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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

Coroner appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 17th January, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

CHARLES EDWARD MACMILLAN, Esq., J.P.,
of Tauranga, to be a Coroner within the Dominion of New
Zealand.

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

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 13th January, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to authorize

JOHN EDWARD ESPIE, of Gisborne,

to act as a licensed Native Interpreter of the First Grade,
under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the
regulations made thereunder.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 11th January, 1923.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointments in the Public Service :—

JOSEPH THOMAS ECCLETON

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the district of Tirau, as from the 3rd January, 1923.

WILLIAM MORRISON ALLAN

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris, for
the district of Greytown, as from the 28th December, 1922.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Inspectors for the Purposes of the Dairy Industry Act, 1908,
appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 16th January, 1923.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointments in the Public Service :—

THOMAS WATSON FRASER,
NEWTON RAMSAY BOYD, and
GAVIN WISEMAN BALLANTINE

to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Dairy Industry Act,
1908, as from the 10th day of January, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Officers under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, and
Inspectors under the Health Act, 1920, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 15th January, 1923.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the fol-
lowing appointments in the Public Service :—

Marshall Edward Bettel,
Kenneth Cameron,
William Frederick De Roo,
Albert George Fischer,
Martin Joseph Fogarty,
Bernard Adolphus Franklin,
James Albert Freeman,
Robert Grieve,
George Kerr,
John William Lerwill,
Alan Henderson McCallum,
Frederick Henry Miller,
Philip Alexander Milne,
Samuel Benjamin Reed,
Sidney Herbert Sargeant,
Ernest Sinclair,
George Charles White, and
Cyril Dellow Wykes

to be Officers under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908,
and Inspectors under the Health Act, 1920, as from the
15th day of January, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Inspector under the Health Act, 1920, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 15th January, 1923.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointment in the Public Service :—

HARDING WAIPUKE LEAF

to be an Inspector under the Health Act, 1920, as from the
15th day of January, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th January, 1923.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons
have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Regis-
trars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts
set respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

William Leith Roberts .. Blueskin.
John William Harris .. Awakino.
Michael James McGilligan .. Waipawa at Otane.
Daniel James Cuttance .. Jackson’s Bay.
Albert Pulman Stuart .. Te Awamutu at Ohaupo.

• Births and deaths only.

J. L. PALETHORPE, Acting Registrar-General.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 15th January, 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.

Otonqa 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
“ Otonqa Special Rating Area ” was held on Friday, the
8th day of December, 1922, on the proposal to borrow the
sum of £12,250 for the purpose of forming and metalling the
main roads in the said special area, and resulted as follows :—

Total number of votes recorded .. .. 128
„ in favour of proposal .. 106
„ against the proposal .. 22
Informal votes .. .. Nil.

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 12th day of December, 1922.

W. JONES, County Chairman.
H. C. HEMPHILL, County Returning Officer.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 16th January, 1923.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

TARARUA ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan of £200,000.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913,
I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the
Tararua Electric-power District taken on the 30th day of
November, 1922, on the proposal of the Tararua Electric-
power Board to borrow the sum of £200,000 for the purpose
of distributing electrical energy throughout the Tararua
Electric-power District by the erection of transmission-lines
and services, the construction of generating stations or
station, the purchase of all necessary material, goods, equip-
ment, and plant, acquiring land, erecting buildings, legal and
clerical charges, and contingencies, and generally carrying out
such works or undertakings as are authorized by the Electric-
power Boards Act, 1918, and its amendments, the number
of votes recorded for the proposal was 714, and the number
of votes recorded against the proposal was 83.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 4th day of December, 1922.

J. B. CARRUTHERS, Chairman.