MAY 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1383

BOROUGH OF AVONDALE.

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 Borough of Avondale was taken on the 26th day of April, 1923, on the proposal of the Avondale Borough Council to borrow the sum of £5,000 for rebuilding and furnishing the Avondale Town Hall.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 449, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 172.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 10th day of May, 1923.

WILLIAM JOHN TAIT, Mayor.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 16th May, 1923.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

WHANGAREI COUNTY COUNCIL.

Manai'a Loan Proposal.

IN pursuance of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and its amendments, public notice is hereby given that a poll of ratepayers of the special rating area known as the “Manai'a Special Rating Area” was held on Wednesday, the 9th day of May, 1923, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £8,000 for the purpose of forming and metalling the Whangarei–Onerahi–Waikaraka–Parua Bay–Whangarei Heads Road, and resulted as follows: Total number of votes recorded, 177; total number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal, 133; total number of votes recorded against the proposal, 36; informal votes, 8.

As there were more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal, I therefore declare the proposal carried.

Dated at Whangarei this 10th day of May, 1923.

W. JONES, County Chairman.

H. C. HEMPHILL, County Returning Officer.

Notification of Issue of Certificate of Registration of Tauranga Acclimatization Society.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th May, 1923.

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 Tauranga Acclimatization Society, and that the said society has been duly registered under the said Act as from the 8th day of May, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Local Advisory Committees appointed under the War Funds Act, 1915.

Department of Internal Affairs.
Wellington, 9th May, 1923.

PURSUANT to the War Funds Act, 1915, and the regulations thereunder, I, William Downie Stewart, being the Minister administering the Act, hereby notify that I have appointed the following Local Advisory Committees to assist the National War Funds Council in the administration of the undermentioned funds, being war funds administered by the National War Funds Council:—

Foxton Local Advisory Committee—
Walter Barber, Esq.
John Knowles Thomson, Esq.
John M. Thomson, Esq.
Albert Geo. Huntley, Esq.
Robert McMurray, Esq.
Kathleen Sewell.
Bertha McMurray.

West Coast Maori Local Advisory Committee—
Rere Nicholson, Esq.
Hone McMillan, Esq.
R. J. M. Park, Esq.

Central Maori Local Advisory Committee—
Lady Miria Woodbine Pomare.
(Mrs.) Ripeka Love.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th May, 1923.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the By-law No. 11 made by the Hastings Borough Council on the 12th day of April, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

IN pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within-written By-law No. 11 of the Hastings Borough Council, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of May, 1923.

Dated this 9th day of May, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

List of Persons, Companies, &c., licensed to conduct Fire-insurance Business in New Zealand.

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

IN accordance with clause 11 of the rules made under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, it is hereby notified that the Continental Insurance Company (Limited), of 94 Hereford Street, Christchurch, has been added to the list of persons, companies, &c., licensed to conduct fire-insurance business in New Zealand.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Borough of Avondale.

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

PURSUANT to section 132 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, being part of the Borough of Mount Albert, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying that the said area may be excluded from the said borough and included in the Borough of Avondale.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration which they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN BOROUGH OF AVONDALE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point in the middle of the Manukau Road in line with the southern boundary of Allotment 8 of Section 62, Parish of Titirangi, thence to and along that boundary and up the Oakley Creek to a point three chains distant from the southern side of the New North Road, thence south-westerly along lines parallel to and distant three chains from that roadside to the middle of Manukau Road, and northerly along the middle of that road to the point of commencement.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Shooting Season for Imported Game (Sambur or Ceylon Deer), Counties of Manawatu, Oroua, Kairanga, Rangitikei, and Horowhenua.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., Sambur or Ceylon deer—may be taken or killed within the counties of Manawatu, Oroua, Kairanga, Rangitikei, and Horowhenua (hereinafter called the said district), subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. SUCH deer may be taken, or killed within the said district from the 1st day of June, 1923, to the 31st day of July, 1923, both days inclusive.