JULY 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1409

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 21st July, 1936.

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.
Thomas Henry Albert Williams ... Dargaville.
G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Result of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 21st July, 1936.

THE following notices, received from the Chairman, Ashburton County Council, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.
W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

ASHBURTON COUNTY COUNCIL.
Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, notice is hereby given that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Methven Drainage Area of Ashburton County, taken on the 16th day of July, 1936, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £6,870 for the installation of an underground drainage system in that area, the number of votes recorded was-
Votes.
For the proposal ... 69
Against the proposal ... 49
Informal ... 3

We therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.
Dated at Ashburton, this 18th day of July, 1936.
FREDERICK FRAMPTON, Chairman.
GEORGE KELLY, Returning Officer.

18th July, 1936.
Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, notice is hereby given that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Methven Water-supply Area of Ashburton County, taken on the 16th day of July, 1936, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £2,810 for the purpose of installing pipes in the Methven high-pressure water-race and costs incidental thereto, the number of votes recorded was-
Votes.
For the proposal ... 91
Against the proposal ... 29
Informal ... 1

We therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated at Ashburton, this 18th day of July, 1936.
FREDERICK FRAMPTON, Chairman.
GEORGE KELLY, Returning Officer.

18th July, 1936.
Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, notice is hereby given that at a poll of ratepayers of the Methven Drainage Area of Ashburton County, taken on the 16th day of July, 1936, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £2,000 for the purpose of making advances to ratepayers to enable them to connect their premises to the proposed drainage system, the number of votes recorded was-
Votes.
For the proposal ... 72
Against the proposal ... 47
Informal ... 2

We therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated at Ashburton, this 18th day of July, 1936.
FREDERICK FRAMPTON, Chairman.
GEORGE KELLY, Returning Officer.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 21st July, 1936.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor, Pukekohe Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.
W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF PUKEKOHE.
Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby given notice that at a poll of the ratepayers in the Drainage Special-rating Area of the Borough of Pukekohe, taken on the 15th day of July, 1936, on the proposal of the Pukekohe Borough Council to borrow the sum of twenty-one thousand pounds (£21,000) for the purposes of providing buildings, engines, machinery, and other things and services whatsoever necessary for the good and efficient drainage and sewerage of that portion of the Borough of Pukekohe defined as the "Drainage area" in the Pukekohe Borough Council General By-laws, 1928, Part 15,-

Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 269 The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 55

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.
Dated this 17th day of July, 1936.
C. K. LAWRIE, Mayor.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 22nd July, 1936.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor, Hokitika Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926.
W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

Hokitika Borough Council.
Water-supply Loan, 1936, £18,000.
Proposal to raise a Special Loan of £18,000 for the Purpose of renewing the Water-supply Pipes in the Borough of Hokitika, renewing Rising Main, Pump-house to Reservoir, providing Pumps, Pump-houses, and necessary Equipment for pumping Water from Bores into the Borough Mains and Reservoir.
In pursuance of section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that the number of votes recorded upon the taking of a poll on the 15th day of July, 1936, for and against the proposal of the Hokitika Borough Council to borrow by way of special loan, within the meaning of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, the sum of £18,000, for water supply purposes, as indicated above, was as follows:-

Votes.
For the above proposal ... 275
Against the above proposal ... 92
Number of votes set aside as informal ... 5

I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.
Dated at Hokitika, this 17th day of July, 1936.
GEORGE PERRY, Mayor.

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, and its Amendments, fixing the Closing-hours of Ladies' Hairdressing Shops within the Borough of Gisborne.
WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the ladies' hairdressing shops within the Borough of Gisborne, has been forwarded to me desiring that all such shops within the said borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 8.30 p.m., and on Fridays at 9 p.m.:
And whereas I, Hubert Thomas Armstrong, Minister of Labour, am satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops within the said borough:
Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, I do hereby direct that on and after the 10th day of August, 1936, all the ladies' hairdressing shops within the Borough of Gisborne shall be closed accordingly:
The notice gazetted on the 10th May, 1928, fixing the closing hours of (1) hairdressers' and (2) tobacconists' shops within the Borough of Gisborne shall be and is hereby cancelled in so far as it relates to the shops affected by this notice as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.
Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of July, 1936.
H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Labour.