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valid votes recorded at the poll, I declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 11th day of May, 1929.

JOHN KENNEDY,
Chairman, South Canterbury Electric-power Board.

G. W. MORRISON, Returning Officer.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 4th June, 1929.

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

JOSEPH WARD, Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF WHANGAREI.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Whangarei, taken on the 1st May, 1929, on the proposal of the Whangarei Borough Council to borrow the sum of £1,724 for the purpose of filling-in, levelling, and laying-out Central Park, the number of votes recorded was as follows: For the proposal, 560; against the proposal, 501; informal, 42.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

L. J. BRAKE, Mayor.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Mangawara Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th May, 1929.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be included in the Mangawara Drainage District:

All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration of boundaries which they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN MANGAWARA DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at the northernmost corner of Section 255, Taupiri Parish; thence south-easterly and westerly along the drainage district boundary to a public road forming the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 354 and 355, Taupiri Parish; thence north-easterly along that road to the northernmost corner of Section 355, the point of commencement.

JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 19/140/62.)

Awards of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 30th May, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General is respectfully advised to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to the undermentioned officers:—

Captain F. L. Hartnell, Retired List.

2nd Lieutenant H. R. Haeusler, The Hauraki Regiment.

THOMAS M. WILFORD, Minister of Defence.

Applying the Provisions of Section 136 of the Public Works Act, 1928, to the Mangatainoka River Bridge on the Pahiatua-Pahiatua Railway-station Main Highway.

WHEREAS by resolution dated the 23rd April, 1929, the Main Highways Board recommends, in pursuance of section 7 of the Main Highways Act, 1925, that the provisions of section 136 of the Public Works Act, 1928, be applied to the Mangatainoka River Bridge in the Pahiatua-Pahiatua Railway-station Main Highway:

Now, therefore, I, Ethelbert Alfred Ransom, Minister of Public Works, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1925, and of every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby declare that the provisions of the said section 136 of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall apply in so far as affects the Mangatainoka River Bridge on the Pahiatua-Pahiatua Railway-station Main Highway.

Wellington, New Zealand, 30th May, 1929.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VI, Kawhia North Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Oparau, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P. Being Portion of
0 2 28 Kawhia T No. 2 part Section 2; coloured yellow.
0 2 14 Kawhia T No. 2 part Section 2; coloured blue.
0 0 2 \ Kawhia T No. 2 part Section 1; coloured 1 0 29·5 / red.

Situated in Block VI, Kawhia North Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 25066.)

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 75459, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 4th day of June, 1929.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 34/217/1.)

Appointing Saturday as the Statutory Closing-day in the Borough of Roxburgh.

WHEREAS a poll to determine the statutory closing-day in the Borough of Roxburgh was duly taken under the authority of section 20 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, on the 1st day of May, 1929:

And whereas the Town Clerk of the Borough of Roxburgh has notified me that the majority of the votes given at such poll were in favour of the appointment of Saturday as the statutory closing-day in the said borough:

Now, therefore, I, William Andrew Veitch, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 20 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, do hereby appoint Saturday as the statutory closing-day in the said borough as from the 10th day of June, 1929.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of June, 1929.

W. A. VEITCH, Minister of Labour.

Extraordinary Election of Member of Board of Appeal under Public Service Amendment Act, 1927, as Representative of Officers of the Public Service to replace G. N. Morris, Esq., resigned.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 31st May, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in accordance with the provisions of the Public Service Amendment Act, 1927, and the regulations relating to the Public Service, an extraordinary election will be held on Monday, the 8th day of July, 1929, to elect a member of the Public Service Board of Appeal.

Nominations, in writing, by not less than three officers entitled to vote, must reach me in Wellington not later than 4·30 p.m. on Thursday, the 20th day of June, 1929. The consent of the candidate to nomination must appear on the face of the nomination-paper and be signed by him.

Nomination forms may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Public Service Commissioner.

T. MARK, Returning Officer.