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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 18th November, 1902.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Wairoa County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

NOTICE UNDER “THE LOCAL BODIES’ LOANS ACT, 1901.”

THE following is the result of the poll taken this day on the proposal to borrow £11,350 for forming and metalling various roads in the Wairoa County:—

Number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 120; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 59; number of informal votes, 1.

As the number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal is three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

W. A. NEALE,
Chairman, Wairoa County Council.

Wairoa, 12th November, 1902.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 17th November, 1902.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Oxford Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

OXFORD ROAD BOARD.

Notice pursuant to “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

THE result of the poll on loan proposals, taken at the Road Board Office, Oxford, on Thursday, 6th November, 1902, was as follows:—

For the proposed loan, 175; against, 35: informal, 2.

The majority (140) for the loan being in excess of the three-fifths required by the Act, the proposals are therefore carried.

ARTHUR WRIGHT,
Chairman, Oxford Road Board.

R. H. GAINSFORD,
Returning Officer.

Notice to Mariners No. 79 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 6th November, 1902.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 57 of 1902, issued by this Department on the 11th August last, the following notice, received from the Department of Ports and Harbours, Melbourne, Victoria, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

VICTORIA.—PORT PHILLIP HEADS.—SUBMARINE BLASTING OPERATIONS.

REFERRING to Notices to Mariners Nos. 5 and 31, of 20th December, 1901, and 16th July, 1902, respectively, it is hereby notified that submarine blasting operations have been resumed in the fairway entrance to Port Phillip, and mariners and boatmen are cautioned, in accordance with former notices, not to approach nearer than a quarter of a mile to the boats or attendant steamer engaged at such operations during slack water.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Department of Ports and Harbours,
Melbourne, 15th October, 1902.

Notice to Mariners No. 80 of 1902.

ASTROLABE ROADS, TASMAN BAY.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 6th November, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the buoy which marked Hapuka Reef, Astrolabe Roads, has disappeared. Due notice will be given when it is relaid.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Transfer of an Officer from the Lands and Survey Department to the Department of Roads.

Department of Roads,
Wellington, 19th November, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to transfer the following officer from the Department of Lands and Survey to the Department of Roads, as from 1st December, 1901, and, as that officer is already on the permanent staff of the Civil Service, to appoint him as from the same date to the Department of Roads in the position mentioned against his name:—

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Lands.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1888,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

HENRY ARTHUR EDWARD DUNSFORD,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster, under “The Post Office Act, 1900,” at Komata, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-thirty-fourth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

As witness my hand, this fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and two.

RANFURLY, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

President of Council under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” appointed.

Office of Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 14th November, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM JAMES BUTLER, Judge of the Native Land Court,

to the office of President of the Aotea District Maori Land Council, under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900.”

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

1st December to be a Holiday in Celebration of St. Andrew’s Day.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th November, 1902.

THE Government offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on Monday, 1st December, 1902, in celebration of St. Andrew’s Day.

W. C. WALKER,
For Colonial Secretary.

Authorising the Laying-off of Main Street, Town of Becklands, of a Width of 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 12th November, 1902.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of Main Street, in the Town of Becklands, Taranaki Land District, of a width of 66 ft., instead of 99 ft., as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.