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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 25

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.-SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Kaikoura County.-Mount Fyffe Survey District.

Section 57, Block V: Area, 103 acres. Capital value, £156.
Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £3 18s.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 2s 5d.
The section consists of flat terraces, mostly covered with
fern, and very stony. Fair pasture intermixed with the stones
and fern. Average altitude, 400 ft. About seven miles
from Kaikoura by good road. Fencing, valued at £40, is
included in the capital value.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 13th day of April, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Returning Officer for the Mangakowhai Rabbit District
appointed.—Notice No. Ag. 2486.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 9th April, 1925.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint, in terms of section 71 of the Rabbit
Nuisance Act, 1908,

William Edward Cayley-Alexander
to be Returning Officer to hold the first election of trustees
for the Mangakowhai Rabbit District, constituted under
Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Officers of Police Force appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 14th April, 1925.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

Inspector William Mathieson
to be a Superintendent,
Sub-Inspector Donald Charles Fraser
to be an Inspector, and
Senior Sergeant Lott Edward O'Halloran
to be a Sub-Inspector
of the New Zealand Police Force, the appointment in each
case to take effect from 15th April, 1925.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 14th April, 1925.

Notice is hereby given that the register of New Zealand
4½-per-cent. inscribed stock, maturing 15th November, 1938, and the register of New Zealand 5-per-cent.
inscribed stock, maturing 15th November, 1927, will be
closed from the 1st May to the 15th May, 1925, inclusive,
for the purpose of the issue of the half-yearly interest.

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

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 14th April, 1925.

The following notice, received from the Chairman of the
Council of the County of Hauraki Plains, is published
in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans
Act, 1913.

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

COUNTY OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act,
1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the
County of Hauraki Plains taken on the 11th day of March,
1925, on the proposal of the Hauraki Plains County Council
to borrow the sum of £3,100 for the purpose of paying off
the balances owing on the Waihou (Puke) and Orchard
(Ngatea) bridge loans,—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 209;
the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 253.
I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 3rd day of April, 1925.

JAMES C. MILLER, Chairman of the County.

By-law of the Hastings Borough Council confirmed under the
By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th April, 1925.

The following certificate has been executed on the sealed
copy of the by-law made by the Hastings Borough
Council on the 12th day of February, 1925.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the within-written by-law of the Hastings Borough Council,
and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of
April, 1925.

Dated this 8th day of April, 1925.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

By-law of the Gore Borough Council confirmed under the By-laws
Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th April, 1925.

The following certificate has been executed on the sealed
copy of the by-law made by the Gore Borough Council
on the 2nd day of December, 1924.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the within-written by-law of the Gore Borough Council, and
declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of
January, 1925.

Dated this 8th day of April, 1925.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game, License
Fee, &c., East Coast Acclimatization District.

In exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Richard Francis
Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 1st day of
May to the 30th day of June, 1925 (both days inclusive), to be
an open season in the East Coast Acclimatization District,
as described in the Schedule hereto, except in the areas
referred to in condition No. 3, for the taking or killing of
the following imported and native game—viz., cock pheasants,
Californian and Australian quail, grey duck, black teal, and
black swan—subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native
   game within the said district will be issued to any person
   on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each, and
   the Chief Postmaster at Gisborne, and the Postmasters at
   Motu, Te Karaka, and Patutahi are hereby authorized to sign
   and issue the said licenses.

2. The number of such native game that may be taken
   or killed by any one person in any one day shall not exceed
   twenty-five head in all.

3. Nothing in any license to take or kill imported game
   and native game shall authorize the holder thereof to take
   or kill imported game and native game on lands actually
   and exclusively used by any registered acclimatization society
   for acclimatization purposes, or on any sanctuary or public
   domain.

4. No person shall kill or destroy any such imported game
   or native game, or shoot at or attempt to shoot at any such
   imported game or native game, with any automatic or auto-
   loading gun, unless it is converted into a gun capable of
   carrying two cartridges only, or with any rifle or pea-rifle,
   swivel-gun, punt-gun, or pump-gun, or shall use any gun other
   than a shoulder-gun; and no gun shall be used for the purpose
   aforesaid the bore of which is larger than the size known
   as No. 12 at the muzzle, nor shall any gun be used which
   exceeds 10 lb. in weight.

5. Shooting may begin not earlier than half an hour before
   sunrise and must cease not later than half an hour after
   sunset.

6. Any person committing a breach of any of these con-
   ditions is liable, on conviction, to a fine of £20.