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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

packages mentioned therein contain [number to be
stated] skins obtained from rabbits taken or des-
troyed within a district constituted under "The
Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1876," or "The Rabbit Nui-
sance Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1877."
2. The exporter or his agent shall produce the
packages for the examination of the proper officer of
Customs, and obtain his certificate on a copy of the
export entry, of the due exportation of the number
of rabbit-skins stated in the declaration.
3. The exporter or his agent shall attach the cer-
tificate to the form upon which he makes claim for
payment, which claim must be certified by the prin-
cipal officer of Customs at the port of exportation.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the
Governor, this twentieth day of Decem-
ber, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Member of Upper Motueka Road Board elected.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1877.

IN conformity with the provisions of an Act of
the Provincial Council of the late Province of
Nelson, intituled "The (Nelson) Highways Act,
1872," it is hereby notified that

Mr. ALEXANDER DRUMMOND

has been elected Member for the Stanley Brook
Sub-district, Upper Motueka Road Board, vice Mr.
J. Griffith, resigned.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Notice in accordance with Section 145 of "The Muni-
cipal Corporations Act, 1876," by the Mayor of
Gisborne.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1877.

THE following notice, received from His Worship
the Mayor of Gisborne, is published for general
information, in accordance with Section 145 of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1876."

G. S. WHITMORE.

NOTICE is hereby given that, at a poll of the Burgesses
on the 17th October, 1877, it was decided, by 132
votes to 12, that a loan of £50,000 should be raised,
for the purpose of building a break-water and forming
a harbour inside the same; reclaiming the foreshore
of the river; forming and metalling a road from
the proposed works to the bridge; and building a
bridge over the Turanganui River.
That the security offered should be the borough
rates; a special rate of sixpence in the £; and rent
of foreshore and wharves, borough property.

WM. F. CRAWFORD,
Mayor.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 19th December, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

JOHN SHEPHERD, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages, and of Births and
Deaths, and also Vaccination Inspector, for the Dis-
trict of Albertland.

G. S. WHITMORE.

Census Enumerators and Superintendent Collectors
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1877.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be
Census Enumerators and Superintendent Collectors
of Agricultural Statistics for the Census and Collec-
tion of 1878, under "The Census Act, 1877," and to
define that the district for which each shall act shall
be that portion of the colony comprised by the
counties or parts of counties specified opposite his
name, including the boroughs within their defined
boundaries :----

Names of Enumerators. Counties in Districts.
JAMES H. GREENWAY { Mongonui.
Hokianga.
Bay of Islands.
Hobson.
Whangarei.
JOHN KING ... { Rodney.
Waitemata.
Eden.
Manukau.
WILLIAM FRASER ... { Coromandel.
Thames.
Piako.
HERBERT W. BRABANT { Tauranga.
Whakatane.
East Taupo.
West Taupo.
HARRY KENRICK ... { Cook.
Wairoa.
Waikato.
WILLIAM G. MAIR ... { Waipa.
Raglan.
Kawhia.
JAMES B. LAWSON { Taranaki.
Wanganui.
EDWARD HARDCASTLE { Patea.
Rangitikei.
ROBERT WARD ... { Manawatu.
Hawke's Bay.
SAMUEL BEGG ... { Waipawa.
Wairarapa East.
HERBERT S. WARDELL { Wairarapa West.
Hutt.
LEONARD STOWE ... { Sounds.
Marlborough.
STEPHEN L. MULLER { Kaikoura.
Waimea.
Collingwood.
ROBERT POLLOCK ... { Part Amuri, north of
Clarence River.
Buller.
Inangahua.
WILLIAM S. MUNDAY { Grey.
Westland.
GERHARD MUELLER { Part Amuri, south of
Clarence River.
Cheviot.
CALEB WHITEFOORD... { Ashley.
Selwyn.
Akaroa.
FREDERICK DE C. MALET { Ashburton.
Geraldine.
CHARLES E. COOPER { Waimate.
Waitaki.
THOMAS M. SMITH ... { Part Waikouaiti, north
of Blueskin Ranges.
Maniototo.
WILLIAM L. SIMPSON { Vincent.