Oct. 31.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

2749

Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of October, 1929.

W. W. SAMSON,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Wellington.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 24th October, 1929.

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

Gordon McDonald Gilbert,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Naseby (at Ranfurly), as from the 1st day of October, 1929.

Michael O'Brien,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Naseby (at Naseby), as from the 1st day of October, 1929.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 23rd October, 1929.

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

JOSEPH WARD, Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF TAURANGA.

I HEREBY give public notice that the poll held on the 14th day of October, 1929, on the proposal to raise £4,000 for constructing the Tauranga–Matamata and Tauranga–Waihi Main Highways, within the Borough of Tauranga, resulted as follows :—

For the proposal, 225 votes; against the proposal, 65 votes; informal, 2: total, 292 votes.

And I hereby declare the above proposal to be carried.

Dated 16th October, 1929.

B. C. ROBBINS, Mayor.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th October, 1929.

THE following result of the election of a member of the New Plymouth Fire Board by fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1926 :—

New Plymouth Fire Board: Philip Lyell Bennett.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 11/5/27.)

Meetings of Hawke’s Bay Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th October, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of meetings of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, 16th January, 20th February, 13th March, 10th April, 8th May, 12th June, 10th July, 14th August, 11th September, 9th October, 13th November, and 11th December, during the year 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Meetings of Nelson Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th October, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of meetings of the Nelson Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Nelson, at 10 o’clock a.m. on Thursday, 9th January, 13th February, 13th March, 10th April, 8th May, 12th June, 10th July, 14th August, 11th September, 9th October, 13th November, and 11th December, during the year 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

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Meetings of Southland Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th October, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of meetings of the Southland Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Invercargill, at 10 o’clock a.m., on Thursday, 16th January, 20th February, 20th March, 10th April, 15th May, 19th June, 17th July, 21st August, 18th September, 16th October, 20th November, and 11th December, during the year 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th October, 1929.

THE following result of the election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON, Under-Secretary.

NETHERTON DRAINAGE DISTRICT.—COUNTY OF HAURAKI PLAINS.

Northern Subdivision—
George Buchanan.

Awaiiti Subdivision—
Frederick Thomas Victor Johnson.
Bertie Halligan.

(I.A. 19/78/75.)

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th October, 1929.

THE following result of the election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G. P. NEWTON, Under-Secretary.

OMARUNUI DRAINAGE DISTRICT.—COUNTY OF HAWKE’S BAY.

John Albert Hennah.
David Black.
William Archibald Macfarlane.
William Potter.
Francis Cassidi Twigg.

(I.A. 19/78/48.)

Appointing the Time and Place for the First Meeting of the Waimea Electric-power Board.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 32 of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, I, Ethelbert Alfred Ransom, Minister of Public Works, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the 13th day of November, at 2 o’clock p.m., as the time, and the Waimea County Chambers, at Nelson, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Waimea Electric-power Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of October, 1929.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 26/1102.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XII, Mohaka 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 Mohaka, 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,