Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 1st March, 1927.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Heathcote County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

HEATHCOTE COUNTY COUNCIL.
Mount Pleasant Electric Loan of £2,000.
PURSUANT to section 14 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers in the Mount Pleasant Riding of the County of Heathcote, taken on the 19th January, 1927, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £2,000 for the purpose of electric light extensions—
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 45; the number of votes against the proposal was 9.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated this 20th day of January, 1927.
C. FLAVELL, Chairman.
Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.
Wellington, 1st March, 1927.
THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Avondale, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.
BOROUGH OF AVONDALE.
Proposed Loan, £1,300.
PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Avondale, taken on the 5th day of February, 1927, on the proposal of the Avondale Borough Council to borrow the sum of £1,200 for extension of the main sewer—
The number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal was 51; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 59; informal votes, 4.
I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.
Proposed Loan, £10,300.
Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of a specially defined part of the borough called the Sewer Reticulation Rating - area No. 2, taken on the 5th day of February, 1927, on the proposal of the Avondale Borough Council to borrow the sum of £10,300 for sewer reticulation in the said special area—
The number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal was 19; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 17; informal vote, 1.
I therefore declare the proposal was carried.
Dated this 21st day of February, 1927.
WM. JOHN TAIT, Mayor.
Varying Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, fixing the Closing-hours of Fishmongers' Shops within the Borough of Hastings.
WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the fishmongers’ shops within the Borough of Hastings, has been forwarded to me, desiring that the notice dated the 23rd January, 1923, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 25th January, 1923, fixing the closing-hours of such shops, be varied in the following manner—viz., by deleting the reference to closing on Saturdays at 8.30 p.m., and substituting therefor the following : On Saturdays, from 1st March to 30th September (both days inclusive), at 9.45 p.m., and during the remainder of the year at 8.30 p.m. :
And whereas I, George James Anderson, Minister of Labour, am satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the fishmongers’ shops within the Borough of Hastings:
Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, I do hereby direct that the notice dated the 23rd January, 1923, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 25th January, 1923, fixing the closing-hours of fishmongers’ shops in the Borough of Hastings is hereby varied accordingly as from the 1st day of March, 1927.
Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1927.
G. JAS. ANDERSON,
Minister of Labour,
Transmitting and Receiving Officer for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.
General Post Office, Wellington, 23rd February, 1927.
IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officer, at the address set against his name, is hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officer for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid :—
Samuel Pearce Eddy, Postmaster, Milton.
R. A. WRIGHT, for Minister of Telegraphs.
Teachers’ Appeal Board.
Education Department, Wellington, 21st February, 1927.
GRADING AND CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHERS.
IT is hereby notified for general information that the Appeal Boards for 1927, set up to hear appeals in connection with the grading or classification of secondary and technical school teachers, will consist of :—
Chairman : Andrew Duncan Thomson.
Representatives of Education Department :— William Watson Bird, M.A., and Theophilus Benjamin Strong, M.A., B.Sc.
Representatives of Teachers :— Secondary School Teachers— Thomas Brodie, B.A., and Frank Hyde Campbell, B.A.
Technical School Teachers— Hugh Aled Jones and Robert J. Thompson.
R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.
Trustee of the Te Aria Rabbit-proof Fencing District elected.— Notice No. Ag. 2643.
Department of Agriculture, Wellington, 23rd February, 1927.
NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer of the Te Aria Rabbit-proof Fencing District, constituted under Part IV of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, that Alexander Hanna has been duly elected a trustee of the said district, vice Bruce Anderson, resigned.
O. HAWKEN, Minister of Agriculture.
Plumbers’ Registration Act, 1912.
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE, PLUMBERS BOARD EXAMINATION, 29TH AND 30TH OCTOBER, 1926.
THE following candidate, having passed the examination of the Plumbers Board of New Zealand, held on the 29th and 30th October, 1926, his name has been entered in the Register of Plumbers of New Zealand in pursuance of sections 8 and 17 (b) of the Act:—
Reg. No.: 1792. Name: Fletcher, Percy.
J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.
The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925.—Notice of Proposed Cancellation of Registration.
Department of Labour, Wellington, 24th February, 1927.
NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Auckland Municipal Tramways and Omnibus Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 1088, situated at Auckland, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 22 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, it is my intention to cancel the registration of that industrial union after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, unless in the meantime cause is shown to the contrary.
F. W. ROWLEY,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.