2054

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 58

Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 12th July, 1923.

THE Public Service Commissioner notifies that he has made the following appointment in the Public Service :

Henry Bell Reid, Esq.,

to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Oamaru, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 4th day of July, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 17th July, 1923.

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

John Bowmar, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Tokaanu, as from the 11th July, 1923.

David Russell, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of West Taieri, as from the 12th July, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th July, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable David Wallace

to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Upper Hutt, on and from the 20th day of June, 1923, vice Constable C. S. Le Fevre, transferred.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 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. :

Robert Albert Mace .. .. Tokatoka.
Gladstone Wilson .. .. Wairoa.
James Theophilus Bishop .. Greymouth.
Matthew John Thompson .. East Taieri.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1923.—Notice No. 24.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1923.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Elder Andrew Reed Halversen.
Elder James Vernon Monson.
Elder Angus Taylor Wright.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1923.—Notice No. 25.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th July, 1923.

IT is hereby notified that the names of the following Officiating Ministers have been removed from the list of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by request :

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Elder Halvy Elias Bachman.
Elder Wallace Lowell Castleton.
Elder George Shepard Taylor.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 13th July, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Allison, 8th New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Nelson).

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Customs Examining-place.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 14th July, 1923.

I, WILLIAM DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Customs, in exercise of the powers vested in me for this purpose by the Customs Act, 1913, do by this Warrant appoint the undermentioned wharf-shed to be a place for the examination by the Customs of goods subject to the control of the Customs at the Port of Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

SITUATION : Breastwork adjoining Fryatt Quay.
Description : Wharf-shed numbered 45.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Customs.

Members, Invercargill Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th July, 1923.

THE undermentioned persons have been appointed or elected to be members of the Invercargill Fire Board constituted under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908 :

Appointed by the Governor-General—
William A. Ott.

Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Thomas Chalmer.
Edward Belton Pilcher.
Henry Robert Law.

Elected by the Invercargill Borough Council—
Andrew Bain.
Charles John Broad.
Robert Percy Meek.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 12th July, 1923.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Council of the Borough of Palmerston North, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH 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 Borough of Palmerston North taken on the 8th day of June, 1923, to borrow the sum of £25,000 to complete the erection and construction of the new gasworks, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 486, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 142 ; informal, 3.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

F. J. NATHAN, Mayor.

Palmerston North, 21st June, 1923.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 12th July, 1923.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Council of the Borough of Taihape, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

TAIHAPE BOROUGH 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 Borough of Taihape taken on the 26th day of June, 1923, on