Jan. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 223

SCHEDULE.

William John Gibbs .. .. Balclutha.
Ellen Frances Scully (Miss) .. .. Half-Moon Bay.
Horace James Mills .. .. Mangatoki.
James Wyllie McLean .. .. Masterton.
Alice Margaret Dell (Mrs.) .. .. Matakoe.
Horace Arthur Dixon .. .. Panguru.
Reginald Murray Hayman .. .. Pukerau.
Nora Wallington (Miss) .. .. Raukokore.
William James Downey .. .. Te Uku.
Edward Henry Whitmore .. .. Wairoa.

As witness my hand, this 23rd day of January, 1926.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

Arthur Naylor,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Raurimu, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand, this 23rd day of January, 1926.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Advisory Councillor of Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Herepete Rapihana

to be the Advisory Councillor for the Maori Council District of Mangonui.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th January, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the under-mentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Rotorua Acclimatization District :—

Henry Clare Haywood.

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

Members of Pukekohe Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th January, 1926.

THE undermentioned persons have been appointed or elected to be members of the Pukekohe Fire Board constituted under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908 :—

Appointed by the Governor-General—
James Roulston.

Elected by the Fire Insurance Companies—
William Graham Bell,
Henry Montague Didsbury.
John Ashmole Taylor.

Elected by the Pukekohe Borough Council—
John Routly.
Robert Fischer Wilkinson.
George Testro Parvin.

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

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th January, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Walter Fox Parkinson, Esq.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the district of Ellesmere.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD
For Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1926.

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 Moorhead Blackburn .. Mahurangi.
Charles William McIlveen Allen .. Kohukohu.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 27th January, 1926.

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

William John Gibbs, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Balclutha, as from the 2nd January, 1926.

Ellen Frances Scully (Miss),
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district of Stewart Island, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Half-moon Bay, as from the 19th December, 1925.

Leslie Faithful Henry, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Marton, for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, as from the 4th day of January, 1926.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 27th January, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Waimarino, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Finance.

WAIMARINO COUNTY COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Ohakune-Waiouru No. 2 Special-rating District taken on the 15th day of January, 1926, on the proposal of the Waimarino County Council to borrow for metalling and other purposes the sum of £750,——
The number of valid votes recorded for the proposal was 6 ; The number of votes recorded against the proposal was nil.
I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.
Dated at Raetihi this 18th day of January, 1926.
P. C. MURRAY, Chairman.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XI, Mount Robinson Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

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 road, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule 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 Shannon, 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 35·1 perches.
Being part Lot 648 (D.P. 369), being part Manawatu-Kuku-tauaki No. 1 and 2d No. 3.
Situated in Block XI, Mount Robinson Survey District. (S.O. 1933.)
In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 61483, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured purple.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 19th day of January, 1926.
J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.