Jan. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 105

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 17th January, 1935.

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

Maurice Vincent Bell,

to be a Commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands, as provided by sections 103 and 104 of the Cook Islands Act, 1913, as from the 11th day of January, 1935.

Francis Clement Owen Griffith,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Pukekohe, as from the 9th day of January, 1935.

Henry Joseph Davern,

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

T. MARK, Secretary.

Meeting of Hawke’s Bay Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st January, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of the meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, previously fixed for the 7th February, 1935, being held on the 14th February, 1935.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/748/2.)

Honours conferred by His Majesty the King.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th January, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs the publication in the New Zealand Gazette of the Honours conferred by His Majesty the King as follows:—

Knight Bachelor—

Clutha Nantes MacKenzie, Esquire, Director of New Zealand Institute for the Blind, Auckland.

Percy Rolfe Sargood, Esquire, of Dunedin.

Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George—

George Arthur Lewin, Esquire, Town Clerk, of Dunedin.

Herbert Harry Sterling, Esquire, Chairman of the New Zealand Railways Board.

Officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire—

Paymaster-Commander Richard Francis Durman, R.N., Naval Secretary, New Zealand Naval Board.

JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1933/200/1.)

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Taupiri Drainage and River District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1935.

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

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN TAUPIRI DRAINAGE AND RIVER DISTRICT, COUNTY OF WAIKATO.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, bounded by a line commencing at a point in Block I, Maungakawa Survey District, where the south-eastern boundary of Lot 1 on plan 13559, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at Auckland, meets the Tauhei-Motumaoho Road; thence in a north-easterly direction generally along the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of Lot 1 aforesaid,

to and across a drain reserve, along that reserve, the north-eastern boundary of part Lot 4 on plan 4906 deposited as aforesaid, the south-eastern boundaries of Lots 9 and 10 on plan 8138 deposited as aforesaid, to the south-eastern corner of Lot 10 aforesaid; thence by a right line to the western corner of Lot 1 on plan 11016 deposited as aforesaid; thence along the north-western boundary of Lot 1 aforesaid to its intersection by a right line between a point on the south-western boundary of Section 49s, Mangateparu Settlement, opposite the south-eastern corner of Section 4, Block XIII, Waitoa Survey District, and the north-western corner of Lot 13 on plan 2463 (Hangawera Block); thence in a south-westerly direction along that right line to the north-western corner of Lot 13 aforesaid; thence along the western and south-western boundaries generally of Lot 13 aforesaid to its southernmost corner; thence in a south-westerly direction general, by a right line across the Hangawera Road and along the south-eastern boundaries of Lots 9a and 9 on plan 2463, Hangawera Block, to the Tauhei-Motumaoho Road; thence in a southerly direction along the eastern side of that road 882-3 and 2685 links; thence in a south-westerly direction across the aforesaid road and along the southern boundary of Lot 1 on plan 2062s deposited as aforesaid to its intersection by a right line between the north-eastern corner of Lot 8 on plan 8736 deposited as aforesaid, and the south-eastern corner of Lot 5 on plan 12470 deposited as aforesaid; thence in a north-westerly direction by that right line to the south-eastern corner of Lot 5 aforesaid; thence along the eastern boundary of Lot 5 aforesaid to and across a public road; thence along the northern side of that road to its junction with the Tauhei-Motumaoho Road; thence along the western side of that road to a point in line with the south-eastern boundary of Lot 1 on plan 13559 deposited as aforesaid; thence across that road to the point of commencement.

JOHN G. COBBE, for Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1934/116/5.)

Members of the Mangaorongo Rabbit Board elected.—(Notice No. Ag. 3247.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th January, 1935.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer for the purposes of the first election of members of the Mangaorongo Rabbit Board established under the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, that

Joseph Edward Cumpstone,
Archibald William Henderson,
Walter McGill,
James Sing, and
Alexander M. Thomson

have been duly elected as members of the said Board.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

Administration of Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, in Tauranga County.—(Notice No. Ag. 3249.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th January, 1935.

THE following resolution passed by the Tauranga County Council on the 14th day of December, 1934, is published in accordance with the provisions of section 7 (2) of the Noxious Weeds Amendment Act, 1934.

RESOLUTION.

“THAT the Council would, under the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Amendment Act, 1934, assume the administration of the Act within its district, and for such purpose appoints its Traffic Inspector, Ivan James Day, accordingly.”

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

Administration of Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, in Raglan County.—(Notice No. Ag. 3250.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 21st January, 1935.

THE following resolution passed by the Raglan County Council on the 16th day of January, 1935, is published in accordance with the provisions of section 7 (2) of the Noxious Weeds Amendment Act, 1934.

RESOLUTION.

“THE Raglan County Council assumes responsibility for the administration of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, and the amending Act of 1934. Mr. Kenneth Moncrieff Wright be appointed Inspector, his appointment to date from 1st November, 1934.”

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.