Results of Biennial Elections of Members of Fire Boards by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th May, 1921.

THE following results of the biennial elections of members of Fire Boards by fire-insurance companies have been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and are notified in accordance with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1906.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Auckland Fire Board—
John James Kingston.
Walter Pavitt.
Walter Robert Saunders.
Balclutha Fire Board—
William Harrington Cowper.
John Stuart Hislop.
Henry Robert Law.
Christchurch Fire Board—
James Reynolds Cameron.
Henry Percy Hopkins.
Albert Manning.
Dannevirke Fire Board—
W. G. Hay.
J. W. F. Norrie.
George Thorne-George.
Dunedin Fire Board—
Thomas Chalmer.
John Stuart Hislop.
Joseph Skittowe Webb.
Dargaville Fire Board—
Thomas Anketell Blair.
John Ernest Morten.
Geoffrey Nevill.
Feilding Fire Board—
D. J. Bews.
S. S. Dean.
W. A. Parton.
Gisborne Fire Board—
Ernest Adair.
James Lyndon Kirker.
Egbert Victor Law.
Greymouth Fire Board—
John Frederick William Grierson.
Henry Percy Hopkins.
George Thomas Moss.
Hamilton Fire Board—
Horace Haines McCullough.
Frank Hawthorne Pope.
Walter William Scott.
Hastings Fire Board—
W. G. Hay.
J. W. F. Norrie.
George Thorne-George.
Hawera Fire Board—
Karl Caro Akers.
Fred Honan.
David Hood Thomson.
Hokitika Fire Board—
John Frederick William Grierson.
Henry Percy Hopkins.
John Hamilton Wilson.
Kaitangata Fire Board—
William Harrington Cowper.
John Stuart Hislop.
Henry Robert Law.
Lawrence Fire Board—
David James Calder.
Hector Faulkner Munro Mercer.
Maurice Harry Thomas Priest.
Levin Fire Board—
D. J. Bews.
F. G. Cray.
E. C. Rowe.
Masterton Fire Board—
D. J. Bews.
W. A. Parton.
C. R. C. Robieson.

Milton Fire Board—
William Harrington Cowper.
John Stuart Hislop.
Henry Robert Law.
Napier Fire Board—
W. G. Hay.
J. W. F. Norrie.
George Thorne-George.
New Plymouth Fire Board—
Keppel Goodwyn Archer.
Hugh Bailey.
Dann Le Cren Morgan.
Oamaru Fire Board—
David James Calder.
Thomas Ruddiman.
Joseph Skittowe Webb.
Ohakune Fire Board—
D. J. Bews.
S. S. Dean.
W. A. Parton.
Palmerston N. Fire Board—
D. J. Bews.
S. S. Dean.
W. A. Parton.
Petone Fire Board—
D. J. Bews.
S. S. Dean.
W. A. Parton.
Port Chalmers Fire Board—
Frederick Thomas Anderson.
Somerled Bartlett McDonald.
Maurice Harry Thomas Priest.
Rotorua Fire Board—
Horace Haines McCullough.
Frank Hawthorne Pope.
Walter William Scott.
Taumarunui Fire Board—
Frank Evans.
Thomas Edward Miller.
Herbert Arthur Marriner.
Tauranga Fire Board—
Alfred Cecil Baker.
William Charles Kemble.
Arthur Eugene Moore.
Te Aroha Fire Board—
William Graham Bell.
Herbert Arthur Marriner.
Charles Edgar Palmer.
Timaru Fire Board—
Charles James Cooper.
John Frederick William Grierson.
Herbert Marshall.
Waihi Fire Board—
William Graham Bell.
Herbert Arthur Marriner.
Charles Edgar Palmer.
Waitara Fire Board—
Boyd Alexander Bragg.
Edward John Carr.
George Duncan.
Wanganui Fire Board—
W. E. A. Gill.
Gordon J. Reid.
C. R. C. Robieson.
Whangarei Fire Board—
Thomas Anketell Blair.
John Ernest Morten.
Geoffrey Nevill.
Woolston Fire Board
Oswald Buchan Clayton.
James Hutchins.
Frederick Albert Tapson.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks III and IV, Piako Survey District, for the more Effective Carrying-out of the Drainage or other Works in the Hauraki Plains, and for the Better Disposal of Land set apart under the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the more effective carrying-out of the drainage or other works authorized by the latter Act, and for the better disposal of land set apart under the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Waitakaruru, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections 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 areas of the pieces of land required to be taken :-
For Drainage or Other Works.

A. R. P. Portion of
1 2 13 Lot 1 (D.P. 7617), Block III ; coloured neutral.
0 0 7.8 Section 14, Block IV ; coloured yellow.
0 1 1.6 Lot 1 (D.P. 7617), Block III ; coloured neutral.
1 0 20 " " "
0 1 7.6 " " "
0 0 28.5 " " "
0 0 1.1 Section 16, Block IV ; coloured brown.
1 3 4.8 Lot 1 (D.P. 10015), Block III ; coloured neutral.
1 0 24.8 " 2 " " brown.

Waitakaruru Block.
4 1 34.2 No. 2B, Block III ; coloured brown.
0 3 1.3 No. 2G " " neutral.
1 3 33.7 No. 2F " " pink.
2 0 23.3 No. 1c 3c 2, Block III ; coloured neutral.
0 0 8.1 No. 1c 3A, Section 4A, Block III ; coloured pink.
1 0 35.1 No. 1c 3A, Sec. 5, Block III ; coloured brown .

For the Better Disposal of Land set apart under the Hauraki Plains Act, 1908.

0 0 24 Lot 1 (D.P. 7617), Block III.
2 0 37 " " "
2 1 10 " " "
0 0 30 " " "

Situated in Piako Survey District (Auckland R.D.).
(S.O. 20992.)
In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 51424, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 31st day of May, 1921.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Election of Member of North Auckland Land Board.

Lands and Survey Department,
North Auckland District Office,
Auckland, 25th May, 1921.

IN accordance with the provisions of section 41 of the Land Act, 1908, and the regulations made thereunder, I, Reginald Palmer Greville, Commissioner of Crown Lands for the North Auckland Land District, as Returning Officer for the election of a member of the North Auckland Land Board, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on the 24th May, 1921, to be as follows :-

Brake, James .. .. .. .. 28
Elliott, George Eliot .. .. .. .. 265
Trounson, Vivian .. .. .. .. 423
Wrathall, Richard Theophilus .. .. .. 94

Total number of valid votes .. .. .. 810
Total number of informal votes .. .. .. 28

And I do hereby declare that VIVIAN TROUNSON, having received the greatest number of valid votes, is duly elected a member of the North Auckland Land Board as from the 24th of May, 1921.

R. P. GREVILLE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands, Returning Officer.