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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 4th April, 1910.

THE following notice, received from the Secretary to the Havelock Harbour Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.”

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

HAVELOCK HARBOUR BOARD.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

I HEREBY give notice, under the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908,” that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Havelock Harbour District, taken on the 23rd day of March, 1910, upon a proposal to raise a special loan of £750 for dredging and improving a channel from Cullen’s Point to Havelock Wharf, including portion of the expenditure incurred on dredging plant in use and works in hand, the number of votes recorded for and against the proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 28 votes; against the proposal, 11 votes.

And as the total number of votes given in favour of the proposal is more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby declare the said proposal to be carried.

H. M. READER,
Chairman, Havelock Harbour Board.

Member of Investment Board of New Zealand Government Insurance Department appointed.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 31st March, 1910.

IT is hereby notified that the officer holding the position of Secretary of the Treasury has been appointed as a member of the Government Insurance Department’s Board of Investment in lieu of the officer holding the position of the Government Advances to Settlers Office Superintendent.

J. G. WARD,
Minister in Charge of Government Insurance Department.

Notice to Mariners No. 30 of 1910.

CHANGE IN LIGHT ON JACKSON HEAD BEACON, ENTRANCE TO QUEEN CHARLOTTE SOUND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 4th April, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Wigham beacon lamp on Jackson Head has been changed for a Pintsch-gas light, and the light altered from a fixed light to an occulting light, giving 3 seconds’ light and 3 seconds’ darkness alternately. The focal plane of the new light is 55 ft. above sea-level, and the light will be visible all round the horizon, except when obscured by the land. It should be visible in clear weather for a distance of ten miles, and in exceptionally clear weather may possibly be seen to the full range for the height—viz., thirteen miles.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 695, 2054, 2685, 3629, and 1212; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chap. vi, page 173; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1910, page 112.

J. G. WARD,
For Minister of Marine.

Forbidding Money-order and Postal Correspondence for S. Henry, Sydney.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in advertising the treatment of diseases of the sexual organs, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of “The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,” that no money-order in favour of the said person shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his own or any fictitious or assumed name), or to such address without a name, shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

S. HENRY, Post-office Box 887, Sydney.

Dated this 4th day of April, 1910.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Postmaster-General.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of Road through Makirikiri Native Reserve, Block XIII, Mangaone Survey District, Mauriceville County.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 93 of “The Public Works Act, 1908,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 4th day of March, 1910, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 7th day of August, 1909.

SCHEDULE.

In the Land District of Wellington; as the said road is delineated on a plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

Dated this 31st day of March, 1910.

R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

Kangaroo Acacia declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Maraetai Road Board.—Notice No. 1401.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 6th April, 1910.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Maraetai Road Board has, by special order, declared kangaroo acacia to be a noxious weed within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1908,” in the Board’s district.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture, Industries and Commerce, and Tourist and Health Resorts.

Officiating Ministers for 1910.—Notice No. 11.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1910.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1908,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend William Henry Wilson.

Congregational Independents.

The Reverend Ernest A. Bridger.
The Reverend William Tanner.

Wellington Association of Spiritualists.

Mr. William McLean.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Surveyors licensed.

The Surveyors’ Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 1st April, 1910.

IT is hereby notified for general information that licenses under “The Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908,” have been issued by the Surveyors Board to the following surveyors:—

Surveyor. Address:
ROBERT BLACK .. .. Wellington.
ARTHUR HASTINGS BRIDGE .. .. Christchurch.
JOHN BERRY CUTHBERT .. .. Napier.
HENRY GODFREY .. .. Port Levy.
HUGH VICKERMAN .. .. Christchurch.

C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.