MAY 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2029

Manager of Training Farm appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner.
Wellington, 13th May, 1914.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

LEONARD BALLARD BRADSTOCK

to be Manager of the Boys’ Training Farm, Nelson, for the purposes of the Industrial Schools Act, 1908, as from the 6th May, 1914.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th April, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalization, under the Aliens Act, 1908, in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Papatoetoe Road Board confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th May, 1914.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of by-laws made by the Papatoetoe Road Board on the 4th August, 1913.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 15th day of January, 1914.

Dated this 8th day of May, 1914.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Date of Election to fill Extraordinary Vacancies in Greymouth and Hokitika Fire Boards by Fire Insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th May, 1914.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the rules made thereunder, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, Minister of Internal Affairs, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Friday, the 22nd day of May, 1914, to be the day for holding an election of one member of the Greymouth Fire Board and Hokitika Fire Board by the insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. John J. J. Mallard.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by Wairoa County Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th May, 1914.

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 107 of the Counties Act, 1908, that so much of the By-law No. 1 made by the Wairoa County Council, and sealed on the 17th day of April, 1914, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Wairoa County Fund for the licensing of vehicles has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Special Order made by the Waiapu County Council redividing Ridings.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th May, 1914.

THE following special order, made by the Waiapu County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1908.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

WAIAPU COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order dividing the Matakaoa Riding into Two Ridings.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Counties Act, 1908, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, the Waiapu County Council hereby resolves to divide the Matakaoa Ridings, to be named the Whangaparaoa Riding and the Awatere Riding, and the boundaries of the said ridings are as follows:—

The Whangaparaoa Riding will be bounded on the north and east by the sea; towards the west by the Opotiki County; and on the south and east by the Tokata Block, Small Grazing-run No. 71, Pukeamaru No. 2, the Tapatu Block, Section 1, Block 1 Mangaoporo, Ahomatariki 3B, Wairongomai, and Section 1, Block VIII, Raukumara, to Pakira.

The Awatere Riding will be bounded on the north and east by the sea, on the south by the Awanui Riding to the extreme western corner of Tangihanga Block, thence by the Wairongomai Block to Raukumara, thence to the west and north by the Whangaparaoa Riding as above described.

This special order to come into force on the 7th day of October, 1914.

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

K. S. WILLIAMS,
R. G. WICKSTEED,
Members of the Council.

Special Order made by the Clutha County Council redividing the County into Ridings.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th May, 1914.

THE following special order, made by the Clutha County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1908.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CLUTHA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order adopted by the Clutha County Council at a Special Meeting held on the 6th Day of March, 1914, and confirmed at a Subsequent Special Meeting held on the 24th Day of April, 1914.

THAT, for the purpose of the better adjustment of representation, the Council resolves, by way of special order, to divide the county into ten ridings with a representative for each, the boundaries of such ridings to be as given below. Such special order to come into full force and effect only at the next county election in November, 1914, except in so far and to such extent as may be necessary for preparing any rolls or otherwise providing for such election.

Catlins Riding.

All that area in the Clutha County bounded towards the north and north-east generally by the centre of a road-line commencing at the north-west corner of Section 10, Block VIII, Warepa Survey District; thence by the centre of that road-line to where it crosses the block-line between Blocks IX, Warepa Survey District, and Block IV, Catlins Survey District, at a point on the northern boundary of Section 23, Block IV, Catlins Survey District; thence by the said block-