JULY 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1291

Members of Harbour Boards appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has, in pursuance and exercise of all the powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, appointed

GEORGE MATTHEWSON,
WILLIAM SIEVWRIGHT, and
JOHN CLARK

to be members of the Gisborne Harbour Board;

SAMUEL CARNELL,
JOHN-HELIER VAUTIER, and
HENRY WILLIAMS

to be members of the Napier Harbour Board;

LEVI SARTEN,
JOE WARD, and
JAMES BELLRINGER

to be members of the New Plymouth Harbour Board; and

MATTHEW EDWARD HIATT and
JOHN MCLACHLAN

to be members of the Waimakariri Harbour Board.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Members of Harbour Boards appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased, in pursuance and exercise of all the powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, to appoint

THOMAS GILROY and
EDWIN POLLARD

to be members of the Bluff Harbour Board; and

GEORGE BRIDGER FLINT and
HENRY JAMES HANSEN

to be members of the Wairoa Harbour Board.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Members of Greymouth Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 5th July, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government, in Council, has, in pursuance of the provisions of sections 3 and 4 of “The Greymouth Harbour Board Act, 1884,” and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, appointed

ARTHUR ROBERT GUINNESS,
JAMES KERR,
WILLIAM ROBERT KETTLE,
ANDREW MATHESON,
JOSEPH PETRIE,
DANIEL SHEEDY, and
FELIX CAMPBELL

to be members of the Greymouth Harbour Board.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment:—

North Canterbury Battalion, Infantry Volunteers.
Captain William Alexander Day, Christ’s College Rifle Volunteers, to be Major. Commission to date from the 10th June, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Temporary Command of District Officer extended.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

Major JOSEPH HENRY BANKS,

late H.M. 7th Dragoon Guards (Lieut.-Colonel N.Z.M.), to the temporary command of the Auckland Militia and Volunteer District, being extended for a further period of four months from the 30th June, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Pohangina County.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1897.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Pohangina County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

COUNTY OF POHANGINA.

THE following is the result of a poll taken on Saturday, 9th May, 1896, on a proposal of the Pohangina County Council to raise the sum of £2,959 by way of loan, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” for the purpose of forming and metalling roads in the Mangaone and Pohangina Ridings, and to levy a special rate on the rateable value of the following properties: viz., Sections 1, 2, 3, Block II.; Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, Block V.; Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Block VI.; Sections 18, 19, 20, 21, 76, 77, Block IX., Pohangina Survey District:—

Number of ratepayers on special roll, 23; number of votes exercisable, 34: Number of ratepayers who voted for the proposal, 14; number of votes recorded for the proposal, 20; number of ratepayers who voted against the proposal, nil; number of votes recorded against the proposal, nil.

A majority of the ratepayers, exercising more than one-half of the total number of votes exercisable, having voted for the proposal, I therefore declare it to be carried.

H. DICKIN,
Chairman, Pohangina County Council.
Pohangina County Council,
Pohangina, 28th June, 1897.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Borough of Karori.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th July, 1897.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Karori, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886.”

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

BOROUGH OF KARORI.—PROPOSAL TO RAISE A SPECIAL LOAN OF £4,000.

Notice is hereby given that the result of the poll taken on the 29th day of June, 1897, on the proposal to borrow £4,000 under the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” for the purpose of forming an improved road to Karori, was as follows:—

Number of ratepayers on roll, 221; number of votes exercisable, 271: Number of burgesses who voted for the proposal, 147; number of votes recorded for the proposal, 173; number of burgesses who voted against the proposal, 12; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 23.

I therefore declare the proposal duly carried.

RICHARD CROFTS BULKLEY,
Mayor.

I, Richard Crofts Bulkley, of the Borough of Karori, in the Provincial District of Wellington, Mayor of the said borough, do solemnly and sincerely declare that all proceedings required by “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” to be taken in or towards obtaining the sanction of the burgesses of the said borough to the proposal to raise a special loan of £4,000 for the said borough have been duly taken, and that the resolution in favour of such proposal has been duly carried.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

RICHARD CROFTS BULKLEY,
Mayor.

Declared at Wellington, this 30th day of June, 1897, before me—W. G. Tustin, J.P.

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th July, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to accept the resignation by the under-mentioned gentlemen of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the colony, viz. :—