Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3803

Matamata Agricultural and Pastoral Association incorporated.
—Notice No. 1728.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of December, 1913.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby incorporate the members of the Matamata Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and such persons as shall hereafter be admitted members of the said association agreeably to the rules of the said association and the provisions of the said Act, into a body corporate under the style and title of “The Matamata Agricultural and Pastoral Association.”

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Officer for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th December, 1913.

His Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

GEORGE WILLIAM PATRICK REID,

of Taupo, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

H. D. BELL.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Provincial District of Canterbury, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th December, 1913.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

RICHARD JAMES MACKENZIE

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under the Weights and Measures Act, 1908, for the Provincial District of Canterbury.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Trustees of Waihekau Drainage District appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th December, 1913.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in terms of section 10 of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, to appoint

NIELS ERNEST MIKKELSEN,
CORNELIUS O’DRISCOLL,
JAMES HENRY ASHWORTH,
HUGH MAGILL, and
ELLEN SHINE

to be Trustees of the Waihekau Drainage District.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Registrars of Births, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 22nd December, 1913.

The Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration in Boundaries of Borough of Whangarei.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th December, 1913.

Pursuant to section 12 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, has been presented to him, praying that the said area may be excluded from the Borough of Whangarei and included in the County of Whangarei. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE BOROUGH OF WHANGAREI AND TO BE INCLUDED IN THE COUNTY OF WHANGAREI.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north by Section No. 69, Whangarei Parish, from the north-eastern corner of Section No. 68 to the Waiarohia River; thence towards the north-east and east generally by the right bank of that river to the stream which forms the boundary between the land granted to T. Johnson and E. O. Weaver on the north and Church Mission land and cemetery reserve on the south; thence towards the south generally by the left bank of the said stream to Horahora No. 2 Block; thence towards the south-west by the said Horahora No. 2 Block, Section No. 77, Whangarei Parish, the abutment of a road and Section No. 71, Whangarei Parish, to the southernmost corner of Section No. 66; and thence towards the north-west by Sections Nos. 66, 67, and 68, Whangarei Parish, to Section No. 69, the place of commencement.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration in Boundaries of City of Auckland.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th December, 1913.

Pursuant to section 12 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, has been presented to him, praying that the said area may be included in the City of Auckland. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CITY OF AUCKLAND.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded towards the north generally by Hobson Bay and the Orakei