JULY 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2015

Edward John Roche, Esq.,
to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of
Franklin for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as
from the 13th day of June, 1925.
Uno Beer, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Te Mahia,
as from the 22nd June, 1925.
Rosa Clarke (Miss)
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Ohautira,
as from the 5th June, 1925.
Robert Henry Goodson, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Kenana,
as from the 15th May, 1925.
Gertrude Alexia Rolland (Mrs.)
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Whakapara,
as from the 8th June, 1925.
Violet Ward (Miss)
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waimarama,
as from the 5th May, 1925.
James Torrance, Esq.,
to be the Returning Officer for the Electoral District of
Chalmers, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as
from the 24th day of June, 1925.
William Dryburgh Wallace, Esq.,
to be an Official Assignee for the Supreme Court District of
Otago and Southland, for the purposes of the Bankruptcy
Act, 1908; Sheriff for the District of Southland for the
purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908; Registrar at Inver-
cargill of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, for the purposes
of the Judicature Act, 1908; Clerk of the Magistrates' Court
at Invercargill, for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts
Act, 1908; and Local Patent Officer at Invercargill, for the
purposes of section 15 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-
marks Act, 1921-22; as from the 24th day of June, 1925.
A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the
South Taranaki Electric-power Board.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section 4 of the Electric-power Boards Amendment
Act, 1920, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Public
Works, do hereby appoint Monday, the 20th day of July,
1925, at 10.30 o'clock a.m. as the time, and the Borough
Council Chambers, Hawera, as the place, for holding the first
meeting of the South Taranaki Electric-power Board.
Dated at Wellington, this 2nd day of July, 1925.
J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block III, Rangitaiki
Upper Survey District, for the Purposes of a Post-office.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a
certain public work—to wit, the construction of a post-office
in Block III, Rangitaiki Upper Survey District, and for the
purposes of such public work the land described in the Sche-
dule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby
further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken
is deposited in the Post-office at Te Teko, and is there open
for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution
of the said public work or by the taking of the said land
should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the
execution of the said public work or to the taking of such
land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing,
within forty days from the first publication of this notice,
to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken:
1 rood.
Portion of Section 52, Matata Parish, Block III, Rangitaiki
Upper Survey District. (S.O. 23336.)
In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 63032,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured red.
As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 24th day of June,
1925.
J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.
Conscience-money received.
The Treasury,
Wellington, 29th June, 1925.
I HEREBY acknowledge receipt of the following amounts,
forwarded by persons unknown, as conscience-money to
the New Zealand Government : 5s. 6d. forwarded to the
Collector of Customs, Wellington ; £1 10s. forwarded to the
Railway Department, Wellington ; 2s. 6d. forwarded to the
Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington ; £1 forwarded
to the Treasury, Wellington.
R. E. HAYES, Secretary to the Treasury.
Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.
Wellington, 26th June, 1925.
THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the
Borough of New Brighton, is published in accordance
with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.
W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.
NEW BRIGHTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.
PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913,
I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the
South New Brighton Bridge Loan Area, taken on the 29th
day of April, 1925, on the proposal of the New Brighton
Borough Council to borrow the sum of £11,500 for the purpose
of constructing a bridge over the River Avon at Bridge
Street—
The number of votes for the proposal was 179; the number
of votes against the proposal was 95.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated at New Brighton this 1st day of May, 1925.
J. GAMBLE, Mayor.
Special Order made by the Waimarino County Council declaring
that Californian Thistle shall be deemed not to be a Noxious
Weed.—Notice No. Ag. 2509.
Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 30th June, 1925.
THE following special order made by the Waimarino
County Council is published in accordance with the
provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act.
W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.
SPECIAL ORDER.
THAT, pursuant to the provisions of section 3 of the Noxious
Weeds Amendment Act, 1923, the Waimarino County Council
hereby declares that Californian thistle (Cnicus arvenis)
shall not be deemed to be a noxious weed within the meaning
of the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the
County of Waimarino.
The above special order was passed at a special meeting
of the Waimarino County Council on 9th May, 1925, and
confirmed at a subsequent meeting of the Council on the
13th June, 1925.
Result of Election of Member of Taieri River Trust.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th June, 1925.
THE following result of the election of a member of the
Taieri River Trust has been received from the
Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the
provisions of the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913.
G. P. NEWTON, Assistant Under-Secretary.
Lee Creek Subdivision : William O'Leary.
Wanganui Education Board.—Election of Member.
AT the election of a member of the Board for the North
Ward to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the
resignation of Dr. D. M. Mitchell, the number of votes recorded
for each candidate was as follows :—
Adams, William .. .. .. .. 172
Ashwell, Alfred Walter .. .. .. 40
Thompson, Leslie James .. .. .. 57
The total number of valid votes recorded was 269. The
number of voted rejected as informal was 1.
I hereby declare William Adams elected a member of the
Board as a representative of the North Ward.
W. H. SWANGER, Returning Officer.
Wanganui, 19th June, 1925.