Nov. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3097

do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the
conditions under which certain red deer may be destroyed in
the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

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REGULATIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the Animals
   Protection Act, 1908, the General Manager of the Department
   of Tourist and Health Resorts, or any person or persons
   duly authorized in writing by such General Manager, may,
   during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill red deer of
   either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said
   General Manager or of the said authorized persons, should
   be destroyed either by reason of age, deformity, or any other
   reason.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid from the date
   hereof to 20th December, 1920.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal
   Affairs by the said General Manager within one calendar
   month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such
   return shall state the number and sexes of all red deer so
   destroyed as aforesaid, the dates, and name of person by
   whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.

4. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing
   any person to sell any deer or any portion thereof.

5. Any person who commits a breach of any of the pro-
   visions of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty not
   exceeding £20.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 12th day of November, 1920.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Member of Board of Examiners under the Mining Act, 1908,
appointed.

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Mines Department,
Wellington, 9th November, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to approve the appointment of

ROBERT ALEXANDER STEWART, Esq.,

to be a member of the Board of Examiners under the Mining
Act, 1908, vice Henry Pierce Hornibrook, Esq., deceased.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Mines.

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Trustees for Public Cemeteries appointed.

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Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 18th November, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, been pleased,
on the 12th day of November, 1920, to appoint

EDWIN GRAY

to be a trustee, in the place of Joseph Nicholas Flower, de-
ceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Kai-
koura Public Cemetery.

WILLIAM NORRIS

to be a trustee, in place of Richard Linwood Norris, left the
district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the
Warwick Junction Public Cemetery.

CHARLES AGUSTUS LAHMERT and
HERBERT JAMES KING WINSTONE

to be trustees, in place of David Manson and William John
Thomas, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care
of the Hanmer Springs Public Cemetery.

ALEXANDER CARSTAIRS MCNEILL,
HANS ALEXANDER PEDERSEN, and
STEPHEN KAUNTER

to be trustees, in place of Thomas Whittle, Cuthbert Henry
White, and David Carswell, resigned, to provide for the
maintenance and care of the Puketitiri Public Cemetery.

ALLEN BRERETON,
LAURENCE HEATH,
DEAN WALLIS MCGAVESTON, and
FRANK GEORGE WAGHORN

to be trustees, in place of John Canton, George Lines, John
Albon Haycock, and Ernest Robinson, to provide for the
maintenance and care of the Ngatimoti Public Cemetery.

WILLIAM ANDREW BOVETT,
JAMES PERROW,
GEORGE LESLIE NORMAN,
WILLIAM ABRAHAM STUDHOLME, and
WALTER HENRY THOMSON

to be trustees, in place of John Barclay Ewing, Robert Mc-
Dougall, and John Ironside, deceased, to provide for the
maintenance and care of the Pembroke Public Cemetery.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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Removal of Name from the Commission of the Peace.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th November, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased,
in terms of section 7 of the Justices of the Peace
Act, 1908, to direct the removal of the name of

MATTHEW BRADLEY,

of Dunedin, from the Commission of the Peace; and it is
hereby notified that such name has been removed accord-
ingly, and that the removal will take effect on and from the
18th day of November, 1920.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

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Appointment of Clerk, Commissioner’s Office, Rarotonga,
Cook Islands.

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Cook Islands Department,
Wellington, 4th November, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

SAXON WILFRED BRANSON FOSTER

to be a Clerk in the office of the Resident Commissioner at
Rarotonga, Cook Islands, as from the 12th November
instant.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

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Deputy Registrar of Deeds, &c., appointed.

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Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 16th November, 1920.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the fol-
lowing appointment in the Public Service:—

ARTHUR HUGH FLETCHER

to be Deputy Registrar of Deeds and Assistant Land
Registrar at Christchurch, as from the 1st day of April,
1920.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1920.

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

Harry Kellett.. .. .. .. Blacks.
William Eric Boyd .. .. .. Kāeo.*
William Arthur Sawyer .. .. .. Mahurangi,

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

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Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

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Wellington, 16th November, 1920.

THE following notices, received from the Mayor of the
Council of the Borough of New Plymouth, are pub-
lished in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’
Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

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NEW PLYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Results of Polls to raise Loans.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act,
1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of
the Borough of New Plymouth was taken on the 3rd day of
November, 1920, on a proposal to raise a special loan of
£22,500 for the following purposes:—

(a.) To take, purchase, acquire, or otherwise provide for
the purposes of the Council’s electric tramway
system, rolling-stock, tram-cars, shelter-sheds, land,
buildings, plant, machinery, materials, and other
things.

(b.) To construct a triangle or triangles for turning cars.

(c.) To complete the construction of the permanent-way of
the said tramway system.

(d.) For any other purposes incidental or in relation to any
of the above-mentioned purposes.

The sum proposed to be borrowed for all such purposes is
£22,500, at a rate of interest not exceeding £5 10s. per centum
per annum, with a sinking fund of 1½ per centum per annum
additional.

The proposed security for the said loan of £22,500 and the
interest and sinking fund thereon is an annually recurring
special rate of two-fifths of a penny in the pound on the