Nov. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3699

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1915.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned person has been appointed to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district set opposite his name, viz. :

Name. District.
THOMAS REID .. .. .. .. Dunstan.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by By-law.—Wairewa County Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1915.

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 107 of the Counties Act, 1908, that so much of the by-law made by the Wairewa County Council, and sealed on the 19th day of October, 1915, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Wairewa County fund for the licensing of vehicles has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Date of Election to fill Extraordinary Vacancies in Hastings and Dannevirke Fire Boards by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1915.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the rules made thereunder, I, George Warren Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 25th day of November, 1915, to be the day for holding an election of one member of the

HASTINGS FIRE BOARD and
DANNEVIRKE FIRE BOARD

by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. E. S. Pitt.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Whangarei Borough Council.—Notice No. 1803.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 1st November, 1915.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Whangarei Borough Council has, by special order, declared goats’ rue (Galega officinalis) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture.

Constitution of a Special Roading District in Terms of Section 50 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913.

PURSUANT to section 50 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, and the regulations thereunder, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Lands, do hereby, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the Wellington Land District, declare the lands referred to in the Schedule hereto to be a special district for the purposes of the said section; and such district shall be known as the Pokatea-Kokakonui Special Road District.

As witness my hand this 27th day of October, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
Section 4, Block IV, Retaruke Survey District.
" 5, " IV,
" 6, " IV,
" 5, " I, Kaitieke Survey District.
" 1, " VII, Hunua Survey District

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Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 28th October, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Spreydon, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF SPREYDON.

Result of Poll for Proposed Electric-light Loan of £6,000.

I HEREBY give notice that a poll of ratepayers of the Borough of Spreydon was taken on the 14th day of October, 1915, on the proposal of the Spreydon Borough Council to raise the sum of six thousand pounds (£6,000) for the purpose of installing electric light throughout the said borough, when the following votes were recorded :—

For. Against. Informal. Total.
Council Chambers .. .. 63 15 3 81
Lincoln Road .. .. 82 39 1 122
South Crescent Road .. 114 39 0 153
Somerfield Street .. .. 129 17 1 147

Total .. .. 388 110 5 503

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated at Spreydon this 14th day of October, 1915.

WILLIAM HINNELS WINSOR,
Mayor.

Alterations to the Scale of Fares, Rates, and Charges in Force upon the New Zealand Government Railways.

IN pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me under the Government Railways Act, 1908, and its amendments, I, William Herbert Herries, Minister of Railways, do hereby make the following alterations in the scale of fares, rates, and charges in force on the New Zealand Government railways open for traffic, such alterations to come into force on and after the 8th day of November, 1915.

PART I.—PASSENGERS.

GENERAL FARES AND REGULATIONS.

Cancel Regulation 31, and insert—

FREE SCHOOL SEASON TICKETS.

31. Free second-class quarterly tickets, available for distances not exceeding 60 miles, may be issued to school pupils not over 19 years of age and residing at a distance of not less than three miles from the school, as follows :—

(1.) To pupils attending the public primary schools from railway-stations where there is no primary school in the vicinity, and only to the station in the vicinity of the nearest primary school.

(2.) To pupils who are holders of scholarships tenable at a district high school or secondary school as defined by the Education Act, 1914, to enable them to attend any such district high school or secondary school.

(3.) To pupils of secondary schools as defined by the Education Act, 1914, and of the secondary departments of district high schools and of technical high schools, to enable them to attend one or other of such schools, whichever shall be nearest.

(4.) To pupils attending private primary or secondary schools registered in accordance with section 133 of the Education Act, 1914, but only from stations where there is no private school of the same denomination in the vicinity, and then only to the station in the vicinity of the nearest such school.

(5.) To holders of free places at technical classes, technical schools, and technical high schools recognized under the regulations for technical instruction.

(6.) To pupils on the roll of a public or private primary or secondary school, or of a district high school, travelling to attend classes held at especially equipped manual-training centres and recognized under the regulations for manual instruction.

Application for these tickets must be accompanied by a certificate in the following form, and duly signed by the head teacher, principal, or director, as the case may be, having charge of the school attended :—

“I hereby certify that A. B., residing at , whose present age is years months, is entitled,