Dec. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2951

Appointment of Representative to the Waikato Hospital Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by section fifteen of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, I, John Rushworth Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

H. Alan Bell, Esq.,

as representative of the combined district of Te Awamutu, Cambridge, Morrinsville, and Te Aroha Boroughs on the Waikato Hospital Board.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of November, 1923.

M. POMARE, Minister of Health.

Member of Discharged Soldiers Dominion Revaluation Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th November, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 25 of the Finance Act, 1923, been pleased to appoint

Josephus Hargreaves Richardson, Esq.,

of Khandallah, retired Government Insurance Commissioner, to be a member of the Discharged Soldiers Dominion Revaluation Board, established under section 2 of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment Act, 1923.

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

Chairman of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th December, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Ernest Cargill Cutten, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the districts of Auckland, Waitemata, and Parnell, vice J. W. Poynton, Esq., S.M.

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

Officers of Police Force appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 11th December, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Inspector William Bernard McIlveney, and
Inspector Charles Robert Broberg

to be Superintendents,

Sub-Inspector Stephen Till

to be an Inspector, and

Senior Sergeant Arthur Sydney Bird

to be a Sub-Inspector,

of the New Zealand Police Force, each appointment to take effect from 1st January, 1924.

R. HEATON RHODES, for Minister of Justice.

Rangers under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th December, 1923.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the under-mentioned persons have been appointed rangers under and for the purposes of that Act for the districts set opposite their names respectively, viz. :—

Ernest James Charteris, of Taneatua, and Stanley Gordon Walker, of Waimana .. .. .. Acclimatization District.

John George Turton, of Peel Forest.. South Canterbury.

Arthur Beresford Cooke, of Lake Kanieri .. .. .. Westland.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Internal Affairs

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 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 Bruce Davis .. .. .. Port Chalmers.
Matthew John Thompson .. .. East Taieri.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Inspectors of Sea Fishing appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 4th December, 1923.

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

George Percy Evans, Esq.,
Frederick Antonio Hardy, Esq.,
Robert Fraser, Esq.,
Thomas Alexander Dykes, Esq.,
Sidney Gilbert Stringer, Esq.,
Thomas Alexander Gresley Atwood, Esq.,

to be Inspectors of Sea Fishing for the purposes of the Fisheries Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of December, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 5th December, 1923.

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

John Cook, Esq.,

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

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Promotion in New Zealand Naval Forces.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 10th December, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following promotion in the New Zealand Naval Forces :—

Chief Writer Jack Evans Hamilton, D.S.M.

promoted to acting Warrant Writer, and appointed to H.M.S. “Chatham” additional for duty at Navy Office, Wellington, to date 1st October, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 5th December, 1923.

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

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Finance.

MANAWATU 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 the poll of the ratepayers of the Manawatu Drainage District taken on the 8th day of November, 1923, on the proposal of the Manawatu Drainage Board to borrow the sum of four thousand eight hundred pounds (£4,800) for the purpose of widening, deepening, diverting, straightening, putting in flood-gates, and doing all such other works and acts as may be necessary for the purpose of improving the joint outlet, Whiskey Creek, Burke’s drain, and boundary drain,—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 126 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 114 ; informal, 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was lost.

Dated this 19th day of November, 1923.

E. Wood, Chairman, Manawatu Drainage Board.