MAY 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1225

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to fill One Extraordinary Vacancy on Each of the Auckland, Dargaville, and Whangarei Fire Boards.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1926.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the rules made thereunder, I, Richard Francis Bollard, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Friday, 21st May, 1926, to be the date for holding the election of one member of each of the Auckland, Dargaville, and Whangarei Fire Boards by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. Thomas Anketell Blair.

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

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by By-laws—Waitomo County Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th April, 1926.

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 109 of the Counties Act, 1920, that so much of the by-laws made by the Waitomo County Council and sealed on the 16th day of April, 1926, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Waitomo County funds for the licensing of vehicles plying for hire has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor-General.

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

Promotion in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 5th May, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following promotion in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy :—

Mr. Charles Joseph Reynolds, Warrant Writer, promoted to Commissioned Writer, and appointed to H.M.S. “Dunedin” additional for duty at Navy Office, Wellington, to date 10th May, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 5th May, 1926.

THE following notices received from the Chairman of the Board of the Waimakariri River Trust District, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.

WAIMAKARIRI RIVER TRUST DISTRICT.

Waimakariri Special-loan Area.

With regard to the poll of ratepayers in that portion of the Waimakariri River Trust District known as the Waimakariri Special-loan Area, upon the proposal of the Waimakariri River Trust to borrow the sum of £200,000 for the purpose of carrying out works for the mitigation of damage by flooding from the Waimakariri River, and other works incidental thereto, more particularly described in the loan proposals in connection with the said loan, and in the voting-paper used at such poll, I hereby give notice that at the poll held on the 14th day of April, 1926, the number of votes was as follows :—

For the proposal, 3,329; against the proposal, 2,833; informal votes, 42.

As the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal is not three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby declare the said proposal to be not carried.

Eyre-Cust Special-loan Area.

With regard to the poll of ratepayers in that portion of the Waimakariri River Trust District known as the Eyre-Cust Special-loan Area, upon the proposal of the Waimakariri River Trust to borrow the sum of £45,000 for the purpose of carrying out works for the mitigation of damage by flooding from the Eyre and Cust Rivers, and other works incidental thereto, more particularly described in the loan proposals in connection with the said loan and in the voting-paper used at such poll, I hereby give notice that at the poll held on the 14th day of April, 1926, the number of votes recorded was as follows :—

For the proposal, 530; against the proposal, 339; informal votes, 3.

As the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal is at least three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated this 16th day of April, 1926.

JOHN WOOD, Chairman.

Teachers’ Appeal Board, 1926.

Education Department,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1926.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the Appeal Boards for the year 1926 set up to hear appeals in connection with the grading or classification of teachers in primary, secondary, or technical schools will consist of—

Chairman—Andrew D. Thomson.

Representatives of Education Department—
Ernest Marsden, D.Sc.
Theophilus Benjamin Strong, M.A., B.Sc.

Representatives of Teachers—
Secondary-school Teachers—
Thomas Brodie, B.A.
Frank H. Campbell, B.A.

Technical-school Teachers—
Hugh Aled Jones.
Robert J. Thompson.

Primary-school Teachers—
Christopher Thomas Aschman.
Bertie Newman T. Blake, M.A.
Alfred Joseph C. Hall.
George Thorncroft Palmer, M.A.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Education.

Taking Possession of Mines, &c., under the Mining Act.

In the matter of the Mining Act, 1908, and its amendments; and in the matter of deed of mortgage bearing date the 29th June, 1921, between the NEW ZEALAND QUICK-SILVER MINES (LIMITED), now dissolved, of the one part, and HIS MAJESTY THE KING of the other part, and registered in the office of the Mining Registrar at Whangarei as No. 249.

NOTICE is hereby given that default having been made in the payment of principal and interest moneys and in the performance and observance of covenants and conditions which by the above-mentioned deed of mortgage the said company covenanted to pay, perform, and/or observe, it is the intention of the Minister of Mines for the Dominion of New Zealand to enforce compliance with the provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, and its amendments, by entering into possession of the mines, machinery, working plant and appliances, and other assets of the said company and selling or otherwise disposing of the same.

Dated at Wellington this 28th day of April, 1926.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.

Officiating Ministers for 1926.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th May, 1926.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. James Farrar.

Hebrew Congregations.
The Reverend Alexander Astor.

The Ratana Church of New Zealand.
Apostle Milton Luke Ashby.
„ L. A. Eastman.
„ Te Rata Hikairo.
„ Reupena Hori.
„ Hone Taotahi.
„ Hiraka Te Awe.
„ Peke Tupaea.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.