JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1557

Alfred Ernest Reynolds, Esq.,
to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Timaru, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 27th day of May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Returning Officer for the Waitomo Electoral District appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1924.

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

Albert John Bennetts, Esq.,
to be the Returning Officer for the Waitomo Electoral District, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 2nd day of June, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Crier of the Supreme Court of New Zealand and Bailiff of the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 24th June, 1924.

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

William Thomas Hooker, Esq.,
to be Crier at Palmerston North of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, and Bailiff of the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, as from the 16th day of June, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 24th June, 1924.

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 Edwin Brown .. .. Duntrroon.
Walter Cade .. .. Waipawa.
Ernest Russell .. .. Manuherikia.
Alfred Herbert Weavers .. Little River.
Robert Albert Mace* .. .. Ohaeawai, at Kaikohe.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Notice presenting Proposed Constitution of Orahiri Drainage District, Counties of Waitomo and Otorohanga.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th June, 1924.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a drainage district under Part I of the said Act, by name the Orahiri Drainage District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said drainage district which they desire to lodge, within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED ORAHIRI DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point being the northernmost corner of Hauturu East 1E 5C 2A 2 Block and proceeding in a north-easterly direction along a right line to the south-western corner of Section 1B, Block VII, Orahiri Survey District; thence along the Waihohonu Road and the Haurua Road to the northern boundary of Section 5A, Block VIII, Orahiri Survey District; thence easterly along the northern boundary of Section 5A aforesaid to the north-eastern corner of that section; thence north-easterly along a right line to a point in the northern boundary of Section 2A, Block VIII aforesaid, and distant 25 chains, more or less, from the

Waitomo Valley Road; thence easterly along the northern boundary of Section 2A aforesaid to the western boundary of Orahiri Z No. 18 Block; thence northerly generally along that boundary, crossing a road, to the Waipa River; thence south-easterly generally along the left bank of said Waipa River to the eastern boundary of Orahiri Z No. 2 Block; thence south-westerly along that boundary, across the Te Kuiti Road, and along the western side of said Te Kuiti Road and the south-east boundary of Pukeroa Hangatiki 5B 2 Block; thence north-westerly and south-westerly along north-eastern and north-western boundaries respectively of Section 8A, Block VIII, Orahiri Survey District, and along a right line being the production of the last-mentioned boundary across the Haurua Road; thence southerly generally along the western side of said Haurua Road to the south-eastern boundary of Section 20, Block VII aforesaid; thence south-westerly along that boundary to the southernmost corner of said Section 20; thence along a right line to the north-west corner of Hauturu 2 No. 3B Block; thence along the north-western boundary of Hauturu 2 No. 3B Block, and westerly along the southern boundary of Section 1, Block XI, Orahiri Survey District, to the point of commencement.

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

By-law of the Patea County Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th June, 1924.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the By-law made by the Patea County Council on the 11th day of March, 1924.

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

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

IN pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-law, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of April, 1914.

Dated this 20th day of June, 1924.

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

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th June, 1924.

THE following result of the election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON,
Assistant Under-Secretary.

Tauhei Drainage Board: Counties of Waikato and Piako—
Albert Gee.
Ivo B. Harris.
Archibald Noble.
Janes E. Leeson.
Henry D. Williams.

Date of Election of Members of the Eltham Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd June, 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 Friday, the 27th day of June, 1924, to be the day for the holding of an election of three members of the said Eltham Fire Board by the contributing local authority.

RICHARD F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 20th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to the Reverend J. R. Dart, Chaplain, 3rd class, Retired List.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Defence.