APRIL 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 989

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IX, Waoku Survey District, for Road Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Block IX, Waoku Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Waimamaku, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

Approximate area of the piece of land required to be taken: 2 acres 1 rood 26 perches.

Portion of Section 50, Waimamaku Special Settlement, Block IX, Waoku Survey District (S.O. 18318).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 39677, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 29th day of March, 1916.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Correspondence prohibited under the War Regulations Act, 1914.

WHEREAS I, Joseph George Ward, the Postmaster-General of New Zealand, have reasonable ground to suppose that the firm or company named in the Schedule hereto is engaged in communications of a nature injurious to the public safety and the effective conduct of the military and naval operations of His Majesty during the present war:

Now, therefore, I do hereby, in pursuance of clause 2 of the War Regulations of the 17th day of December, 1914, order that no postal packet or telegram addressed to or intended for the firm or company named in the Schedule hereto shall be forwarded or delivered by the Post Office or transmitted by telegraph.

Dated this 3rd day of April, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

MOTHER EARTH PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, New York.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1916.—Notice No. 11.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th April, 1916.

PURSUANT 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:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. JAMES CALDWELL.
Mr. JOHN ANDERSON REILLY.
The Reverend JOHN HISLOP ROBERTSON.

Methodist Church.
Mr. HENRY FIELD.

Church of Christ.
Mr. PERCY BOLTON.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Government Offices to be closed at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 25th April, 1916 (Anzac Day).

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 30th March, 1916.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the Government Offices throughout New Zealand will be closed at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, the 25th April, 1916, in celebration of “Anzac Day.”

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

Public Service Board of Appeal.—Notice of Election of Members of Board as Representatives of the Officers of the Telegraph Branch and Postal Branch of the Post and Telegraph Department.

Wellington, 3rd April, 1916.

THERE being in each case only one member of the Board to be elected by the officers of the Telegraph Branch and the Postal Branch of the Post and Telegraph Department, and only one nomination from each branch having been received by me, I hereby declare the officers so nominated—viz.,

ALEXANDER MILL, an officer of the Telegraph Branch of the Department at Auckland; and

HAROLD LINCOLN SLYFIELD, an officer of the Postal Branch of the Department at Otahuhu,

to be duly elected and to be members of the Board of Appeal provided for under section 32 of the Public Service Act, 1912.

F. K. DE CASTRO,
Returning Officer.

Education Board of the District of Otago.—Election of Member to fill Extraordinary Vacancy, Central Ward.

Education Office,
Dunedin, 28th March, 1916.

IN accordance with section 24 of the Education Act, 1908, it is hereby notified that WILLIAM ROBERT BRUGH has been duly elected a member of the Education Board of the District of Otago for the Central Ward, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. George Cashmore Israel.

The number of valid votes recorded for each candidate in the election was—

Brugh, William Robert .. .. .. 56
Wilkinson, James Henry .. .. .. 50
Bewley, George Frederick .. .. .. 7

The total number of valid votes recorded was 113. The total number of voting-papers rejected as informal was nil.

S. M. PARK,
Returning Officer.

Education Act, 1914.—General Council of Education.—Election of Member to fill Extraordinary Vacancy.

Wellington, 3rd April, 1916.

IN pursuance of the regulations made in terms of section 9 (5) of the above-named Act, I hereby certify that the number of votes recorded at the election held to fill the vacancy on the General Council of Education caused by the resignation of Mr. John Caughley, representative of the certified male teachers of the public schools in the South Island, was as follows:—

Eudey, Walter .. .. .. 146
Fisher, Horace Robinson .. .. .. 26
Foster, Thomas Schofield .. .. .. 227
—
399
Informal .. .. .. 11
—
410

And I hereby declare Mr. THOMAS SCHOFIELD FOSTER duly elected a member of the Council.

F. K. DE CASTRO,
Returning Officer.

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

District Lands and Survey Office,
Hokitika, 29th March, 1916.

I, WILLIAM FAIRCHILD MARSH, Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Westland Land Board, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on 28th day of March, 1916, to be as follows:—

Campbell, William Frederick .. .. 91
Mallinson, George .. .. 653
—
Total number of valid votes .. .. 744
—
Number of votes rejected as informal .. 80

I therefore declare that GEORGE MALLINSON, having received the greater number of valid votes, is duly elected a member of the Westland Land Board as from the 28th day of March, 1916.

W. F. MARSH,
Returning Officer.