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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

and purposes as if the provisions of section ninety-seven of
the Counties Act, 1908, had been correctly complied with,
and that the validity of the proceedings in connection with
the said loan shall not be called into question by reason
only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Consenting to the Raising of Loans of £7,600 and £98,000 by
the Christchurch City Council.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 24th day
of March, 1921.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING
IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS application has been made under section
twenty, subsection one, of the Finance Act, 1919,
for the precedent consent of the Governor-General in Council
to enable the Christchurch City Council to borrow the sums
of seven thousand six hundred pounds for completing the
purchase of a property, and ninety-eight thousand pounds
for the distribution of electricity, and it is expedient that
such consent should issue:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth
hereby consent to the raising of the loans of seven thousand
six hundred pounds and ninety-eight thousand pounds
by the Christchurch City Council at a rate of interest not
exceeding five and one-half pounds per centum per annum;
and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made
under the provisions in that behalf of the Finance Act, 1919,
and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-
General in Council to the raising of the loans hereby autho-
rized.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Clerk, New Plymouth Savings-bank, appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 29th March, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

MISS ISABELLA D. TAYLOR

to be a Clerk in the New Plymouth Savings-bank.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Act and Officer under
Part II of the Fisheries Act appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

N. O. HANSEN and
C. F. STEVENS, of Apiti,

Rangers under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the
Feilding and District Acclimatization District, and Officers
under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Act and Officer under
Part II of the Fisheries Act appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

WM. LAWRENCE HOOPER, of Dunedin,

a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the
Otago Acclimatization District, and an Officer under Part II
of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th March, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

GEOFFREY SHERBORNE CLAYTON, Esq., S.M.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the Special
Licensing District of Chatham Islands, vice G. Redpath,
Esq., S.M.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th March, 1921.

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.:

Arthur James Bannister Motupiko.
Edwin Gordon Palmer Taupo.
Charles Thomas Phillips Dipton.
Samuel Pringle West Taieri.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 29th March, 1921.

NOTICE is hereby given that the register of New Zealand
4½-per-cent. inscribed stock maturing 20th April, 1939,
and the register of New Zealand 5-per-cent. inscribed stock
maturing 20th April, 1929, will be closed from the 1st April
to the 20th April, 1921, inclusive, for the purpose of the
issue of the half-yearly interest.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VIII, Aria
Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

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 VIII, Aria 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 Otangiwai, 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 roods 30 perches.
Portion of Section 61c, Section 3, Rangitoto-Tuhua Block,
situated in Block VIII, Aria Survey District (Taranaki
R.D.). (S.O. 5627.)

In the Taranaki Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 50698,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured yellow.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 24th day of
March, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Public Trust Office.—Appointment of Agent at Temuka.

IT is notified for public information that an agency of the
Public Trust Office will be opened at Temuka, on or
about the 5th day of April, 1921, in charge of Mr. Bernard
Hughes as Agent.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.