Jan. 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 225

Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th January, 1927.

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 under-mentioned person has been appointed Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the North Canterbury Acclimatization District :—

George Ebert, of Lower Riccarton.

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

Appointment to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 25th January, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointment in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy :—

Paymaster-Lieutenant Jasper Parrott, R.N., to H.M.S. “Diomede,” additional for duty with Commodore Commanding New Zealand Station, at a date to be communicated by the Commodore Commanding.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Honorary Child Welfare Officers under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th January, 1927.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Robert Alexander Wright, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint the following persons as Honorary Child Welfare Officers for the purposes of the said Act for the period of one year from 1st February, 1927 :—

Name. Address.
Mr. Arthur John Hill Helensville.
Mrs. Euphemia Lamb Hill ,,
Mr. George Haslam Pukekohe.
Mrs. Annie Perkins ,,
Mr. Robert Benjamin Nesbitt Rotorua.
Rev. William Ritchie Milne Wairoa, H.B.

R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th December, 1926.

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

David Arnold Graham, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Brands under the Stock Act, 1908, for the Waimarino, Patea, Wanganui, and Rangitikei Branding Registration Districts, as from the 1st day of December, 1926.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Duty on Motor-vehicles, &c., manufactured in Australia.

WHEREAS by subsection one of section four of the Customs Amendment Act, 1926, it is provided that nothing in that Act shall apply with respect to any goods being the produce or manufacture of the Commonwealth of Australia, and specified in the Schedule to the agreement ratified and confirmed by the Tariff Agreement (New Zealand and Australia) Ratification Act, 1922 :

And whereas by subsection two of the said section it is provided that nothing in the aforesaid Act shall apply with respect to any other goods being the produce or manufacture of the Commonwealth of Australia until a date to be fixed in that behalf by the Minister of Customs by notice in the Gazette to be given in accordance with the provisions of that subsection :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said subsection two, I do hereby fix the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, as the date on which the provisions of the said Act shall commence to apply with respect to goods being the produce or manufacture of the Commonwealth of Australia (other than goods specified in the Schedule to the hereinbefore-recited agreement).

The goods to which this notice relates, and the rate of duty payable in respect thereof as fixed by the said Act, are as follows :—

Rubber tires, rubber tiring, and inner tubes of rubber for pneumatic tires, n.e.i. 10 per cent. ad val.

Gas-engines and oil-engines suited for use on cycles, motor-vehicles traction-engines and tractors suited for use in warehouses or upon wharves and pavements 10 per cent. ad val. if entered and declared to be for use on cycles motor-vehicles traction-engines and tractors suited for use in warehouses or upon wharves or pavements.

Bicycles, tricycles, and the like vehicles, including motor-cycles, also hubs, spindles, and other finished, partly finished, or machined parts of the same, n.e.i. ; side-cars for motor-cycles 10 per cent. ad val.

Motor-vehicles n.e.i. (including tractors driven by gas, oil, or electricity, suited for use in warehouses, or upon wharves and pavements) 10 per cent. ad val. ; and, in cases where such motor-vehicles are imported having bodies suited or designed for carrying passengers, an additional duty (herein referred to as “body duty”) of 10 per cent. ad val. on any such vehicle (inclusive of the body) : Provided that where the value for duty of any vehicle (inclusive of the body) exceeds £200 the body duty shall be : On £200 of such value, 10 per cent. ad val. ; on the remainder of such value, 5 per cent. ad val.

(1.) When any body of a motor-vehicle suited or designed for carrying passengers is imported by itself or otherwise than as set out above, body duty shall be payable, and the Minister shall determine the amount of such body duty. The body duty so payable shall, as nearly as may be, be equal to the amount of body duty that would have been payable if such body had been imported as part of and attached to a motor-vehicle manufactured in the same country as the body.

(2.) Where the Minister is of opinion that any body duty is being or is likely to be evaded or avoided by the importation of any motor-vehicles without engines, tires, or other component parts which, in the ordinary course of business, are usually imported therewith, the Minister may, at his discretion, require that body duty shall be paid as if such engines, tires, or other component parts had been imported with such vehicles.

Speedometers, and mileage-recorders, suited for use on road-vehicles 10 per cent. ad val.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of January, 1927.

W. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Customs.

Results of Polls on Proposals to establish Bridge Rates.

Wellington, 24th January, 1927.

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

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

MANUKAU COUNTY COUNCIL.
Papakura Riding.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Papakura Riding of the County of Manukau, taken on the 12th day of January, 1927, on the proposal of the Manukau County Council to establish a Bridge Rate Fund for the reconstruction of bridges on the roads in the Papakura Riding of the County of Manukau, under the jurisdiction of the Manukau County Council, and to borrow for such purpose amounts that from time to time may be required, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 94 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 31 ; informal votes, 2.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.