Mar. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 723

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1922.

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. :—

Edwin Gordon Palmer .. Tirau (at Putaruru).
Walter Edward Gundy .. Tauranga.
Robert Gordon May .. Devonport.
(Miss) Olive Hartnell .. Albertland.
William Ernest Mudge .. Motupiko.
Frederick Donald Armour .. Opotiki.
George John Francis Cowan .. Rakaia.
George Robert Taylor.. .. Pongaroa.
Dick Harrison .. .. Port Chalmers.
(Miss) Eliza McRae .. .. Nokomai and Switzers.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer appointed for the Electoral District of Wellington Central.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 17th March, 1922.

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

JOSEPH LISSANT PALETHORPE

to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Wellington Central, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of March, 1922.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 20th March, 1922.

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

VERNON STACEY

to be Registrar of Marriages, Registrar of Births and Deaths, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris, for the district of Te Araroa, as from the 1st April, 1922.

JOHN HARVEY

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Gisborne, as from the 15th March, 1922.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Inspector of Machinery, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st March, 1922.

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

CHARLES JAMES McLEAN

to be an Inspector of Machinery for the purposes of the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908, and a Surveyor of Ships and Examiner of Engineers for the purposes of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, as from the 25th day of October, 1921.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Clerk of the Warden’s Court, &c., appointed for the Mining District of Hauraki, and Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court appointed at Waihi.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st March, 1922.

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

THOMAS MORGAN

to be Clerk of the Warden’s Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Waihi, for the Hauraki Mining District constituted under the Mining Act, 1908, and Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Waihi, for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, as from the 13th day of March, 1922.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Inspector of Machinery, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st March, 1922.

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

THOMAS HAMILTON MURRAY

to be an Inspector of Machinery for the purposes of the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908, and a Surveyor of Ships and Examiner of Engineers for the purposes of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, as from the 28th day of October, 1921.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

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

The Treasury,
Wellington, 20th March, 1922.

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, 1922, inclusive, for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 21st March, 1922.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Hobson, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

HOBSON COUNTY.

Kaihu Valley Drainage Loan, £6,000.

NOTICE is hereby given that at a poll of ratepayers of the Kaihu Valley Drainage District taken on the 21st day of February, 1922, on the proposal to borrow £6,000 to carry out drainage-works in the Kaihu Valley Drainage District, the number of votes recorded was as follows: For the proposal, 31; against the proposal, 1.

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

V. TROUNSON, Chairman.

Rangitaiki Land Drainage District.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st March, 1922.

IN pursuance of section 28 of the Rating Amendment Act, 1910, and the regulations under the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, the ratepayers within the district constituted by the last-mentioned Act are hereby notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added to all rates for the year ended 31st March, 1922, unpaid on the 30th September, 1922.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office, or to the “Collector of Rates,” Box 1659, Auckland.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

NOTE.—This notice cancels and is in substitution of the one dated the 15th February, 1922, appearing in the Gazette of the 2nd March, 1922, page 589.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 17th March, 1922.

I HAVE to acknowledge receipt of the sum of £100 forwarded to the Land and Income Tax Department by a person unknown as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

J. J. ESSON, Secretary to the Treasury.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 16th March, 1922.

THE Canterbury (N.Z.) Seed Company Limited Employees’ Sick and Benefit Friendly Society, situated at Christchurch, is registered as a friendly society under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 14th day of March, 1922.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.