Feb. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 413

Stipendiary Magistrate authorized to exercise Jurisdiction in Children’s Courts.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize

Stanley Logan Paterson, Esquire, S.M.,

to exercise jurisdiction in the Children’s Courts established at Opotiki, Taupo, Putaruru, Rotorua, Tauranga, Te Puke, and Whakatane.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

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Chairman of Licensing Committee appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Roy McKean, Esquire, S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the District of Manukau, vice J. G. L. Hewitt, Esquire, S.M., and of the Licensing Committee for the District of Franklin, vice J. W. Poynton, Esquire, S.M., deceased.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

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Clerk of Magistrates’ Court appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable Ernest Francis Jones

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Cambridge, on and from the 2nd day of February, 1928, vice Constable J. F. Cleary, transferred.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

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Appointments in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division).

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Navy Office,
Wellington, 7th February, 1928.

THE New Zealand Naval Board have approved the following appointments in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division) :—

Alister Barclay Gilfillan, as Probationary Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), with seniority of 1st February, 1928.

Gordon Bridson, as Probationary Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), with seniority of 1st February, 1928.

Lindsay Featherstone Fraser, as Probationary Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), with seniority of 1st February, 1928.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

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Inspector of Anatomy appointed.—(H. 2/77).

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Department of Health,
Wellington, 10th February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Joseph Charles Willis

Superintendent of Police for the District of Dunedin, to be an Inspector of Anatomy at Dunedin in succession to Superintendent Edwin Murray, deceased.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

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Appointment in the Public Service.

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Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th February, 1928.

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

Alfred Pellow, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Ohinemuri, and Registrar of Births and of Deaths of Maoris at Paeroa, as from the 8th February, 1928.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1928.

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. :—

John Denis Finnigan .. .. Motupiko.
Archibald Campbell .. .. Coromandel.
Thomas William James .. .. Mangawai.
Conrad Carl William Meyer .. .. Birmingham.
Leslie Leonard Donald Parris .. .. Heriot.
Ernest Russell .. .. Manuherikia.
Alexander Wallace Swap .. .. Putaruru.
John Thomas Harraway .. .. Heriot.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

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Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

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Wellington, 8th February, 1928.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Franklin Electric-power Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

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FRANKLIN ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the constituent district of part Raglan County within the Franklin Electric-power District was taken on the 18th January, 1928, on the proposal of the Franklin Electric-power Board to borrow the sum of £34,820 for the purpose of supplying and distributing electric energy for the benefit of the above-mentioned constituent district. The number of votes recorded for the proposal was ninety-seven; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was nine.

I therefore declare the proposal carried.

J. DEAN, Chairman.

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Result of Election of a Member of the Gisborne Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th February, 1928.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Gisborne Fire Board by Fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs in accordance with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, which enure for the purposes of the Fire Brigades Act, 1923 :—

Gisborne Fire Board—

Hubert Frear Forster.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 11/5/14.)

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Redefining Boundaries of the Boroughs of South Invercargill and Invercargill, and the Main Ward of the Borough of South Invercargill.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th February, 1928.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the Borough of South Invercargill are hereby defined as set out in the First Schedule hereto, the boundaries of the said borough having been altered by Order in Council dated the 13th day of December, 1927, made under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and published in Gazette No. 87 of the 22nd day of December, 1927.

And also in pursuance of the provisions of the said section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the Borough of Invercargill affected by the said Order in Council dated the 13th day of December, 1927, are hereby defined as set out in the Second Schedule hereto.

And in further pursuance of the provisions of the said section 141 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, the boundaries of the Main Ward of the Borough of South Invercargill affected by the said Order in Council dated the 13th