JULY 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2275

Wednesday, the 14th day of July, 1920, on the proposal of the Whakatane Borough Council to borrow £6,500 to supplement the cost of its proposed electric-power plant, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 83, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 11.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

FRANK AMOORE, Mayor.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 27th July, 1920.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :

Name. District.
John James Coll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coromandel.
(Mrs.) Minnie Harford . . . . . . . . . . . . Motupiko.
Arthur William Innes Miller . . . . . . . . . . Kurow.
Timothy Joseph Aloysius Morrison . . . . . . . Porangahau.
William Craw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Waipara.
(Miss) Eileen Morse . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wellington North.*

• Births and Deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Members of Kaitangata Fire Board.

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

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

Appointed by the Governor-General—
Edward McFadyen.

Elected by the Fire-insurance Companies—
John Stuart Hislop.
Robert Law.
Sydney Edmund Dermot Neill.

Elected by the Kaitangata Borough Council—
Thomas Gage.
Robert Aitchison.
Thomas Purvis.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

General By-law, 1918, of the Martinborough Town Board confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1920.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-law made by the Martinborough Town Board on the 13th day of September, 1918.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-law, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of October, 1918.

Dated this 22nd day of July, 1920.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Drainage District, Waitomo Valley, County of Waitomo.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1920.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a drainage district under Part I of the said Act, by name the Drainage District of Waitomo Valley. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said drainage district which they desire to lodge, within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED DRAINAGE DISTRICT OF WAITOMO VALLEY.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point on the Waipa River in Block IV, Orahiri Survey District, being the northernmost corner of Otorohanga Q 2c Block, and proceeding thence up the Waipa River to a point due north of the junction of the Otorohanga-Pirongia Road with the Waitomo Valley Road; thence along a right line to that junction and south-westerly along the Waitomo Valley Road to the northern boundary of Section 2A, Block VIII, Orahiri Survey District; thence easterly along that northern boundary for a distance of twenty-five chains, more or less, from the eastern side of the Waitomo Valley Road; thence south-easterly along a right line to the north-eastern corner of Section 5A, Block VIII, Orahiri Survey District, along the northern boundary of the said Section 5A to the Haurua Road, and southerly along that road and the Waihohonu Road to the south-western corner of Section 18, Block VII, Orahiri Survey District; thence south-easterly along a right line to the northernmost corner of Haututu East 1E 5C 2A 2 Block, and along the north-western boundary of that block along a right line to the northernmost corner of Haututu East 1E 5C 2B 4, and along the north-western boundaries of that block and Haututu East 1E 5C 2B 5 to the north-western boundary of a scenic reserve; thence south-westerly along that boundary to the Hangatiki-Waitomo Road, and along that road to the north-western boundary of an accommodation reserve; thence northerly along that boundary and the eastern and northern boundaries of a scenic reserve to the south-eastern boundary of Haututu East B 2 A 2 Block; thence northerly along the said boundary to the north-eastern corner of the said block, and along a right line to the southernmost corner of Haututu B 2 No. 2B 2, along the south-eastern boundary of that block and the south-western, south-eastern, and north-eastern boundaries of Section 22, Block VII, Orahiri Survey District, to the northernmost corner; thence along a right line to the westernmost corner of Section 6, Block VII, and along the north-western boundaries of Sections 6 and 5, Block VII, to the northernmost corner of Section 5; thence along a right line to the westernmost corner of Section 12, Block IV, along the north-western boundary of that section to a public road; thence northerly along that road and south-easterly along a public road to the south-western corner of Otorohanga Q 2c Block, and northerly along the north-western boundary of that block to the Waipa River, the point of commencement.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Honours conferred by His Majesty the King.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th July, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to direct the publication in the New Zealand Gazette of the notification of the appointment by His Majesty the King of

Mr. JOHN ROBERTS, C.M.G., as a Knight Bachelor; and Mr. THOMAS NOEL BRODRICK, O.B.E., as a Companion of the Imperial Service Order.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notification of Deposit of Amended Rules, Waitaki Acclimatization Society.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th July, 1920.

IT is hereby notified that a copy of the amended rules of the Waitaki Acclimatization Society has been deposited in this office, and has been approved by the Administrator of the Government in Council under the Animals Protection Act, 1908.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Hawke’s Bay County Council.—Notice No. 2025.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1920.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Hawke’s Bay County Council has, by special order, declared prickly pear (Opuntia, any species) 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.

Election of Governor, Auckland Grammar School Board.

IN accordance with the Auckland Grammar School Act, 1899, and with the regulations thereunder for the election of Governors by the Education Board of the District of Auckland, I hereby notify that at a meeting of the said Board held this day Mrs. ROSETTA LULAH BAUME was duly re-elected a Governor of the Board of Governors constituted by the said Act.

E. C. BANKS, Chairman of Meeting.

Auckland, 21st July, 1920.