MAY 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1551

set out in the Schedule hereto shall be subject to the provisions
of subsection (3) of the said section 23, and shall be included
in and form part of the Kaipara Development Scheme.
Notice of the Native Minister’s intention is hereby given and
published in accordance with the said subsection (3), which
provides that no owner shall, except with the consent of the
Native Minister, be entitled to exercise any rights of owner-
ship in connection with the land affected so as to interfere
with or obstruct the carrying-out of any works undertaken
or to be undertaken under the said subsection (3).

SCHEDULE.

Block. Area.
A. R. P.
WAIPouA 2A 1C (part) .. .. 88 3 39
,, 2A 1D (part) .. .. 121 1 21
,, 2B 2B 1 .. .. 405 3 0
,, 2B 2B 2 .. .. 100 0 0
,, 2B 3D 2A .. .. 30 0 0
,, 2B 3A 1 .. .. 60 0 0
————
806 0 20
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A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Appointment of Issuing Officers for the Purpose of Issuing
Licenses to take or kill Opossums in the Rotorua Acclima-
tization District under the Opossum Regulations, 1930.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th May, 1931.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Order in
Council dated the twenty-seventh day of April, one
thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, made under the
Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and gazetted on
the thirtieth day of the same month, declaring an open season
for the taking or killing of opossums in the Rotorua Acclima-
tization District, I, George Percival Newton, Under-Secretary
of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of
New Zealand, do hereby appoint :—

The Conservator of Fish and Game, Rotorua,
The Postmaster, Wairoa, H.B.,
The Postmaster, Tuai,
Ranger G. C. Potts, Taupo, and
The Postmaster, Lake House, Waikaremoana,

to be Issuing Officers for the purpose of issuing licenses
to take or kill opossums in the Rotorua Acclimatization
District.

P. J. KELLEHER, for Under-Secretary.
(I.A. 25/16/110.)

Notice to Mariners No. 17 of 1931.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 20th May, 1931.

THE following Notice to Mariners, which has been re-
ceived from the Admiralty, London, is published for
general information.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

No. 556.

NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND, EAST COAST.

Mercury and Alderman Islands : Existence of Shoals.

(1) Position : About 10¼ miles south-eastward of Cuvier
Island light. Lat. 36° 34′ 48″ S., long.
175° 55′ 30″ E.
Depth : Four fathoms (7m3), rock.

(2) Position : About three miles S.S.E. of the southern
Alderman Island. Lat. 37° 01′ 03″ S., long.
176° 06′ 48″ E.
Depth : Four fathoms (7m3), rock.

Remarks : The above depths, encircled by a 5-fathom line,
are to be inserted on the charts and marked, “P.D. Repd.
(1931),” in both cases.

(Notice No. 556 of 1931, dated 28th March.)

Charts affected : Nos. 3565 (1)—2543—3332 (2)—1212 (2).
Publications : New Zealand Pilot, 1919, pages 228 and 234.
Authority : H.M.S. Veronica, Hyd. Notices Nos. 1 and 2
of 1931.

Electrical Wiremen’s Registration Act, 1925.—Results of
Examination, March, 1931.

PURSUANT to Regulation 4K of the Electrical Wiremen’s
Registration Regulations, 1929, notice is hereby given
of the results of the examination held in March, 1931.
Examinations were held in the following centres :—

WRITTEN PART.

Candidates. Passed. Per Cent.
Auckland .. .. 41 8 20
Christchurch .. 25 8 32
Dunedin .. .. 23 1 4
Gisborne .. .. 10 1 10
Greymouth .. 8 1 13
Hamilton .. .. 15 6 40
Invercargill .. 3 1 33
Masterton .. .. 5 Nil ..
Napier .. .. 12 Nil ..
Nelson .. .. 3 1 33
New Plymouth .. 6 1 17
Opotiki .. .. 2 Nil ..
Paeroa .. .. 3 1 33
Palmerston North .. 9 Nil ..
Petone .. .. 3 2 67
Tauranga .. .. 3 1 33
Timaru .. .. 6 1 17
Wanganui .. .. 9 1 11
Wellington .. 42 15 36
Westport .. .. 2 Nil ..
Whangarei.. .. 3 Nil ..
—— —— ——
Totals .. .. 233 49 21

Election of Member of North Auckland Land Board.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 14th May, 1931.

IN accordance with the provisions of section 47 of the
Land Act, 1924, and the regulations made thereunder,
I, Owen Neil Campbell, Commissioner of Crown Lands for
the North Auckland Land District, as Returning Officer for
the election of a member of the North Auckland Land Board,
do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on 13th April,
1931, to be as follows :—

Hunt, William Thomas .. .. .. 608
Sulenta, Peter Mandeno .. .. .. 33
——
Total number of valid votes .. .. 641
Number of votes rejected as informal .. 7

And I do hereby declare that William Thomas Hunt,
having received the greatest number of valid votes, is duly
elected a member of the North Auckland Land Board as from
the 24th May, 1931.

O. N. CAMPBELL,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Returning Officer.

(L. and S. 22/748/A.)

PRACTICAL PART.

Candidates. Passed. Per Cent.
Auckland .. .. 38 8 21
Christchurch .. 28 10 36
Dunedin .. .. 20 7 35
Gisborne .. .. 7 3 43
Greymouth .. 5 Nil ..
Hamilton .. .. 10 2 20
Invercargill .. 7 1 14
Masterton .. .. 5 2 40
Napier .. .. 6 2 33
Nelson .. .. 4 1 25
New Plymouth .. 6 1 17
Opotiki .. .. 3 2 67
Paeroa .. .. 2 1 50
Palmerston North .. 5 2 40
Petone .. .. 2 1 50
Tauranga .. .. 2 Nil ..
Timaru .. .. 7 3 43
Wanganui .. .. 5 3 60
Wellington .. 25 10 40
Westport .. .. 1 1 100
Whangarei.. .. 4 2 50
—— —— ——
Totals .. .. 192 62 32

Result of Election of a Trustee of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th May, 1931.

THE following result of the election of a trustee 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.

Judea Drainage District, County of Tauranga—
Charles Murray Lamb Rumbles.

(I.A. 19/78/6.)

The highest marks obtained in the written part were 78,
and in the practical part 79. The maximum marks obtainable
in each case being 100.

The examination results for the above centres are as
follows :—

PASSED IN WRITTEN PART.

Auckland—
Anderson, M. F. D., Darrow, K. B., Morris, L. J., North-
over, J. H., Plummer, E. A., Simes, J. H., Singer, D. S.,
Whitehead, L. H.

Christchurch—
Bartlett, H. G., Glenday, S. M., Haworth, L. W., Roi,
L. E., Sage, O., Suckling, C. J., Tonge, R., Watson, A. T.