Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 26th March, 1935.

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.
Noel Francis Armstrong .. Te Kuiti.
George Lawson Gill .. Naseby, at Naseby.*
Owen Leonard Dunsford .. Maungaturoto.

• Births and Deaths only.
  G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 26th March, 1935.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Ellerslie Town Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.
J. G. COATES, Minister of Finance. (T. 49/223/6.)

ELLERSLIE TOWN BOARD.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan of £5,000.

PURSUANT to section 13 (l) of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Ellerslie Town District taken on the 21st day of March, 1935, on the proposal of the Ellerslie Town Board to borrow the sum of £5,000 for the laying down in concrete, 4 ft. wide and 2 in. deep, of about 10½ miles of footpaths in the district,
Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was .. 221
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 98
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
HORACE J. WHITE,
Chairman, Ellerslie Town Board.
Ellerslie, 22nd March, 1935.

Fire District Notice varied.

WHEREAS by notice published in the Gazette of the 14th day of February, 1929, at page 395 (hereinafter referred to as “the said notice”), a certain area in Canterbury Land District was declared to be a fire district under the name of Eyrewell Plantation Fire District (hereinafter referred to as “the said fire district”): And whereas the 31st day of March in any year was specified in the said notice as the final date on which it should not be lawful, save pursuant to the written permit of a Forest Officer, to set on fire within the boundaries of the said fire district any timber, debris, grass, or other specially inflammable material: And whereas it is expedient that the final date for such burning in the said fire district should be altered to the 30th day of April in any year, and it is desirable that the said notice be varied accordingly:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921–22, and on the recommendation of the Director of Forestry and the Land Board of the Canterbury Land District, I do hereby declare that the words “30th day of April” be substituted for the words “31st day of March” in the said notice, and do hereby vary the said notice accordingly.

Dated this 20th day of March, 1935.
E. A. RANSOM,
Commissioner of State Forests.

Fire District Notice varied.

WHEREAS by notice published in the Gazette of the 17th day of February, 1927, at page 479 (hereinafter referred to as “the said notice”), a certain area in Canterbury Land District was declared to be a fire district under the name of Balmoral Plantation Fire District (hereinafter referred to as “the said fire district”): And whereas by notice published in the Gazette of the 4th day of September, 1930, at page 2717, the boundaries of the said fire district were extended: And whereas the 31st day of March in any year was specified in the said notice as the final date on which it should not be lawful, save pursuant to the written permit of a Forest Officer, to set on fire within the boundaries of the said fire district any timber, debris, grass, or other specially inflammable material: And whereas it is expedient that the final date for such burning in the said fire district should be altered to the 30th day of April in any year, and it is desirable that the said notice be varied accordingly:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921–22, and on the recommendation of the Director of Forestry and the Land Board of the Canterbury Land District, I do hereby declare that the words “30th day of April” be substituted for the words “31st day of March” in the said notice, and do hereby vary the said notice accordingly.

Dated this 20th day of March, 1935.
E. A. RANSOM,
Commissioner of State Forests.

Special Order made by Halswell County Council declaring Sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920, not to apply to that Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th March, 1935.

THE following special order made by the Halswell County Council is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931.
J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs. (I.A. 1935/126/5.)

SPECIAL ORDER.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following special order was passed at a special meeting of the Halswell County Council held on the 16th day of August, 1934, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on 25th October, 1934:

“Whereas under and by virtue of section 121 of the Counties Act, 1920, it is provided that the Council shall make and levy the general rates separately in each riding of the county, and by section 131 of the said Act provision is also made for apportioning the estimated income among several ridings of the county in proportion to the total income estimated to be received from each riding in respect of general rates: And whereas subsection (1) of section 2 of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931, provides that the Council of any county may by special order declare that the said sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920, as aforesaid, shall not apply to the Council: And whereas the Halswell County Council is desirous of adopting the provisions of the said Counties Amendment Act, 1931, relating to sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920: Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the provisions of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931, as aforesaid, the Halswell County Council doth hereby resolve and declare that sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920, shall not apply to the Council.”

It is further notified that the above special order will take effect as from 1st April, 1935.
E. PATERSON, Chairman.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made.--Jas. MacKenzie, County Clerk.