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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 39.

Inspector of Weights and Measures appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 31st May, 1924.

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

Henry Moody Hopper, Esq.,

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Weights and Measures Act, 1908, as from the 23rd day of May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Rangitikei appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 29th May, 1924.

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

Leslie Grant McDonald, Esq.,

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Rangitikei, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 21st day of May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Assistant Clerk of the Wardens’ Court and Assistant Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court, at Lawrence, appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 31st May, 1924.

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

Robert Andrew Needham McSoriley, Esq.,

to be Assistant Clerk of the Wardens’ Court at Lawrence, in the Otago Mining District, constituted under the Mining Act, 1908, and Assistant Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Lawrence for the purposes of section 8 of the Magistrates’ Courts Amendment Act, 1922, as from the 21st day of May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Assistant Inspector of Sea-fishing and Ranger of Beaches appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 31st May, 1924.

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

Edwin William James Edmonds, Esq.,

to be an Assistant Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and a Ranger of Beaches for the purposes of the Harbours Act, 1923, as from the 16th day of April, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 30th May, 1924.

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

Michael O’Brien, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district of Naseby as from the 23rd May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th June, 1924.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned person has been appointed to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district set opposite his name, viz. :—

Charles Murray Whyte . . . . . Tokaanu.

W. E. GLADSTONE, Acting Registrar-General.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 30th May, 1924.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Taieri River Trust, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

TAIERI RIVER TRUST SPECIAL-RATING DISTRICT.

In the matter of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1912, the Taieri River Improvement Act, 1910, and the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908.

PUBLIC notice is hereby given that at a poll taken this 14th day of April, 1924, on a proposal to raise a special loan of £75,000 for river-improvement and drainage purposes, the following votes were recorded :—

For the proposal, 96 ; against the proposal, 41 ; informal, 1 : total number of valid votes recorded, 137.

As the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal is at least a majority of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby declare the poll to be carried.

Dated at Mosgiel, this 14th day of April, 1924.

ROBT. T. SADD, Chairman.

Result of Election of a Member of the Hawera Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1924.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Hawera Fire Board by fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908 :—

Hawera Fire Board . . . . Henry James Grayson.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to fill Extraordinary Vacancies on Milton, Balclutha, Invercargill, and Kaitangata Fire Boards.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th May, 1923.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the rules made thereunder, I, Richard Francis Bollard, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Tuesday, the 17th June, 1924, to be the date for holding the election of one member of each of the Balclutha, Invercargill, Kaitangata, and Milton Fire Boards by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancies caused by the death of Mr. Henry Robert Law.

RICH. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Destruction of Deer.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following imported game—viz., red deer and fallow deer—may be taken or killed within any acclimatization district subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. NOTWITHSTANDING anything contained in the said Act, the secretary of any acclimatization society, or any person or persons duly authorized in writing by any such secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill within the district of that society red deer and fallow deer of either sex and of any age which, in the opinion of the said secretary or of the said authorized persons, should be destroyed.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid during a period of twelve months from the date hereof.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the secretary of each acclimatization society within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number (if any) and sex of all deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates, and name of person by whom and the locality in which the deer were destroyed.