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DIEU ET MON DROIT

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1874.
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Delegation of certain powers to Secretary of
Customs.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Merchant Shipping Acts
Adoption Act, 1873," it is enacted that the
Governor may at any time, as he shall think fit, by
any document in writing under his hand, delegate
to any person or persons all or any of the powers,
duties, or authorities by the said Act and by "The
Merchant Shipping Acts Adoption Act, 1869," con-
ferred or imposed upon him as therein provided:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby delegate unto

WILLIAM SEED, Esq., Secretary of Customs,

the power conferred upon me by "The Merchant
Shipping Acts Adoption Act, 1869," of issuing Certi-
ficates of Competency to Masters and Mates; and
the power conferred upon me by "The Merchant
Shipping Acts Adoption Act, 1873," of issuing
Certificates of Competency and Service to Engineers.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same, at Dunedin, this eighth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

JULIUS VOGEL.

Justice of the Peace under "The Municipal Cor-
porations Act, 1867," appointed.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for
such borough, to give notice to the Colonial Secretary
for the time being of such election, and of the person
elected; and it shall be lawful for the Governor, if
he shall think fit, and if such person shall not then be
a Justice of the Peace, warrant under his hand, delegate
published in the New Zealand Gazette, to appoint
such person to be a Justice of the Peace for the
Colony; and it is also thereby enacted that in every
such appointment it shall be expressed that it is
made under the one hundred and thirty-third section
of the said Act; and it is further declared that such
appointment shall continue in force only during the
Mayoralty of such person, and the person so ap-
pointed shall not, by virtue of such appointment, be
authorized to sit or act as a Justice of the Peace
elsewhere than within the borough:

Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the said power and authority
in me vested in that behalf, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM TODD, Esq.,

the person elected to be the Mayor of the Borough
of Hokitika, to be a Justice of the Peace under
the one hundred and thirty-third section of "The
Municipal Corporations Act, 1867."

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same, at Dunedin, this tenth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

JOHN BATHGATE.

Justice of the Peace under "The Municipal Cor-
porations Act, 1867," appointed.

JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.

W
HEREAS by the one hundred and thirty-third
section of an Act of the General Assembly of
New Zealand, intituled "The Municipal Corporations
Act, 1867," it is enacted that it shall be the duty of
the Town Clerk of every borough, as soon as con-
veniently may be after every election of a Mayor for