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Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 18th February, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Thomas Hamilton Harvey,

of Rangitumau, Wairarapa, to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act, in respect of the Wellington Acclimatization District.

G. JAS. ANDERSON. Minister of Marine.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 24th 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.:-

Stanley Alfred Grant ... Nokomai and Switzers.
John Eric Hope Stewart ... Te Araroa.
Patrick Reginald Shannon ... Granity (at Millerton).
Alfred Andrews ... Feilding.
Ralph Long ... Mangonui.
William McNickle ... Devonport.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 19th February, 1925.

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

John Lodewyk Crowther, Esq., to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Rotorua, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Rotorua, as from the 6th January, 1925.

Henry Hector Scott, Esq., to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Stratford, as from the 3rd day of February, 1925.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Appointments in New Zealand (Reserve) Naval Forces.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments in the New Zealand (Reserve) Naval Forces:-

As Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division), with seniority to date 21st February, 1925,-

Oscar Weldon Carter.
Edric Cameron Alexander.
Roy Peard Henry Mays.
Andrew Gilmore Carnahan.
George Edwin Lisle Alderton.
William Theodore Edney.
Percy Palfrey Crawford, D.S.C.
Roland Evelyn Fry.
Richard Percy Nisbet, D.S.C.
Malcolm Stuart Kirkwood.
George Widdrington Horsley.
William James Connors.
Charles Henry Tarr Palmer.
Cecil Vincent Conolly.
Charles Caldwell Harrison-Smith.

As Paymaster-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division), with seniority to date 21st February, 1925,-

James Charles Hewson.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 17th February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to Major F. C. Soar, Regiment of New Zealand Artillery.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Awards of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 17th February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration to the undermentioned officers :-

Major G. W. Cockroft, the Hawke's Bay Regiment.
Major R. Noble-Adams, M.B., New Zealand Medical Corps.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 19th February, 1925.

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.

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

OTOROHANGA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.-Upper Mangawhero 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 23rd day of January, 1925, on the proposal of the Otorohanga County Council to borrow the sum of £1,500 for the purpose of forming, culverting, and metalling the Mangawhero Road along frontages of Tahaia B, B 2A, and B 2c 3, and also to erect bridge over the Mangawhero Stream on the same road.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 10; against the proposal was 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

F. Potts, Chairman.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 23rd February, 1925.

THE following notices, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Hobson, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

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

HOBSON COUNTY.

Whatoro-Opouteke Road Loan.

Notice is hereby given that at the poll of ratepayers taken on 23rd January, 1925, on the proposal to borrow £500 for the purpose of acquiring and making deviation of the Whatoro-Opouteke Road the number of votes recorded was as follows:-

For the proposal, 10 ; against the proposal, 1.

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

Opanake Road Loan.

Notice is hereby given that at the poll of ratepayers taken on 23rd January, 1925, on the proposal to borrow £300 for the purpose of acquiring and forming the Opanake Road at Kaihu (Grice's Road), the number of votes recorded was as follows:-

For the proposal, 4 ; against the proposal, 0.

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

V. TROUNSON, Chairman.

Redefining Boundaries of the Borough of Feilding and the County of Oroua.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th February, 1925.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the Borough of Feilding are hereby defined as set out in the First Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the said borough having been altered by Order in Council dated the 22nd day of December, 1923, made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and published in Gazette No. 1, of the 10th day of January, 1924, and also by an Order in Council dated the 12th day of December, 1924, made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and published in the Gazette No. 85, of the 18th day of December, 1924.

And also, in pursuance of the provisions of the said section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the County of Oroua affected by the said alteration of boundaries of the Borough of Feilding made by the said Order in Council dated the 22nd day of December, 1923,