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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 27

Members of the New Zealand Institute appointed.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The New Zealand Institute Act, 1867,” provision is made for the appointment of members of a Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, and it is enacted that on the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and on the first day of November in each succeeding year, three members of the said Board of Governors shall retire from office, but shall be eligible for reappointment: And whereas the Honourable Walter Baldock Durant Mantell has died, and William Thomas Locke Travers, Esquire, and Edward Tregear, Esquire, two other of the members of the said Board of Governors, have retired from office under the provisions of the said Act: And whereas by the said Act it is also provided that on the annual retirement of three members as aforesaid the successors of such retiring members shall be appointed by the Governor:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in that behalf vested in me by the said Act, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM THOMAS LOCKE TRAVERS, Esquire,
EDWARD TREGEAR, Esquire, and
JOHN YOUNG, Esquire,

to be Governors of the institution called the New Zealand Institute: And I do hereby revoke the warrant dated the twenty-third day of March last, published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-sixth day of the said month, appointing members of the said Institute.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1888,” I, David, Earl of Glasgow, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

HUGH ERSKINE,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under “The Post Office Act, 1881,” at Papatoetara, is authorised to take and receive statutory declarations under the two hundred and thirty-fourth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

As witness my hand, this seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

GLASGOW, Governor.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspectors, for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

Name.                         District.
ROBERT NORTH KEELING  ..  ..  Palmerston North.
JACK HOWARD VINCENT   ..  ..  Ashurst.
GEORGE ANYON          ..  ..  Birmingham.
JOHN HENSLEIGH NORRIS ..  ..  Hunter ville.
JAMES HOPKINS STEVENS ..  ..  Feilding.
JAMES PURKISS         ..  ..  Halcombe.

Appointments to date from 1st May, 1896.

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

Name.                         District.
BEAUCHAMP URQUHART BARLOW ..  ..  Pelorus.
ADAM SCOTT              ..  ..  Middlemarch.
ROBERT ALEXANDER DAVYS  ..  ..  Huntly.
EDWARD JOHN COMER       ..  ..  Rakaia.

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts, Tauranga and Taranaki Districts, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be Rangers under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the districts set opposite their names:—

Name.                         District.
Sergeant NICHOLAS KIELY  ..  ..  Tauranga.
HERBERT HARRISON         ..  ..  Taranaki.

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES MONCRIEFF, Jun.,

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wairarapa, vice Constable F. C. Smith, resigned.

T. THOMPSON.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES DARROW

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Thames, vice H. L. Koefoed, deceased; and

WALLACE JONES

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waipa, vice S. Hunter, whose office has become vacant.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointments:—

Westport Rifle Volunteers.

William Parton Willis to be Surgeon-Captain.
The Reverend Henry P. Cowx, M.A., to be Honorary Chaplain.

Date of commissions, 10th March, 1896.

W. C. WALKER,
For Defence Minister.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignations of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers :—

H Battery, New Zealand Regiment Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant Thomas Martin Wimsett. Date of resignation, 26th March, 1896.

Taranaki Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Reginald Bayley. Date of resignation, 25th March, 1896.

Te Aroha Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Frederick William Wild. Date of resignation, 1st March, 1896.

W. C. WALKER,
For Defence Minister.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 13th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned officer :—

Dunedin Naval Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant David McWilliam Logan. Date of resignation, 6th March, 1896.

W. C. WALKER,
For Defence Minister.