Ot.. huna, Tai 'l'apu 246 11 Marangai 527 15 Little River 258 11 Eringa, M aBterton 239 16 Rororata 318 10 Hikurangi College, Cla.reville 257 6 Akaroa 204 10 Waiha.keke, Carterton 225 18 Monnt Torlesse, Springfielil Martinborongh 163 15 View lea, Methven 2!Jl 13 Fea.therston 333 14 Rudstone, Methven 298 12 Summit 906 14 Kisselton, Lake Coleridge 208 8 Wa.iwetu 60 7 Lake Coleridge Homestead 182 9 Wainniomata Reservoir •. 105 10 Glenariffe, Double Hill .. 252 10 Whiteman's Valley, Silverstrellm 85 9 Winchmore, Ashburton .. 192 9 Lower Hutt 53 6 I Porateko, Mayfield 288 8 Western Hutt 71 8 Ashbnrton 139 10 WhBllgai Moana, Pirinoa. 63 7 Fairview, Springburn 273 lO Karori Reservoir 154 7 Staveley 364 8 Sea.toun 130 7 Evand .. le, Monnt Somers 406 14 Lynnford, Hinds 141 13 SOUTH ISLAND. Coniston, Ashburton 176 \) (I<:.) NORt'H ASPEOT-CAPE FAREWEl,l, TO KAIKOURA_ Monnt Peel, Rangitata 427 9 Peel Forest 422 17 Paturau, via Collingwood 487 17 K .. punatiki, Rangit.. ta 180 12 l'arapara 541 13 The Heights, Gero.ldine .. 290 14 Motueka 512 13 Waitui, Geraldine 255 13 Stanley Brook, NelsolJ 44(; 13 Orari Gorge 465 17 Aporo, Nelson Orari I<:state, Orari 229 11 "Harakeke," Central Mout ... e 780 11 Ba!mora! Upper Sherry River 333 13 Braemar 198 4 Highfield, Kohatu 419 13 " Fogers," Fairlie 212 11 Tophouse 455 H Lambrook, Fairlie 192 6 Hope, Nelson 603 9 " Craigieburn," Kimbell 356 14 Port Hardy, French Pass 111 10 Marv Burn Station, Macken"i" Stephen Island 175 7 Country The Brothers Godley Peaks, Te Kapo, Maokenzie 187 4 Ca.pe Ca.mpbelJ 101 10 Country Pioton 232 10 Rhoboroullh Downs, Lake PlIkaki, 152 6 Endeavour Inlet 453 11 Mackenzie Country Manaroa, Pelorus Sound 368 8 Athlone, Albury 280 15 Yncyca, Pelorus Sound •. Wara.ta.h, Albury 301 11 Hartley Hills, Hillersden 369 9 Kakahu Bush, Geraldine 167 7 Ugbrooke, Blenheim 143 11 Pleasant Point 154 7 Robin Hood Bay 493 12 Te Pah Farm, Seadown .. 132 9 Seddon 176 10 Timaru Reservoir 161 9 "Chancet," Ward 236 10 Hermitage, Mount Cook (2,510 ft.) .. Mirza Downs, Flaxbourne 232 13 Benmore Station, Omarama 196 7 Tima.ra Station, Renwioktown 151 4 Otiake 217 7 Kaituna, Marlborough .• 187 9 Borton's Siding Spring Creek, Blenheim 218 11 Livingstone 392 12 Avondale Sta.tion, Blenheim 322 11 Arnmore, VVindsor 282 15 Ha.puku 566 16 Totara Station, ne .... OamBru 222 17 Duntroon 210 10 (F.) WEST ASPECT--CAPE FABIllWIllLL 'm PUYSllliWR POINT. Oamaru 297 L'> Farewell Spit 326 9 Trotter's Creek, Hillgrove 169 14 Ka.ra.mea, Westport 711 17 Ka.uroo Hill, Maheno 268 13 Millerton Ba!ruddery, Kauroo Hill, Maheno •. 252 14 Westport 573 16 Bushey Park, PBlmerston South 188 14 Warwiok Junotion 605 18 Opoho, Dunedin (383 ft.) 216 13 Reef ton (643 ft.) 597 17 Fish.hatohery, Portobello 269 19 Moana Whare Fl.. t 219 10 ,. 1644 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

New Zealand Rainfall for March., 1916-oontinued. New Zealand Rainfall for March., 1916-continued.

Station. T~tal Fall'l Days with Station. Total Fan,/ Days with I(locr::!~~~h). Rain. I(lOO~O:~:~hl. RaiD. ______2-___ . _____

SOUTH ISLAND-continued. (I.) ISLANDS-continued. Aitutaki Island, Cook Islands 2438 18 (H.) SOUTH AsPBOT-CAPJI SAUNDBB8 TO PUY8BGUR POINT. I Mangaia, Cook Islands '.' I Paerau 390 11 OhathAm I.IAnd Great Moss Swamp, via Patearoa 326 12 Eweburn Nursery, RaDfmly 204 9 Waipiata 170 8 LATE RETURNS. Naeeby 223 10 Turua, February, 1916 49 2 Kokonga 55 Wairua Falls, February, 1916 643 8 Gladbrook Station, Middlemaroh 301 14 "Waoku," Taheke, Hokianga, Feb- 532 10 Mount Pisa Station, Cromwell 150 6 ruary, 1916 Maungawera, Otago 141 11 Waiuku, January, 1916 } 252 Luggate, Cromwell 160 5 " February, 1916 Manorburn Dam 201 9 Arapeti, Shannon, November, 1915 .. 1512 20 Queenstown 296 10 December, 1915 .. 788 17 Moa Creek 156 8 January, 1916 .. 316 16 Galloway, AlexandrA Routh 151 4 " " February, 1916 .. 344 10 St. BathAn's 241 9 Waimata V .. lley, February, 1916 .. 258 9 Blackstone Hill Waihau, near Tolaga Bay, Aug., 1915 289 12 Clyde 170 6 Bush Grove, Masterton, Jan., 1916 .. 241 8 Roxburgh " "Feb., 1916 .. 53 7 Balclutha Whangai, Moana, Pirinoa, Jan., 1916 32 4 Owaka 374 10 Ugbrooke, Blenheim, January, 1915 85 2 Tapanui Nursery 315 13 February, 1915 100 9 Waikawa Valley 426· 14 I March. 1915 469 13 Wharuarimu 431 12 April, 1915 51 5 Uplands, Waima.haka 367 8 I May, 1915 84 4 Roslin Estate, Woodlands 557 HI June, 1915 158 9 Wyndham South 415 9 July, 1915 68 7 Dipton 427 10 August, 1915 .. 56 fl Blufi Sept., 1915 78 6 Nightoaps 450 11 October, 1915 .. 175 11 Rannook, Orawi .. Nov., 1915 269 7 Otautau 445 12 " "Dec., 1915 91 5 Riverton 660 12 . Evaudale, Mt. Som.rs, Feb., 1916 351 13 Manapouri 254 10 W ..itui, Geraldine, October, 1915 186 10 Queenstown, January, 1916 155 5 (l.l ISLANDS. " February, 1916 93 5 Manapouri, February, 1916 255 7 Ventre Island 535 14 Bushey Park, February, 1916 121 12 Stewart Island 498 19 Pakihiroa Station, February, 1916 130 2 Horse-shoe Bay, Stewart Island 513 13 Aitutaki, January, 1916 1533 21 Niue Island i " February, 1916 .. 1354 14 Avarua, Rarotonga, Oook Islands I Mangaia, February, 1916 .. 601 21

Notice to make Returm oj Income under the Land and Income &11.(;101 Colours, &c. Assessment Act, 1908, and Amendment Acts, 1912-1913, and the Finance Act, 1915. Education Department, Wellington, 27th April, 1916. Land and Inoome Tax Department, rr H:E following li.st of claims. for registration. of school Wellington, 1st May, 1916. colours, &c., IS gazetted, III accordance Wlth regula­ OTICE is hereby given tlt6t, in pursuanoe of the above tions pUblished in the New Zealand Gazette of 12th August, N Acts and the regulations made thereunder, every 1915. person and company having derived inoome within the Objeotions to any of the claims 8"t forth must be addressed meaning of the said Aots during the year ending 31st March, to .. The Registration Officer for School Colours, &c., Educa­ 1916, from any source or by any means whioh is made the tion Department, Wellingt.on," and must be delivered at the subject of taxation under the said Acts, is hereby required to address within forty days of the date of the publioation hereof. make and furnish to me, in the prescribed form, returns of such income on or before the 2nd day of June, 1916. W. J. ANDERSON, And, further, notice is hereby given tha.t such returns sha.ll Registration Officer. in all cases be delivered at or forwarded to the offioe of the Commissioner of Taxes, in the Government Buildings at Wellington. P ALMERSTON NORTH HIGH SCHOOL. D. G. CLARK, Commissioner of Taxes. Colour8.-Navy bluc, 2 in. widc, with two white horizontal NOTE.-Forms of return may be obtained at any pesta.! stripes 1- in. wide ..nd running i in. from each edge. money-order office. Badge.-A shield surmounted by a lion; the shield divided in two vertically, the left half containing an eagle displ.. yed and the right half a tower surmounted by a flag; the whole Election oj Go·vernor.-Auckland Grammar School Board. surrounded by a garter bearing thereon thc motto "Nihil boni sine labore," and ill base the letters "P.N.H.S." N accordance with the Auokland Grammar School Act, I 1899, and with the regulations thereunder, for the OTAGO Boys' HIGH SCHOOL. election of Governors by the Eduoation Board of the Dis­ trict of Auckland, I hereby notify that at a meeting of the Colours.-Navy blue, 2tin. wide, with white horizontal said Board held this day stripes! in. wide running 1i- in. from each edge. Badge.-Circle enclosing the letters "O.B.H.S." divided GEORGE WILLIAM MntRAY by a reotangular cross; formal rose in cent.re. was duly re-elected a Governor of the Board of Governors constituted by the said Act. OTAGO GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. G. J. GARLAND, Chairman of Meeting. Oolour8.-Navy blue, 2t in. wide. Auokland. 19th April, 1916. Badge.-The letters" G.H.S." conjoined in white. MAY 4.J THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1646

Appointment of Ports in Foreign Countries from which Live· I The two mooring.lines which are across the river will be stock for New Zealand must be shipped, and Appointment slacked down when vessels are passing. of Veterinarians in Foreign Countries to Examine Live. Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2054; "New stock for Shipment to New Zealand.-Notice No. 1832. Zealand Pilot," eighth edition, 1908, Chapter v, page 156; "New Zealand Nautical Almanac," page 299, and plan Department of Agricuit,ure, Industrics, and Commerm" facing page 298. Wellington, 27th April, 1916. GEORGE ALLPORT, I T is hereby notified for general information that, in Socrotary. I accordance with the regulations under the Stock Act, 1908, for the prevention of the introduction into New Zealand of diseases affecting stOCK, the follewing places. havo been Officiating Mi"ist~T' fOT 1916.-Notice No. 15. appointed as the ports from which the kinds of live·stock mentioned must be shipped when intended for importation Registrar.General's Office, into the Dominion of New Zealand :~ Wellington, 3rd May, 11116. URSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, Name of Country. I Kinds of Live·stock. I Ports appointed. P 1908, the following names of Officiating Mmisters within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :- United States.. Horses,mules,and San Francisco. asses JletllOdist ChuTch of New Zealand. Canada Horses, m u I es, Vanconver. Mr. WILLIAM ALEXANDER. asses, and cattle Mr. LESLIE A. G. BROOKS. France A~BIJS Havre and Marseilles. The Reverend GEORGE ERNEST BROWN. Spain EI Ferrol. Mr. TOM DENT. Portugal LisbOn. Mr. JONATHAN LAWRENCE. Mr. WALLACE STANLEY NEAL. In the case of the Cnited Kingdom, London, Liverpool, Mr. ARTHUR NICHOLLS. and Glasgow are the ports appointed by the regulations for Mr. JOHN REID. the shipment of live·stoek to New Zealand. Mr. JOHN RICHARDS. It is further notified lor general information that, in accord· The Reverend HENRY RYAN. ance with the regulations referred to above, the following Mr. THOMAS SKUSE. veterinarians have been appointed in the countries mentioned Mr. WILLIAM VICKERS. for the inspection of live·stock intended for exportation to [~;RRATA.-In list of Offioiating Ministers, Notice No.1, the Dominion of New Zealand :- under Methodist Church of New Zealand, for Mr. Hitchinson, UN1TE.D KINGDOlI: The New Z"aland Veterinary Officer W. A., read Mr. Hitchinson, Walter A.; for Mr. Kendon, attached to the office of the High Commissioner, or Charles, read The Reverend Kendon, Charles Hubert; for any veterinat'ian nominated by the High Commis. The Reverend Papakura, Neho Hemi, read The Reverend sioner, for the ports of London, Liverpool, and Olasgow. Papakakura, Neho Hemi; for The Reverend Slade, William CANADA: Any veterinarian in the employ of the Canadian Garden, read The Reverend Slade, William Gardner; for Government for the port of Vancouver. Mr. Warburton, Egbert Reuben, read The Reverend War. UNITED STATES: Any veterinarian in the employ of the burton, Egbert Reuben.] United States Government for the port of San Fran· W. W. COOK, cisco. Deputy Regbitrar-Geneml. FRANCE: Any veterinarian nominated by the British Consul·General at Havre or Marseilles for these ports respectively. . Officiating Ministers for 1916. -.Votice No. 16. SPAIN: Any veterinarian nominated by the British Consul at Corunna for the port of EI·Ferroi. Registra.r.Gi!neral's Office, PORTUGAL: Any veterinarian nominated by the British Wellington, Srd May, 1916. Consul at Lisbon for that pert. T is hereby notified that the undermentioned names W. D. S. l\iAcDONALD, I have been withdrllwn from the list of Officiating Minister of Agriculture. Ministers under the Ma.rriage Act, for the current year:- Methodist Chu7Ch of New Zealand. 32 Notice to Mariners No. of 1916. Mr. RE(HNALD A. E. BRIGGS. Mr. ALFRED HARDY COUCH. W ANOANUI HARBOUR.~DREDGINO. Mr. GEORGE HERBERT CUtE. Mr. JOHN FIELD. Marine Department, Mr. JOHN SHEPARD FLETCHER. Wellington, N.Z., 3rd May, 1916. Mr. ALBERT E. HAYNES. T HE Wanganui Harbour Board have notified that the The Reverend WILLIAM SLADE. harbour dredge is at present working in the river I THOMAS TRESTRAIL. below Landguard Bluff, and that vessels should pass on the side showing two black balls vertical by day and two red W. W. COOK, lights vertical by night. Deputy Registrar.General.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Auckland Land District jorfeited..

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 2nd May, 1916. OTICE is hereby given tbat the leases and licenses of the undermentioned lands baving been cieclared forfeited by N resolution of the Auckland Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE. AUCKLAND LAND DISTBIOT.

Section. I Block. District. I Lessee or Licensee. Reason for Forfei'ure.

O.R.P. 4662 5 I III Omapere •• .. W. Sudfeldt .. Non.payment of rent. 45d4 N.E.77 Pukeatua Parish " .. .. ?of. Dodd •• .. N on·fulfilment of conditions. 5161 5 XVI Maketu .. .. D. P. T. Brosnan .. Request of selector_ " 5123 12 V Wai,oa " .. .. M' R. Read .. " 4596 8 XV Waoku .. .. J. C. Wilson .. N ." 4756 6 Kawakawa .. H. E. Dowding .. 5100 S XII .. H. Goodhue .. · R:L. 1176 5 III Piako .. .. E. J. King .. · M.D.L.O. 270 42 XIV Ohinemuri '. M. E. White .. ·N

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of La.nda. 16-tG THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

Land in Nelson Land Di8trict for Di.,po$al nnder the T.,and I REYNOLDS SETTLEMENT. Act, 1908. I T. he Reynolds Estate, consisting of 1,485 a.cres, for.merly . . -- . tho property of Mr. Richards . Reynolds, IS sI.tuatcd III !ho D,stnct Lands and Surv. ey Office, I Waipa County about three mlles from CambrIdge, fl cntll!, Nelson, 1st May, .1\)16. the main Cambridge - Roto.o.rangi Road. Two creameries OTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of sectIOn 326 and a school are situated at distancfs of about two milES Nl: of the Land Act, 1908, that the school reserve, from the estatc. There is a telephone system all over the containing 13 acres, more or less, adjoining Section 83, in district, and a lural delivery of mails takes phce daily. Block XIV, Oparara Survey District, and originally s.h?wn The estate is all flat land having been originally nearly on sale poster No. 81, will be disposed of under the provlSlons all swamp. Practically the whole is now well drained by n of the said Act on or after Thursday, the 3rd da.y of August, complete system of drains, the m~jority of which Me: dcwl' 1916. to the bottom in sand. There IS about 300 acres III the F. A. THOMPSON, south.west COrner of the estate which is within a drainage Commissioner of Crown Lands. area and is not yet thoroughly-drained.

------~------_. ------The soil generally is of very good quality, consisting mObtly . j R bl of consolidated peaty loam. Settlement Lands in Auckland Land Dis!net or enewa.e The estate has been well fenced and subdivided, and the . Lea8e, and jor 8a/e or Lea"e to Dischnryerl 801dier.'. scctions have been laid off so as to utilize existing fences as District Lands and Survey Office, far as possible. The fences are generally good post and Auckland, 27th April, 1916. seven·wire fences, with some live barberry hedges. The OTICE is hereby given that the lands in the First m"iority of the paddocks have drains round them, and many rN Schedule hereto are open for selection under the pro­ of the drains are fenced on both sides. There are numerous visions of the Land Act, 1908, and·the Land for Settlements good shelter.belts and patches of trees in different parts of Act 1908 and amendments; and that thc lands in the thc cstate. With the exception of about 400 acres, mostly at the western end, the whole of the estatc is in pasture, Scc~nd Sdhedule hereto arc open for sale 01' IMBC to d; s­ charged soldiers under the Discharged Soldiers. Settlement generally in very good condition. _ . Water is obtained from a good permanent stream passmg Act, 1915; and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, 12th June, 1916. through the property, and from windmills ~nd t~oughs, and The lands in the First Schedule may be selected on renew­ ca,n be obtained by sinking. The.c arc mne wJnd~Jlls on able lease only for terms of thirty -three ypar", with a right to the property, and about twenty troughs, nine of WhICh are acquire the freehold. large concrete ones, the others being of wood. The lesse~s of sections containing windmi:ls orwater.troughs will be rcqUJr( d, The lands in the Second Schedule may be sclcctcd only by for a period of two years from the date of the ballot, to allow discharged soldiers either for cash or on dd

Land in Nelson Lana District fOT Dispo.al under the Land Land in Southland Land Di.ftrict Jor lJi8po8al under the Land Act, 1908. Act, 1908.

Distriot LlIoIlds IIoIld Survey Offioe, Nelson, 21st February, 1916. Distriot Lauds and Survey Office OTICE is hereby given, in pnrsuanoe of seotion 326 Invercargill, 21st February, 1916. N of the Land Act. 1908, that Section 32. Block XI, NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuanoe of section Mokihinui Survey District, Nelson Land District, contain- 326 of the LlIoIld Aot, 1908, the undermentioned lands iug 100 aores, will be disposed of under the provisions will be disposed of under the provisions of the said Aot of the said Act on or after Monday, the 22nd day of May. on or after Monday. 22nd May, 1916. 1916. I F. A. THOMPSON, Commissioner of Crown Lands. SCHEDULE. ------~- ---- Land in Nelson Land District for Disposal under the Land SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.-SOUTBLAND COUNTY. Act. 1908. Bectlon. Area. District Leds ed Survey Office. I BI~Ck. I Nelson. 21st Febmary, 1916. OTICE is hereby given. in pursuance of section 326 of A. B.' P. rN the La.nd Aot, 1908. that Section 14. Blook X. Reefton Otama 13 2 16 Survey District. Nelson La.nd Distriot. oontaining 10 e, res Oteramika Hd. 193 1 24 2 roods 35 perches. will be disposed of under the pro'. > ons __-I Waikawa .. 108 0 0 of the said Aot on or after Monday. the 22nd day" May. --~_! £ 1916. F. A. THOMPSON, H. D. M. HASZARD, Commissloner of Crown Lands. Commissioner of Orown Lands.

Land in Southland Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908. Land in Southland Land District for Disposal under the Land Act, 1908. Distriot Lands and Survey Offioe, Inveroargill. 21st February, 1916. OTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of seotion 826 of Distriot Leds and Survey Offioe, N the Land Aot, 1908, that the undermentioned lands Invercargill, 3rd April, 1916. will be open for seleotion on renewable lease on Wednesday, OTIOE is hereby given, in pursuance of seotion 326 of 21st June, 1916. ...LN the Led Aot, 1908, that the undermentioned land will be disposed of under the provisions of seotion 131 of SCHEDULE. the said Aot on or after Thursday, the 6th day of July, 1916. SOUTHLAND LAlilD DISTBICT.-WAIKAKA DISTRIOT. A. B. P. Seotion 87, Block VI: Area, 29 1 23 SCrlEDULE. 38 22 3 10 SOUTIlLAND LAND DISTBICT.-SOUTBLAND COUNTY. 39 24 3 27 40 4 1 10 SECTION 801, Blook XII, Hokonui Survey Distriot: Area, 41 411) 39 aores 3 roods 34 perohes. 42 4 1 85 43 5 1 25 H. D. M. HASZARD, 44 320 Commissioner of Crown Lands. 45 4 3 12 46 7 1 34 47 5 010 48 18 1 15 Land in Auckland Land District jor Disposal under the Land Act, 1908. H. D. M. HASZARD, Commissioner of Orown Lands. Distriot Lands and Survey Offioe, lAnd in Otago lAnd District for Disposal under the Land Act, Anckland, 13th March, 1916. 1908. and AmendmentB. OTICE is hereby given, in terms of seotion 326 of N the Land Aot, 1908, that Seotion 4, Blook XII, District Lande and Survey Office, Waiawa Survey Distriot, Auokland Land Distriot, oon- Dunedin. 21st Febmary, 1916. taining 89 acres, will be disposed of under the provisions N OTICE is hereby given. in pursuance of section 326 of of fihe said Aofi on or after Tuesday, 13th June. 1916. the Land Act. 1908, that Section 45, Block m, Table I Hill Survey District, Otago Land District, containing 96 acres H. M. SKEET, 1 rood 32 perches. will be disposed of to th.. owner of adjoin. Commissioner of Crown Lands .. ing land, in terms of section 14 of the Land Laws Amend. ment Act, 1912. on or after Monday, 22nd May. 1916. D. M. CALDER, Land in Otago Land District for Dispo8al under the Land Deputy Commisaioner of Crown Landa. Act. 1908.

Land in Otago Land District for Disposal under the Land Distriot Lands ed Survey Offioe. Act, 1908. Dunedin, 3rd April, 1916. " T OTICE is hereby given, in pursuanoe of seotion 326 of District Lands and Survey Office, l.~ the Land Aot, 1908, that the undermentioned land . Dnnedin, 16th February, 1916. will be Bold to the owner of adjoining land, in terms of seo­ N OTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of tion 131 of the said Act, on or after Wednesday. 5th July. the Land Act, 1908, that the undermentioned land 1916. will be sold in terms of seotion 128 of the Land Aot, 1908, on or after Wednesday, 1,7th May, 1916. SCHEDULE. SCHEDULE. OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.-VINCENT COUNTY.-TIGER HILL OTAGO LAlIID DISTBICT. - W AIHEMO COUNTY. - W AIBEMO SURVEY DISTRICT. SUBVEY DISTRICT. AN area of 5 acres 3 roods 35 perches. being old railway PART of mining reserve in Block III, Waihemo Distriot: reserve traversing Section 28A, Block II. Area, 58 aores. ROBT. T. SADD, D. M. CALDER, Commissioner of Crown Land •. Deputy Commissioner of Crown Lands. F 1648 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICE.

Bitting of tilt Native Land Court at Wellington.

Office of tbe Ikaroa District Native Land Oourt, Wellington, 3rd May. 1916. OTIOE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native Land Oourt will be held at Wellington on tbe 16th day of N May. 1916, to bear and determine the maGGets mentioned in the Sohedule hereunder written, in respeot of whioh applioations have been received by the ReRistrar, and all Bucb other matters a. may be lawfully brought before h. L. A. TEUTENBERG, [Wellington, 1916-9.) Registrar.

SOHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR DEFINITION OF RELATIVE INTERESTS.

No. I Name of Applica.n'. N.. me of Land.

~------5 i Kohea Tahana (by his solioitors, pownall.-~~Very, an~~"I~r:~::--1 Oroi.

ApPLICATIONS FOR PARTITIONS.

-NO. 1, ______N_a_meo_f_A_P_PI_lc_a_n_t_. ______l ______N_&_m_8_0_f_L_a_n_d_. ______

6 Harirota Pana .A wapatiki 1 B. 7 Heta Namn and Paranihi Heta 2. 8 Horomona Rehe ._ " 2B:~. 9 Paranihia Ranginui (W. G. H. Baillie) Big Bay, Block VII 49E 2. 10 Hinga Raharuhi(Teo Tipene) Hitaua. 1I lnia Tuhata i Kekerione IG. 12 Taare te Ura 4. 13 Rakete Tipene 24. 14 Taare te Ura 40. 15 Ngaurupa (Bell, Gully, Bell. and Myers) .. " 76. 16 Hapurona Pawa .. }fatarae 2. 17 Henare Hough and others }fatarakau. 18 Archibald A. Brown (Field and Luckie) Ngarara West A 46B. 19 Hinaki Ropiba Ohariu 37. 20 " 39. 21 Tahu~iki Meihana (W. G. H. Baillie) Orakauhamu 26B 2c. 22 Ngamoni Nga Wharewiti Otonga IE 14. 23 Hohua Warena. and others Parangarahu 2B. 24 2c. 25 Ngahuia Ha~i Pa.rap~ra. 26 Ereni Makere, or Ereni Kopu Puketotara 2B 2n 1. 27 Tahana Kawhe (for Waitaoro Raniera and others) Takapuwahia C 2. 28 Ruta Rene Tutaeparaikete 2n. 29 lnia Ohau Wainui, Square 12, Section 1I, Subdivision 2n. 30 Wire Teone (H. te Punga) Wainuiomata 22, Subdivision 2. 31 ., 22, " 3. 32 Henry' Wastney Whangamoa, Section 2, Block I, Subdivisions 1 and 2. 33 Karoraina. Tauru Piripi (W. G. H. Baillie) Wairau, Block XII 602. 34 Wharaki Rapatini (Makar eta Rapatini) Wairewa 887, Block I, Section 12n. 35 Wharaki Tepi (A. Bishop) 887, "I. 12n. 36 Te Whatarauhi and others (A. Bishop) .. 887, " III, 9B.

Apl'LICATIONB FOB Al'l'OlNTMIIINT OF TRUSTEIIIS.

No. -T~==~~:e of ~plican~.-=-=J---~~me Of_~a::.~~_~ 1___ Name of ~::~-=. _.

131 Hare Hoani Makirikiri 10B . . ..1 M:iriama Hare. la2 Miriaga. Karena Hutt, Section 19, Subdivision 3 Miriana Karena. 133 • • 19, "17 ~ 134 Korokoro South •. "1 . 135 Waluuiomat.. No. 22 . . • 186 Te Momi No.2 .. 1 ] 37 Tai& .. 57, SubdivisIon 1 .. 138 , Hut&, Sec&ion 19, Subdivision 8 I " 139 Te Hu;o te Oka (Ooa.pman, Skerrett, Tripp, ' Kekerione No. 44 Te Oka Meihana. and Blair) I MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALANb GAZETTE. 1649

ApPLIOATIONS FOR ApPOINTMENT OF NEW TRUSTEES.

Name of Name of Applicant. Name of Land. Name of Minor. Present Trnstee.

140 The Publio Trustee Onuku 886 No.3 Hinematiao Puhirere :: IAmiria ~okianga. 141 142 Ruta Rene (Bunny and Ayson) Whangarae, Section 18, Waipataka and Taporena r •• Square 91, Sub. 3F Pene I 143 Thomas Goldsmith Arahura B Thomas Goldsmith Hana Rickus. 144 C 145 . D 146 Waikouaiti, Block 12, Sec­ tion 46. 147 Rahera te Roku Wharekauri 1R and other Waipuke te Roku and Paniora te Arahu and lands others Rihania Wharepa. 148 Pirihira Utiku (C. R. Parata) Manawatu - Kukntauaki 3, Kahumoko Utiku, Te Ahua Utiku te Ahua. Seotion 20 1B Utiku, and Pani Utiku

APPLICATIONS FOR EXOHANGES OF LAND.

No. Name of Applicant. Name of Land.

149 I {M. Simpson .. ..1 Motueka, Section 188 (part). Warren Rupine Tiwini I •• I " '150 { Huta Pa.mariki Park 183 (part). M. Simpson .. " 188. PiriPi te Apatu Mohi Heremia Ohau No.3, Section 26B. 151 { Perenara Mohi Heremia .• No.3, llA. Te Rohi Maaka Mohi Heremia No.3, 26B. 152 { Perenara Mohi Heremia •. • No.3, • 11A. Waata Momo 'faituha Wairewa 887, Blook 1, Seotion 12c. 153 { Makareta Rapatini .. " 887, 1, 12B. { Horomona Rehe .. Kekerione 2c. 154 Ani Wiremu Hoeta Taituha. Awapa.tiki 2A 2A and 2A 2c. _. ------

ApPLICATION FOR PROBATE. ;;r------N:me of Applioan'. Name of Deoea.ed.

1551 Emma te Puni (0. Beere) . . 1 Hori te Puni. J

ApPLICATIONS FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION.

Name of Applioant. Name of Deceased. ~~------156 Ani Retimana Harirota Pana. 157 Rorana Pahira Anaru and others Pabira Anaru. 158 Henare Hough and others Epiha Coffee. 159 Peti Hough.

ApPLICATION UNDER SEOTION 17 OF THE NATIVE LAND AMENDMENT ACT, 1912.

No. I Name of Applicaut . lla.ture of Applioa.Uon. .~------~------.------160 I Pahi Pomare . ., Applying to the Court for reoommendation for the issue of an Order in Counoil deolaring the applicant a European.

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MATTER BEFERRED BY THE NATIVE ApPELLATE COURT FOR REHEARING. -----,------;------

No. I Na.me of Applica.nt. Name of La.nd. Ma.tter referred.

161 IHuta P. Paaka •• [ Motueka 127 .. . .1 Succession to Taare te Rutu, deceased•

ApPLIOATION UNDEB SECTION 21 OF THE NATIVE RESERVES ACT, 1882.

!!fo. Name of AppliC&Jl~ Nama of Land. Nature of Application.

I . 1621 Harata Toko Nutira and others I Walrewa 902 For an order extinguishing the Native owners' title I and vesting the land in the Public Trustee. I (No. 04

ApPLICATION UNDEB SECTION 11 OF THE NATIVlIl LAND AMENDMENT ACT, 1913.

No. Name 01 Applicut. Name of Land. Nature 01 Application.

168 Minister of Lands N .R. 885, Little River, IApplying to inquire and a.scertain wha.t persons Oanterbury D. sha.ll be included in the oertifica.te of title; also I to determine the relative interests of the persons I so a.soerta.ined.

MATTEB BEFEBBlilD TO THE OOUBT POB INQUIRY AND REPOBT UNDEB SECTION 49 OF THE NATIVE LAND LAWS AMENDMENT ACT, 1895.

~------. No·-I Name 01 Applicant. N.. meoILud. N.. ture 01 Applica.tion.

164 'Ii The Ohief Judge of the Native IWba.J:Ilkauri No. 10 .. I For inquiry and report as to the nature of the i Land Oourt i boundaries laid down on partition. ;

ApPLICATION FOB INVlIlBTIGATION OF TITLE TO COMPLETE JUDGE MACKAY's PBOCEEDINGS.

No. Name 01 Applicant. Name 01 Land. Boundaries.

1651 Penekoti te Teka .. ITutaeparaikete . .1 On the map. I

ApPLIOATION IN PURSUANOE OF TRill POWBBll OF THE TRUSTEE AOT, 1908. AND NATrvla LAND AcT, 1909.

No, Name 01 Applicant. "ature 01 Application,

166 Hinga Raharuhi, or Carrington Applying to the Court for an order direoting Matene Raharuhi to furnish a correct statement of hiB admini.tratlon, and in par­ ticular the disposal of proceeds fcr the sale of Aorere No. 13, and aU moneys reoeived from the Publia Trustee.

ApPLICATION UNDEB SECTION 899 OF THE NATIVlIl LAND ACT, 1909.

No. Name of Applicut, Name of Land. Nature of Application.

167 Ohief Surveyor • , Wharekauri IB Applying to the Court to appoint the South Island District Maori Land Board to act as a Receiver until the amount of survey lien due, amounting to £78 4s. 7d., with interest at 5 per cent. from 28th October, 1914, is liquidated.

ApPLICATION UNDIilB SEOTION 232 OF TRE NATIVlIl LAND ACT, 1909.

Nature of Application. ·~~J ____N_ .._m_e_o_f_A_P_p_li_ca_~ ~_t_. _-_-:_-_-~-:_------~--~~-a-m-e-o-f-L-a-n-d-. __--'-_

168 Wiremu Kiriona and another Manawatu·Kukntauaki 7D For a reoommendation for the issue of an Order in "II 20& Counoil setting apa.rt a portion of the said land as a ohuroh reserve. ----

ApPLIOATIONS BOB SUBVEY CHARGING OBDEBS.

Date frOm which No.1 N.. me 01 Applicant. Name 01 Land. Amonnt. Interest is calculated. I £ s. d. I 1691 Ohief Surveyor Aorangi No.1 8D 1 1 10 5 23 February, 1916. 170 • No.18n 2 .. 31911 2a 1916. 171 No. 18F 1 "I 3 18 1 23 1916. 172 • No.l8F 2 5 10 11 23 " 1916. 173 Kekerlone No.1, Seotion 24A 21 2 6 17 April, 1916.• 174 • No.1, • 24s 44 11 2 17 • 1916. 175 Manawatu·Kukutauaki 4E 2A No.1 .. 611 5 23 February, 1916. 176 4E 2A No.2 .. 611 5 23 1916. 177 4B2A No.3 •. 271 23 1916 .• 178 4B2A No.4 •• 494 23 1916. 179 7n 1 No. 6A" 28 10 2 21 1916. 180 • 7n 1 No. 6s •. 47 0 4 21 1916. 181 TaoDui·Ahuaturanga. 2A 1 o 15 0 18 1916. "I 415 4 18 1916. 182 " • 2A 2 1 183 .. • 2A 3 2 10 2 18 1916. ------~-- ..

MAY 4.J THE NEW ZEALAND GAZET'1'E. 1651

MAORI LAND ADMINISTRATION NOTICES.

Meeting of the Ikaroa District Maori Land Board.

Wellington, 3rd May, 1916. OTICE IS hereby given &bllol Lbe matters mentioned in the Scbedule bereunder written will be considered M a N meeting of the Ikaroa DistrioL Maori Land Board to be held .. t Wellington on Wednesday, the 17th day of May, 1916, at 10.80 o'olook a.m., or as Boon thereafter as the business of the Board will allow. Wairarapa applications will be dealt with at Greytown on Friday, the 19th May, 1916, at 10.30 a.m. L. A. TEUTENBERG, Registrar. SCHEDULE.

APPLICATIONS FOR CONFIRMATION OF ALIl!lNATION.

Nature Parties. --­ ;:jRecord No. of Date. Name of La.nd. ·---1--- NameB~ Alienation. I

1 1914/473 I Lease 20 August, 1914 Ngarara West A, Section Rau Winara Parata to Helen ! 79. J,ot :? Mary Stevens (Bunny and Ay­ son). 2 1915/390 :l Octoher, HH5 Ditto Noti Winara Parata and others to Archibald Arthur Brown (0. and R. Beere). 3 1915/479 128 May, 191;; Gethselllane Reserve No.6 Niniwa Heremaia to Allen Donald (Bunny and Ayson). 4 1915/509 Pukehou 40 No.7., Winia Paehua to William Martin Simcox (Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers). ;) 1915/519 Paruauku In No. 2n Rikihana Carkeek and another to William Martin Simcox (Kirk and Rapley). 6 1915/520 10 Decemher, HHG In No. 2E Pairorouku Rikihana to William Martin Simcox (Kirk and Rapley). 7' 1916/:1 If) ,July, 191:; I "\Viremntaollc, Section 4, Taal'eRangi Kauwhata and other" Subdivision 8, Block XI to Walter Angell.

8 I, 1016/21 9 August, 19];j I Ngakal'ul'o fiD No.2 Whioi Kerehoma and another to Epiha Hawea (R. J. Staveley). II 19)(j/42 rrransfer 23 Fcbural'y, 1916 .. I .\Ianawatu-Kukutauaki 4D Raniera Ranapiri to Ihaka Rana­ No.1, Subdivision 4n, piri (C. H. Treadwell). No.3 10 1916/49 Lease 14 September, 191f) I Takapuwahia B No.2 and Waitaoro Raniera and others to C No. 2A Richard Weller (Bunny and I Ayson). 11 1916/68 Transfer + December, 1915 .. Tutaepal'aikete No. 2c Maaka Pukehi to Richard Wener (Morison and Smith). 12 1916/72 (i March, 1916 I \\f-raiorungomai No.2 Whata Hakaraia to ]'rancis Sel· wyn Simcox (Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers). 13 1916/73 Lease 27 IlH6 Waimakaira No. In Paora Hirama te Hoia to Beryl Cameron Davies (Bell, Gully, BelI, and Myers). 14 1916/74 TraUiifcl' 31 WI6 Manawatu-Kukutauaki 4D Hapimana Waitete and others to No.1-Subdivision 5 Harriett Drake (BelI, GIIlIy, BelI, and Myers). 15 1916/76 Lease 10 December, 1915 Manawatu-Kukntauaki 4E Te Arai and others to Henry Section 3 No. 1D James Vaile Nicholson (George H. Harper). 16 1916/77 118 April, 1916 Otaki, Section 147 l'irihira Hohepa to the Bank of Australasia (George H. Harper). 17 1916/78 29 February, 1916 .. Manawatu-Kukutauaki 4E Tamihana Ruihi to Henry James No. 2A No.4 Vaile Nicholson (George H. Harper). . 18 1916/79 10 March, 1916 Katihiku No. 4n Nepia te Rau and others to Hemi Kupa Hawea (GeorgeH. Harper). 19 1916/81 13 April, 1916 Ohau No.1, Section 4 A.rapata te Hiwi and others to Marjorie Grace Kirkcaldie (W. Stewart Park). 20 1916/82 11 1916 Ohau 3A No. lA. Sect,ion;{ Keita Potana to WaIter Samuel Langley (W. Stewart Park). 21 1916/83 14 March, 1916 Manawatu-Kukutauaki 7n N epia te Rau to Lawrence Augus­ :In No. 42 ton McDonald (W. Stewart Park). 22 1916/84 13 April, 1916 Horowhenua Xl B 41, Parahi Reihana and another to Subdivision B 3 North, Rowland RUB"ell (W. Stewart Section I Park). 23 1916/85 13 1916 Horowhenua XI B 41. Tapita Himiona and others to Subdivision B 3 North, Rowland Russell (W. Stewart Section 2 Park). 24 1916/86 13 1916 Horowhenua XI B 41, Muna te Pae and another to Row­ Subdivision B 3 North, land Russell (W. Stewart Park). Section 3 25 1916/87 1916 Horowhenua 3E No.1, Areta Nahona and others to John Subdivision 4 William Perkins (W. Stewart Park). 1652 'fHE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

ApPLICATIONS FOR CONFIRMATION OF ALIENATIONs-continued. -~I ---'~I. Na-::--· No. Record No. of Date. Names of Parties. 1 Alienation. Name._o_f_L_",_O_d_· ___L GR:EYTOWN APPLICATIONS. 26 1915/463 i Le"se ~ .July, 1915 \Vaikoukou Nos. 6A and I Rihl1l'a lhaia to Eli~aheth Pike 1 7F and H urunuiorangi I (G. H. Cullen). 27 1915/532 12 1915 Te M"ipi, Subdivision IB Huiana Rahiri and another to Ttl "\Vnitu Otaria Piripi (W. G. Beard). 28 1916/39 19 l?ehruary. H1l6 .. Tupurupuru, SectionJ19, Te Wiringaite Rangi Pita to Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, and 21i Harry Mason (Tate and Thomp· (Waipoapoa A) son). 29 1916/44 26 1916 .. Waikoukou No.2 Rawinia te Ao Hemi and others to Harry Mason (Tate and Thompson). 30 1916/46 :3 }larch, 1916 Hurunuiorangi lR No. 3A : Keeti Namana to Amy Ansley Pike (Tate and Thompson). 31 1916/66 21 ·1916 Mangatainoka J No. 4E. . I Ngawhiro Marakaia to Peter i Tullock (Adams and Tinney). 32 1916/67 April, 19Hi Akura lA No.1 Maraea Karaitiana and others to I Elizabeth Wag land (Hollings 1 and Pragnell). 33 1916/69 27 lUHi Tumnganui 1 TI No.1 Makere Gillies to lhipera te Miha (Gawith and Logan). 34 1916/75 13 March, 19Hi Nos. lA and 2KI hihapa te Rangitekihi to lsabd Roger Agatha Haycock (Gawith and Lop;an). _. __I ._---_.-

ApPLICATIONS IN TERMS QE' 8':CTION 341 m' nm NA'rIVE LAND ACT, 1909, THAT MEETINGS m' ASSEMBLED OWNERS BE SUMMONED.

NO.j· Record ~~-.---~~¥-:------:is arne of Land. PrO\-losetl Besolut.ion for Consideration. Alienation.

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35 1916/52 LeaHC .. W!tinu iomat!t, Section 22 'I'h"t t he exist illg lc!tse to William St anley J ones he determined, !tnd a new lease be iss1Ied. to 11eS81· •. ',' J. and J. W. Tlurdan for a tel'1I1 of twenty-one ~. years at an annual rental uf ,5 per cent. on the GovPl'nment, valnatjon for the first t.en years, and thereafter at, Ii pcr cent. on t,he Government, valuation at the end of ten years for the residue I ~ of the term excluding any improvements effected ii.by the lessee during t,he first ten years (0. and H . • Beere) .

36 l!1I1i/7IJ .. I' 'l'cAwaawaroa,~Sub. J No. III I That the land be leased to Arthur Cyrus Mason for a term of twenty·one years at a rental of 5 per cent. on the Government valuation for the first tell years and thereafter at Ii per cent. on th" Government valuation at the end of ten years for the "eHidue of the term (Bell, Gully, B,,]L and }J yer.). 37 HJl6/71 Sale Paha,ua, :--lu11 • .:! 1'hat the land he Hold to Ceol'ge FJ'anci::; Pearce and Mary Cameron at a price equal to the C;overn· ment, valuation (Bell, Gully, Bell, and Myers).

GREYTOWN APPLICATION. 38 1915/420 Lease .. J\lairiirikapua F ]\io. :l That. the laml be leased to William Charle" (',miter for a. term of t went v -one vears at an annual rental of 15s. per acr~ fnr the first seven year~. 16s. per acre for the second seven years, and 17•. per acre for the residue of the term (Gawith and IJogan).

Sitting of the Waiariki District Maoo'i [,and Boa'l'd at Rotorua.

Wa.ia.riki Maori Land Board Office, Rotorua, 29th April, 1916. XT QTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Waiariki DiRtrict Maori Land Board will be beld at Rotorua on 1.", the 15th day of May, 1916, at 10.30 o'olook in the forenooll, or as soon thereafter as Ihe business of the Board will allow, to hear and determine tbe matters mentioned in the Bchedule hereunder written. JAB. W. BROWNE, President. 3CHEDULE. ApPLICA~'IONS FOR CONFIRMATION O~' ALIENATIONS UNDER BECTIO" 218 OF THE NATIVE LAND ACT. 1909.

Nature of I?ate. Name of Land. Names of Parties. ~o.1 Re.cord No, Aliena.tion.

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112 782 Lease i 13 November, 1915 , Maungarangi B 3D Makete to MOlli to Mary Helen I Graham (0. J. Hodge), ! Transfer October, 1915 Waimalla 215 113 809 121 , Jack F. Boynton to John Dugald Bryce (Len. Buddie). 114 810 11 December, 1915 Rangitaiki 41A 6 Kaiwahie Piripo and others to I Lena Davies (P. A. Harron). 115 835 ILease 10 March, 1916 Omataroa 5A 1 Ihaka Hori to James Ambrose i Eivers (Len. BuddIe). MAy.4.] 'rHE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1653

ApPLICATIONS TO RECOMMEND THE HON. THE NATIVE MINISTER TO CONSENT ·ro ALIENATIONS UNDER SECTION 298 OF THE NATIVE LAND ACT, 1909.

------~----.------Nature No.I.Record No. of Name ot Land. Alienation. ... J __ . ____ Names _O_f _p_a_rt_i_Os_. _____ I 116 808 , Sale Rangiuru 2B 12 Rangitakftiwaho Nimerata to Owen J. I Hodge 10. J. Hodge). 117 811 \V f1.i Uiana, rJot 26UA N l), R , KHita Rang1tukia and others to crunoa I, Hoihana (P. A. Harron).

Notice 01 Meeting 01 Owne,.s under Part XVIll 01 the I Notice 01 Meeting 01 Owners under Part XVIII 01 the Native Land Act, 1909. I Native Land Act, 1909. REGULATION No. 52. REGULATION No. 52. HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land T District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners T Distriot hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Pukaingataru B 3, Section lA, will be held, in pursuance of Waiteti No. 2A No. 1A No.1 will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Ohinemutu, of Part XVIII of tbe Native Land Act, 1909, at Ohinemutu, Rotorua, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of May, 1916, at lO.30 Rotorua, aD Tuesday, the 23rd day of May, 1916, at 10.80 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of oonsidering the o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following proposed resolutions:- following proposed resolution ;- "1. That a proposed alienaMon of the land by way of "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of lease I ease to Perenara Kihirini shan be agreed to. to Wahiao Simpkin" .hall be agreed to." "2. That a proposed alienation of the land by way of Dated at Rotorua thi. 29th day of April, 1916. lease to Pirihi Kerei shall be agreed to." JAS. W. BROWNE, Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. President. JAS. W. BROWNE, President. ------_.------Notice 01 Meeting of Owners under Part XVIIl 01 the Nati"e Land Act, 1909. Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part IVIl! 01 the Native Land Act, 1909. REGULATION No. 52.

REGULATION K o. 52. HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land T Distrjct hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners T HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori I,and of Matata, Lot 5, will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII District hereby llotifies that a meeting of the owners of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Ohinemutu, Rotorua, on of Rotomahana-Parekarangi No. 6L No. 28 No.1 will be Tuesday, the 23rd day of May, 1916, at 10.30 o'clock in the held, in pursuauce of Part XVIII of tbe Native Land Act, forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following pro­ 1909, at Ohinemutu, Hatorua, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of posed resolution ;- May, 1916, at lO.30 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose "That a proposed alionation of the land by way of Ralo of considering the following proposed resolution ;- to Emily F. Abbott shall be agreed to." "That an offer made by the Crown to pnrchase the land Dated at Hotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. or any part thereof shall be accepted." Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. JAS. W. BROWNE, President .. JAS. W. BROWNE, President. ---- ..-----_ .. ---_._-_._------"'oti"e of .Veeting 01 Owne1'S under Part IVIll of the .Votice 01 Jleeting 01 Owner« under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, Native Land Act, 1909. REGULATION No. 52. REGULATION No. 52. HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land T District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners T District herehy notifies that a meeting of the owners of Tihoi No. 4B No. 2B No.2 will be held, in pursuance of of Rotomahana-Parekarangi No. 6r" No. 2B No. 5 will be Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Taupo on held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, Friday, the 26tb day of May, 1916, at 10 o'clock in tbe 1909, at Ohinemutu, Rotorna, on Tuesday, the 23rd day 01 forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following May, 1916, at 10.30 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose propn.ed resolution :- of considering the foilowing proposed resolntion ;- "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of lease "That an offer made by the Crown to purchase the land to William Andrews shall be agreed to." or any part thereof shall be accept cd. " Dated at Rotorua this 29th alloy of April, 1916. Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. JAS. W. BROWNE, J AS. W. BROWNE, President. President. Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIll 01 the Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part X VIII 01 the Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909. REGULATION No. 52. REGULATION No. 52. HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land T District hereby notifies that a meeting of tbe owners T District hereby notifies tbat a meeting of the owners of Tauhara Middle No. 4A No.1 will be held, in pursuance of Kawaba No. 5N No. 3A No.4 will be held, in pursuance of of Part XVIII of the Native Land Aot, 1909, at Taupo on Part XVIII of tbe Native Land Act, 1909, at Obinemutu, Friday, the 26th day of May, 1916, at 10 o'olock in the Rotorua, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of May, 1916, at 10.30 forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following pro­ o'clock iu the forenoon, for tbe purpose of considering the posed resolution :- following proposed resolution:- "That a proposed alienation'l:of portion of the land by "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of sale to way of lease and a proposed alienation of flax·cutting rights Constance Mary Gillies shan be agreed to." to Wiremn te Waiharakeke Honotapu shan be agreed to." Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. Dated at Rotorua this 29tb day of April, 1916. JAS. W. BROWNE. JAS. W. BROWNE, President. President. 1654 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. lNo. 54

Notice of Meeting of Owners undeT Pari XVllJ of tlie Notice of ,1leeting of Owner8 under PW't :"~VIII of t"e Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION No. 52. R.EGULATION No. ;'2. HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land T Distriot hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners T District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Tutukau East B No.1 will be beld, in pursuance of Part of Te Waiti No. 2n will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Taupo on Friday, XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Raukakore on the 26th day of May, 1916, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, Wednesday, the 31st day of May, 1916, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of considering the following proposed resolu­ for the purpose of considering the follOWing proposed resolu­ tion:- tion :- "That an o:O;er made by the Crown to purchase the land "That a proposed alienation of the land by way cf lease or any part thereof shall be accepted." to A. B. Watene and Herewini Apiata shall be agreed to." Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. Dated at Rotorua tbis 29th day of April, 1916. JAB. W. BROWNE, JAS. W. BROWNE, President. President.

Notice of Muting of Owner., under Part KT'Ill of the .'Votire of :lI""ing of Owners under Pm't "XVIII of th. Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION No. 52. REGULATION 2'\ o. 52. HE Maori Land Bosrd for the Waiariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land T Distriot hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners T District hereby notifies that a meeting of tbe owners of Tutukau East B No. 2 will. be held, in pursuance of of Wbangaparaoa No. 1A will be held, in pursuanoe of Part Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Taupo on XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Ra.ukokore on Friday, the 26th day of May, 1916, at 10 o'clock in the fore­ Wednesday, the 31.t day of May, 1916. at 12 o'clock noon, noon, for the purpose of oonsidering the following proposed for tbe purpose of considering the following proposed resolu­ resolution :- tion :- "That an o:O;er made by the Crown to purchaso the land "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of lease or any part thereof shall be accepted." to Kuaha Waititi and Hirina Waititi shall be agreed to." Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. JAS. W. BROWNE, JAS. W. BROWNE, President. President.

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVllI of the Noti," of Meeting of Owners under Part "XFIII of ti,. Nati,)e Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION No. 52. REGULATION No. 52.

HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land T District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners T Distriot hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Tutukau West B will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of Maungaroa No.2 will be held, in pursuance of Part of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Taupo on Friday, tbe XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. at Te Kaha on Friday, 26th day of May, 1916, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the 2nd day of June, 1916, for the purpose of considering the the purpose of con.idering the following proposed resolu­ following proposed resolution:- tion :- "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of lease "That an oller made by the Crown to purahase the land to Wikiriwhi te Kani and Whakarau Hatiwira shall he or any part thereof shall be accepted." agreed 'to." . Dated at Rotorua tbis 29th day of April, 1916. Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. JAB. W. BROWNE, JAB. W. BROWNE, President. President.

.votice of :lIeeling of Owners under Part XVIII of tlle Notice 0/ Meeting of O"'np,'" under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION K o. 52. REGULATION No, 52.

HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki M!lori Land T District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners T District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of of 'rauri N 08. 3B and 30 will be heJd. in pursuance of Part Awanui-Haparapara No. 21. will be held, in pursuanoe of XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Taupo on Friday, Part XVIII of Ghe Native Land Act, 1909, at Te Kaha. on tbe 26th day of May, 1916, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for Friday, the 2nd da.y of June, 1916, at 12 o'clock naOIl, for the purpose of considering the following proposed resoln· the purpose of oonsidering the following proposed resolu­ tion :- tian:- "That an ofJ;er made by the Crown to purchase the lanel " That a proposed alienation of the land by way of lease to or any part thereof shall be accepted." Harawira Akuhata shall be agreed to." Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of AprIl, 1916. Dated at Rotorua. this 29th day of April, 1916. JAB. W. BROWNE, JAB. W. BROWNE, President. President.

Notice of Meeting of Oume,''! unde" Part XVllI of the Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part "XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, ]909.

REGULATION No. 52. REGULATION ,",0. 52.

HE Maori Land Boe.rd for the Waiariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land T Distriot hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners T District hero by nctifies tbat a meeting of the Owners of Poito No.9 will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of of Te Waiti No.1 will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII the Native Land Act, 1909, at Raukokore on Wednesday. of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Te Kaha 011 Friday, the the 31st day of May, 1916, at 12 o'clock noon, for tb€ 2nd day of June, 1916, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose purpose of considering the f,,\lowing proposed resolution:- of considering the following proposed resolution :- ' " That a proposed alienation of the land by way of lease "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of lease to Herewini Apiata shall be agreed to." to Tunaa Roihana shall be agreed to." Dated at Ratorua this 29th day of April, 1916. Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. JAB. W. BROWNE, JAB. W. BROWNE, President. President. MAY 4.] TIIE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1655

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the) Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION No. 52. REGULATION No. 52. HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Mo.ori Lo.nd Dis· HE Ma.ori La.nd Board for the Wa.la.riki Ma.ori La.nd T trict hereby notifies that a. meeting of the owners of T District hereby notifies tha.t a. meeting of tbe oWller~ Iwiroo. No. B will be held, in pursuance of Part XVIII of of Ra.ngita.iki, Lot 41A 9D, Will be held, in pursuance of Pa.rc the Native Land Act, 1909, o.t Te Ko.ho. on Frido.y, tbe 2nd XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, a.t Wha.ka.tane on day of June, 1916, o.t 12 o'clock noon, for tbe purpose of Tuesda.y, tbe 6tb day of June, 1916, M 10 o'clock in the conRidering tbe following proposed resolution :- forenoon, for tbe purpose of considering the following pro· "That a proposed alienation of tbe land by way of lease posed resolntions :- to Mary Neenan sball be agreed to." "1. That a proposed aliena.tion of th" land by way of Dated a.t Rotoruo. this 29th do.y of April, 1916. sale to Lena Do. vies shall be agreed to. JAS. W. BROWNE, "2. That a proposed a.lienation of the land by wa.y of President. sa.le to Samh Phillips sball be agreed to." Dated a.t Rotorua. this 29th day of April, 1916. ."otice of .lIeeting of Owner., under Part XVIII of the JAS. W. BROWNE, Native Land Act, 1909. President.

REGULATION No.. 52. Notice of Meeting of Owners unde,' Part XVIII of tlte Native .Land Act, 1909. HE Maori Lo.nd Board for the Waia.riki Maori Lo.nd T District hereby notifies tho.t a. meeting of the owners REGULATION No. 52. of Iwiroo. No.3 will be held, in pursuo.nce of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Te Kaba. on Frida.y, tbe 2nd HE Maori La.nd Boa.rd for the Waiariki Ma.ori La.nd day of June, 1916, for tbe purpose of considering the follow· T District hereby notifies tha.t a. meeting of the owners of in/! oroposed resolution :- Ra.ngitRiki, Lot 41A No. 90, will be held, in pursuance of "That a proposed a.lienation of tbe land by way of lea.se Part XVIII of the Native Land Act. 1909, at Whakatane on to John F. Pettie sha.ll be a.greed to." Tuesda.y, the 6th da.y of June, 1916, a.t 10 o'clock in tbe Dated a.t Rotorua. this 29th da.y of April, 1916. forenoon, for tbe purpose of considering tbe following. pro· JAS. W. BROWNE, po.ed rpsolutions :- President. "1. That a. proposed a.liena.tion of the land by wa.y of sale to Lena. Davies shall be agreed to. Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of tlte "2. That a proposed alienation of the land by wa.y of Native Land Act, 1909. sa.le to Agnes Pa.terson shan be agreed to." Da.ted at Rotorua. this 29th da.y of April, 1916. REGULATION No. 52. JAS. W. BROWNE, President. HE Maori Land Boa.rd for the Wo.io.riki Ma.ori La.nd T District hereby notifies tbat a meeting of tbe owners Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the of Te Ka.ha. Pa.pa.ka.inga No.2 will be beld, in pursua.nce of Native Land Act, 1909. Part XVIII of tbe Na.tive Lo.nd Act, 1909, a.t Te Ka.ha. on Friday, the 2nd da.y of June, 1916, at 12 o'olock noon, for REGULATION No. 52. tbe purpose of considering the following proposed resolu· tion:- HE Maori Land Boa.rd for the Wa.io.riki Maori Land "Tha.t a. proposed aliena.tion of the a.nd by way of lease T District berebv notifies tha.t a meeting of the owners to Te Tane Tnkaki sball be agreed to." of Wa.iobau No. lA, Section 11, will be held, in pursua.nce of Da.t.d a.t Rotorua. tbis 29th day of April, 1916. Pa.rt XVIII of the Na.tive Land Act, 1909, a.t Wh.ka.ta.ne JAS. W. BROWNE, on Tuesday, the 6th day of June, 1916, a.t 10 o'clock in tbe President. forenoon, for the purpose of ~onsidering the following pro· poseil resolution :- " That an o~er made by the Crown to purchase the la.nd Notice of Meetmg of Owners under Part XVIII of the or a.ny part thereof shall be accepted." Native Land Act, 1909. Dated a.t Rotorua this 29th da.y of April, 1916. REGULATION No. 52. JAS. W. BROWNE, President. rrHE Maori Land Boa.rd for the Wo.iariki Ma.ori Land District hereby notifies that a. meeting of the owners Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the of Rangita.iki, Lot 41B No. 10c, will be held, in pursua.noe of Native Land Act, 1909. Pa.rt XVIII of the Na.tive La.nd Act, 1909, a.t Wba.katane on Tuesday, the 6tb day of Jun~, 1916, 81 10 o'clock in the REGULATION No. 52. forenoon, for tbe purpose of oonsidering the following pro· posed resolutions:- HE Maori Land Board for the Wa.iariki Ma.ori La.nd "1. That a. proposed a.liena.tion of the la.nd by way of sa.le T District hereby notifies tba.t a. meeting of the owners to Lena Da. vies sha.ll be agreed to. of Wa.ioball No. lA, Section 12, will be held, in pursuance of "2. That a proposed alienation of the la.nd by way of Part XVIII of tbe Native Land Act, 1909, a.t Wba.ka.ta.ne sa.le to Agnes Paterson shall be agreed to." on Tuesday, the 6th day of June, 1916, a.t 10 o'clock in Dated at Rotorua tbis 29th da.y of April, 1916. the forenoon, for the purpose of considering tbe following propoRed resolution :- JAS. W. BROWNE, " That a.n ofter ma.de by tbe Crown to purcha.se the land President. or a.ny pa.rt tbereof sba.ll be accepted." Da.ted a.t Rotorua. this 29th da.y of April, 1916. Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the JAS. W. BROWNE, Native Land Act, 1909. PreRldent.

REGULATION No. 52. Notice of Meeting of Owne1'S llnder Part XVIII 0/ tI,e Native Land Act, 1909. HE Ma.ori Land Boa.rd for the Walariki Ma.ori Land T Distriot bereby notifies tbat a meeting of the owners REGULATION No. 52. of Waioba.u No.2 will be beld, in pursua.nce of Pa.rc XVIII of tbe Native La.nd Act, 1909, at Wha.ka.tane on Tuesda.y, rrHE Ma.ori Land Bo.. rd for the Waiariki Ma.ori L

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the I Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

RBGULATION No. 52. REGULATION No. 52. T HE Ma.ori La.nd B1la.rd for the Wa.ia.riki Ma.ori La.nd HE Maori L~nd Boa.rd for the Wa.iariki Maori La.nd Dls~riot hereby notifies tha.t a. meeting of the owners T Disnlot hereby notifies ~hat a. meeting of the owners of of Ra.ngitaiki, Lot 48B No.2, will he held, in pursua.nce of Rangitaiki, Lot 43B I, will be held, in pur.ua.nee of Pa.rt Pa.rt XVIII of the Na.tive Land Aot, 1909, Bot Whaka.ta.ne XVIII of the Native Land Aot, 1909, at Whaka.tane on on Tuesday, the 6th da.y of June, 1916, a.t 10 o'olook in the Tuesday, the 6th day of June, 1916, at 10 o'clook in the forenoon, for the purpose of oonsidering the following pro­ forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following pro- posed resolution;- posed resolution;- ' "That a. proposed alienation of the land by way of sale "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of sale to Thoma.s Pa.terson sha.ll be a.greed to." to Thomas Paterson shall be agreed to." Da.ted a.t Rotorua thiiJ 29th day of April, 1916. Da.ted at Rotorua tbis 29th day of April, 1916. JAS. W. BROWNE, JAS. W. BROWNE, President. President.

Notice of l'-leeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Notice of Meeting ot Owners under Pa'rt XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATiON No. 52. REGULATION No. 52. HE Maori Land Board for the Wa.iariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Boa.rd for tbe Waiariki Maori Land T District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners T Distriothereby notifies that a meeting of the own en of Ranllitaiki, Lot 41B No. 10D, will be held, in pursua.nce of of Rangitaiki, Lot 30c Ne.12, will be held, in pursuanoe of Part XVIII of the Native La.nd Act, 1909, at Wba.katane on Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Whakatane on Tuesday, the 6th day of June, 1916, a.t 10 o'olock in the Tuesday, the 6th da.y of June,. 1916, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose' of considering the following pro­ forenoon, for the purpose of oonsidering the following pro­ posed resolution;- posed resolution ;- "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of sale "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of sa.le to Sarah Phillips shall be agreed to." to Georgina M. Limbrick shall be agreed to." Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. Dated a~ Retorua this 29th day of April, 1916. JAS. W. BROWNE, JAB. W. BROWNE, President. President.

. Notice of ilIeeting of Owners under Part XVIll of the Notice of Meeting of Owners undwr Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

RBGULATION No. 52. REGULATION No. 52. HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori La.nd T Distriot hereby notIfies that a meeting of the owner_ T District bereby notifies tbat a meeting 01 tbe owners of Rangitaiki, Lot 4lA No. 9A, will be held, in pursuance of of Rangitaiki, Lot 30c No. 11, will be held, in pursllanoe of Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Whakatane Part XVIII of the Native Land Aot, 1909, at Wnaka.tane on on Tuesday, the 6th day of June, 1916, at 10 o'clock in the Tuesday, the 6th day of June, 1916, at 10 o'cl.,ck in the forenoon, for the purpose of oonsidering the following pro­ forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following pro­ posed resolution :- posed resolution;- "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of sale "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of sale to Agnes Paterson shall be agreed to." to Georgina M. Limbrick shall be agreed to." Dated at Retorua this 29th day of April, 1916. Dated at Rotorua. this 29th day of April, 1916. JAS. W. BROWNE, JAS. W. BROWNE, President. President.

Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION No. 52. RBGULATtON No. 52.

HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori La.nd HE Maori Land Board for ~he Waiariki Maori Land T DistricG hereby notifies tha.t a meetIng of the owners T Distriot hereby notifies that a meeting (I the owners of Rangitaiki, Lot 41B No. lOB, will be held, in pnrsuanoe of Ra.ngitaiki, Lot 43B No.6, will be held, in pursuance of of Part XVIII of the Native La.nd Act, 1909, at Wbakatane Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Whakata.ne on on Tuesday, the 6Lh day of ;rune, 1916, at 10 o'clock in Tuesday, the 6th day of June, 1916, at 10 o'clook in the the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following forenoon, for the purpose 01 oonsidering the following pro­ proposed resolution ;- posed resolution ;- "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of ~ale "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of sale to Lena Davies shall be agreed to." to Thomas Paterson shall be agreed to." Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. Dated at Retorua this 29th day of April, 1916. JAB. W. BROWNE, JAS. W. BROWNE, President. President.

Notice of Meeting of Owner8 under Part XVllI of the Notice of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. Native Land Act, 1909.

REGULATION No. 52. REGULATION No. 52.

HE Maori La.nd Board for the Waiariki Ma.ori La.nd rrHE Maori La.nd Board for the Wala.riki Maori Land T Distriot hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners Distriot hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Rangitaiki, Lot 41B No. lOA, will be held, in pursua.nce of of Rangitaiki, Lot 30A No. I, will be held, in llursuanoe of . Pa.rt XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Whakatane on Part XVIII of the Native Land Aot, 1909, at Whakatane on Tuesday, the 6th day of June, 1916, at 10 o'olock in the Tuesday, the 6th day of June, 1916, at 10 o'olock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the following pro­ the forenoon, for the purpose of considering tbe following posed resolution ;- proposed resolution ;- "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of sale "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of sale to Agnes Paterson sha.ll be agreed to." to George Preece shall be agreed to." Dated a.t RoGorua. this 29th da.y of April, 1916. Da.ted a.t Rotorua. this 29th da.y of April, 1916. JAB, W. BROWNE, JAB. W. BROWNE, Preoident. :E'resident, MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1657

Notice 01 Meeting of Owners under Pari XVIII of the Native. Notice of Meeting_ of Owners under Part XV III of the LaM Act, 1909. I Native Land Act, 1909. REGULATION No. 52. REGULATION No. 62. rJ1HE MBoori LBond BOBord for the WaiBoriki Maori LBond 'j'HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land .L Dlstriot hereby notifies th.. t a meeting of the owners District hereby notifies that a meeting of the owners of Karangi A 5 will be held, in pursuance of Part XVHI of of Te Whetu No. 3B, Section 4, will be held, in pursuance of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Te Puke on Tuesday, the 20th Part XVIII of the Nativo Land Act, 1909, at Putaruru on day of June, 1916, at 10 o'clook in the forenoon, for the Friday, the 16th day of June,1916, for the purpose of con­ purpose of considering the following proposed resolution :- sidering the following proposed resolution :- " That a proposed alienation of the land by way of lease "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of salo to Johp. Edwin Newton shall be agreed to." to Charles Bull shall be agreed to." Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. Dated at Roterua this 29th day of April, 1916. JAS. W. BROWNE, JAS. W. BROWNE, President. President. Noti.ce of Meeting of Owners under Part XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909. Nolice (If lfutlng 01 Otoners under Pari XVIII 01 the NaUvt I Land Act. 1909. REGULATION No. 52.

REGULATION No. 52 HE Maori Land Board for the Waika.to-Maniapoto Maori T Land Distriot hereby notifies that .. meeting of the owners of Rangitoto-Tuhua 7BB No. 2A will be hold, in pur­ HE Maori Land Board for the Waiariki Maori Land suance of Part XVIII of tbe Native Land Act, 1909, at T District hereby notifies that a meeting of the ownerS Taumarunui on Thursday, the 25th day of May, 1916, at of Paengaroa North D IB will be held, in pursuance of Part 4 o'olock in the afternoon, for the purpose of considering XVIII of the Native Land Act, 1909, at Te Puke on Tuesday, the following proposed resolution;- the 20th day of June, 1916, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, " That the lBond be leased to Margaret Jean Goldsmith for for the purpose of considering the following proposed resolu­ a term of forty-two years at an annnal rental of Is. Gd. per tion:- acre during the first twenty-one years and 3s. per acre "That a proposed alienation of the land by way of lease during the remaining twenty.one years. Compensation up to Ropata te Wharehuia shall be agreed to." to £8 per acre." Dated at Rotorua this 29th day of April, 1916. Dated Bot Auokland this 29th day of April, 1916. JAS. W. BROWNE, A. G. HOLLAND, President. President.

BANKRUPTCY NOTICES. In Bankruptcy. IVIDENDS on aJl proved and accepted claims in the III Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Court holden a·t D nndermentioned estates are now payable at the office Auckland. of the undersigned. Estate of Thomas Horan, of Invercargill, Grocer: First and OTICE is hereby given that WILLIAM CHnLI!S Son, final of 4s. 4,d. in the pound. N of Karangahape Road, Anckland, Bootmaker, was Estate of G. S. Templeton, of Glenham. Flax-miller: First this day Bodjudged bankrnpt; and I hereby summon a and final of 2s. 6id. in the pound. meeting of oreditors to he holden at my office on Thursday, CHARLES B. ROUT, the 4th day of May, 1916, at 2.30 o'clock. 3rd May, 1916. Deputy Official Assignee. W. S. FISHER, 2Bth April, 1916. Official Assignee. LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES.

In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Oourt holden at OTICE is hereby given that the parcels of land here­ Gisborne. N inafter desoribed will be bronght under the provi­ sions of the Land Transfer Aot, 1915, unless oaveat he OTICE is hereby given that JOHN HENRY DE MARR, of lodged forbidding the same on or before 5th day of June, N Gisborne, Cycle Agent, was this day adjndged 1916. bankrupt; and I hereby snmmon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office on Tuesday, the 9th day of 5950. WILLI.AM WILSON.-Parts Allotment 90, Parish May, 1916, at 2.30 o'olock. of Maungatapere, containing together 95 acres 2. roods 28 per­ A. G. BEERE, ches. Occupied by Applicant. Plan 10140. 26th April, 1916. Deputy Official Assignee. 6015. ROBERT GLEN MACMORRAN.-Lots 126, 127, and part Lot 128 of Kanaeranga Blocks 13 and 14, Town of Grahamstown, containi1\g 17·2 perches, fronting Albert Street, In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Oourt holden at Thames. Occupied by Applicant. Plan 10537.- Ohristchurch. 6043. HENRY UMPTON POYNTER.-Allotments 234, 235, 237, and 238, Parish of Puketu, containing 90 seres OTICE is hereby given that FRED ROWE and THOllUS 2 roods 24 perches. Occupied by Charles Jeremiah Corboy, N HENRY ROWE, trading as "F. Bond H. Rowe." Tailors, Frederick Joseph Corboy, and Edward Marie Corboy. Plan 620 Colombo Street, were this day adjudged bankrnpt; 10456. and I hereby summon a meeting of creditors to be holden Diagrams may be inspected at this office. at my office. 96 Gloucester Street, on Monday, the Bth day Dated this 2nd day of May, 1916, at the Lands Registry of May, 1916, at 2.30 o'clook in the afternoon. Office, Anckland. THOS. HALL, . M. C. BARNETT, Distriot Land Registrar. 2nd May, 1916. Acting Official Assignee. OTICE is hereby given that the paroel of land here- In Bankruptcy.-In the Supreme Oourt holden at N inafter described will be brought nnder the provi. Dunedin. sions of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless oaveat be _ lodged forbidding the same on or before the 8th day of OTICE is hereby given tha$ COBBIE DUNCAN AYSON, June, 1916. . iN late of Dunedin, bnt now of Christchurch, Motor- JOHN GILLMAN BEAM~SR.-rart~ of SectIons 24 and driver, was this day adjudged bankrupt; and I hereby 129, Patea. Suburban. OCCUPIed by Apphcant. No. 1335. summon a meeting of creditors to be holden at my office, Diagram may be inspected at this office. 203 Princes Street, Dunedin, on Thursday, \he 11th day of r Dated this 2nd day of May, 1916, at the Lands Registry May, 1916, at 2.30 o'clock. Office, New Plymouth. . CRAS. ZACHARIAH, . A. V. STURTEVANT, 27th April, 1916. Official Assignee. District Land Registrar. 1658 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 54

PPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of part 5 (100 acres), 22, 23, and 24 in Block VII, all in the A a provisional cert"ificate of title in the name of JOHN Tiriraukawa Survey District; as the said special.rating BROWN, of Masterton, Settler, for Lot 27, D.P. 637, of district is more particularly shown upon the map annexed to subdivision of Section 22, Taueru Block, being the whole of the ratepayers' consent to such loan, and thereon bordered the land oomprised in certificate of title, Vol. 70, folio 262, red. And that such special rate shall bc an alillual-recurring and evidence having been lodged of the loss or destruction rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly of the said certificate of title, I hereby give notice that I on the first day of May in each and every year during the will issue the provisional certificate of title, as requested, currency of such loan, being a period of thirty-six years and a on the 19bh day of May, 1916. half, or until the loan is fully paid 011;," Dated this 3rd day of May, 1916, at the Lands Registry I, Bennet Perry Lethbridge, Chaimian of the Rangitikei Offioe, Wellington. County Council, do hereby certify that the above resolution G. G. BRIDGES, was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the Rangi­ District Land Registrar. tikei COlllty Council held on the 8th day of April, 1916. In testimony whereof the common seal of the Council has been affixed this 8th day of April, 1916. O'£IOE is hereby given tllal tbe parcels or land herein· N aher desoribed will be brought under the provlsioDS BEN. P. LETHBRIDGE, of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged Chairman, Rangitikei County Council. forbidding the same within one month from the date of the Witness-Harold H. Richardson, County Clerk. 319 Gazette containing this notioe. 11908. MAUD SUSANNAH SKEVINGTON.-52 acres RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL. 3 roods 5 perches, part of Rural Sections 992, 3069, 3101, 3946, Block VIII, R!Lngiora District. Occupied by Applicant. RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE. - LOAN m' £300.­ 12247. COOPER AND DUNCAN (LIMITED).-l acre PUKENAUA·NAMUNUI SPECIAL· RATING DISTRICT. o roods 28·2 perches, part of Town Reserve 105, City of Christ­ church. Oooupied by Applicant. I N pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that 12253. CHARLES HENRY MOIR. -1 acre 0 roods behalf by the Local Bodks' Loans Act, 1913, the Rangi. 2·2 perches, Lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, deposited pIa" No. 3853, tikei County Council hereby resolyes as follows :- part of Rural Section 243F, St. Albans Ward, City of Christ· "That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in church. Occupied by Joseph Henry Dearsley. respect of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of £300, authorized to be raised by the Rangitikei Diagrams may be inspected at this office. County Council, under the Local Redies' Loans Act, 1913, Dated this 2nd day of May, 1916, at tbe Lands Registry for the purpose of trimming and gravelling the Pukenaua Office, Christchurch. Road from the end of the present gravelled portion to its W. WYINKS, junction with thc Namunui Road, a distance of about one District Land Registrar. mile, and the cost of raising the loan to be paid out of the loan, the said Rangitikei County Council hereby makes and OTICE is hereby given that the parcel of land herein. levies a special rate of one penny farthing (ltd.) in the pound N after described will be brought under tbe provisions sterling upon the rateable value (on the basis of the capital of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, unless caveat be lodged value) of all rateable property of the Pukenaua·Namunui forbidding the same witbin one month from the publication Special·rating District. comprising Sections 9A, part 11 hereof in the Gazette. (32 acres), 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, part 22 (45 acres), and part 27 (50 acres), all in Block XIII, Ohinewairua Survey 5198. ELIZABETH THOMSON.-l rood 0-4 perch, p,,,,·ts District; as the said special.rating districti. more particularly Sections 42 and 43, Block XVIII, City of Dunedin. Occupicd shown upon the map annexed to the ratepayers' consent to partly by James Brown and partly by Applicant. such loan, and thereon bordered red. And that such special Diagram may be inspected at this office. rate shall be an annual·recurring rate during the currency Dated this 1st day of May, 1916, at the Lands Registry of such loan, and be payable yearly on the first day of May in Office, Dunedin. each and every year during the currency of such loan, being C. E. NALDER, a period of thirty·six years and a half, or until the loan is District Land Registrar. fully paid off." I, Bennet Perry Lethbridge, Chairman of the Rangitikei County Council, do hereby certify that the above resolution A PPLICATION having been made to me for the issue of was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the Rangi." a provisional certificate of title in the name of GEORGE tikei County Council held on the 11th day of April, 1916. ROSE, late of Dipton, Farmer, now deceased, for Section 13, In testimony whereof the common seal of the Council has Block XXI, Town of Arrowtown, being the land contained been affixed this 8th day of April, 1916. in certificate of title, Vol. 59, folio 259, and evidence having been lodged of the loss of the said certificate of title, I hereby BEN. P. LETHBRIDGE, give notice that I shall issue a provisional certificate of title, Chairman, Rangitikei County Council. as requested, unless caveat be lodged forbidding the same Witness-Harold H. Richardson, County Clerk. 320 within fourteen days . from the date of publicat.ion of this notice in the Gazette. EKETAHUNA COUNTY COUNCIL. Dated at the Lands Registry Office, Dunedin, the 1st day May, 1916. RESOLUTION MAKING AND LEVYING A SPECIAL RATE, ETC. C. E. NALDER, Distriot Land Registrar. N pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that I behalf by tho Looal Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Eketa. huna County Council hereby resolves as follows :- That, for the purpose of providing the instalment in respect ADVERTISEMENTS. of principal and interest and also the other charges on a loan of live hundred pounds, authorized to be raised by the Eketa­ huna County Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, RANGITIKEI COUNTY COUNCIL. 1913, for metalling Pori Road, the said Eketahuna County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of nine· RESOLUTIO~ MAKING SPECIAL RATE.-LOAN OF £1,000.­ sixteenths of one penny in £1 upon the rateable value of all Pt:KEMAPOU No.2 SPECIAL-RATING DISTRICT. rateable property of the Pori Road Loan No.2 Special.rating Area, comprising part Sec. 13, Block I, part 6 and Secs. 7/8, N pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in Block II, Secs. 1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 21, Block V, I that behal£ by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the Rangitikei County Council hereby resolves as follows :- part Sec. 1 and Sees. 2, 5, Block VI, Puketoi S.D.; and that "That, for the purpose of providing the instalments in such special rate shall be an annual·recurring rate during the respect of principal and interest and also the other oharges on currency of such loan. and be payable half-yearly on the a loan of £1,000, authorized to be raised by the Rangitikei 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each and County Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act. 1913, every year during thc currency of such loan, being a period for the purpose of metalling the Pukemapou Road and the of thirty·six and a half years (36.), or until the loan is fully cost of raising the loan to be paid out of the loan, the said paid off. Rangitikei County Council hcroby makes and levies a special And that the common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, rate of three·farthings (ld.) in the pound sterling upon the and Inhabitants ofthe County of Eketahuna be affixed hereto. rateable value (on the basis of the capital value) of all rateable J. B. CARRUTHERS, property of the Pukemapou No. 2 Special-rating District, Chairman. oomprising Seotions 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 22 in Block III, F. COWLAM, Section part 23 (100 acres) in Block IV, and Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 321 County Clerk. MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1659

EKETAHUNA COUNTY COUNCIL. GOLDEN' FLAT MINING COMPANY (LIMITED).

RESOL"LTION STRIKING A ~PECIAL RA'l'll; IN JtES1'EC'1' OJ<' A 1:'\ YUlXNTAltY Lll~l·IIL\'J'JUN. LOAN OF £140 (BEING PORTIONS OF A TEN-PER-CENT. LOAN ON £1,445) ~-OR ALFREDTON-WEBRR ROAD. OTICE is hereby gh'en tlu,t at a special general meeting l..N of the shareholders in the above company hcld at N pursuance and exercise of the POWel'" vested in it in Wanganui on the 17th day of April. l!llfi. the following I that behalf by the Loc,,1 Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, th" extraordinary resolution was passed hy -the requisite Eketahuna County Council hereby resolves as follows :- majority:-- Whereas a loan of £1,600 was duly authorized for the " That as it is pl'Oved to tIlt' sat.isfact iotl of the company purp~se of extending the metalling of Alfredton-Weber Road. that the company cannot. on account of its liabilities and but, as the special rate struck was not sufficient for the full lack of working capital. continue its business. and as it is amount of the loan, a sum of £1,44.~ only was raised: advisable to wind up the company, the company go into And whereas the amount 80 raised has been found insufficient voluntary liquidation forthwith; and that a Liquidator be for such purpose of providing the instalments in respect of appointed hy the meeting." principal and interest and also the other chargos on a supple­ R. DUNKLEY, F.I.A.N.Z., Liquidator. mentary loan of one hundred and forty pounds. authorized to P.O. Box 11. Wanganui. 325 be raised by the Eketahuna County Council. unller the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913. and more particularly by section 18 thereof, for completing the metalling of Alfredton-Weber In the matter of Ross GOLDFIELDS RECONSTRcCTED Road: (LIMITED). The said Eketahuna County Council hereby makes and levies a sp3cial rate of one twenty-fourth of one penny in the I·N terms of seetion :22H of the Companies Act, 1908, notice pJund (l!24th in £1) upon the unimproved rateable value of is here by given that at an extraordinary general mceting all rate",!>le propnty of the Alfrectton-Weber l~oad Loan of noss noldfielcls Reeonstrocted (Limited) held at the Splcial-mt,ing Area, more particnh>r1y set out and deRcrihed Chamb'.H' of Commp.r~e Hall, Rwanson St.rppt" Auokland; on on page 425:1, N_Z. Gazette, 1914, in conn~etion with the Tuesday, the 11th day of April. 19lU, at :1.15 o'clock in the levying of the sp~cial mte on the origill.alloan of £1,HOO. And afternoon. the following resolution was duly passed as an that such special rate shall he an annual-recurring rate during extraordin"ry re~Qllltion :- the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the RESQI,{;TION. 1st day of Fehruary ",'ld the 1st day of August in each and every year during the currenc~' of such loan. being a period "That it lu" I",,:n proved to the satisfaction of the company of thirty-six and a haH years (36t), or until the 101m is fully that the c01ll1){tny cannot hy rea,HOIl of it:;; lia.hiliti[.R cont.ilu:e paid oil'. its business, "ud that it is advisable to wind up saUle, and J. K CARRUTHERS, accordingly that the company he wound up yohmtarily llI'der Chairlnan. the provisions of the Companies Act, 1908." And that the common so,,} of the Chairman, Councillors. HERBERT DOl'GLAS VICKERY and GEORGE :FRANCIS DAVIS and InhaUitants of the County of Eketahuna be affixed hereto. were appointpd Li'luidatoI'l for the purposes of winding-up. We hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of GEO. F. DAVIS, the resolution passed Saturday, the eighth day of April, 19J 6, ChairInan. and appearing in the minute-book of the Council. 27th April. I!lIG, Wel1ington. :W6 J. B. CARRL'THERS. Chairman. F, COWLAM, In the mattPl' of the Compani,.s Act. 1!lOR ; and in the 322 Coun ty Clerk. matter of Ross GOLDFIELDS RECONSTRUCTED (LIMITGD), in \'oluntary Liquidation . ._---_._._- ~--- OTTCR is hereby given that the creditors of the ahove­ KIWITEA COUNTY COUNCIL. ..LN named company arc required, on or before the nine­ teenth day of :na.\', 1!ll(l, to send their nallleS ana addn:sses, W_UTc!U COTTAGE LOA~.-RESOLUTlO" MAK1NO SPEOIAL and the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names RATE. and addresses of their solicitors (if any). to GEORGE FRA_""CIS DAVIS and HERBER'r DouuLAs VrCKRRY, at 100 Customhouse I N pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by Quay, \Vel1ington, the Liquidators of the ,aid cUI1pany; and, the Counties Act, 1908, and amendments thereto, the if so required b.v notice in writing from the said Liquidators, Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, and of every other power are personally 01' by their solicitors to come in and prove and anthority in that behalf enabling it. the Kiwitea County their said debts or claims at such time and place as shall be Council hereby resolves as follows :- specified in such notice, or in default thereof they will he That, for the purpose of providing t he interest an d other excluded fmm the benefit of anv distribution made before charges on a loan of £.350, authorized to be raised by the such debts or claims are proved. : Kiwitea County Council, under the above-mentioned Acts, CEO. F. DAVIS, for the purpose of providing the cost of purchase of Lots 21, H. D. VICKERY, 22, and 23, Village of West Waitapu, Block XV, Ongo S.D., Liquidators. together with the buildings erccted thereon, for the purpose of Dated at Wellington this 2ith day of April, 191G. 327 using same for a roadman's dwelling, the said Kiwitea County Council hereby makes a levies a special rate of one-fortieth of one penny in the pound sterling upon the rateable value A UTRORIZED REPRESENTA TIVB. (on the basis of the' capital value) of all rateable property of the Ongo Riding of tho County of Kiwitea; and that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate during the I HEREBY eertifv that the Reverend SAMUEL LAWRY has currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the been duly appointed by the New Zealand Methodist first day of October and first day of April in each and every Conference as Authorized Representative for the year 19l1i-17. year during the currency of the said loan, being a period of ALBERT C. LA WRY, ten years. or until the said loan is fully paid off. 328 Presiden t of the Confereuce. We hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a resolution passed at a special meeting of the Kiwitca County Council held on the 15th day of April, 1916. In the lllatter of th" Compilnil;s Act, 1908, and of I{. D. A. E. PEARCE, BARFORD A:"D COMPA~Y (LIMl'rgD). Chairman. OTICE is hereby given that a petition for the winding­ L. J. VERRY, N up of tile above-named company by the Supreme 323 County Clerk. Court was on the 8th day of April, 1916, presented to the Honourable Sir Robert Stout, K.C.~.G., Chief Jnstice of New Zealand, by Bing, Harris, and Company (Limited), a N'OTICE OF DI~'30LUTION OF PARTNERSHIP, company registered under the above Act, having its registered office in Dunedin, and carrying on business there and else­ OTTCE is hereby given that the Partnership lately sub­ where in New Zealand as a Mereh

",t the tinw of hearing by himself 01' his coum;cl for that an account laid before them showing the manner in which purpose. And'" copy of the petition will be furnished to the winding-up has been conducted and the property of the any creditor 01' contribntory of the said company requiring company disposed of, an

MAKARA COUNTY COUNCIL. PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL_

No. :3 SPECIAL-RATING AREA.-RECONSTRUCTION OF, AND RESOLUTION MAKING SPECIAL RATE. OTHER EXTRAORDINARY REPAIRS TO, BRIDGES AND ROADS DAMAGED BY FLOOD.-RESOLUTION MAKING RATE. HAT, as the amount of the loan of £100,000 known as T " The Gasworks Loan," authorized under the Local In the matter of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913. Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, at a poll of ratepayers taken on the N pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in 22nd day of April, 1914, is found insufficient to (omplete the I that behalf by the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, the undertaking in respect of which it was raised, the Council :\Iakara County Council hereby resolves as follows :- of the Borough of Palmerston N orlh hereby decidcs to borrow "That, for the purpose of providing for the instalments from the same (the Public Trustee) or any other lender a further sl1m of £10,000 (being one-tenth of the amount in respect of the princip~1 and interest and other charges on a loan of £1,000, authorized to be raised by the Makara originally authorized by the ratepayers) at a rate of interest County Council, under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, not exceeding £5 per centum per annum, with a sinking func' for the purp03e of constructing ncw bridges to replace those of £1 lOs. per centum per annum. And, in·pursuance and that were destroyed by flood in November, 1915, and re­ exercise of the powers vested in it, in that, behalf by the said pairing damage caused by the same flood to other bridges Act, the Council of the Borough of Palmerston North hereby and roads throughout the Porirua Riding of thc Makara resolves as follows :- County, and of refunding to the Porirua Riding Account That, for the purpose of providing for the interest and snch sums that have' been expended for this purpose prior sinking fund and principal and other charges on the said loan to the raising of the loan, the said Makara County Council or further sum of £10,000, authorizerl to be raised aforesaid, hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/82 of one penny the said Council hereby makes and levies (in addition to the in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable pro­ special rate made and levied in rcspect of the original loan) perty (on the basis of capital value) of the No.3 Special­ a special rate of one-ninth of a penny in t,he pound upon the rating Area, comprising the whole of the Porirua Riding rateable value of all rateable propcrty of the Borough of (excopting that portion of the riding known as thc No.2 Palmerston North, comprising the whole of the said horough, Special-rating Area, vide the New Zealand Ga.zette, page 2243, on the basis of the unimproyed value; and that such special 18th July, 1912), the lands of the No.3 Special-rating Arca rate shall be an annual-recurrin!! rate during thc currency of being shown on plan and comprised within the blue tint such loan or further sum of £10,000. and be payable half­ thereon. And that such ra'te shall be an annually recurring yearly on the first day of June and the first day of December rate during the currency of such loan, and shall be payable in each and every year during the currency of such loan or yearly on the first day of September in each and every year further sum, being a period of 33 years, or until the loan or during the curreney of such loan, being a period of thirty-six further sum is fully paid off. years and a half (36!), or until the loan is fully paid ofl'." Passed by the Palmerston North Borough Council on the P",ssed at a duly constituted meeting of the Makara County 18th day of April, 1916. Council held in the County Chambers, Ballance Street, W el­ W_ H. COLLINGWOOD, lington, the fourteenth day of April, one thousand nine 333 Town Clerk. hundred and sixteen. The eommon seal of the Makara County Council was hereto affixed this 14th day of April, 1916. CONSOLIDATED STATUTES. H. J. MONAGHAN, Chairman_ REDUCTION IN PRICE TO THE PUBLIC. WILFRED L. BEECH, Clerk. ETS of Consolidated Statutes consisting of Five I hereby ccrtify that the above is a corrcct copy of a reso­ S Volumes, in Cloth Binding, may now be obtained at lution appearing upon the minute-book o! the Makara County the price of £5 per set. Couneil. WIL]<'RED L. BEECH, JOHN MACKAY, 330 County Clerk. Government Printer. Printing 'tnd Stationery Department, 21st November, 1913. CANTERBURY COLT.EGR

ELECTJOX OF MEMBER OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS. BANKRUPTCY NOTICES.

N pur.manc~ of regulations under the Uanterbury College HE public are informed that extracts from the N eu I and Canterbury Agricultural College Act, 1896, I, George T Zealand Gazette, containing all Bankruptcy Notices Harry M""J11 , R~turning Officer, do hereby notify that the that appear in each issue, are published weekly, and will llnd"rll\~nt.ioned person has been duly elected a memher of be sent post-free to any address on payment of a subscrip. the Board of Govcrnors of C:>nterbury College, by tho electors tion of lOs. per annum. Single copies, 3d. each. on the Graduates Electoral Roll :- Orders should be addressed- ARTHeR ED;ARD FWWER, M.A. "GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON_" GEO. H. MASON, 331 Returning Officer. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE.

VIVIAN BRIQUETTE COMPANY (LIMITED). PUBLISHED MONTHLY. IN VOLUNTARY LIQUIDATIO". SUBSCRIPTION, 2s. 6D. PER ANNUM, INCLUDING POSTAGE. SINGLE COPY, 6D. OTICE is hereby given7n pursuance of section 230 of I NL the Companies Act, 1908, that a general meeting of UBSCIUPTIOKS should be forwarded by postal note the members of the above-named company will be held S or stamps (preferably the former) to the Publisher, at the offices of :\1".sr8. Watkins, Hull, and Wheeler, Johnston Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, Streot, Wellington, on the twenty-third day of May, 1916, Wellington. Subscribers .hould furnish full name and at 2.1.3 o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of having address_ MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1.661

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS GEOLOGICAL AND MINING PUBLICATIONS.

THE following Works, published under the authorit., THE following Works, published under the authority of the Gove.rnment, are now on sale at th, of the Government, are now on sale at the Stationery Department, Wellington, and will be tranf Stationery Department,Wellington, and will be trans­ mitted at the published price to any address in tho mitted at the published price to any address in the Dominion :- Dominion :- GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN No.1: The Geology of FOREST FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. By T the Hokitika Sheet, North Westland Quadrangle. KIRK, F.L.S. Numerous plates. Imp. folio, hal By DR. BELL. 2s. 6d. morocco, 20s. Fcp. folio, cloth, 12s. 6d. GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN No.2: The Geology of MANUAL OF THE NEW ZEALAND FLORA the Area covered by the Alexandra Sheet, Central By T. F. CHEESEMAN, F.L.S.; F.Z.S. Demy 8vo Otago Division. By JAMES PARK. 2s. 6d. Cloth, 1,200 pp., lOs. MUNICIPAL HANDBOOK OF NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN No.3: The Geology of 1913. Compiled by direction of the Hon. the Minis the Parapara Subdivision, Karamea, Nelson. By ter of Internal Affairs. Demy 8vo. Cloth, 2s. 6d. DR. BELL. 2s. 6d. INTRODUCTORY CLASS-BOOK OF BOTANY GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN No.4: The Geology of FOR USE IN NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS. the Coromandel Subdivision, Auckland. By COLIN By G. M. THOMPSON, F.R.S. Demy 8vo. Cloth. FRASER, assisted by J. H. ADAMS. 2s. 6d. 2s. 6d.; paper, Is. 6d. GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN No.5: The Geology of TROUT - FISHING AND SPORT IN MAORI the Cromwell Subdivision, Western Otago. By LAND. By Captain G. D. HAMILTON. Demy 8vo JAMES PARK. 2s. sd. 450 pp., with illustrations. Cloth boards, lOs. 6d. GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN No.6: The Geology of the Mikonui Subdivision, North Westland. By HANDY BOOB. ON THE LA};"D TRANSFEl P. G. MORGAN. 2s. 6d. ACT, 1885, AND AMENDMENTS. 2s.6d. GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN No.8: The Geolo~y of A WAR D S, RECOMMENDATIONS, AGREE the Whangaroa Subdivision, Hokianga DiVIsion. MENTS, ETC., made under the Industrial Con By J. M. BELL and l

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