Feb. 8. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 301

Shooting Season for Deer, License-fee, &c., County of Wairarapa South.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that red-deer (stags only) may be taken or killed within the County of Wairarapa South (excepting therefrom the area described in the Schedule hereto) from the seventeenth day of February to the ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned); and I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on payment of the sum of twenty shillings each; and the Chief Postmaster at Wellington, and the Postmasters at Masterton, Carterton, Greytown North, Featherston, and Martinborough, are hereby appointed to issue the said licenses; and I do further notify that the said licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued subject to the following condition, namely, that no stag shall be killed carrying antlers with less than ten points.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land in the Huangarua Survey District, in the County of Wairarapa South, being Sections 29 to 41 inclusive, 59, 71, 72, 75, 79, 83, 90, 93, 97, 98, and part of Sections 70, 74, 78, 82, 86, 89, 92, 91, 94, 95. 96, 87, and 84, now in the occupation of Mr. John Martin and Mr. Featherston Johnston, and known as the Puruatanga Estate or Station.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred.

J. CARROLL.

Fixing Shooting-season for Deer, License-fee, &c., Marlborough District.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that red-deer stags and fallow-deer bucks may be taken or killed within the Marlborough District, comprising the Counties of Marlborough and Sounds, from Wednesday, the fourteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred, to Saturday, the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred, both inclusive (subject, nevertheless, to the restrictions in the said Acts mentioned); and I do further notify that licenses to take or kill such game within the said district shall be issued on the payment of the sum of twenty shillings each, and that no licensee shall be allowed to kill more than six stags or bucks, and that the Chief Postmaster at Blenheim is hereby appointed to issue the said licenses.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred.

J. CARROLL,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HECTOR PORTEOUS WEST

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

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

Trustees of Te Puke Drainage District appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in terms of section 13 of “The Land Drainage Act, 1893,” to appoint

JOHN CAMERON GALBRAITH,
ERNEST BOUCHER,
SAMUEL CRAWFORD,
ARCHIEBALD SNODGRASS, and
WILLIAM BENNETT

to be Trustees of the Te Puke Drainage District.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES POTTER

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Lyell, vice William Alfred Harding, on and from the 23rd January, 1900.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

Police Gaoler appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 31st January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable EDWIN EALES

to be Police Gaoler at Herbertville, vice Constable Archibald Gray, transferred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Justice.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 6th February, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector under “The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to him the district set opposite his name, viz.:

Name. District.
Constable THOMAS O’GRADY The North Island of the Colony of New Zealand, and the islands adjacent thereto.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Permanent Militia Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1900.

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

New Zealand Permanent Militia.

Probationary Military Cadet Murray Menzies Gard’ner to be Lieutenant.

Probationary Military Cadet Frank Symon to be Lieutenant.

Commissions to date from the 15th January, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officer transferred.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under paragraph 262, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of the transfer of

Major WILLIAM HENRY SKINNER, V.D.,

from the Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers, to the Honorary Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteers, with effect from the 31st day of December, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Arrangements for First Elections, &c., Maungatua Drainage District.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 31st January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Friday, the 16th February, 1900, to be the day, and the Cranley Dairy Factory to be the place, for holding the first election of five members of the Maungatua Land-drainage District, as constituted under “The Land Drainage Act, 1893”; also to appoint Friday, the 23rd February, 1900, at 11 o’clock a.m., to be the time, and the Cranley Dairy Factory to be the place, at which the first meeting of the Trustees shall be held.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.