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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 1st September, 1922.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary
Forces Officers’ Decoration to Major D. J. Gibbs, D.S.O.,
Regiment of New Zealand Engineers.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 31st August, 1922.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

POHANGINA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913,
I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the County
of Pohangina was taken on the 21st day of August, 1922,
on the proposal of the Pohangina County Council to borrow
the sum of one thousand two hundred pounds (£1,200) for
the purpose of purchasing a stone-crushing plant.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 282,
and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was
78; the number of informal votes was 3.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 24th day of August, 1922.

H. W. SMART, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 5th September, 1922.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Board of the Cambridge Electric-power District, is
published in accordance with the provisions of the Local
Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

CAMBRIDGE ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913,
I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the
Cambridge Electric-power District taken on the 9th day of
August, 1922, on the proposal of the Cambridge Electric-power
Board to borrow the sum of seven thousand pounds (£7,000)
for the purpose of assisting approved applicants who desire
electrical fittings installed, by advancing part of the cost
thereof, and for such other purposes as may be determined
by the Board, the number of votes recorded for the proposal
was 38, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal
was 6.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 10th day of August, 1922.

MERVYN WELLS, Chairman.

Notification of Issue of Certificate of Registration of Waitaki

Acclimatization Society.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st September, 1922.

Pursuant to the provisions of section 22 of the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I hereby notify
that I have issued a certificate of registration to the Waitaki
Acclimatization Society, and that the said society has been
duly registered under the said Act as from the 1st day of
September, 1922.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Licenses for Use of Stills.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 1st September, 1922.

Under the provisions of section 5 of the Distillation
Act, 1908, it is hereby notified that licenses under
section 9 or section 10 of that Act have been issued to the
following:

• Chemicals (Limited), Auckland.
• Edgar Ernest Crothall, Auckland.
• Parenga Kauri Oils (Limited), Auckland.
• Frederick James Porter, Auckland.

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Bar Tar Company, Gisborne.
Napier Borough Council, Napier.
New Zealand Coal Tar Products (Limited), Wanganui.
Deputy District Telegraph Engineer, Palmerston North.
New Zealand Oil and Acid Extraction Company (Limited),
Palmerston North.
Feilding Borough Council, Feilding.
New Zealand Soap and Candle Company (Limited),
Kaiwarra, Wellington.
Restar (Limited), Wellington (two stills).
Victoria Laundry Company (Limited), Wellington.
Armiger and Company (Limited), Christchurch.
George William Bettie, Sockburn (two stills).
Charles Taylor and Company, Christchurch.
Council of the University of Otago, Dunedin.
Irvine and Stevenson’s St. George Company (Limited),
Dunedin.
Superintendent, Radio Station, Chatham Islands.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Customs.

Trustee for the Maru Rabbit-proof Fencing District elected.—

Notice No. 2206.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5th September, 1922.

Notice has been received, under the hand of the
Returning Officer, that

R. A. PADDON

has been duly elected a trustee for the Maru Rabbit-proof
Fencing District, in lieu of Geo. C. Crowe, resigned.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Order vesting Enemy Property in the Custodian of Enemy

Property, with Power to sell.

I, WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM MACGREGOR, His
Majesty’s Solicitor-General for the Dominion of New
Zealand, being satisfied that certain property, to wit, two
debentures numbered 263 and 264 for £25 each, issued by
the Paparoa Coal-mining Company (Limited), now in liquida-
tion, which belong to Josef Emil Albert Kroner, of Hamburg,
Germany, is enemy property within the meaning of the
Enemy Property Regulations, 1919, made on the 5th August,
1919, under the War Regulations Act and its amendments,
which regulations now continue in force by virtue of the
War Regulations Continuance Act, 1920, do hereby, in
exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the said regu-
lations, order that the said debentures be vested in the
Custodian of Enemy Property, with power to sell, realize,
or dispose of the same at such time or times and in such
manner as he in his absolute discretion shall think fit.

Dated this 2nd day of August, 1922.

W. C. MACGREGOR, Solicitor-General.

Government Offices to be closed on Monday, the 25th September,

1922 (Dominion Day).

The Government Offices throughout New Zealand will be
closed on Monday, the 25th September, 1922, in cele-
bration of the fifteenth anniversary of the day on which the
Colony of New Zealand was created a Dominion.

W. R. MORRIS,
Public Service Commissioner.

Mining Privilege to be struck off the Register.—Notice under

the Mining Amendment Act, 1914.

Warden’s Court,
Blenheim, 24th August, 1922.

In pursuance of section 30, subsection (3), of the Mining
Amendment Act, 1914, notice is hereby given that, if
within three months from the date hereof cause be not shown
to the contrary, the mining privilege mentioned in the Schedule
hereunder will be struck off the Registers kept by me.

A. F. BENT,
Mining Registrar for Havelock.

SCHEDULE.

HAVELOCK REGISTRY.

No. 140. Date: 12/4/16. Nature of Privilege: Residence-
site. Locality: Wakamarina. Registered holder: Thor
Matison Breck.