2484
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 63

Returning Officer and Person to prepare Roll of Electors appointed.

Wellington, 10th August, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

James Edwin Green, Esquire, of Turua,

to be Returning Officer and Person to Prepare the Roll of Electors in connection with the first election of the Board of the Netherton Drainage District; also to appoint Wednesday, the 12th day of September, 1928, to be the day, and the Netherton Public Hall, Netherton, to be the place, for holding such election; also to appoint Monday, the 17th day of September, 1928, at 10.30 o’clock in the forenoon to be the day and the hour, and the Netherton Public Hall, Netherton, to be the place, for holding the first meeting of the Board so elected.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 19/10/62.)

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Borough of Milton.—Notice No. Ag. 2733.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 8th August, 1928.

THE following special order, passed by the Milton Borough Council at a special meeting held on the 13th day of June, 1928, and confirmed at an ordinary meeting held on the 11th day of July, 1928, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act.

O. HAWKEN, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon it by section 4 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, the Milton Borough Council hereby resolves by way of special order that the plants mentioned in the Schedule hereto (being plants mentioned in the Third Schedule in the said Act, as extended from time to time by the Governor-General in Council) are noxious weeds within the Borough of Milton.

SCHEDULE.

Broom (Cytisus scoparius).
Dock (Rumex, any species).
Elderberry (Sambucus niger).
Gorse (Ulex europæus).
Wild turnip (Brassica campestris).

Wanganui Education Board.—Election of Members.

IT is hereby notified that at the biennial election of members of the Education Board of the District of Wanganui, the number of votes recorded for each candidate was as follows:—

Wanganui Urban Area.

Collins, William Alfred . . . . 41
Paterson, John . . . . . . 24

The number of valid votes recorded was 65.
The number of votes rejected as informal was 2.

North Ward.

Adams, William . . . . . . 144
Dukeson, Richard . . . . . . 68
Gordon, David George . . . . . . 44
Littlewood, Henry William Bucknall . . . . 36

The number of valid votes recorded was 292.
The number of votes rejected as informal was 2.

South Ward.

The only nomination received was that of Mr. James Stanley Tingey.

West Ward.

The only nomination received was that of Mr. Alfred Samuel Coleman.

Palmerston North Urban Area.

The only nomination received was that of Mr. William Stephen Woodrofe.

I hereby declare Messrs. William Alfred Collins, William Adams, James Stanley Tingey, Alfred Samuel Coleman, and William Stephen Woodrofe elected as members of the Board for the Wanganui Urban Area, North Ward, South Ward, West Ward, and Palmerston North Urban Area, respectively.

W. H. SWANGER, Returning Officer.
Wanganui, 7th August, 1928.

Education Board of the District of Hawke’s Bay.—Election of Members.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914, I hereby declare that the following persons have been duly elected as members of the Education Board of the District of Hawke’s Bay:—

Gisborne Urban Area: Wauchop, John Stewart.
Napier Urban Area: Thomson, Joseph Clark.
Hasting Urban Area: Maddison, George Alfred.
North Ward of the Rural Area: Kirk, James Robert.
Middle Ward of the Rural Area: McKay, Gilbert.
South Ward of the Rural Area: Cuthbertson, William, and Quigley, Herbert Sydney McGowan.

For the Gisborne Urban Area, the Napier Urban Area, the Hastings Urban Area, the North Ward of the rural area, and the Middle Ward of the rural area, the number of duly nominated candidates was equal to the number of persons to be elected.

For the South Ward of the rural area the voting was as follows:—

Ordinary vacancy—
Cheyne, James Auchinleck . . . . 23
Cuthbertson, William . . . . 152
Number of valid voting-papers . . . . 175
Number of invalid voting-papers . . Nil.

Extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. R. P. Soundy—
Fraser, Donald William . . . . 87
Hutana, Henry Tomoana . . . . 37
Quigley, Herbert Sydney McGowan . . 100
Number of valid voting-papers . . . . 224
Number of invalid voting-papers . . Nil.

W. L. DUNN, Returning Officer.
Napier, 6th August, 1928.

Southland Education Board.

BOARD ELECTIONS, 1928.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914, and its amendments, it is hereby publicly notified that the following persons have been duly elected as members of the Education Board of the District of Southland:—

Invercargill Urban Area: Alfred William Jones.
East Ward: Stanley Rice.
West Ward: John Charles Thomson.
Central Ward: Louis Evans.

The number of votes recorded in favour of the respective candidates was as follows:—

Central Ward.

Louis Evans . . . . . . 123
John Dalrymple Trotter . . . . 59

The total number of valid votes recorded was 182. The number of votes rejected as informal was 6.

It is further notified that for the East and West Wards and the Invercargill Urban Area the candidates declared elected were the only ones nominated.

F. G. STEVENSON, Secretary.

Education Office,
Invercargill, 2nd August, 1928.

Election of Members of Westland Land Board.—Result of Poll.

I, WILLIAM THEODORE MORPETH, Returning Officer for the election of a member to the Westland Land Board, do hereby notify, in accordance with section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, and the regulations thereunder, the result of the poll taken by me on the 2nd August, 1928, for the election of a member to the Westland Land Board to be as follows:—

Valid votes recorded—

Votes.
Mulcare, James . . . . . . 271
Ryall, John . . . . . . 451

Total valid votes . . . . 722
Informal votes . . . . 43

Total votes recorded . . . . 765

And I do hereby declare that John Ryall, having received the greater number of valid votes, is duly elected a member of the Westland Land Board as from the 2nd August, 1928.

W. T. MORPETH,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.