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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

Appointment under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5th October, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Claude Hylton Perring

to be Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, for the Te Puke Town District.

O. HAWKEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th October, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Clarence Robert James Inder, Esquire,

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Otaki, vice R. T. McLean, transferred.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th October, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by

Henry Albert Mossman, Esquire,

of Hastings, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Trustee for Public Cemetery appointed.—(H. 2/60).

Department of Health,
Wellington, 24th September, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, has been pleased to appoint

Leonard Bennett, Esquire,

to be a trustee, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Port Albert Public Cemetery, in place of Benjamin Martin Grubb, deceased.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Trustees for Public Cemeteries appointed.—(H. 2/57).

Department of Health,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint

Samuel Topless,
George Nichols Fuller,
Andrew Gibson,
Walter Simeon Howell,
William Scott, and
Charles Herbert Wilson

to be trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the Urenui Public Cemetery in place of Patrick Burke, Walter Frederick Jenkins, Arthur Herbert Halcombe, Charles Nicholas Rowe, Robert Henry Pigott, and Charles James Wilson, whose appointments have been revoked.

George Coleman

to be a trustee to provide for the maintenance and care of the Yaldhurst Public Cemetery, in place of Thomas Green, resigned.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 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. :—

Name. District.
Charles Duncan McKenzie .. Waipara.
Timothy Keogh .. Mercury Bay.
Lindsay Alexander Murtagh .. West Taieri.
Leila Inger (Miss) .. Albertland.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 30th September, 1927.

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

Montague Leonard Hargreaves, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Omaha, as from the 1st October, 1927.

Cecil Pretoria Simmonds, Esquire,

to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Bay of Plenty for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 23rd day of September, 1927.

Clarence Robert James Inder, Esquire,

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Courts at Otaki and Levin for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, as from the 29th day of September, 1927.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 30th September, 1927.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the City of Wellington, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

In accordance with clause 13, subsection (1), of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I have the honour to inform you that the number of votes recorded at a poll taken on the 15th day of September, 1927, for and against a proposal of the Council of the City of Wellington to borrow by way of special loan within the meaning of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, the sum of £290,800 for the purpose of paving of streets, surface-sealing streets, forming and paving footpaths, and provision of public conveniences, was as follows :—

For the proposal, 2,389 ; against the proposal, 2,431 ; majority against the proposal, 42.

I therefore declare that the said proposal was rejected.

GEO. A. TROUP, Mayor of Wellington.

Hauraki Plains Rating Area.—Notice of Intention to make and Levy Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 6th October, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, pursuant to the Hauraki Plains Act, 1926, and its amendments, to make and levy a rate for the period from 1st April, 1927, to the 31st March, 1928, on the unimproved value of all land within the district constituted under the said Act.

The amount of such rate will be payable in one sum on the 24th day of October, 1927.

The valuation roll of the district is open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, Chief Drainage Engineer’s Office, 5 Law Court Buildings, High Street, Auckland, and a copy of the same may be inspected at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer, Kerepehi, at all times at which those offices are open for transaction of public business.

O. HAWKEN, for Minister of Lands.

Officiating Ministers for 1927.—Notice No. 33.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th October, 1927.

IT is hereby notified that the names of the following Officiating Ministers have been removed from the list of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by request :—

The Methodist Church of New Zealand.
Mr. Percival Bassett Birkett.
Mr. John Burton Churchward.
Mr. Herbert Spencer Ratcliffe.
The Reverend William Ready.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.