May 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1539

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 22, dated 5th April, 1934, relative to the appointment of 2nd Lieutenant Alan Murray Jordan, for “4th Field Battery” read “3rd Field Battery.”

THE HAURAKI REGIMENT.

Norman Richard Wynn to be 2nd Lieutenant and is posted to the 1st Battalion. Dated 1st March, 1934.

THE HAWKE’S BAY REGIMENT.

Lieutenant M. C. Fairbrother, Regimental Supernumerary List, is posted to the 1st Battalion, and remains seconded for service in Samoa. Dated 5th May, 1934.

THE CANTERBURY REGIMENT.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on probation) and are posted to the 6th Cadet Battalion :—

John James David Sinclair. Dated 21st March, 1934.

Arthur Trevor Campbell. Dated 22nd March, 1934.

THE SOUTHLAND REGIMENT.

Andrew Robert Dreaver to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) and is posted to the 1st Cadet Battalion. Dated 29th March, 1934.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Removal of Officer of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Navy Office,

Wellington, 23rd May, 1934.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the removal of Lieutenant Laurence A. St. J. Reid from the list of officers of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division) for non-availability for service, to date 26th April, 1934.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,

Wellington, 17th May, 1934.

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

Norman Edward Bowater,

to be a Nautical Surveyor of Ships and an Inspector of Ships’ Compasses for the purposes of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, as from the 16th day of May, 1934.

Donal O’Leary,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Tuatapere, as from the 8th day of May, 1934.

William Arthur Sawyer,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waipawa, as from the 11th day of May, 1934.

Matthew Brian Maguire,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Mokai, as from the 8th day of May, 1934.

Sidney Harry Mason,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Putaruru, as from the 14th day of May, 1934.

Francis John McLaughlin,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Maraeroa, as from the 21st day of May, 1934.

Ernest Ethelbert Eves,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Akaroa, as from the 14th day of May, 1934.

James Stewart Martin,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Halcombe, as from the 15th day of May, 1934.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,

Wellington, 22nd May, 1934.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned person has been appointed to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district set opposite his name, viz. :—

Name. District.

Phillip Archibald Orr .. .. .. Oturehua.

P. H. WYLDE, Acting Deputy Registrar-General.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 17th May, 1934.

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

J. G. COATES, Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/545/2.)

BOROUGH OF LAWRENCE.

I HEREBY give notice that on the 9th day of May, 1934, a proposal was submitted by the Lawrence Borough Council to the ratepayers of the Borough of Lawrence for raising a special loan of £2,500 for building a new Town Hall including offices and subsidiary rooms on a site known as Chalmers’ site, and including the demolition of the present Town Hall building and the clearing of the site thereof, and for incidental costs, and that the number of votes recorded respectively for and against the proposal were as follows :—

Votes.

For .. .. .. 168

Against .. .. .. 43

Informal .. .. .. 2

And I declare the said proposal carried.

Dated the 10th day of May, 1934.

J. K. SIMPSON,

Mayor of the Borough of Lawrence.

Amending Warrant declaring Open Seasons for Imported and/or Native Game in certain Acclimatization Districts in so far as it affects the Hawera Acclimatization District, and declaring an Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game in the Hawera Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, James Alexander Young, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend the Warrant dated 9th March, 1934, made under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 14, of the 12th idem, at page 520, by deleting all that portion of such Warrant included under the heading “Hawera Acclimatization District,” and do hereby declare the period from the 1st day of May to the 31st day of July, 1934 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Hawera Acclimatization District, as described in New Zealand Gazette No. 17, of the 12th March, 1925, at page 750, for the taking or killing of the following imported game, viz., cock pheasants and Californian quail, and the period from the 1st day of May to the 30th day of June, 1934 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the said district for the taking or killing of the following native game, viz., grey duck and black swan, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native game in the said district will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each, and the Secretary of the Hawera Acclimatization Society or any person authorized by such secretary in that behalf is hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

2. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than ten head of cock pheasants, or take or kill native game exceeding in number twenty-five head in all of grey duck and black swan, or more than fifteen head of grey duck.

3. No person shall commence shooting earlier than one hour before sunrise or continue shooting later than one hour after sunset on any day during the open season.

4. No person shall use live birds of any species as decoys, nor shall use artificial decoys so that more than fifteen artificial decoys are used at any one time (whether by one or several persons) on any particular water within an area of less than one hundred yards square.