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RESERVE OF OFFICERS.

Lieutenant B. L. Compigne retires under the provisions of General Order 184/21. He is granted permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 12th March, 1923.

Lieutenant H. R. Young retires under the provisions of paragraph 127, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 21st March, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the Register of New Zealand 4½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock maturing 15th November, 1938, and the Register of New Zealand 5-per-cent. Inscribed Stock maturing 15th November, 1927, will be closed from the 1st May to the 15th May, 1923, inclusive, for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 12th April, 1923.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Te Puke Town Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

TE PUKE TOWN BOARD.

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 at a poll of the ratepayers of the Town District of Te Puke taken on the 3rd day of April, 1923, on the proposal of the Te Puke Town Board to borrow the sum of £500 for the purpose of constructing a bridge over the Ohineangaanga Stream, Jellicoe Street, Te Puke, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 18, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 2.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 4th day of April, 1923.

H. O. COONEY, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 13th April, 1923.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Mount Albert, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF MOUNT ALBERT.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.--Kingsland Overbridge Loan of £11,000.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Mount Albert taken on the 21st day of March, 1923, on the proposal of the Mount Albert Borough Council to borrow—

(a.) The sum of £10,000, being a contribution to the New Zealand Railways Department as proportion of the cost of an overhead traffic-bridge over the Kaipara Railway-line at Kingsland, together with the road approaches thereto;

(b.) The sum of £1,000, representing charges and expenses, together with first year’s interest and sinking fund, on the foregoing amount of £10,000—

the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 1,353, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 98.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Auckland this 9th day of April, 1923.

ALFRED F. BENNETT, Mayor.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 13th April, 1923.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

COUNTY OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

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 at a poll of the ratepayers of the Turua-Netherton Roads Loans Special Rating Area of the County of Hauraki Plains taken on the 18th day of December, 1922, on the proposal of the Hauraki Plains County Council to borrow the sum of £19,500 for the improving, metalling, and laying-down in tar macadam certain roads in the above-mentioned special rating area, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 40, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 7.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 19th day of February, 1923.

JAMES C. MILLER,
Chairman of the County.

ERNEST WALTON, Returning Officer.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 13th April, 1923.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Loan of £2,500 for the Formation of the Waikorea-Waimai Road and Formation-works on the Waikorea Valley and Coast Roads.
PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that the following is the result of a poll of the ratepayers of the Waikorea-Waimai Special Rating District of the County of Raglan taken on the 9th day of April, 1923, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £2,500 for the formation of the Waikorea-Waimai Road and formation-works on the Waikorea Valley and Coast Roads:

Total number of valid votes recorded . . . . . . . 37
For the proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Against the proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

The total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded, I hereby declare the proposal to be carried.

CAMPBELL JOHNSTONE,
Chairman, Raglan County Council.

Ngaruawahia, 10th April, 1923.

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by By-laws.--Wanganui County Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th April, 1923.

It is hereby notified, in accordance with section 109 of the Counties Act, 1920, that so much of the by-laws made by the Wanganui County Council and sealed on the 9th day of March, 1923, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Wanganui County funds for the licensing of vehicles plying for hire has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor-General.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Patea Borough Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th April, 1923.

THE following certificate has been executed on the copy of the amending by-laws made by the Patea Borough Council on the 3rd day of April, 1922.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-laws made by the Patea Borough Council, and declare that the same came into force on the 19th day of April, 1922.

Dated this 14th day of April, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.