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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, appointed.—
(Notice No. Ag. 2954.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 11th March, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Reginald John McGee

as an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, for the district within the jurisdiction of the Waimairi County Council, the appointment to date from the 6th day of March, 1931.

A. J. MURDOCH, Minister of Agriculture.

Appointments to Cook Islands Public Service.

Cook Islands Department,
Wellington, 5th March, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand has been pleased to make the following appointments to the Cook Islands Public Service under section 13 of the Cook Islands Act, 1915 :—

Gordon S. Palmer

to be Head Teacher, Araura School, Aitutaki, from 21st March, 1931.

Isabella Janet Palmer

to be Assistant Teacher, Araura School, Aitutaki, from 21st March, 1931.

A. T. NGATA, Minister for the Cook Islands.

Advisory Counsellor of Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 4th March, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Nohomairangi t→ Whiti

to be the Advisory Counsellor for the Maori Council District of Taranaki.

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 5th March, 1931.

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

Leslie Victor Spencer

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waihua, as from the 1st day of February, 1931.

Utanga Repika Potaka

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Matahiwi, as from the 1st day of February, 1931.

Robert Cecil Smith

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Tokomaru Bay, as from the 1st day of February, 1931.

Andrew Norman Murray

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Rakaunui, as from the 1st day of February, 1931.

Sydney Marshall Keith

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Whareponga, as from the 1st day of February, 1931.

Herbert William Young

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Werowero, as from the 1st day of February, 1931.

Frederick Stoop

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Cromwell for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Central Otago, and Clerk of the Warden’s Courts, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Cromwell, Clyde, Blacks, Alexandra, and Naseby for the District of Otago, constituted under the Mining Act, 1926, as from the 4th day of March, 1931.

Percy William Jones Cockerill

to be Clerk of the Warden’s Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Queenstown for the District of Otago, constituted under the Mining Act, 1926, and Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Queenstown for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the 2nd day of March, 1931.

T. MARK, Secretary.

New Zealand Inscribed Stock Act, 1917.—Closing of Registers.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 9th March, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Register of New Zealand 4½-per-cent. Inscribed Stock, maturing 20th April, 1939, will be closed from the 1st to the 20th April, 1931 (inclusive), for the purpose of the issue of half-yearly interest.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Finance.

Matamata Town Board.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan Authority.

In the matter of Section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Matamata Town Board has been duly authorized to borrow by way of loan the sum of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000), for streets improvements, and the consent of the Governor-General in Council thereto was given by Order in Council made on the 10th day of November, 1925, and published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 81, of 19th idem, at page 3194 :

And whereas in respect of the said sum of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000) there has been raised and borrowed for the purposes aforesaid the sum of six thousand six hundred pounds (£6,600); and it has not been found necessary to borrow the whole of the amount so authorized :

And whereas the Minister of Finance has duly notified the Matamata Town Board in writing of his intention to cancel the loan authority in so far as it has not been exercised :

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, I, George William Forbes, Minister of Finance, do hereby cancel the authority of the Matamata Town Board to borrow under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the sum of thirteen thousand four hundred pounds (£13,400), being the amount in respect of which the said loan authority has not been exercised: Provided always that this cancellation is without prejudice to the validity in all respects of the loan of six thousand six hundred pounds (£6,600) already borrowed pursuant to the said loan authority.

Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of March, 1931.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Finance.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 6th March, 1931.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Opunake Town Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Finance.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Town District of Opunake, taken on the 18th day of February, 1931, on the proposal of the Opunake Town Board to borrow the sum of £14,100 for the purpose of installing a water-supply, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 27; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 65.

I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 26th day of February, 1931.

A. J. BRENNAN, Chairman.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Kaipara River District, County of Waitemata.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th March, 1931.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the River Boards Act, 1908, and amendments, praying that the areas described in the Schedule hereto may be included in the Kaipara River District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposal which they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREAS PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE KAIPARA RIVER DISTRICT, COUNTY OF WAITEMATA.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point, being the south-eastern