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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

Inspector for the Purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th July, 1916.

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

ALEXANDER COOK

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, as from the 21st day of July, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Clerk of the Warden’s Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar for the Purposes of the Mining Act, 1908, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th July, 1916.

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

JOHN NELSON NALDER

to be Clerk of the Warden’s Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Kumara in the Westland Mining District constituted under the Mining Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of July, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 28th July, 1916.

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

ARTHUR HARRY CUTLER

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris for the Rotorua District, as from the 31st July, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Inspector of Weights and Measures appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 31st July, 1916.

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

GEORGE GLENISTER

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures for the purposes of the Weights and Measures Act, 1908, as from the 24th day of July, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Inspector for the Purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th July, 1916.

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

ALEXANDER MCDONALD

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, as from the 14th day of July, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Under-Secretary, Public Works Department, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1916.

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

WILLIAM STONHAM SHORT

to be Permanent Head of the Public Works Department, with the title of Under-Secretary, as from the 20th day of July, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds by the Mangapapa Town Board.—Notice No. 1844.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 28th July, 1916.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Mangapapa Town Board has, by special order, declared Bathurst burr and gorse to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

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

Special Order made by the Piako County Council altering Ridings.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1916.

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

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order authorizing the Altering of the Ridings of the County of Piako.

In pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in it by the Counties Act, 1908, the Piako County Council resolves by way of special order as follows:—

The number of ridings of the County of Piako shall be altered in this wise—to wit, the Walton and Morrinsville Ridings of the county (2) shall be subdivided and formed into ridings (3) to be called the Morrinsville Riding, the Kiwitahi Riding, and the Walton Riding, the boundaries whereof are described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Morrinsville Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in the Piako County, commencing at the north-west corner of the Piako County aforesaid; thence easterly by the Ohinemuri County to the Piako River; towards the north-east by the Piako River aforesaid and the Waiharakeke Stream to the south-east corner of Part Maungatapu Block (shown on plan 1038A deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland); thence towards the south and west by the aforesaid part Maungatapu Block to where it junctions with a small stream running northwards to the Piako River, and by said stream to the Piako River; thence by the Piako River in a south-westerly direction to the Topehahae River, and by aforesaid river in a southerly direction to the southern corner of Te Mutu Block No. 1; thence northerly along the western boundary of the said Te Mutu Block No. 1; and thence westerly along the northern boundaries of Tahuroa No. 2, Tahuroa, Tahuroa No. 3 and Tahuroa No. 4 Blocks to the western boundary of the Piako County, and in a north-westerly direction by said county boundary to place of commencement.

Kiwitahi Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, situated in the Piako County, commencing at the south-western corner of the Morrinsville Riding hereinbefore described; thence towards the north generally by the aforesaid riding to the Waiharakeke Stream at the south-east corner of part Maungatapu Block (shown on plan 1038A deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland); thence by the Waiharakeke Stream aforesaid and the Te Whakahongi Block to its southernmost point; thence by the north-west boundary of Kahutopanga Block to the Piakonui River, along the said river in a southerly direction to a point where it crosses the eastern boundary of the Kiwitahi No. 1 Block; thence by the eastern and southern boundaries of aforesaid block; thence by the western boundaries of Kiwitahi No. 1b, No. 1c, and No. 1d Blocks; thence easterly along southern boundary of last said block; thence southerly along the eastern boundaries of Kiwitahi Nos. 1e and 1f, Te Konehu, and Tawawhakapuoro Blocks to the southern boundary of Piako County; thence by the southern and western boundaries of the said county to the place of commencement.

Walton Riding.

All that area in the Auckland Land District situated in the Piako County, commencing at the northernmost corner of Kahutopanga Block; thence by the northern boundary of that block; thence by the western and northern boundaries