JUNE 14.]

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th June, 1923.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :-
James Brown............... Wyndham.
Patrick Reginald Shannon...Gravity.
William Thomson Simpson.... Murchison.
Charles Murray Whyte..... Owhango.
Edward Lawson Tyndall...... Wyndham (at Edendale).*
(Miss) Margaret Louise Theobald.. Porangahau.
George Greig................ Invercargill.

• Births and deaths only.
  W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 7th June, 1923.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

TAURANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 ratepayers of the Maketu Riding of the County of Tauranga taken on the 21st day of April, 1923, on the proposal of the Tauranga County Council to borrow the sum of £2,600 for the following purposes :-
(a.) Regrading, culverting, and metalling portions £ of the Te Matai Road...... 1,000
(b.) Metalling portions of the Rotorua-Paengaroa Road .......... 1,000
(c.) Metalling portion of the New Swamp Road between Paengaroa and Pongakawa. 500
(d.) Widening and general improvements of the Otamarakau Valley Road ......... 100
£2,600
the number of valid votes recorded for the proposal was 41, and the number of valid votes recorded against the proposal was 4.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Tauranga this 3rd May, 1923.

H. SOUTHEY, Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 8th June, 1923.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

PIAKO COUNTY COUNCIL.

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 Ngaruawadhua Roads Special Rating Area in the County of Piako taken on the 29th day of May on the proposal of the Piako County Council to borrow the sum of £14,000 for the purposes following :-
Waitoa-Matamata Road, from main road to William's corner, metalling........... £3,845
Same road from William's corner to Mear's pines, metalling...................... £5,050
Diagonal Road, formation and metalling.......................................... £5,105
£14,000
the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 69, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 8.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 1st day of June, 1923.

F. W. WALTERS, Chairman.

Direction in Terms of Section 98 of the Licensing Act, 1908.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 8th June, 1923.

IN accordance with the provisions of section 98 of the Licensing Act, 1908, I hereby direct that all duplicate certificates authorizing the issue of licenses, the fees in respect of which are not payable to the funds of any local authority, shall be transmitted by the Licensing Committee granting the same to the Treasury Cashier, Wellington.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Finance.

Honours conferred by His Majesty the King.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th June, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs the publication in the New Zealand Gazette of the notification of the honours conferred by His Majesty the King as follows:- Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (K.B.E.) : Mr. Robert Howard Nolan, C.B.E.
Knight Bachelor : The Honourable Frederick Revans Chapman.
Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B. Military Division): Commodore Alan Geoffrey Hotham, C.M.G., Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King.
Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) : Mr. James William Tibbs, M.A.
Mr. Thomas Edward Donne.
Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) : Mr. Frederick William Flanagan.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-laws of the Waikato County Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

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

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-laws made by the Waikato County Council on the 29th day of September, 1921.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of January, 1922.

Dated this 9th day of June, 1923.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

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

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-laws made by the Petone Borough Council on the 26th day of February, 1923.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 7th day of March, 1923.

Dated this 9th day of June, 1923.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointing Saturday as the Statutory Closing-day in the Borough of Te Kuiti.

WHEREAS a poll to determine the statutory closing-day in the Borough of Te Kuiti was duly taken under the authority of section 20 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, on the 26th day of April, 1923 :
And whereas the Town Clerk of the Borough of Te Kuiti has notified me that the majority of the votes given at such