FEB. 24] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 195

NO-LICENSE DISTRICTS

Notification of the Number of Valid Votes recorded at the Licensing Poll taken on the 25th Day of September, 1943, and of the Result thereof

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1944.

IN pursuance of the provisions of section 16 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910, as modified by section 58 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, I, Henry Greathead Rex Mason, Minister of Justice, do hereby notify that the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll throughout New Zealand, taken in accordance with Part II of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, was 922,887.

And I do further notify that the total number of valid votes recorded throughout New Zealand in respect of the proposals submitted under section 56 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, was as under, viz.:

Votes.
For National Continuance .. .. 529,386
For State Purchase and Control .. 123,701
For National Prohibition .. .. 269,800

As the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of either of the proposals for State purchase and control or for national prohibition without compensation does not amount to more than one-half of all the valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby notify, under section 59 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, that the result of the poll is that national continuance is deemed to have been carried.

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

Approval of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth 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.

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Column 1. Column 2.
Kawhia County Council .. Ralph Oliver Tomkins.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of February, 1944.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)

Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 16th February, 1944.

IN pursuance of section 10 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license Herbert Norman Lewis, Esquire, of Ashburton, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

A. H. NORDMEYER, Minister in Charge.

Officiating Ministers for 1944.—Notice No. 4

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1944.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand
The Reverend Russell Frederick Kenward.
The Reverend Eric Jack Melville.
The Reverend Colston Robert Sprackett.

Church of Te Kooti Rikirangi
Mr. Kaiwhare Kireona.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Notice to Mariners No. 5 of 1944

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 16th February, 1944.

NEW ZEALAND.—SOUTH ISLAND.—OTAGO HARBOUR
Beacon destroyed

Position : Lat., 45° 46′6 S. ; long., 170° 43′0 E. (approx.).
Details : The front lighted leading beacon has been destroyed and will be replaced as soon as possible. Pending its replacement the Pilot Launch will lead vessels in and out.
Further notice will be given when the beacon is re-established.
Authority : Otago Harbour Board, 15/2/44.
Chart affected : No. 2411.
Publications : New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, Part I, 1944, page 148, No. 147, and page 164.

L. B. CAMPBELL, Secretary.

(M. 3/3/120.)

Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1944.—Amendments to Declarations of Essential Undertakings

National Service Department,
Wellington, 18th February, 1944.

THE Controller of Man-power doth hereby give notice that the Minister of Industrial Man-power has made the following amendments to declarations of essential undertakings as enumerated hereunder from the dates indicated :—

Declaration (No. 10), 9th February, 1944
Additions—
Duckworth, Turner, and Co., Ltd., at New Brighton.
R. J. Rawston, Ltd., at Auckland.

Declaration (No. 102), 9th February, 1944
Additions—
Alco Ltd., at Wellington.
Dominion Industries, Ltd., in respect of the Asbestos-Cement Products Division at Christchurch.

Declaration (No. 106), 9th February, 1944
Addition—
J. Gadsden and Co., Ltd., at 250 Durham Street, Christchurch.

Declaration (No. 150), 9th February, 1944
Additions—
V. R. Anderson and Co., at Christchurch.
Ascot Manufacturing Co., at Christchurch.

H. L. BOCKETT, Controller of Man-power.

Mining Privileges struck off the Register

Mining Registrar’s Office, Collingwood, 17th February, 1944.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in accordance with the provisions of section 188 (4) of the Mining Act, 1926, the mining privileges mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been struck off the Register.

A. R. RANDALL, Mining Registrar.

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(Mines N. 10/5/26.)