APRIL 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 781

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st April, 1936.

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.
Norman Holden Te Anga.
George Roslyn Drew Waipawa.
G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 15th April, 1936.

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

Miss Marcwa Elizabeth Manihora,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Wai-ti, as from the 23rd day of March, 1936.

George Roslyn Drew,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waipawa, as from the 9th day of April, 1936.

Edgar Willis Worthington,

to be Assistant Land Registrar and Examiner of Titles at Auckland pursuant to the provisions of section 4 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, as from the 1st day of May, 1936.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 22nd April, 1936.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

HAWKE’S BAY RIVERS BOARD.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Hawke’s Bay Rivers District taken on the 25th day of March, 1936, on the proposal to raise by way of loan the sum of £60,000 for the purpose following, that is to say, carrying out the Ngāruroro Flood-control Works described in the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Amendment Act, 1930, as amended by the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Amendment Act, 1932–33, including the acquisition of lands in connection therewith,—

Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was . . 1,001
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 535

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 6th day of April, 1936.

C. LASSEN, Chairman.

Retention of Title of “Honourable.”

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th April, 1936.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, is published for general information.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

NEW ZEALAND, No. 62. Dominions Office,
2nd March, 1936.

MY LORD,—

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s despatch No. 7 of the 13th January, and to state that His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve of the retention of the title of “Honourable” by the undermentioned gentlemen, who have ceased to be members of the Executive Council of New Zealand after having served in that office continuously for more than three years:—

Sir Ethelbert Alfred Ransom, K.C.M.G.
Sir James Alexander Young, K.C.V.O.
Mr. Robert Masters.
Mr. John George Cobbe.
Mr. Adam Hamilton.
Mr. Charles Edward de la Barca Macmillan.

I have, &c.,

MALCOLM MACDONALD.

Governor-General His Excellency Colonel The Right Honourable Viscount Galway, G.C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., &c.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in Kairanga County.—
(Notice No. Ag. 3375.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 17th April, 1936.

THE following special order made by the Kairanga County Council on the 7th day of April, 1936, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

In pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, the Kairanga County Council hereby resolves and declares by way of special order that the plants mentioned in the Schedule hereto (being plants mentioned in the Second Schedule to the said Act, as extended from time to time by the Governor-General in Council) are noxious weeds within the County of Kairanga within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

SCHEDULE.
Broom.
Fennel.
Foxglove.
Wild turnip.
Prickly pear.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Manawatu County.—
(Notice No. Ag. 3376.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 15th April, 1936.

THE following special order made by the Manawatu County Council on the 10th day of March, 1936, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

That in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, and all other powers enabling it, the Manawatu County Council by way of special order hereby resolves and declares as follows:—

“That the undermentioned plants (being plants included in the Second Schedule of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928), shall be deemed to be noxious weeds within the County of Manawatu:—

“Goat’s rue (Galega Officinalis).
“Variegated thistle (Silybum marianum).”

Officiating Ministers for 1936.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st April, 1936.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Graeme Fraser McKenzie, M.A.

Star of Hope Mission of New Zealand.

Mr. Thomas Samuel Webster.

Mrs. Vera Marguerite Webster.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 16th April, 1936.

THE Court Matamata, No. 9967, with registered office at Matamata, is registered as a branch of The Auckland District Branch of the Ancient Order of Foresters of New Zealand Friendly Society, No. 356, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 16th day of April, 1936.

C. COSTELOW,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.