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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 8

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th February, 1947.

IT is hereby notified that the following appointments have been made:—

Thomas Colin Johnston

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waipara, on and from the 27th day of January, 1947.

Martin Keeling Kennedy Bourke

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Helensville, on and from the 29th day of January, 1947.

Stuart Ingram Walden

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Foxton, on and from the 20th day of January, 1947.

Stanley Mark Goodman

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Birmingham, on and from the 7th day of January, 1947.

Frank Fleming Murcott

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Hampden, on and from the 16th day of January, 1947.

Frank Justin Staples

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Featherston, on and from the 16th day of January, 1947.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commission,
Wellington, 11th February, 1947.

THE Public Service Commission has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Nicholas Eric Wilson

to be District Land Registrar and Examiner of Titles for the District of Westland pursuant to the provisions of section 4 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, and Registrar of Deeds for the District of Westland pursuant to the provisions of section 6 of the Deeds Registration Act, 1908, and Assistant Commissioner of Stamp Duties, Assistant Registrar of Companies, Registrar of Building Societies, and Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies at Hokitika, on and from the 27th day of February, 1947.

Constable James Farquharson Frain

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Martinborough for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, on and from the 23rd day of January, 1947.

Roy Charles Moyle

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waihi, on and from the 6th day of January, 1947.

John Menzies Clarke

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Mangapehi, on and from the 17th day of January, 1947.

Leonard Harold Lovegrove

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Kawakawa, on and from the 20th day of January, 1947.

William John Taylor

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Auckland at Takapuna, on and from the 21st day of January, 1947.

I. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Notification of the Number of Valid Votes recorded at the Licensing Poll taken on the 27th day of November, 1946, and of the Result thereof

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th February, 1947.

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 1,004,507.

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 .. .. 542,681
For State Purchase and Control .. .. 202,664
For National Prohibition .. .. 259,162

As the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of either of the proposals for State purchase and control and 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.

Results of Licensing Poll, 1946

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th February, 1947.

THE accompanying returns, compiled from particulars furnished by the several Returning Officers, are published for general information.

Of the votes recorded under the Electoral (Members of the Forces) Regulations 1941, all votes not allotted to individual electoral districts are shown herein as a block vote for the respective issues. (NOTE.—This applies to the National issue only.)

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

RETURN SHOWING NUMBER OF VALID VOTES RECORDED, ETC., IN EACH ELECTORAL DISTRICT AT THE LICENSING POLL TAKEN ON THE 27TH NOVEMBER, 1946, UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE LICENSING ACT, 1908, AND ITS AMENDMENTS.