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Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds by the Whakatane County Council and by the Raglan Town Board.—Notice No. 1462.

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Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 9th January, 1911.

I T is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned local authorities have by special order declared the plants enumerated opposite each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the districts under the jurisdiction of each respectively :

Local Authority. Plants.
Whakatane County Council Broom, Bathurst burr, gorse.
Raglan Town Board ... Gorse.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

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The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

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Department of Labour,
Wellington, 11th January, 1911.

N OTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Auckland Female Type-setters' Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 188, situated at Auckland, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

EDW. TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

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Department of Labour,
Wellington, 11th January, 1911.

N OTICE is hereby given that the registration of the South Canterbury Cycle Traders' Industrial Union of Employers, registered number 687, situated at Timaru, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

EDW. TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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Town of Rotorua.—Order levying a Hospital Rate, 1910-1911.—Notice No. 1461.

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W HEREAS by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, provision is made for the management of the Town of Rotorua by the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, and the said Department is in respect of the said town created a body corporate :

And whereas by section five of the said Act it is enacted that for the purposes of any Act relating to local authorities the said Department shall, in respect of the said town, be deemed to be a local authority, and that the provisions of any such Act shall (subject to such modifications or exceptions as the Governor by Order in Council directs) extend and apply as if the said town were a borough :

And whereas by section eighty of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, and the Sixth Schedule thereto, it is provided that the said Department shall be deemed to be a contributory local authority of the Waikato Hospital District, and that the said Department, for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of contributions payable to the Waikato Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, shall have the same power of making, levying, and collecting rates in the Town of Rotorua as if the town were a borough and the Department were a Council thereof :

And whereas on the eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight, His Excellency the Governor, in exercise of the powers conferred in that behalf by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, did by Order in Council make certain regulations for the effectual carrying-out of that Act, which regulations appear in the New Zealand Gazette of the sixteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight :

And whereas by clause three of the said regulations it is provided that an order or direction in writing, signed by the General Manager of the said Department, shall be sufficient in all cases in which (amongst other things) a resolution or special order of a Council is necessary in a borough :

Now, I, the undersigned, Frederick Sidney Pope, the General Manager of the said Department, in exercise of the powers given to local authorities by the Rating Act, 1908, and also in exercise of the powers and authorities given by the Rotorua Town Act, 1907, and the said regulations, do hereby order, direct, and declare that a rate of one-tenth of a penny in the pound on the capital value of all rateable property in the Town of Rotorua is hereby made and levied for the year commencing on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and ten, and ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and that such rate shall be payable in one sum on the fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

As witness my hand, this thirtieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

F. S. POPE,
General Manager.

Witness—Wm. C. Robinson, Civil Servant.

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Election of Member of Marlborough Land Board.—Result of Poll.

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I, FRANK STEPHENSON SMITH, Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Marlborough Land Board, do hereby notify, in accordance with section 41 of the Land Act, 1908, and the regulations thereunder, the result of the poll taken by me on the 4th day of January, 1911, for the election of a member of the Marlborough Land Board to be as follows :—

Candidates. Votes polled.
James Fulton ... ... ... 275
Charles Ferguson ... ... ... 182

Number of valid votes ... 457
Number of votes rejected as informal ... 28
Total votes recorded ... 485

And I hereby declare that JAMES FULTON, having received the greatest number of valid votes, is duly elected a member of the Marlborough Land Board.

Dated at Blenheim, this 4th day of January, 1911.

F. STEPHENSON SMITH,
Returning Officer.

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Result of Election of a Trustee of a Drainage District.

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Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st December, 1910.

T HE following result of the election of a Trustee of the Aka Aka Drainage District has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

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Aka Aka Drainage District, County of Manukau—
Samuel Pinder Henry.

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Notice of the Date on which Income-tax is payable.

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THE LAND-TAX AND INCOME-TAX ACT, 1910.

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Land and Income Tax Office,
Wellington, 9th January, 1911.

B Y Order in Council made and issued by His Excellency the Governor in Council on the 12th day of December last, under the authority of the above Act, it was determined that the respective duties by way of income-tax leviable under the said Act should be paid in one sum on Tuesday, the 31st day of January, 1911, at the office of the Commissioner of Taxes, Government Buildings, Wellington; and in accordance with such Order in Council I hereby give notice that the said duties will be payable accordingly.

G. F. J. CAMPBELL,
Commissioner of Taxes.