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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 4

Rural Lands in the Hawke’s Bay Land District open for
Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by “The Land for Settlements Act,
1894,” and the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of “The
Land Act, 1892,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, having received
the report of the Surveyor-General in this behalf, as in the
said one hundred and thirty-sixth section is provided, do
hereby declare that the rural land enumerated in the Schedule
hereto shall be open for selection on and after the second
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
eight; and that the said lands may be selected on lease in
perpetuity, subject to the provisions of “The Land Act,
1892”; and I do hereby declare that the rentals at which
the said lands shall be leased shall be those mentioned in
the said Schedule hereto opposite the description of such
lands respectively.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—TOMOANA SETTLEMENT.—
HERETAUNGA SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this nineteenth day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

ARCHIBALD STANSFIELD WHITSON

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and
also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Takapau,
vice Ernest Edward Ingpen, on and from the 30th December,
1897.

J. CARROLL.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point the under-mentioned gentlemen to be the
deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and
Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their
names, viz:—

Name. District.
HERBERT EDWARD BURRELL .. Helensville.
JABEZ BURTON .. Mount Benger.

J. CARROLL.

Officers under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” Otago
District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th January, 1898.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority conferred upon me by sec-
tion 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”—

SAMUEL COUSINS, of Dunedin,
ALEXANDER COWIE, of Caversham, and
THOMAS HENDERSON, of Wendon Valley,

have been appointed officers for the purposes of that Act for
all that area in the Provincial District of Otago bounded
on the east and south by the ocean from Shag Point to the
mouth of the Mataura River; on the north-west by Lake
County; on the west and south-west by the Mataura River;
and on the north, north-west, and north-east by the Counties
of Westland and Waitaki.

W. C. WALKER.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 11th January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector
under “The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to him the
district set opposite his name, viz. :—

Name. District.
Constable ROBERT KELLY .. The Middle Island of the
Colony of New Zealand,
and the islands adjacent
thereto.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Labour.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th January, 1898.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue
Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act,
1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons :—

J. CARROLL.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Upper Wangaehu Road
District, County of Wanganui.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th January, 1898.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Upper Wangaehu Road Board, is published in
accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans
Act, 1886.”

W. C. WALKER.

UPPER WANGAEHU ROAD BOARD.

Result of poll on proposal to borrow £1,500 for completing
and extending the Wangaehu Valley Road and construc-
tion of bridges to Messrs. Whiteman Bros. and S. S. Adden-
brooke’s properties, Upper Wangaehu Road District :—

Total number of ratepayers on roll, 24, representing 39
votes: Votes recorded for proposal, 22; number of rate-
payers voting for the proposal, 15; votes against, nil;
number of ratepayers voting against the proposal, nil;
informal, nil; votes not recorded, 17: total of votes
against, 17.

As a majority in number of the ratepayers voted in favour
of the proposal, and the number so voting are entitled to
more than one-half of the votes which can be exercised by
the whole number of ratepayers, I do hereby declare the
proposal to be carried.

Dated this 4th day of December, 1897.

DUNCAN GRANT,
Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Taratahi-Carterton Road
District, County of Wairarapa South.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th January, 1898.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Taratahi-Carterton Road Board, is published in
accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans
Act, 1886.”

W. C. WALKER.

TARATAHI-CARTERTON ROAD DISTRICT.—VICTORIA AND DALE-
FIELD ROADS SPECIAL RATING DISTRICT.

Poll on Loan of £400.

The following is the result of the poll taken on the 6th day
of January, 1898, upon the proposal to borrow the sum of