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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 81

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 10th December, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Manurewa Town Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Finance.

MANUREWA TOWN BOARD.

Declaration of Result of Poll on a Loan Proposal.

Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that, at a poll of ratepayers of the Manurewa Town District on a loan proposal to augment by £7,500 the existing loan authorities in respect of the Great South Road, taken on the 2nd day of December, 1926—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 52; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 4.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Manurewa, this 6th day of December, 1926.

A. C. A. SEXTON, Chairman.

Special Order made by the Kowai County Council merging the Amberley Town District.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 8th December, 1926.

THE following special order made by the Kowai County Council merging the Amberley Town District is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1920.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

SPECIAL ORDER DECLARING THE AMBERLEY TOWN BOARD TO BE DISSOLVED AND THE TOWN DISTRICT OF AMBERLEY MERGED IN THE KOWAI COUNTY.

WHEREAS a petition has been duly presented to the Kowai County Council signed by a majority of the ratepayers of the Amberley Town District possessing in the aggregate not less than one-half the rateable property in such town district, praying the Council to abolish such district, and such petition has been duly published:

And whereas the Kowai County Council, having considered such petition, is of opinion that the prayer of such petition should be granted:

Now, therefore, the Kowai County Council doth hereby make and ordain the following special order—namely, that the Amberley Town Board be dissolved, and that the Amberley Town District be merged in the Kowai County.

This special order was passed at a special meeting of the Kowai County Council held on the 18th day of October, 1926, and confirmed at the ordinary meeting of the Council held on the 15th day of November, 1926, and the Common Seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the Kowai County Council was hereto affixed, this 15th day of November, 1926, by order of the said Council in the presence of

J. D. WYLLIE, Councillor.

W. A. KELCHER, Councillor.

J. FITZPATRICK, County Clerk.

I, John Fitzpatrick, Clerk to the Kowai Council, hereby certify that the special order of which the above is a copy, has been duly made by the Kowai County Council.

Dated this 1st day of December, 1926.

JOHN FITZPATRICK,

Clerk to the Kowai County Council.

Date of Election of Members of the Te Awamutu Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 14th December, 1926.

Pursuant to section 18 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, I, Richard Francis Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Monday, the 20th day of December, 1926, to be the day for the holding of an election of three members of the Te Awamutu Fire Board by the contributing local authority.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

Prohibition of Issue of Money-order and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for the Black Triangle Art Union, Sydney.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having reasonable ground for supposing that the art union and persons whose names and addresses are shown in the Schedule hereunder are engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under

tions 12, 104, and 110 of the Cook Islands' Act, 1915, [and the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 :—

Geoffrey Henry

to be Resident Agent, [a Commissioner of the High Court, Postmaster, and a Deputy Registrar at the Island of Pukapuka, from the 12th December, 1926.

M. POMARE,

Minister for the Cook Islands.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 15th December, 1926.

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

George Ernest Bradley, Esquire,

to be Deputy Registrar of Friendly Societies for the purposes of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, as from the 1st day of December, 1926.

Alfred Ernest Allison, Esquire,

to be Government Insurance Commissioner, for the purposes of the Government Life Insurance Act, 1908, as from the 14th day of December, 1926.

Henry Rose, Esquire,

to be Deputy Government Insurance Commissioner, for the purposes of the Government Life Insurance Act, 1908, as from the 14th day of December, 1926.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 15th December, 1926.

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

Alexander Dallas Park, Esquire,

to be Secretary to the Treasury, Receiver-General, Paymaster-General and Registrar of New Zealand Inscribed Stock during the temporary absence of

Robert Edward Hayes, Esquire, L.S.O.,

on and after the 13th day of December, 1926.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917. — Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,

Wellington, 13th December, 1926.

NOTICE is hereby given that the register of New Zealand 5½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 1st February, 1936, will be closed from the 15th January to the 1st February, 1927 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Finance.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 10th December, 1926.

THE following notice, received from the Deputy Mayor of the Borough of Palmerston North, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Finance.

PALMERSTON NORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Notice of 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 Borough of Palmerston North taken on the 20th day of October, 1926, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £10,000, to enable the Council to purchase the McHardy property, the voting was as follows :—

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 1,798 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 1,286 ; informal votes, 26.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

A. J. GRAHAM, Deputy-Mayor.