APRIL 20.]

Ending of Period of Summer Time.

Prime Minister's Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1939.

IT is hereby notified for general information that under the Summer Time Act, 1929, and Summer Time Amendment Act, 1933, summer time which commenced at two o'clock in the morning of Sunday, the 25th September, 1938, ends at two o'clock New Zealand standard time, in the morning of Sunday, the 30th April, 1939.

The time will, therefore, be put back thirty minutes as from 2 a.m. New Zealand standard time, on Sunday, the 30th April, 1939.

M. J. SAVAGE, Prime Minister.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan

Wellington, 14th April, 1939.

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

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Bridging Loan, £4,500.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1926, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of Lake County, taken on the 11th day of May, 1938, on the proposal to raise a bridging loan of £4,500, the number of votes recorded was as follows:

Votes.
The number of votes for the proposal was .. 367
The number of votes against the proposal was 51
Informal .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1

I therefore declare that the proposal was duly carried.

LEO. LEE, County Chairman.

Election of Members of Fire Boards by Insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th April, 1939.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, the Fire Brigades Amendment Act, 1932, and the rules made thereunder, it is hereby notified that an election by the insurance companies carrying on business in New Zealand of members of the undermentioned Fire Boards will be held on Monday, the 22nd day of May, 1939, in the manner prescribed by the said Acts and rules. The number of members to be elected in the case of the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board and of the Dunedin Metropolitan Fire Board shall be four. In the case of Wanganui, Wellington, and Christchurch Fire Boards the number shall be three, and in all others two members:

Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board. Oamaru Fire Board.
Balclutha Fire Board. Ohakune Fire Board.
Birkenhead Fire Board. Opotiki Fire Board.
Cambridge Fire Board. Otaki Fire Board.
Christchurch Fire Board. Pahiatua Fire Board.
Dannevirke Fire Board. Palmerston North Fire Board.
Dargaville Fire Board. Petone Fire Board.
Dunedin Metropolitan Fire Board. Port Chalmers Fire Board.
Eltham Fire Board. Pukekohe Fire Board.
Feilding Fire Board. Rotorua Fire Board.
Foxton Fire Board. Taihape Fire Board.
Gisborne Fire Board. Taumarunui Fire Board.
Greymouth Fire Board. Tauranga Fire Board.
Hamilton Fire Board. Te Aroha Fire Board.
Hastings Fire Board. Te Awamutu Fire Board.
Hawera Fire Board. Timaru Fire Board.
Hikurangi Fire Board. Waihi Fire Board.
Hokitika Fire Board. Waipukurau Fire Board.
Invercargill Fire Board. Wairoa Fire Board.
Kaiapoi Fire Board. Waitara Fire Board.
Kaitangata Fire Board. Wanganui Fire Board.
Lawrence Fire Board. Wellington Fire Board.
Levin Fire Board. Westport Fire Board.
Masterton Fire Board. Whakatane Fire Board.
Milton Fire Board. Whangarei Fire Board.
Morrisville Fire Board. Woodville Fire Board.
Napier Fire Board.
Nelson Fire Board.
New Plymouth Fire Board.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 76/4/1.)

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Notification of Approval of Rules, Auckland Acclimatization Society.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th April, 1939.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 25 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I hereby notify that copies of the rules made by the Auckland Acclimatization Society on the 21st day of February, 1939, have been forwarded to me and were approved on the 12th day of April, 1939.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 46/3/7.)

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.
Southland County Council .. Mervyn C. Rice, of Wyndham, Town Clerk of the Wyndham Town Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1939.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)

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.
Runanga Borough Council .. Ernest William Kennedy, of Runanga, Borough Councillor.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of April, 1939.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block I, Takahue Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

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 road—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 Kaitaia 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: 2 acres 1 rood 30 perches.

Being portion of O.L.C. 159.

Situated in Block I, Takahue Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 27715.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 101911, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 18th day of April, 1939.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 33/1630/1.)