Nov. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2337

Registrars of Electors, Taranaki, Westland, and Marsden Electoral Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 29th October, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNBAR BANKS

to be Registrar of Electors under “The Electoral Act, 1902,” for the Electoral District of Taranaki, vice A. H. Holmes; also to appoint

JULIUS CÆSAR MALFROY

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the Electoral District of Westland, vice W. A. D. Banks—appointments to date from the 27th October, 1903: and also to appoint

THOMAS KIRK

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the Electoral District of Marsden, vice D. W. Mason—appointment to date from 29th October, 1903.

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th October, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned 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.
RICHARD CAPSTICK .. .. .. Waimate.
WILLIAM THOMAS COAD .. .. .. Opunake.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

Clerks of Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES ERSKINE PATRICK

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Marton and Bull’s, from the 1st November instant, vice F. M. Deighton, retired; and

Constable JOHN MCNAMARA

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Cambridge, from the 5th November instant, vice W. Shanaghan.

JAS. McGOWAN.

New Zealand Militia Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1903.

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

New Zealand Militia.

Arthur Gould Singleton Hunt (Captain H.M. 3rd Battalion, “The Border Regiment”) to be Captain. Date of commission, 10th October, 1903.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th November, 1903.

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

RICHARD HOLMAN PARISH, Esq.,
of East Oxford, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Special Order made by the Hikurangi Road Board, County of Whangarei.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1903.

THE following special order, made by the Hikurangi Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

J. G. WARD.

SPECIAL ORDER MADE BY THE HIKURANGI ROAD BOARD.

RESOLVED, that a special order be now made declaring gorse (Ulex europæus) to be a noxious weed, for the purposes of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” within the Hikurangi Road District.

I certify that the above special order has been duly made in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

A. CARTER,
Clerk.

Special Order made by the Council of the County of Cook.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 4th November, 1903.

THE following special order, made by the Cook County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” in substitution for that already gazetted on page 2299 of Gazette of 1903.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

COOK COUNTY COUNCIL.

SPECIAL ORDER made by the Cook County Council at a special meeting held on Friday, 28th August, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 2nd October, 1903 :—

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in them in that behalf by “The Counties Act, 1886,” the Cook County Council do hereby resolve as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £1,300, authorised to be raised by the Cook County Council under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for surveying and constructing a dray-road from the Mangatu River, at Whatatutu, to Barron’s Section No. 6, Mangatu I., the said Cook County Council do hereby make and levy a special rate of 1d. in the pound upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property of the Mangamaiia Special District, comprising Lot 1 of 1 Subdivision 8, Subdivision 6, Subdivisions 5 and 4, Lot 3 of Subdivision 1, Lot 2 of Subdivision 1, all of Mangatu I. Block; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly on the 1st day of July in each and every year during a period equal to the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Cook was hereto affixed in the presence of—

JOHN WARREN,
Clerk.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was made in accordance with law, and that all the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886,” and “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” have been complied with.

JOHN WARREN,
Clerk.

Gisborne, 31st October, 1903.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans, Borough of Timaru.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1903.

THE following notices, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Timaru, are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

J. G. WARD.

The Hon. the Colonial Secretary, Wellington.

I, JAMES CRAIGIE, Mayor of the Borough of Timaru, have the honour to notify you that the number of votes recorded at the poll of the electors of the Borough of Timaru, held, under the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” on Tuesday, the 13th day of October, 1903, for a loan of £6,000 for permanent improvements to the streets of the Borough of Timaru, was as follows: Number of votes recorded for the proposal, 343; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 62; informal votes, 7; total votes, 412: majority of valid votes for the proposal, 281: and that the said proposal was therefore carried.

Dated at Timaru, this 26th day of October, 1903.

JAMES CRAIGIE,
Mayor.

Witness to signature and seal—Edwin Hy. Lough, Town Clerk.

BOROUGH OF TIMARU.

In the matter of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”

Statutory Declaration.

I, JAMES CRAIGIE, of Timaru, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, New Zealand, Mayor of the Borough of Timaru, do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare—