Jan. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 21

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 29th December, 1936.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman, Waimea Electric-power Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

M. J. SAVAGE, Acting Minister of Finance.

WAIMEA ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the special area of the Waimea Electric-power Board District, comprising the Borough of Richmond, the Town District of Tahunanui, and that part of the Waimea County within the present Waimea area of supply, the Wakapuaka area, portion of the Belgrove area, and the districts of Bronte and Mahana, taken on the 15th day of December, 1936, on the proposal of the Board to borrow the sum of seventy thousand pounds (£70,000) for the purposes of—

(1) Constructing electrical works and other matters under the authority of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, for the supply of electricity to the above-mentioned area, sixty-five thousand pounds (£65,000).

(2) Advancing to consumers for the purchase of electrical and other equipment, and for wiring premises, five thousand pounds (£5,000)—

Votes.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 677
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 174
Informal votes . . . . . . 5

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 19th day of December, 1936.

F. W. GREENSLADE, Chairman.

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Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 23rd December, 1936.

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

M. J. SAVAGE, Acting Minister of Finance.

FEATHERSTON BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Notice of Result of Poll.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Borough of Featherston taken on the 24th day of November, 1936, on the proposal of the Featherston Borough Council to borrow the sum of three thousand two hundred pounds (£3,200) to improve the reticulation of the borough water-supply system—

Votes.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 79
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was . . 6

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 11th day of December, 1936.

J. W. CARD, Chairman.

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Notice as to the licensing of certain Industries under Part III of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred on me by section 14 of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936, I hereby give notice that the industry hereinafter specified may, on and after the taking effect of this notice, be carried on only pursuant to a license issued under Part III of the said Act.

This notice shall take effect (in so far as it applies to any person engaged in carrying on the said industry in the premises in which it is now being carried on) on the 1st day of December, 1938, or on such earlier or later date (if any) as may hereafter be specified by a further notice in relation thereto given under the section hereinbefore referred to; in all other cases to which this notice relates it shall take effect on the date of its publication in the Gazette.

The industry to which this notice relates is the following :—

Manufacture of batteries or cells, commonly known as dry cells.

Applications for licenses required in accordance with this notice may be made to the Secretary of the Bureau of Industry, Department of Industries and Commerce, Wellington.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 22nd day of December, 1936.

D. G. SULLIVAN,
Minister of Industries and Commerce.

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Courthouse appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th January, 1937.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

The Gaiety Theatre, Te Araroa,

to be a place wherein a Magistrates’ Court shall be held.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

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Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IV, Waimana Survey District, for the Purposes of a Quarry.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of a quarry: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Waimana, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken :—

A. R. P. Being Portion of
0 1 25·8 Allotment 256, Waiotahi Parish; coloured yellow.
2 1 33·5 Allotment 259, Waiotahi Parish; coloured red.

Situated in Block IV, Waimana Survey District (Gisborne R.D.). (S.O. 1501, brown.)

In the Gisborne Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 94304, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 6th day of January, 1937.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/3/15/2.)

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Defence Rifle Club accepted.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1936.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the services of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :—

The Frontiersmen Pehiri Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Gisborne.

Date of acceptance, 10th December, 1936.

P. C. WEBB,
For Minister of Defence.

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Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds within the Hauraki Plains County.—(Notice No. Ag. 3441.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 24th December, 1936.

THE following special order made by the Hauraki Plains County Council on the 9th day of December, 1936, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

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SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by section 4 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, the Hauraki Plains County Council hereby declares fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) and hemlock (Conium maculatum) to be noxious weeds within the jurisdiction of the said Hauraki Plains County Council as from the 10th day of December, 1936.