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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 16th May, 1924.

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

Francis Halliday Garth, Esq.,

to be the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Palmerston, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Palmerston, as from the 12th May, 1924; and

William Martin Hayes Diamond, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Rangitikei, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Marton, as from the 13th May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Officers appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section two hundred and eighty-eight of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, and section sixteen of the Justices of the Peace Amendment Act, 1923, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding office in the service of the Crown as stated opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under section two hundred and eighty-eight of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

Thomas Tudhope .. Chief Clerk, District Office, Lands and Survey Department, New Plymouth.

Neil Fleming .. Chief Clerk, District Office, Lands and Survey Department, Napier.

George William Palmer Chief Clerk, District Office, Lands and Survey Department, Christchurch.

John Macdonald .. Chief Clerk, District Office, Lands and Survey Department, Dunedin.

Thomas Pound .. Chief Clerk, District Office, Lands and Survey Department, Invercargill.

As witness my hand this 16th day of May, 1924.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Extending Part II of the Administration of Justice Act (Imperial) to New Zealand.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th May, 1924.

THE following Order of His Majesty in Council extending Part II of the Administration of Justice Act, 1920 (Imperial), to New Zealand is published for general information.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

At the Court in Buckingham Palace, the 4th day of May, 1923.

Present:

THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Part II of the Administration of Justice Act, 1920, provision has been made for the reciprocal enforcement of judgments in the United Kingdom and in other parts of His Majesty’s Dominions:

And whereas by the said Act it is, amongst other things, provided that where His Majesty is satisfied that reciprocal provisions have been made by the Legislature of any part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom for the enforcement within that part of His Dominions of judgments obtained in the High Court in England, the Court of Session in Scotland, and the High Court in Ireland, His Majesty may by Order in Council declare that the said part of that Act shall extend to that part of His Dominions and that on any such Order being made the said part of that Act shall extend accordingly.

And whereas on the 6th day of December, 1922, the Irish Free State was established under the provisions of an Act of Parliament shortly entitled the Irish Free State Constitution Act, 1922 (Session 2):

And whereas His Majesty is satisfied that the Legislature of the part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom hereinafter mentioned has made reciprocal provisions for the enforcement within that part of judgments obtained in the High Court in England, the Court of Session in Scotland, and the High Court in Ireland:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by the above-recited Act in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1. Part II of the Administration of Justice Act, 1920, shall extend to the part of His Majesty’s Dominions outside the United Kingdom hereunder mentioned:—

New Zealand.

2. Nothing in this Order shall affect the registration or enforcement in the Irish Free State of any judgment in pursuance of Part II of the said Act.

And the Most Noble the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 19th May, 1924.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the South Canterbury Electric-power District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

SOUTH CANTERBURY ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and section 10 (2) of the Electric-power Boards Amendment Act, 1920, I hereby give notice that at a poll taken on the 9th day of May, 1924, of the ratepayers of the Combined District of Geraldine, comprising the Boroughs of Geraldine and Temuka and the Geraldine and Temuka Ridings of the County of Geraldine, contained within the South Canterbury Electric-power District, on the proposal of the South Canterbury Electric-power Board to raise a special loan of £105,000 for the construction of electric works and such other matters as are provided for by the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and for the exercise of the powers conferred on the said Board by sections 88 and 90 of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, for the benefit of the said Combined District of Geraldine,—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 745; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 253; the number of informal votes was 7.

The number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 13th day of May, 1924.

JOHN KENNEDY,
Chairman, South Canterbury Electric-power Board.

Date of Election of Members of the Westport Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1924.

PURSUANT to section 18 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the 28th day of May, 1924, to be the day for the holding of an election of three members of the said Westport Fire Board by the contributing local authority.

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

Trustees of the Manawatu Rabbit District elected.—Notice No. Ag. 2384.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th May, 1924.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer of the Manawatu Rabbit District, constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, that

Walter Edward Barber,
Thomas Alfred Grammer,
Ralph Boswell,
Francis Campbell Raikes,
James McKelvie,
John Gloyn, and
Bernard Gapper Gower

have been duly elected trustees of the said district.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.