SEPT. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2425

Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 11th September, 1923.

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

Mrs. Evelyn Mary Louisa Kelly

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Rakaunui, as from the 27th August, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 18th September, 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 district set respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

Colin George Rigby.. .. Kaitaia.
James Alexander Halpin .. Ngaruawahia (at Taupiri).*
William James Gregg .. Malvern.
William Thompson Simpson .. Richmond.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 10th September, 1923.

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

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Finance.

MANUKAU COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll.—Clevedon–Takanini Road Special Area Loan of £7,000.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Clevedon–Takanini Road Loan of £7,000 Special Rating Area of the County of Manukau taken on the 22nd day of August, 1923, on the proposal of the Manukau County Council to borrow the sum of £7,000 for the opening, forming, and metalling of a road from Clevedon to Takanini in the Wairoa and Papakura Ridings of the county, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 199, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 145.

And there not being the requisite majority of at least three-fifths of the votes recorded to carry the proposal, I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 25th day of August, 1923.

FRANK M. WATERS, Chairman.
EDGAR ASHCROFT, Returning Officer.

The New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 10th September, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Register of New Zealand 4½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock maturing 20th April, 1939, and the Register of New Zealand 5-per-cent. Inscribed Stock maturing 20th April, 1929, will be closed from the 1st October to the 20th October, 1923, inclusive, for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Finance.

Rangitaiki Land Drainage District.—Notice of Intention to make and levy Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 4th September, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, pursuant to the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, and its amendments, to make and levy a rate for the period from the 1st April, 1923, to the 31st March, 1924, on the unimproved value of all land within the district constituted under the said Act.

The amount of such rate shall be payable in one sum on the 15th day of October, 1923.

The valuation roll of the district is open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, Chief Drainage Engineer’s Office, 5 Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, and a copy of the same may be inspected at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer at Thornton, near Whakatane, at all times at which those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 10th September, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to Major G. E. Simeon, Retired List, New Zealand Forces.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries of the Borough of Whakatane.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th September, 1923.

PURSUANT to section 132 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, being part of the Borough of Whakatane, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying that the said area may be excluded from the said borough and included in the County of Whakatane. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration which they desire to make within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE EXCLUDED FROM BOROUGH OF WHAKATANE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, being Allotments 260A, 260B, and Subdivision 1 of Allotment 260C, Parish of Waimana.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XII, Waitaha Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Block XII, Waitaha Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Waitaha, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 1 acre 1 rood 15 perches.

Being portion of Section 2004, Block XII, Waitaha Survey District (Westland R.D.).

In the Westland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56613, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged green.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 8th day of September, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.