Extensions of the system to the said Outer Area, the number
of votes recorded for the proposal was 141, and the number
of votes recorded against the proposal was 26.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Morrinsville this 29th day of March, 1923.

FRANK J. MARSHALL, Mayor.

Empire Day to be observed as a Holiday on King’s Birthday.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th April, 1923.

EMPIRE DAY will be celebrated on Monday, the 4th
June, 1923, in conjunction with the anniversary of the
birthday of His Majesty the King, and that day will be
observed as a public holiday in the Government Offices
throughout the Dominion.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Redefining Boundaries of the Borough of Masterton.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st April, 1923.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the
Borough of Masterton are hereby defined as set out in the
Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the said borough having
been altered by Order in Council dated the 3rd day of
November, 1922, made under the Municipal Corporations
Act, 1920, and published in Gazette No. 79, of the same date.

SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARIES OF THE BOROUGH OF MASTERTON.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded by a
line commencing at the intersection of the railway reserve
with the northern boundary of Section 65, Block I, Otahoua
Survey District, and proceeding thence easterly along said
northern boundary of Section 65 to the main Masterton-
Eketahuna Road; thence northerly along the western side
of that road to a point in line with the northern side of Fifth
Street; thence easterly to and along that roadside and its
production to the eastern side of Manuka Street, and southerly
along that roadside to the northern boundary of Section 72,
Block I, Otahoua Survey District, along the said boundary
and the northern boundary of Section 73 to Gordon Street;
thence southerly along the western side of Gordon Street and
westerly along the northern side of the Masterton-Waimate
Road to a point in line with the eastern side of Blair Street;
thence to and along that side of Blair Street to a point in line
with the western boundary of Lot I on plan 1626 deposited
in the office of the District Land Registrar at Wellington;
thence to and along said boundary to the south-western
corner of said Lot 1; thence westerly along a right line, the
production of the southern boundary of said Lot 1, to the
right bank of the Waipoua River; thence down that bank
and the right bank of the Ruamahanga River to the middle
of the Nursery Road; thence south-westerly along the middle-
line of that road and its production to the middle of the
Kuripuni Creek, and up the middle of that creek to the north-
western boundary of Section 30, Manaia Block; thence by
that boundary, the north-eastern and north-western bound-
aries of Section 29, the north-eastern boundary of Section 3
and its production to the middle of the South Road; thence
south-easterly along the middle of that road to a point in
line with the northern side of Junction Road; thence along
said northern side of Junction Road and its production to
the middle of High Street; thence north-easterly along the
middle of High Street to its intersection with Solway Street;
thence north-westerly along a right line through Section 43
to the intersection of the middle-lines of Railway Road and a
road forming the southern boundary of Section 34, Masterton
Small-farm Block; thence north-easterly along the middle of
the said Railway Road to its intersection with the middle of
Upper Plain Road; thence along the middle of that road to
a point in line with the north-western boundary of Lot 1,
deposited plan 5504; thence to and along that boundary and
along the north-eastern boundary of the land shown on said
plan 5504 and the production to the middle of Railway Road,
and again north-easterly along that road to its intersection
with the middle of Ngaumutawa Road; and thence along a
right line to a point on the right bank of the Waipoua River
in line with the north-western boundary of Section 31, Mas-
terton Small-farm Block, and down the said right bank of
the Waipoua River to the eastern side of the railway reserve,
and north-easterly along that side of the said reserve to the
point of commencement.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Certificate and Declaration of Execution of Criminal.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st April, 1923.

THE following certificate and declaration are published
in conformity with the provisions of the Crimes Act,
1908.

F. H. D. BELL, Minister of Justice.

CERTIFICATE.

I, HAMILTON A. H. GILMER, the Medical Officer in attendance at the execution of John Tuhi at the public prison
at Wellington known as the Wellington Prison, do hereby
certify and declare that I have this day witnessed the execution
of the said John Tuhi at the said prison; and I do further
certify and declare that the said John Tuhi was, in pursuance
of the sentence of the Supreme Court, hanged by the neck
until his body was dead.

Given under my hand this 19th day of April, 1923, at the
public prison at Wellington.

HAMILTON A. H. GILMER.

DECLARATION.

WE do hereby testify and declare that we have this day
been present when the extreme penalty of the law was carried
into execution on the body of John Tuhi, convicted at the
criminal sittings of the Supreme Court held at Wellington
on the 6th day of February, 1923, and sentenced to death,
and that the said John Tuhi was, in pursuance of the said
sentence, hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Dated this 19th day of April, 1923, at the public prison
at Wellington known as the Wellington Prison.

W. A. HAWKINS, Sheriff.
M. HAWKINS, Inspector of Prisons.
J. C. SCANLON, Gaoler.
W. G. BROWN, Warder.
EDWIN ARNOLD, Justice of the Peace and
Visiting Justice.
W. E. BUDD.
CASHMORE ROBIESON.
E. O. RAMSDEN.

Native Lands to cease to be excepted from the Term “Rateable Property” as defined by the Rating Act, 1908.

In the matter of the Urewera Lands Act, 1921–22, and of
section 43 of the Native Land Amendment and Native
Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1922.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lands known as Ruatoki
Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Blocks respectively shall cease to be
excepted from the term “rateable property” as defined by
the Rating Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of April, 1923.

Dated the 31st day of March, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Waimakariri River Trust.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section three of the Waimakariri River Improvement
Act, 1922, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public
Works, do hereby appoint

JOHN WOOD, Esq.,
of Wellington, Civil Engineer, to be a Commissioner of the
Waimakariri River Trust; and, in further pursuance and
exercise of the powers conferred by the said section, I do
hereby appoint the said JOHN WOOD to be Chairman of the
Trust.

As witness my hand at Wellington this 18th day of April,
1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Waimakariri River Trust.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section 3 of the Waimakariri River Improvement Act,
1922, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public Works, do
hereby appoint

JOSEPH HENRY BLACKWELL, Esq.,
of Kaiapoi, Merchant, to be a Commissioner of the Wai-
makariri River Trust.

As witness my hand at Wellington this 18th day of April,
1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.