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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 90

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 ORTON.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District situated in Blocks IX, XIII, and XIV, Maramarua Survey District, and Blocks XII and XVI, Onewhero Survey District, commencing at the north-east corner of Opuatia part No. 7c, as shown on plan No. 8329 deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland; thence in a south-easterly direction along the south-western boundary of Opuatia No. 10a and part 10c No. 2, containing an area of 8 acres 3 roods 30 perches, to the south-western corner of aforesaid part 10c No. 2; thence along the south-eastern boundary of the aforesaid part 10c No. 2 to its junction with the Waikato River, thence along the left bank of the Waikato River in a south-easterly direction to the south-eastern corner of part Allotment 6 of Opuatia Parish, shown on Deeds plan No. 170; thence towards the west generally along the southern boundary of the aforesaid part Allotment 6 to its junction with a public road; thence along that road in a north-westerly direction to the western boundary of the aforesaid part Allotment 6; thence along the western boundary of aforesaid part Allotment 6 to the southern boundary of Lot 4 as shown on plan No. 14623 deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland; thence in a south-westerly direction along the southern boundary of aforesaid Lot 4, across a public road, along the southern boundary of Lot 5 shown on plan 14623 aforesaid to the Opuatia Parish boundary; thence in a south-westerly direction along the aforesaid parish boundary to its intersection with a public road; thence along said road forming the southern boundary of Section 8, Block XIII, Maramarua Survey District, and the southern, south-eastern, and south-western boundaries of Section 10 (education reserve), Block XIII, Maramarua Survey District, and the south-western boundary of Section 9 (education reserve) of aforesaid Block XIII, across a public road, and again by aforesaid road forming the southern boundary of Lot 2 of Section 3 of aforesaid Block XIII, and Section 7 (education reserve) of Block XVI, Onewhero Survey District, across the aforesaid public road, to the eastern side of a closed road; thence along said closed road to and across aforesaid public road; thence northerly along said public road forming the western boundary of Section 7 aforesaid to the south-west corner of Section 4B (scenic reserve), Block XVI, Onewhero Survey District; thence along the southern and north-eastern boundary of said Section 4B to the south-eastern boundary of Section 4A (cemetery reserve) of aforesaid Block XVI; thence along the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of aforesaid Section 4A to a public road; thence in a northerly direction generally along aforesaid public road forming the western boundary of Section 2, Block XIII, Maramarua Survey District, across a road, and again by the road forming the western boundaries of Section 2 aforesaid and of Section 4, Block IX, Maramarua Survey District, and Section 2, Block XII, Onewhero Survey District, across a road, and by the road forming the western boundary of Section 6 of Block XII aforesaid to the southern boundary of Opuatia No. 12a 1; thence along the southern and eastern boundaries of 12a 1 aforesaid to a public road; thence along said public road to its junction with a public road at the north-western corner of part Section 1, Block XII, Onewhero Survey District; thence by the southern boundary of that road to its junction with a public road at the north-eastern corner of part Section 2, Block IX, Maramarua Survey District; thence across that road, 100 links wide, to the north-western corner of Lot 1 as shown on plan No. 7294 deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland; thence by a public road forming the northern boundary of Lot 1 on aforesaid plan 7294 to and across a public road, and by that road to the northern boundary of Lot 1 aforesaid, and by that northern boundary and the northern boundary of Lot 5 and Opuatia part 7c to the point of commencement.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice fixing the Closing-hours of (1) Drapers', (2) Clothiers', and (3) Mercers' Shops in the Borough of Blenheim, under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in each of the trades of (1) draper, (2) clothier, and (3) mercer in the Borough of Blenheim, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows : On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays,

ing Societies at Invercargill, in pursuance of section 4 of the Building Societies Act, 1908 ; Registrar of Industrial and Provident Societies at Invercargill, in pursuance of section 2 of the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1908 ; District Land Registrar and Examiner of Titles for the district of Southland, in pursuance of section 4 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915; and Registrar of Deeds for the district of Southland, in pursuance of section 6 of the Deeds Registration Act, 1908 ; as from the 30th day of September, 1921.

LEONARD WILLIAM MAGINNITY, Esq.,

to be Assistant Land Registrar for the district of Poverty Bay, in pursuance of section 4 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, and Deputy Registrar of Deeds for the district of Poverty Bay, in pursuance of section 6 of the Deeds Registration Act, 1908; as from the 1st day of October, 1921.

HERBERT STANLEY CLARKE, Esq.,

to be Second Assistant Land Registrar for the district of Canterbury, in pursuance of section 4 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915; as from the 1st day of October, 1921.

WILLIAM McBRIDE, Esq.,

to be Fourth Assistant Land Registrar at Auckland, in pursuance of section 4 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915; as from the 1st day of October, 1921.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrar at Dunedin of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and Sheriff for the District of Otago appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,

Wellington, 10th October, 1921.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:-

WILLIAM WALTERS SAMSON

to be Registrar at Dunedin of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and Sheriff for the district of Otago, for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, as from the 19th day of September, 1921.

'A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,

Wellington, 11th October, 1921.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:-

CHARLES ETHELBERT SCOTT

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Maungatuoto, as from the 29th September, 1921.

ALFRED WILLIAM DOWNER

to be Registrar of Marriages, Registrar of Births and Deaths, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maori for the district of Motueka, as from the 10th October, 1921.

(Miss) AGNES MARY LE HURAY

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maori at Whakawhitira, as from the 27th September, 1921.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,

Wellington, 11th October, 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:-

William Murray Fraser ...

Gabriel's.

Leonard Vickers Samuels ...

Ellesmere.

James Bruce Davis ...

Tapanui.

Stanley Claude Davis ...

Wakatipu.

William Ewen McKay ...

Hororata.

Arthur Thomas Morrison ...

Motu.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Notice respecting Proposed Orton Drainage District, Counties of Raglan and Waikato.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 12th October, 1921.

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 the said Act, by name the drainage district of Orton. All