JUNE 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1295

Approval of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers’
Regulations, 1931.

IN terms of regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers’ Regulations,
1931, the Minister of Transport does hereby approve,
until further notice, of the person named in column 2 of the
Schedule hereunder being Testing Officer under the said
Regulations for the authority specified in column 1 of the
said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Inangahua County Council .. Arthur Palmer, Reef ton, Traffic
Inspector.

Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of May, 1938.
R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 18/9 and 9/4/3.)

Date of Election by Fire Insurance Companies to fill Extra-
ordinary Vacancies on the Ohakune, Taihape, and Wanganui
Fire Boards.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st May, 1938.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, and the
rules made thereunder, the Minister charged with the
administration of the said Act, doth hereby appoint Friday,
the 24th day of June, 1938, to be the date for holding the
election of one member of each of the Ohakune, Taihape, and
Wanganui Fire Boards by the fire-insurance companies
concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary
vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. N. C. Barstow
from each of the said Boards.
W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 76/4/28-39-55.)

Date of Election by Fire-Insurance Companies to fill Extra-
ordinary Vacancy on the Timaru Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st June, 1938.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, and the rules
made thereunder, the Minister charged with the
administration of the said Act, doth hereby appoint Tuesday,
the 14th day of June, 1938, to be the date for holding the
election of one member of the Timaru Fire Board by the
fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held
to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation
of Mr. C. S. Young.
W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 76/4/36.)

Poukawa Swamp Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th May, 1938.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and
the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments,
the ratepayers within the rating area constituted by the
last-mentioned Act are hereby notified that 10 per cent.
additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 31st
March, 1938, unpaid on the 15th June, 1938.
Rates should be paid to the Collector of Drainage Rates,
Lands and Survey Department, Box 160, Napier.
FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 15/86/1.)

Authorizing the Laying-off of Roads of less Width than 66 ft.

WHEREAS in the opinion of the Minister of Lands it
is inexpedient, by reason of the fact that the land
shown upon the plan of Town of Koutu Extension No. 10,
affecting Waiwherowhero No. 2 and parts Nos. 1 and 3,
Block IV, Horohoro Survey District, is intended to be used
wholly for residential purposes, that the proposed road shown
thereon as Waiwhero Road should be of the width of 66 ft. :
Now, therefore, I, Frank Langstone, Minister of Lands, do
hereby, in pursuance of the power conferred upon me by
section 17, subsection (1) of the Land Act, 1924, and of every
other power me thereunto enabling, authorize the laying-off
of Waiwhero Road of a width of not less than 40 ft. : Provided always that it shall not be lawful for any person to
erect or cause to be erected any building at a less distance
than 33 ft. from the middle of such road.
Given under my hand, this 23rd day of May, 1938.
FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 25/1115.)

General Election of Members of Rabbit Boards.—(Notice
No. Ag. 3556.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 30th May, 1938.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning
Officer of the several Rabbit Boards mentioned in the
Schedule hereto that the persons whose names are set under
the name of each such Board in the said Schedule have been
duly elected as members of that Board pursuant to the
provisions in that behalf of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928.
FRANK LANGSTONE,
For the Minister of Agriculture.

SCHEDULE.

Blue Mountain Rabbit Board—
John Bateman Dick.
Leslie Francis Jermyn.
Walter Lowden Oswald.
Humphry Joseph Palmer.
Milo Parsons.

Waihopai Rabbit Board—
William Roy Cresswell.
John Dodsworth Rudd.
Cuthbert Oliver Tate Rutherford.
Charles Gordon Teschemaker.

Awatere Rabbit Board—
Ian Hugh Cameron.
Clarence George Lowry Hunt.
Andrew Donald Rutherford.
John William Boyd Stevenson.
Arthur David West.

Redwood Rabbit Board—
James Balfour.
Robert Forsyth.
Rewi Gladstone Murray.
Walter Payne.
Harold Hugh Vavasour.

Flaxbourne Rabbit Board—
John William Kennington.
Cyril Douglas Mathews.
William James Marfell.
George Taylor.
Herbert John Thomson.

Notice to Mariners No. 32 of 1938.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 31st May, 1938.

NEW ZEALAND.—SOUTH ISLAND.—WEST COAST.
Kahurangi Point Light: Temporary Alteration of
Characteristics.

Position: Lat. 40° 46′ S.; long., 172° 13′ E. (approx.).
Details: This light is now showing one flash every
9¾ seconds, thus: Flash, ¾ sec.; eclipse, 9 sec.
Remarks: Further notice will be given when the normal
characteristics are restored.
Charts affected: Nos. 2616—3629—1212—788.
Publications: Admiralty list of Lights; New Zealand
Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, page 165, No. 184.
L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.
(M. 8/34/5/2.)

Officiating Ministers for 1938.—Notice No. 18.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 31st May, 1938.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908,
the following name of an officiating minister within
the meaning of the said Act is published for general infor-
mation:—

The Roman Catholic Church.
The Reverend Carl Heesh.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1938.—Notice No. 19.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 31st May, 1938.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned name of
an officiating minister has been removed from the List
of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by
request:—

Seventh-day Adventists.
Pastor Reuben E. Hare.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.