Oct. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2551

Officers of Police appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 27th September, 1923.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Inspector William Fouhy, and
Inspector William Hector Mackinnon
to be Superintendents,

Sub-Inspector James Kerr Simpson
to be an Inspector, and

Chief Detective James McIlveney
to be a Sub-Inspector

of the New Zealand Police Force, each appointment to take effect from the 1st October, 1923.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Courthouse appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 28th September, 1923.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

The Public Library, Denniston,

to be a place wherein a Magistrates’ Court shall be held, in lieu of the Druids’ Hall, Denniston, previously appointed.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 28th September, 1923.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Walter Brown Morgan, Esq.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Chalmers, vice E. Godfred, Esq., resigned.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.

Notice No. Ag. 2299.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 27th September, 1923.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Lionel Francis Grimstone

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, for the Upper Hutt Town District, the appointment to date as from the 27th day of September, 1923.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Appointment in New Zealand Naval Force.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1923.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointment in the New Zealand Naval Forces :—

Paymaster Commander Reginald Butcher, C.M.G., M.V.O., R.N.,

as Secretary to the Commodore Commanding the New Zealand Station, and as Secretary to the Naval Board constituted in and for the Dominion of New Zealand, additional to date the 17th September, 1923, and vice Paymaster Commander John Siddalls, O.B.E., R.N., to date 12th October, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Clerk of the Magistrates’ and Warden’s Courts, &c., appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 27th September, 1923.

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

Othniel Boaz Atton Sharpe, Esq.,

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Reefton for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, and Clerk of the Warden’s Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar at Reefton for the Westland Mining District, constituted under the Mining Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of October, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 29th September, 1923.

T HE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service :—

Mrs. Edith May McKay

to be the Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Wanaka as from the 17th September, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Ranger of Beaches and Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1923.

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

Charles Bamford Daniel, Esq.,

to be a Ranger of Beaches for the purposes of the Harbours Act, 1908, and an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of the Fisheries Act, 1908, as from the 20th day of September, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1923.

I T 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. :—

Harry Leslie Stone . . . . Winton.
Patrick Donald O’Connell . . . . Amuri.
(Miss) Isabella Lucy May King . . . . Raglan.
Robert Albert Mace . . . . Mahurangi.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

R OBERT ROSS McDONALD, Esquire, of 20 Howard Street, Perth, Western Australia, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the State of Western Australia, has this day been appointed by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Stout, P.C., K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the State of Western Australia under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of September, 1923.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Registrar, Supreme Court.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 2nd October, 1923.

T HE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Mount Roskill Road District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Finance.

MOUNT ROSKILL ROAD 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 a poll of ratepayers in the specially defined drainage-water area in the Mount Roskill Road District was taken on the 29th day of August, 1923, on the proposal of the Mount Roskill Road Board to borrow the sum of £40,000 (forty thousand pounds) for the purposes of providing drainage-reticulation with an outfall to the Manukau Harbour, and for taking up all small water-mains in the said area, replacing same with a four-inch main, providing all necessary valves, &c.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 210, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 119; and there being more than a three-fifths majority in favour I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 31st day of August, 1923.

GEORGE E. TANSLEY,
Chairman of the Mount Roskill Road Board.