JULY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1425

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALFRED WESTON KIRTON

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Ellesmere.

J. G. WARD.

Officer under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” Wellington District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 1901.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

THOMAS BENJAMIN MASON, of Valley Road, Nireaha,

has been appointed an officer for the purposes of that Act for the Wellington Acclimatisation District, as defined by notification under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 22nd June, 1899.

J. G. WARD.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts, Wellington and Westland Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Rangers, under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the districts set opposite their names respectively, viz. :

Name. District.
THOMAS BENJAMIN MASON .. .. Wellington.
WILLIAM HENRY BATSON .. .. Westland.
JOHN MCQUILKAN .. .. Westland.

J. G. WARD.

Public Vaccinator, Chatham Islands, appointed.

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 28th June, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE TUCKER, “M.P.S.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1900,” for the Chatham Islands.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointment:—

Mercantile Rifle Volunteers (Invercargill).

The Reverend John Gibson Smith to be Honorary Chaplain. Commission to date from 23rd January, 1901.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer appointed and resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1901.

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

Napier Rifle Volunteers.

Edward Varley Hudson to be Lieutenant. Commission to date from 13th December, 1899.

Also to accept the resignation of the under-mentioned :—

Napier Rifle Volunteers.

Lieutenant Edward Varley Hudson. Resignation to date from 26th April, 1901.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Defence.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th June, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

MORGAN O’MEARA, Esq.,

of Queenstown, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Justice of the Peace removed from Office.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st July, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in terms of section 7 of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882,” to direct the removal of the name of

HENRY JOHNSTON,

of Auckland, from the Commission of the Peace; and it is hereby notified that such name has been removed accordingly, and that such removal will take effect on and from this date.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th June, 1901.

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

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Borough of Hawera.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st July, 1901.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Hawera, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

J. G. WARD.

HAWERA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

SIR,—I, Charles Edwin Major, Mayor of the Borough of Hawera, in the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, pursuant to section 39 of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886,” give you notice that, on the 14th day of June, 1901, a poll of burgesses of the said Borough of Hawera was taken, under provisions of the said Act, and also under the provisions of “The Local Government Voting Reform Act, 1899,” on a proposal of the Council of the said borough to borrow the sum of £3,170 (part of a total sum of £7,170, £4,000 of which has been already borrowed and expended on drainage-works for the Borough of Hawera) by way of special loan for the purpose of completing drainage-works for the Borough of Hawera under the provisions of the said Acts, a copy of which proposal is next hereinafter set out.

I have, &c.,

C. E. MAJOR,
Mayor of Hawera.

Hawera, 15th June, 1901.