THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 763

General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, or from
one of his provincial officers. This certificate may
be obtained at Somerset House, or from the Superin-
tendent Registrar of the district in which the birth
took place.

II. A candidate who is a Native of India must
have his age certified by the Government of India,
or of the presidency or province in which he may
have resided.

III. Every other candidate not producing the cer-
tificate mentioned in Clause I. must prove his age by
statutory declaration, and should also, if possible,
produce a record of birth or baptism from some
official register; under which term may be included
the parochial registers of baptisms, the non-parochial
registers of baptisms and births deposited at Somerset
House under Acts of Parliament, the register kept
at the India Office of persons born in India, &c., &c.
This Regulation applies—

1. To all candidates not born in England or Wales.
2. To candidates who, though born in England or
   Wales, cannot produce the Registrar-General's
   certificate.

The Civil Service Commissioners reserve to them-
selves the right of deciding in each case upon the
sufficiency of the evidence produced, but they subjoin
the following general rules for the guidance of can-
didates :—

(a.) The declaration should specify precisely the
date and place of birth, and should, if pos-
sible, be made by the father or mother of the
candidate. If made by any other person, it
should state the circumstances which enable
the declarant to speak to the fact. If an
entry in a Bible or other family record be re-
ferred to, the Bible or other record must be
produced at the time of making the declara-
tion, and must be mentioned in the declaration
as having been so produced.

(6.) If the candidate was born in England or
Wales, the declaration must contain a state-
ment that after due inquiry no entry has been
found in the books of the Registrar-General,
or a separate declaration must be made to that
effect.

(c.) If no extract from any register is produced,
the declaration must contain a statement that
after due inquiry no such record is believed to
exist, or a separate declaration must be made
to that effect.

(d.) Statutory declarations must be exactly in
the form prescribed by the Act of 5 and 6
William IV., c. 62. A printed form, if re-
quired, will be supplied on application to the
Čivil Service Commissioners.

N.B.—Clergymen, as such, are not qualified to
take declarations.

Central Board of Health appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred
upon him by the seventh section of "The Public
Health Act, 1876," to appoint

JAMES HECTOR, Esq., M.D., C.M.G., F.R.S.,
FREDERICK WILLIAM ADOLPHUS SKAE, Esq.,
M.D., F.R.C.S.E.,
GEORGE SISSON COOPER, Esq.,
WILLIAM SEED, Esq.,
WILLIAM ROBERT EDWARD BROWN, Esq., and
ROBERT JOHNSON, Esq.,

to be the Central Board of Health for the purposes
of the said Act.

By the eighth section it is enacted that the
Colonial Secretary for the time being, and being a
member of the Executive Council of the Colony,
shall be the President of the Board.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased
to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to
be the Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
and also Vaccination Inspectors, for the districts set
opposite their names, as the same are defined in
Proclamation of the 26th day of October, 1876, and
published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 57, of the
26th day of October, 1876:----

Name. District.
JAMES WOODS PARKERSON Christchurch.
RICHARD POTTS POLE Malvern.
JOHN RICHARD BICKERTON DIGBY Hororata.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALEXANDER GROVES DUFF, Esq.,
to be the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages,
and also Vaccination Inspector, for the District of
Ross, as the same is defined in Proclamation of the
8th day of May, 1873, and published in the New
Zealand Gazette, No. 28, of the 9th day of May, 1873.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Deputy Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages
appointed.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 4th November, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ALEXANDER LE GRAND CAMPBELL, Esq.,
to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages for the District of Oamaru, as the
same is defined in Proclamation of the 8th day of
May, 1873, and published in the New Zealand Gazette,
No. 28, of the 9th day of May, 1873.

DANIEL POLLEN.

Justice of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th November, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

SAMUEL HORATIO MORETON, Esq.,
Mayor of Gladstone, to be a Justice of the Peace
under "The Otago Municipal Corporations Em-
powering Act, 1865."

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

Visiting Justices appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1876.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

CAMPBELL THOMSON, Esq., J.P., and
GEORGE AUGUSTUS PREECE, Esq., J.P.,
to be Visiting Justices of the Prison at Opotiki.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.