Nov. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2529

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioners,
Wellington, 12th November, 1937.

THE Public Service Commissioners have made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Alfred Orr Martin,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Levin, as from the 5th day of November, 1937.

Percival Ben Meredith,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Tokomaru Bay, as from the 5th day of November, 1937.

Harold Mossman Morrison,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Motupiko, as from the 8th day of November, 1937.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 12th November, 1937.

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

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

COUNTY OF WAITEMATA.

IN pursuance of the provisions of section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the ridings of Titirangi, Kaukapakapa, Kumeu, Mairetahi, Waitakere, Waikumete, and Waipareira, of the County of Waitemata, was taken on the 3rd day of November, 1937, on the proposal of the Waitemata County Council to borrow the sum of six thousand three hundred pounds (£6,300) for the purpose of acquisition and erection of machinery, provision of road access, and development of the Waitakere Quarry, being part sections 9A and 9c, Parish of Waitakere, and parts 9A, 9B, and 4, and part allotment 9 and 9c, Parish of Waitakere.

Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was .. 663
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 119
The number of informal votes was .. .. .. 5

The number of votes for the proposal being the necessary three-fifths required by the statute, I have therefore to declare the proposal carried.

Dated at Auckland, this 10th day of November, 1937.

H. PALTRIDGE, County Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 17th November, 1937.

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

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Roads and Bridges Loan of £100,000 (1937).

PURSUANT to sections 12 and 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Franklin, taken on the 27th day of October, 1937, on the proposal of the Franklin County Council to borrow the sum of one hundred thousand pounds (£100,000) for the purpose of improving main highways and other roads in Franklin County, including construction, reconstruction, formation, metalling, and surfacing same, the erection of bridges and provision of culverts thereon, the taking and purchase of land for any necessary deviations, the cost of machinery, plant, materials, labour, engineering, and legal and survey costs incidental thereto:—

Votes.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was .. 2152
The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 202

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Pukekohe, this 10th day of November, 1937.

J. N. MASSEY, Chairman of the County.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 10th November, 1937.

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

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the County of Maniototo taken on the 20th day of October, 1937, on the proposal of the Maniototo County Council to borrow the sum of twelve thousand pounds for the purpose of erecting bridges, the number of votes recorded:—

Votes.
For the proposal was .. .. .. .. 259
Against the proposal was .. .. .. 386
Informal .. .. .. .. .. 12

I therefore declare that the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 22nd day of October, 1937.

T. A. LOWIS,
Chairman of the County of Maniototo.

Declaring an Area where Coal may be sold only in prescribed Quantities.

WHEREAS by the Weights and Measures Regulations, 1926, Amendment No. 5, the Minister of Labour is empowered to declare by notice in the Gazette given pursuant to section 39 (2) of the Weights and Measures Act, 1925, that coal may be sold by retail in quantities of 1¼ cwt. or multiples of 1¼ cwt. in any part of New Zealand specified in such notice in lieu of and to the exclusion of sales by retail of quantities of 1 cwt. or multiples of 1 cwt.:

Now, therefore, pursuant to section 39 (2) of the said Act, I, Hubert Thomas Armstrong, Minister of Labour, do hereby declare that on and after the 22nd day of November, 1937, coal may be sold by retail in quantities of 1¼ cwt. or multiples of 1¼ cwt. in that part of New Zealand lying within a radius of thirty miles from the Chief Post-office in the City of Christchurch, but excluding the Borough of Lyttelton and the Port Victoria Riding of the Mount Herbert County, in lieu of and to the exclusion of sales by retail of quantities of 1 cwt. or multiples of 1 cwt.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of November, 1937.

H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Labour.

Notice of Intention to take Land, in the City of Auckland, for Broadcasting Purposes (Transmitter-site.)

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a broadcasting-station—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Auckland and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or 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.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 5 acres 0 roods 12 perches.

Being part Allotment 17, Parish of Titirangi. (D.P. 20823).

Situated in Block XV, Waitemata Survey District (Auckland R.D.) (City of Auckland.) (S.O. 29227).

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 97287, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 17th day of November, 1937.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 24/2673.)