MAR. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 591

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1927.
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.:—
Reginald Rolfe Wright .. .. Grey.
Timothy Keogh .. .. Maungatuoto.
George Greig.. .. .. Invercargill.
Alfred John Lysaght .. .. Mount Benger.
W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.
Wellington, 4th March, 1927.
THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Manawatu Drainage Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.
MANAWATU DRAINAGE BOARD.
PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Manawatu Drainage District, taken on the 24th day of February, 1927, on the proposal of the Manawatu Drainage Board to borrow the sum of ten thousand pounds (£10,000) for the purpose of widening, deepening, diverting, straightening, putting in flood-gates, and doing all such other works and acts as may be necessary for the purpose of improving the Mangaone Stream, the Joint Outlet, Whiskey Creek, Burke’s Drain, Boundary Drain, and Main Drain.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 283; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 207; informal, 4.
I therefore declare the proposal was lost.
Dated this 24th day of February, 1927.
P. J. SMALL, Chairman,
Manawatu Drainage Board.
Notification of Approval of Rules.—East Coast Acclimatization Society.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th February, 1927.
PURSUANT to the provisions of section 25 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I hereby notify that copies of the rules made by the East Coast Acclimatization Society on the 18th day of September, 1926, have been forwarded to me, and were approved on the 26th day of February, 1927.
R. A. WRIGHT,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.
Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by Joint By-laws.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1927.
IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 109 of the Counties Act, 1920, to approve of so much of the joint by-laws made by the Dannevirke, Hawke’s Bay, Patangata, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Wairoa, Weber, and Woodville County Councils, and sealed with the seal of each Council on the 3rd December, 1926, 13th December, 1926, 14th December, 1926, 13th December, 1926, 11th December, 1926, 14th December, 1926, 13th December, 1926, and 10th December, 1926, respectively, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the county fund of each county for the licensing of vehicles plying for hire.
R. A. WRIGHT,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.
Notice convening a Meeting of Representatives of Fire-insurance Companies for the Purpose of considering Alterations in the Rules for the Election of Members of Fire Boards by Insurance Companies under the Fire Brigades Act, 1926.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th March, 1927.
IN accordance with Rule 16 of the rules for the election of members of Fire Boards by fire-insurance companies, and at the request of the Secretary of the Council of the Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Associations of New Zealand, I, Richard Francis Bollard, being the Minister charged with the administration of the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, do hereby convene a meeting of duly authorized representatives of fire-insurance companies carrying on business in New Zealand, to be held in the office of the Council of the Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Associations of New Zealand, 97 The Terrace, Wellington, on Wednesday, the 27th April, 1927, at 10.30 a.m., for the purpose of considering consequential alterations in the aforesaid rules for the election of members of Fire Boards by insurance companies under the Fire Brigades Act, 1926.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
First Meeting of the recently constituted Te Awamutu Fire Board.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th March, 1927.
IN accordance with the provisions of section 53 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, it is hereby notified that the first meeting of the Te Awamutu Fire Board will be held at the Borough Council Chambers, Te Awamutu, at 8 p.m. on Monday, 21st March, 1927.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
Special Order made by the Waitaki County Council declaring Californian Thistle not to be a Noxious Weed.—Notice No. Ag. 2645.
Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1927.
THE following special order, made by the Waitaki County Council at a special meeting held on 29th January, 1927, and confirmed at a meeting of the Council on 25th February, 1927, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act.
O. HAWKEN, Minister of Agriculture.
SPECIAL ORDER.
IN pursuance of the powers conferred on it by the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, and the Noxious Weeds Amendment Act, 1923, and all other powers thereunto in that behalf it enabling, the Council of the County of Waitaki doth declare that Canadian or Californian thistle shall be deemed not to be a noxious weed within the County of Waitaki.
Institutions established under Child Welfare Act, 1925.
Child Welfare Branch, Education Department, Wellington, 21st February, 1927.
BY virtue of the power vested in me by section 7 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Robert Alexander Wright, Minister of Education, do hereby notify that
The Girls’ Hostel, Thorndon, and
The Girls’ Home, Burwood,
are now established as institutions under the said Act.
R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.
Recognition of Special Schools for Backward Children as Institutions under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.
Child Welfare Branch, Education Department, Wellington, 21st February, 1927.
IN order that the Child Welfare Branch of the Education Department may make proper provision for the education and training of certain classes of children to which the Child Welfare Act, 1925, applies (particularly sections 12, 13, 20, and 48 thereof), I, Robert Alexander Wright, Minister of Education, by virtue of the power vested in me by section 7 of the said Act, do hereby notify that
The Special School for Boys, Otekaike, and
The Special School for Girls, Richmond,
being “special schools” already established under section 127 of the Education Act, 1914, shall henceforth also be deemed to be institutions established under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.
R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.