Dec. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3735

Trustees for Public Cemeteries appointed.--(H. 2/70.)
Department of Health,
Wellington, 12th December, 1927.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint--
John Mulholland
to be a Trustee in place of John Forrester (deceased), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Ranfurly Public Cemetery.
Robert Holdgate
to be a Trustee in place of Edward Holdgate (deceased), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Timaru Public Cemetery.
Hugh Manson
to be a Trustee in place of Peter Bartram Packard (deceased), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Clifton Public Cemetery.
Norman Edwin Moffat
to be a Trustee in place of George Davis (deceased), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Eastern Bush Public Cemetery.
Neil McEwan, Sen.,
to be a Trustee in place of Henry Ive (deceased), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Wyndham Public Cemetery
Angus Lyall
to be a Trustee in place of George Lyall (deceased), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Otaio Public Cemetery.
William Doig Cameron
to be a Trustee in place of Duncan Cameron (deceased), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Papakaio Public Cemetery.
John Bustard,
Leslie Haggart,
James Johnson, and
David Alexander Lawrence,
to be Trustees in place of John Haggart (left the district), and Peter Haggart, Donald Mitchell, and Joseph Smith (deceased), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Wangaloa Public Cemetery.
Edward Albert Bloxham,
Alexander Brown,
Kenneth McLeod,
Thomas Morrow,
James Riordan, and
Lancelot Charles Tonkins,
to be Trustees in place of Alexander Gibson and Henry Thompson (resigned), and Charles Nicholson, John Sillars, and Robert Ashley Westcott (deceased), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Moa Flat Public Cemetery.
William Leonard Bruhns,
William Currie,
Thomas Dowling,
Michael Alexander Kinney,
Hugh McAuley,
Michael Prindergast, and
Thomas Ramsay
to be Trustees in place of Robert Boyd, John Laughton, Lawrence Mathieson, Hugh McAuley, Alexander McKay, Edward O'Connell, and John J. Ramsay (deceased), and Patrick Kinney (left the district), to provide for the maintenance and care of the Hyde Public Cemetery.
J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.
Appointments in the Public Service.
Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 19th December, 1927.
THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—
Thomas Henry Hankin, Esquire,
David Marshall, Esquire, and
Ernest Lloyd Siddall, Esquire,
to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, as from the 14th day of December, 1927.
Victor Charles Lawn, Esquire,
to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Oxford, as from the 9th December, 1927.
A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 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.:—
Percival Steele Miller . . . . . Mangonui.
Arthur Edwin Herring . . . . . Opotiki.
John Stewart Robertson . . . . . Matamata.
William John Cryer . . . . . Te Aroha.
Edwin Henry Ophir Sarah . . . . . Tirau.
Harold Sigurd Bierre . . . . . Whakatane.
Frederick William Sanderson . . . . . Whangaroa.
Harold Frederick Robert Thomson . . . . . Kohukohu at Broadwood.*
Albert Charles Williams . . . . . Ashburton.

• Births and deaths only.
  W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.
  Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.
  Wellington, 16th December, 1927.
  THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Featherston, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.
  WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
  Minister of Finance.
  FEATHERSTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.
  Notice of Result of Poll.
  PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Borough of Featherston, taken on the 22nd day of November, 1927, on the proposal of the Featherston Borough Council to borrow the sum of one thousand pounds (£1,000) for streets improvement, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 51 ; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 13.
  I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
  Dated this 9th day of December, 1927.
  J. W. CARD, Mayor.
  Special Order made by the Hawera County Council altering Riding Boundaries.
  Department of Internal Affairs,
  Wellington, 17th December, 1927.
  THE following special order, made by the Hawera County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1920.
  Pursuant to section 100 of that Act, as amended by section 3 of the Counties Amendment Act, 1921-22, I hereby fix the 31st day of March, 1928, as the date from which the special order shall take effect.
  M. POMARE,
  Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.
  IN THE MATTER OF THE COUNTIES ACT, 1920.
  Special Order, altering Boundary between Hawera and Ararata Ridings of the County of Hawera.
  THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Counties Act, 1920, and amendments thereto, and of all other powers in that behalf it enabling, the Council of the County of Hawera hereby resolves, by way of special order, as follows:—

1. That the portion of the present division boundary between the Hawera and Ararata Ridings of the County of Hawera, described as commencing from the north-eastern boundary of the Normanby Town District along the railway-line to the southern boundary of the Eltham County, be and the same is hereby revoked.
2. That the division boundary between the said Hawera and Ararata Ridings shall commence from the southern boundary of the Eltham County at the junction of the One-whaia and Boylan Roads, then along the middle of Boylan Road in a southerly direction to the junction of Austin and Boylan Roads; thence down the middle of Austin Road in a south-easterly direction to its junction with Ketemarae Road (via the deviation known as “Bretts Corner”); thence along the middle of Ketemarae Road in a south-westerly direction to its junction with the Normanby Town District;