1870
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

Animals Protection Acts.—Declaring Reserve for Native and Imported Game, Otago.

RANFURLY, Governor.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred upon him by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby notify that neither native game nor imported game shall be taken or killed within the area described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

SANCTUARY FOR GAME.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, situated in Greenvale Survey District, bounded towards the north by public road from Section No. 2, Block XII. (P.R.), to the bridge over the Pomahaka River; thence by a line across that river: towards the east generally by the left bank of the said Pomahaka River to a point bearing north 45° west from the north-eastern corner of Section No. 15, Block XIII.; thence by a right line to the north-eastern corner of said Section No. 15; thence by a public road and Sections Nos. 18, 10, and 9, Block XIII., and the western boundary-line of the last-mentioned section produced to the right bank of the Pomahaka River: thence towards the south-west generally by the right bank of the Pomahaka River to the confluence of Leithen Burn with the said Pomahaka River; thence by the right bank of Leithen Burn to a point opposite the eastern boundary-line of the reserve situated between the Leithen Burn and the south-eastern part of Section No. 2, Block XII. (P.R.); thence by a line across the said Leithen Burn and by the aforesaid reserve to the road forming part of the southern boundary of Section No. 2, Block XII. aforesaid, to the place of commencement.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

J. CARROLL.

Trustee of Queenstown Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

MAURICE JAMES GAVIN

to be a Trustee, in the place of Duncan Matheson, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Queenstown Cemetery.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES.
For Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th September, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES JAMES DORN

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Oxford.

J. CARROLL.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1899.

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.
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER MACDERMOTT .. Foxton.
JAMES PENNEY .. Rongotea.
GEORGE WYLIE MITCHELL .. Sanson.
(Appointments to date from 16th October, 1899.)
WILLIAM MCLEOD .. Duntroun.
(On and from 25th September, 1899.)

J. CARROLL.

Member of the Court of Arbitration appointed.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 29th September, 1899.

ON the recommendation of a majority of the Industrial Unions of Employers, His Excellency the Governor has appointed

SAMUEL BROWN, of Wellington,

a member of the Court of Arbitration under “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1894,” vice Henry Thomson, resigned.

R. J. SEDDON.

Special Inspector appointed under “The Stock Act Amendment Act, 1898.”—Notice No. 568.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 29th September, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN GREENWOOD CLAYTON, M.R.C.V.S.,

to be a Special Inspector of the slaughterhouse owned and occupied by Messrs. Mitchell and Co., situated at Aramoho, Wanganui, in terms of “The Stock Act Amendment Act, 1898,” with the additional power of inspecting all meat slaughtered thereat. To date from the 1st October, 1899.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister for Agriculture.

Returning Officer for First Elections, Taipos Rabbit-proof Wire-netting District, appointed.—Notice No. 569.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 3rd October, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE HENRY JENKINSON

to be Returning Officer for the purposes of the first elections of three Trustees for the district known as “The Taipos Rabbit-proof Wire-netting District,” as constituted under “The Rabbit-proof Wire-netting Fences Act, 1898.”

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister for Agriculture.

Militia and Staff Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th September, 1899.

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

New Zealand Militia.

Major Alfred William Robin, from Otago Battalion of Mounted Rifle Volunteers, to be Major and Staff Officer for Instruction of Mounted Rifle Volunteers in the Middle and South Islands. Commission to date from the 16th September, 1899.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th September, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment under paragraph 63, Volunteer Regulations, 1895:—

Palmerston South Rifle Volunteers.

James Grant to be Captain. Date of commission, 14th September, 1899.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th September, 1899.

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

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.

Surgeon-Major James Hudson (attached to Nelson Rifle Volunteers). Date of resignation, 16th September, 1899.

Auckland Volunteer Bearer Corps.

Honorary Chaplain the Reverend Robert Scott West. Date of resignation, 5th September, 1899.

W. C. WALKER,
For Minister of Defence.