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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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and proceeding thence along the boundary of the City of Nelson to the easternmost corner of Section 12, Suburban South District; thence south-westerly along a right line to the southernmost corner of Section 19 of the same district, and north-westerly along the north-eastern side of Quarantine Road to high-water mark, and along the said high-water mark to the point of commencement.

W. H. HERRIES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th May, 1920.

THE 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.

Inch-Clutha Road, River, and Drainage District, County of Bruce—
Bell, Adam J.
Mosley, John.
Mosley, Oliver S.

Members of Taumarunui Fire Board appointed or elected.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st May, 1920.

THE undermentioned persons have been appointed or elected to be members of the Taumarunui Fire Board, constituted under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908 :—

Appointed by the Governor-General—
Charles J. Ryan.

Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Herbert Arthur Marriner.
Thomas Edward Miller.
Horace Haines McCullough.

Elected by the Taumarunui Borough Council—
George Samuel Steadman.
George Edward Manson.
Percival Charles Ginders.

W. H. HERRIES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 26th May, 1920.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Finance.

THAMES VALLEY ELECTRIC POWER BOARD.
Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board was taken on the 12th day of May, 1920, on the proposal of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board to borrow the sum of £200,000 for the purchasing and constructing of electric works within the meaning of and pursuant to the Electric Power Boards Act, 1918.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 1,503, the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 28, and the number of informal votes recorded was 10.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 14th day of May, 1920.

F. M. STRANGE, Chairman.

I certify that the above result is correct.

R. SPRAGUE, Returning Officer.

Abolition of a Special Roading District.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power conferred on me by subsection (6) of section 50 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1913, I do hereby declare that the Hikimutu Special Road District as constituted by a notice published in the Gazette of the 2nd day of November, 1916, is hereby abolished as from and including the 1st day of April, 1920.

As witness my hand this 19th day of May, 1920.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Masterton County Council.—Notice No. 2010.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 21st May, 1920.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Masterton County Council has, by special order, declared lantana (Lantana Camara L.) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. NOSWORTHY,
Minister of Agriculture.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Bay of Islands County Council.—Notice No. 2014.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 21st May, 1920.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Bay of Islands County Council has, by special order, declared lantana (Lantana Camara L.) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. NOSWORTHY,
Minister of Agriculture.

Closing of Government Industrial School and Establishment of Special School.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th May, 1920.

BY virtue of the powers vested in me by section 14 of the Industrial Schools Act, 1908, I, Christopher James Parr, Minister of Education, do hereby notify that the Government Industrial School known as the Boys’ Training-farm, Nelson, is hereby closed as an industrial school as from the 18th May, 1920, and shall henceforth be established as a Special School within the meaning of section 127 of the Education Act, 1914, and to be known officially as the Special School for Boys, Nelson.

C. J. PARR,
Minister of Education.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 21st May, 1920.

THE receipt is acknowledged by the Government Insurance Department of £11 5s., forwarded by a person unknown, as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

J. J. ESSON,
Acting Secretary to the Treasury.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 27 of 1920.

CORRECTION IN NEW ZEALAND PUBLICATIONS OF NAUTICAL TABLES.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 21st May, 1920.

USERS of New Zealand Publications of Nautical Tables are requested to kindly make the following corrections in their copies, viz. :—

On page 49 of Tables for Azimuth, Great Circle Sailing, and Reduction to the Meridian, abreast A and B corr. 4·20° and under latitude 60°, azimuth 24·5° should read 25·5°.

On page 20 of Tables of Calculated Hour Angles, &c., abreast True Alt. 32° and under Decl. 15°, H.A. 3 h. 15 m. 39·0 s. should read 3 h. 51 m. 39·0 s.

ROBERT DUNCAN,
Secretary.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 28 of 1920.

DREDGING OPERATIONS, LYTTLETON HARBOUR.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 25th May, 1920.

MARINERS and others are hereby notified that the Lyttelton Harbour Board’s dredger “Canterbury” will be working in the outer channel from Battery Point outwards.

The dredge will have six anchors out, and it is necessary that vessels should pass on the side on which two black balls are exhibited, and slow down to “dead slow.”