Appointment of Deputy District Public Trustee.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section 3 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, I, the Public Trustee of the Dominion of New Zealand, have appointed

Daniel Scannell,

of the Public Trust Office, Hamilton, to be Deputy of the District Public Trustee, Hamilton, during the absence of such District Public Trustee from his headquarters; and all previous appointments in this behalf are hereby revoked.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of October, 1926.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office, Wellington, 26th October, 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 Frederick Owen.. .. .. Hororata.
Frederick Charles Gamma Pooley.. .. Devonport.*
Frederick Arthur Taylor.. .. .. Temuka.
Percival Jaspers .. .. .. Paeroa.

• Births and Deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence, Wellington, 22nd October, 1926.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to Major N. Annabell, M.C., Corps of N.Z. Engineers.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Unit redesignated.

Department of Defence, Wellington, 22nd October, 1926.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to abolish, under section 6 (a), Defence Act, 1909, the existing designation of the 2nd Cadet Battalion, the Hauraki Regiment, and to approve that such unit be redesignated the “4th Cadet Battalion, the Hawke’s Bay Regiment,” with headquarters at Gisborne. Dated 2nd August, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Notification of Approval of amended Rule, Waimate Acclimatization Society.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 19th October, 1926.

Pursuant to the provisions of section 25 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I hereby notify that a copy of an amended rule made by the Waimate Acclimatization Society on the 27th day of August, 1926, has been forwarded to me and was approved on the 19th day of October, 1926.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Election of Member of Canterbury Land Board.

I, WILLIAM STEWART, Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Canterbury Land Board, do hereby notify, in accordance with the provisions of section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, and the regulations made thereunder, that the only person nominated for the vacancy occurring on the said Board was David Stowell, Esq., of Timaru. I do therefore declare that the said

David Stowell

is duly elected a member of the Canterbury Land Board as from the 12th day of December, 1926.

Dated at Christchurch this 22nd day of October, 1926.

W. STEWART, Returning Officer,

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 26th October, 1926.

The following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Wairarapa Electric-power District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Finance.

WAIARAPA ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Ponatahi Special-rating Area taken on the 2nd day of October, 1926, on the proposal of the Wairarapa Electric-power Board to borrow the sum of three thousand pounds for the purpose of providing additional funds for works, buildings, land, and equipment necessary in connection with the generation, distribution, and utilization of electric energy within the Wairarapa Electric-power District,—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 6; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 1.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 11th day of October, 1926.

J. W. KERSHAW, Chairman.

Result of Election of Trustees of Drainage Districts.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 23rd October, 1926.

The following results of election of trustees of drainage districts have been received from the Returning Officers, and are published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON, Assistant Under-Secretary.

Akaaka Drainage District—

John Guthrie,
Henry Osmond,
George Arthur Hill,
William Hosking,
John Norman Massey.

Eltham Drainage District—

Walter Charles Clement,
John O'Neill,
Henry Alfred Wood,
Alfred Cocker,
John Cocker.

Omarunui Drainage District, County of Hawke’s Bay—

David Black.
William Archibald McFarlane.
William Potter.
Francis Cassidi Twigg.
Neil Leslie Rosvall.

Surveyors licensed.

Surveyors' Board of New Zealand, Wellington, 27th October, 1926.

It is hereby notified, for general information, that licenses under the Surveyors' Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, have been issued by the Surveyors' Board to the following surveyors:—

John Fletcher, of Wellington.
Robert Dudley Hawthorne Hill, of Wellington.
Hugh Murray Reid, of Auckland.
Douglas von Sturmer, of Auckland.

M. CROMPTON-SMITH, Secretary, Surveyors' Board.

Officiating Ministers for 1926.—Notice No. 36.

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

Pursuant to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend John James Enright.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.