SEPT. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2919

Member of the Whitehall Rabbit Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 3208.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5th September, 1934.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 56 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928—

Ian Rutherfurd Oliver

to be a member of the Whitehall Rabbit Board established under the said Act, vice Herbert Nicholas Sewell, resigned.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1934.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

Name. District.
Leslie Gilbert Watson .. .. Raglan.
Clarence James Moss .. .. Kawhia.
Peter Baikie .. .. Otorohanga.
William Mann Wade .. .. Mount Cook.
Charles Fabert Duncan .. .. Norsewood.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 5th September, 1934.

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

James Torrance,

to be the Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Dunedin North for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 10th day of September, 1934.

Charles Edward Wilson,

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Raglan for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 15th day of August, 1934.

James Hope Robertson,

to be the Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Avon for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 10th day of September, 1934.

Duncan Cecil Ernest Webster,

to be the Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Chalmers for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 10th day of September, 1934.

Ronald Crawford,

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Weights and Measures Act, 1925, and its amendments, as from the 3rd day of September, 1934.

Basil Herbert Humphrey,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Otahuhu, as from the 30th day of August, 1934.

Thomas George Hardy,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Tuatapere, as from the 29th day of August, 1934.

Peter Baikie,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Otorohanga, as from the 3rd day of September, 1934.

Ernest Edward Hirst,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Levin, as from the 1st day of September, 1934.

Mrs. Maggie Hulme,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Whakarara, as from the 3rd day of September, 1934.

David Torrens Alexander,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Rangitahi, as from the 3rd day of September, 1934.

Archibald Octavius Pike,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Martinborough, as from the 12th day of September, 1934.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Summer Time.

IT is hereby notified for general information that, under the Summer Time Act, 1929, and Summer Time Amendment Act, 1933, summer time commences at two o’clock, New Zealand standard time, in the morning of Sunday, the 30th instant, and ends at two o’clock, New Zealand standard time, in the morning of Sunday, 28th April, 1935.

For the purpose of giving effect to the Act the time will therefore be advanced thirty minutes as from 2 a.m., New Zealand standard time, on Sunday, the 30th instant, and be put back thirty minutes as from 2 a.m., New Zealand standard time, on Sunday, 28th April, 1935.

GEO. W. FORBES, Prime Minister.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 11th September, 1934.

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

J. G. COATES, Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/560/2.)

BALCLUTHA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

NOTICE is hereby given, under the provisions of section 13 (1) of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, that the poll of ratepayers held on the 23rd day of August, 1934, on a proposal to borrow the sum of £750 for the purpose of laying a 12 in. concrete-lined water main across the new Clutha River Traffic-bridge, and under the approaches thereto, resulted as follows :—

For the proposal .. .. .. 61
Against the proposal .. .. 2
Informal .. .. .. Nil

And I hereby declare that the said proposal was carried.

D. T. FLEMING, Mayor.

Approving of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers’ Regulations, 1931.

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers’ Regulations, 1931, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Transport, do hereby approve, until further notice, of the person named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being a Testing Officer under the said regulations for the local authority described in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Paparua County Council .. Reginald McConchie, Engineer, Paparua, Sockburn.

Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of September, 1934.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)

Notifying Land in North Auckland Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 11th September, 1934.

PURSUANT to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 48 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, notice is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto, being part of the land known as Puni Settlement, was acquired by the Crown on the 27th day of March, 1934, and became subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, as from that date.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—PART OF PUNI SETTLEMENT.

ALLOTMENT 7, Section 16, Town of Cameron : Area, 1 rood 33 perches, more or less.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/220.)