Feb. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 525

Officer under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 4th February, 1925.

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

David Hogg, Esq.,

to be an Officer under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, as from the 2nd day of February, 1925.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th February, 1925.

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. :—

William Robert McLeod .. .. .. Ekettahuna.
William George Lynch .. .. .. Fortrose.
Charles Edmund Vigers .. .. .. Waipara.
(Miss) Myrtle Alice Inger .. .. .. Albertland.
James Molloy .. .. .. Balfour.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

WILLIAM MICHAEL JOSEPH WALSH, Esquire, of P.O. Box 58, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the State of New South Wales, has this day been appointed by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Stout, P.C., K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the State of New South Wales under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of February, 1925.

W. A. HAWKINS, Registrar, Supreme Court.

Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 2nd January, 1925.

IN pursuance of the 10th section of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license

William Goughenheime Francis Hall,

of Wanganui, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister in Charge.

Defence Rifle Club accepted.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the services of the undermentioned Defence rifle club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :—

Mauriceville West Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Mauriceville West.

Dated 17th December, 1924.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Resignation of Member of Canterbury Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 50 (2) of the Land Act, 1924, accepted the resignation of

William Cunningham

as a member of the Canterbury Land Board.

R. HEATON RHODES,
For Minister of Lands.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 4th February, 1925.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Waipawa, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

F. H. D. BELL, For Minister of Finance.

WAIPAWA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Result of Proposal to raise Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Waipawa was taken on the 22nd day of January, 1925, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £350 for the installation of electric lighting in the municipal buildings at Waipawa.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 90, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 15 ; the number of informal votes was 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 26th day of January, 1925.

H. M. RATHBONE, Mayor.

Notice respecting Proposed Abolition of Norfolk Downs Drainage District, County of Piako.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th February, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that it is proposed to abolish the Norfolk Downs Drainage District, in the County of Piako, pursuant to the provisions of section 4, Land Drainage Amendment Act, 1922.

All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge all written objections to, or petitions against, the proposed abolition, 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.

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

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Borough of Waitara.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th February, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under section 132 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto, being now part of the Borough of Waitara, may be excluded from the said borough and included in the County of Taranaki. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed exclusion, 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 EXCLUDED FROM BOROUGH OF WAITARA.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District bounded by a line commencing at the north-western corner of Section 15, Block III, Paritutu Survey District; thence easterly along the northern boundaries of Sections 15 and 16 to the western side of Ranfurly Street; thence southerly along the western side of Ranfurly Street to Raleigh Street, across Raleigh Street, and along the said western side of Ranfurly Street and the eastern boundary of Section 24, Block III aforesaid, to the western side of the Waitara—New Plymouth Railway; thence generally southerly along that railway to the southern boundary of Section 27, Block III aforesaid; thence westerly along the southern boundary of the said Section 27 to its south-western corner; thence northerly along the western boundary of the said Section 27 and Section 22 to Raleigh Street, across Raleigh Street, and along the western boundary of Section 15, Block III aforesaid, to its north-western corner, the place of commencement.

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