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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 80

2. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserve. Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible after the close of the year.

3. The said Council shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—RANGIWAEA SCENIC RESERVE.

SECTION 22, Block II, Maungakaretu Survey District: Area, 7 acres 2 roods.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 30th day of November, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Appointment of Officers under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

Roderick Hector McKenzie, of Te Kuiti,
Robert Hunter Dowie, of Te Kuiti,
John Grant, of Waimiha,
John Gower, of Mercer,
William Oliver, of Mercer,
John McCready, of Otorohanga,
John White, of Paewhenua,
William Cook, of Takapuna,
Colin Macfarlane Gordon, of Auckland,

to be Officers for the purposes of Part II of the said Act for the Auckland Acclimatization District.

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

Rangers under the Animals Protection and Game Act appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th November, 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 undermentioned persons have been appointed Rangers under and for the purposes of that Act for the Auckland Acclimatization District:—

Roderick Hector McKenzie, of Te Kuiti.
Robert Hunter Dowie, of Te Kuiti.
Colin Macfarlane Gordon, of Auckland.

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

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th November, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Fred Sydney Rocks Knight

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Palmerston.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Chairman of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st December, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Charles Rutherford Orr Walker, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Timaru, Temuka, and Waitaki, vice E. D. Mosley, Esq., S.M.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 7th December, 1926.

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

Fred Sydney Rocks Knight, Esq.,

to be Sheriff for the District of Manawatu and Registrar at Palmerston North of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of December, 1926.

Allan Roy Jones, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Drury (at Manurewa), as from the 26th day of November, 1926.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 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.:—

John Dennis Hickey Heriot.
Harold James Henderson Masterton.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Alterations to Scale of Charges in Force upon the New Zealand Government Railways.

IN pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling me under the Government Railways Act, 1926, and of all other powers enabling me in this behalf, I, Francis Joseph Rolleston, Acting Minister of Railways, do hereby make the following alterations in the scale of charges in force on the New Zealand Government Railways open for traffic made on the 10th day of August, 1925, and published in the Gazette of the 11th August, 1925.

PART II.—LUGGAGE, PARCELS, HORSES, ETC.

By adding to Regulation 15 the following:—

15A. Where the number of “U.G.” wagons offering for conveyance by an express, mail, or passenger train is such as to necessitate an extra engine being provided for the whole or portion of the journey, the charge for the extra engine as provided in paragraph 15 of this regulation will be paid by each owner in proportion to the number of horses forwarded by such owner.

PART III.—GOODS.

By adding the following:—

42. Shunting Charges.

The classified or local rates or haulage charges on goods for shipment cover the placing of the wagons containing such goods at the ship’s side. Where a request is made to the Department, either before or after the wagons are placed at the ship’s side, for the wagons to be sorted for a particular hold or port of discharge, and such sorting necessitates additional shunting work beyond that which would ordinarily be required to place such wagons at the ship’s side, the additional service will be charged for at the rate of £1 10s. per hour, minimum charge 7s. 6d.

PART VII.—GENERAL.

By adding to Regulation 10 the following:—

32. Where an insulated wagon is specially ordered and supplied for the conveyance of goods, the charges will be computed on a minimum weight of 30 cwt. in respect of each four-wheeled insulated wagon.

As witness my hand this 8th day of December, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Acting Minister of Railways.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 3rd December, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Geraldine County River District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.