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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

Defence Rifle Club accepted.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the services of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909:—

Mawheraiti Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Mawheraiti, Grey Valley.

Date of acceptance, 15th May, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to Colonel G. W. C. Macdonald, Retired List.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 25th May, 1923.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

COUNTY OF CLUTHA.

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 Clutha was taken on the 9th day of May, 1923, on the proposal of the Clutha County Council to borrow the sum of £12,000 for the purpose of rebuilding or re-erecting certain bridges (exceeding 30 ft. span) within the county.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 936, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 314.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 15th day of May, 1923.

ALFRED NORTH,
Chairman, Clutha County Council.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 29th May, 1923.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Thames Harbour District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Thames Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act, 1920.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

THAMES HARBOUR BOARD.

PURSUANT to section 19 of the Thames Harbour Board Loan and Empowering Act, 1920, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Thames Harbour District was taken on the 26th day of April, 1923, on the proposal of the Thames Harbour Board to borrow a sum of £60,000 for harbour-improvement works at Thames.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 1,459, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 2,493; informal, 77.

I therefore declare that the said proposal was rejected.

R. COULTER, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 29th May, 1923.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

WHAKATANE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise £220 for the Paroa Bridge.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Whakatane (who are included in the Paroa Special Rating District) taken on the 9th day of May, 1923, on the proposal of the Whakatane County Council to borrow the sum of £220 for construction of the Paroa Bridge, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 4, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 3.

I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 14th day of May, 1923.

W. REID, Chairman.

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by By-laws.—Hauraki Plains County Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th May, 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 Hauraki Plains County Council and sealed on the 24th day of January, 1923, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Hauraki Plains County funds for the licensing of vehicles plying for hire has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor-General.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th May, 1923.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the By-law No. 1 made by the Gore Borough Council on the 6th day of November, 1922.

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. 1 of the Gore Borough Council, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of April, 1923.

Dated this 28th day of May, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Election of Members of Waimakariri River Trust.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th May, 1923.

THE following result of the election of members of the Waimakariri River Trust has been received, and is published in accordance with the River Boards Act, 1908, and amendments, and the Waimakariri River Improvement Act, 1922.

G. P. NEWTON,
Assistant Under-Secretary.

Appointed by Minister of Public Works: Joseph Henry Blackwell and John Wood.

Elected by ratepayers: Northern Subdivision—Richard Orme Dixon and Frederick George Horrell; Southern Subdivision—James Leslie, William Pritchard Spencer, Alfred Manhire, and Charles Henry Adolphus Truscott Opie.

Destruction of Deer.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., red deer and fallow deer—may be taken or killed within any acclimatization district subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the said Act, the secretary of any acclimatization society, or any person or persons duly authorized in writing by any such secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill within the district of that society red deer and fallow deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said secretary or of the said authorized persons, should be destroyed.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid during a period of twelve months from the date hereof.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the secretary of each acclimatization society