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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 61

Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 31st July, 1923.

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

Norman Charles Kensington, Esq.,

to be Chief Surveyor and Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Nelson Land District, for the purposes of the Land Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of August, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrars of Electors appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 31st July, 1923.

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

John Henry Victor Carr, Esq.,

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Grey Lynn, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of August, 1923.

Percy Fulton, Esq.,

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Eden, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of August, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 31st 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.:—

Frank Sampson David .. .. Brunner.
Richard John Snow .. .. .. West Taieri.
William Loxley Hunter .. .. Malvern.
(Miss) Margaret Louise Theobald .. Nuhaka.
William James Greig .. .. Cust.
Clarence Walter Edwards .. .. Brunner.
Leonard Livingstone Marshall .. .. Waipara.
James Craig .. .. Te Kuiti.
Joseph George Molloy .. .. Mangapehi.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 26th July, 1923.

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

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

CHRISTCHURCH DRAINAGE BOARD.

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 special area (of the Christchurch Drainage Board District) defined and created by resolution of the Board on the 17th day of April, 1923, taken on the 12th day of July, 1923, on the proposal of the Christchurch Drainage Board to borrow the sum of £700,000 for the purposes of constructing drainage and sewerage works and to extend the sewerage system for the benefit of the said special area, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 1,186, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 235.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 19th day of July, 1923.

WALTER HILL,
Chairman, Christchurch Drainage Board.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st July, 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 Ashburton County Council and sealed on the 6th day of July, 1923, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Ashburton County funds for the licensing of vehicles plying for hire has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor-General.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

NOTE.—The above notice is published in substitution of the notice appearing in Gazette No. 60, of 26th February, 1923, page 2082.

Letters of Naturalization amended.

Office of Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th July, 1923.

IT is hereby notified that the letters of naturalization issued in New Zealand on 25th August, 1908, to Mr. Severi Koiru, of Palmerston North, Labourer, have been amended by altering the surname to “Koivu.”

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Dismissal from the Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 21st July, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the dismissal of the undermentioned from the New Zealand Defence Forces, under section 6 (b), Defence Act, 1909, he having been convicted by the Civil power:—

No. 89/3710. Trooper Leslie Thomas Becks, 1st New Zealand Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry). Dated 11th July, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Club disbanded.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the disbandment of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909:—

Arrowtown Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Arrowtown.

Dated 25th June, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Plumbers Registration Act, 1912.—Successful Candidates Plumbers Board Examination, 8th and 9th June, 1923.

THE following is a list of plumbers to whom certificates of having passed the examination of the Plumbers Board of New Zealand will be granted in pursuance of section 17 of the Plumbers Registration Act, 1912, and whose names have been entered in the Register of Plumbers of New Zealand in pursuance of section 8 of the Act.

Reg. No. Name. Reg. No. Name.
1441. Young, J. R. 1453. Kiernan, C. A.
1442. Corbett, A. N. 1454. Elliott, W. H.
1443. Craig, R. 1455. White (jun.), E. A.
1444. Tither, S. 1456. Durrant, H. J. W.
1445. Miller, J. A. 1457. King, H. H.
1446. Whitman, J. T. 1458. Mullins, H. F.
1447. Lawrence, C. H. 1459. Stanton, G. R.
1448. Ashcroft, J. J. G. 1460. Humphreys, F. H.L.
1449. Skinner, F. T. H. 1461. Weeks, F. G. B.
1450. Lealand, L. J. 1462. Louttit, G.
1451. MacKenzie, W. J. 1463. Hanley, J.
1452. O’Leary, W. D.

M. POMARE, Minister of Health.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Notice of Proposed Cancellation of Registration.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Napier Taxi-drivers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 1220, situated at Napier, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 21 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, it is my intention to cancel the registration of that industrial union after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, unless in the meantime cause is shown to the contrary.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.