3934
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 142

Prohibiting all Private Alienation of certain Native Land.

L I V E R P O O L, G o v e r n o r.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighteenth day of December, 1916.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. ALLEN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

O N the recommendation of the Native Land Purchase Board, referred to in section three hundred and sixty-three of the Native Land Act, 1909, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon him by that section, 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 prohibit, for the period of one year from the date of this Order in Council, all alienations of the Native lands specified in the Schedule hereto other than alienations in favour of the Crown.

SCHEDULE.

HEREHERETAU No. 2A Block: Approximate area, 750 acres; Clyde Survey District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 18th December, 1916.

T HE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Waikato, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

WAIKATO COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll.

IN pursuance of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that the following is the result of a poll of the ratepayers of the Hopuhopu Drainage District Special-rating Area, situated within the County of Waikato, taken on Tuesday, the 12th day of December, 1916, upon the proposal of the Waikato County Council to borrow the sum of £400 for the purpose of widening and deepening Stubbing’s Creek.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 24.
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 7.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

J. P. BAILEY,
Chairman, Waikato County Council.

T. B. INSOLL,
Returning Officer.

14th December, 1916.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 18th December, 1916.

T HE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Feilding, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

FEILDING BOROUGH COUNCIL.

£7,000 Loan for Electric Lighting.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I have the honour to inform you that the number of votes recorded upon the taking of the poll on the 13th instant for and against the proposal of the Council of the Borough of Feilding to borrow (by way of special loan within the meaning of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913) for the purpose of installing additional plant at the electric-lighting station and for the payment of spare parts already purchased out of overdraft was as follows: For the proposal, 145; against the proposal, 15.

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

A. M. ONGLEY,
Mayor of Feilding.

Canterbury Land Board.—Election of Member.

I, WILLIAM HENRY SKINNER, Returning Officer for the election of member of the Canterbury Land Board,
do hereby notify, in accordance with the provisions of section 41 of the Land Act, 1908, and regulations thereunder, the result of the poll taken by me on the 14th day of December, 1916, for the election of a member of the Canterbury Land Board, to be as follows:—

Votes polled.
David Stowell, of Timaru .. .. 586
Michael Joseph Corrigan, of Dallington .. .. 208
Neil Menzies, of Waimate .. .. 150
Robert Parker, of Rolleston .. .. 20
Number of votes rejected as informal .. .. 105
—
Total number .. .. .. 1,069

And I hereby declare that David Stowell, having received the greatest number of valid votes, is duly elected a member of the Canterbury Land Board.

WILLIAM HENRY SKINNER,
Returning Officer.

Dated at Christchurch this 15th day of December, 1916.

Officiating Ministers for 1916.—Notice No. 35.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1916.

P URSUANT to the provisions of 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 JOHN WILLIAM BLOYCE.

Methodist Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend FRED COPELAND.

Baptists.

The Reverend ALEX CAMPBELL SIEVEWRIGHT.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1916.

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

J. HISLOP,
Under-Secretary.

Hungahunga Drainage District, County of Matamata—
Jesse A. Clothier, Te Aroha.
William Crawshaw, Ngarua.
Frederick Ernest Hughes, Manawaru.
James Orr, Matamata.
Gordon Pohlen, Matamata.
Joseph Pohlen, Matamata.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 14th December, 1916.

N OTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 22 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, the registration of the Hamilton Painters and Decorators’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 655, situated at Hamilton, will, unless cause to the contrary be shown, be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

Public Service Stores Tender Board.—Supply and Delivery of Grass-seed.

15th December, 1916.

T ENDERS will be received at the office of the Chairman, General Post Office, Wellington, not later than 4 p.m. on Thursday, the 4th January, 1917, for the supply and delivery of 51,140 lb., approximately, of mixed grass-seeds at the railway-stations named in the specification, which may be seen at the District Land Offices, Wellington and Auckland, and post-offices, Palmerston North, Wanganui, and Masterton.

J. ORCHISTON,
Chairman.