Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 12th May, 1924.

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

Robert Cameron Galbraith, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district of Raglan, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Raglan; and

Bernard Magee, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Levin, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Levin;
as from the 8th May, 1924.
A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrar of Brands appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th May, 1924.

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

William Brown Manning, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Brands under the Stock Act, 1908, for the Akaroa, Ashburton-Oxford, and Selwyn Branding Registration Districts, as from the 8th day of April, 1924.
A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Inspector of Weights and Measures appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th May, 1924.

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

Alexander James Drummond, Esq.,
to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Weights and Measures Act, 1908, as from the 9th day of May, 1924.
A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th May, 1924.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births an Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.—

Joseph Lissant Palethorpe.... Auckland.
Godfrey Montgomery... Hamilton..
Willis Mahone... Gisborne.
W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Borough of Invercargill.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th May, 1924.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under section 133 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto, being now part of the County of Southland, may be excluded from the said county and included in the Borough of Invercargill. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration of boundaries which they desire to lodge, 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 INCLUDED IN THE BOROUGH OF INVERCARGILL.

All that area in Southland Land District, commencing at the north-western corner of Lot 1, Block I, of deeds plan No. 91, Township of Richmond Grove, bounded towards the south-west and north-west by the present boundary of the Borough of Invercargill; towards the north-east by the Township of Adamsons to the southern side of William Street; towards the south-east by the southern side of William Street aforesaid to the place of commencement.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 8th May, 1924.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Otorohanga, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.
W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

OTOROHANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.
Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.—Waimahora Special-rating Area.
PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Otorohanga was taken on the 14th day of March, 1924, on the proposal of the Otorohanga County Council to borrow the sum of £900 for the construction of a bridge over the Waipa River at Toa’s Crossing.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 16 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated this 2nd day of May, 1924.
F. POTTS, Chairman.

Result of Election of Members of River Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th May, 1924.

THE following result of election of members of a River Board has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913.
J. HISLOP, Under-Secretary.
Poverty Bay District, County of Cook—
Cameron, Alexander Jerome.
Clark, William.
Macdonald, Douglas Gordon Stuart.
Machell, John.
Smith, Gerald Vincent.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License Fees, &c., Coromandel Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 2nd day of June to the 31st day of July, 1924 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Coromandel Acclimatization District, as described in the First Schedule hereto, except in the areas referred to in condition No. 3 and in the Second Schedule hereto, for the taking or killing of the following imported game and native game—viz., cock pheasants, Californian quail, grey duck, black teal, and black swan; and the period from the first day of January to the 31st day of March, 1925 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the said district for the taking or killing of the following native game—viz., godwits—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native game, including godwits, within the said district will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each, and licenses to take or kill the following native game only—viz., godwits—will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of ten shillings (10s.) each ; and the Postmasters at Whitianga, Colville, Kuaotunu, and Coromandel are hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.
2. The number of such native game that may be taken or killed by any one person in any one day shall not exceed twenty-five head in all of grey duck, black teal, and black swan.
3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game and native game, including godwits (or the following native game only—viz., godwits), shall authorize the holder thereof to take or kill imported game and native game, including godwits (or godwits only), on lands actually and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public domain, or any land mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto.
4. No person shall kill or destroy any such imported game or native game, or shoot at or attempt to shoot at any such imported game or native game, with any automatic or auto-loading gun, unless it is converted into a gun capable of carrying two cartridges only, or with any rifle or pea-rifle, swivel-gun or pump-gun, or shall use any gun other than