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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 3

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Borough of Waimate, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JAMES O’HALLORAN

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending the same, for the Borough of Waimate, vice Constable Patrick Gough.

T. THOMPSON,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL YOUNG

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Catlin’s.

T. THOMPSON,
For Colonial Secretary.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th December, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WALTER AMBROSE LUCAS BAILEY, J.P.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Rangitikei, vice T. R. Taylor, deceased.

T. THOMPSON.

Member of Otago Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 9th January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

HENRY CLARK

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Otago, as from the 3rd day of January, 1900.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Inspectors of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 8th January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Inspectors under “The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to them the districts set opposite their names, as follows, viz.:—

Name. District.
Constable LEWIS READ .. {The North Island of the Colony of New Zealand, and the islands adjacent thereto.
Constable JAMES FITZPATRICK
Constable CHARLES EDWARD The Middle Island of the Colony of New Zealand, and the islands adjacent thereto.
ALDRIDGE

T. THOMPSON,
For Minister of Labour.

Medical Superintendent, Wellington Lunatic Asylum, appointed.

Lunacy Department,
Wellington, 8th January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM BAXTER GOW, Esq., M.D.,

to be Medical Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum at Wellington as from the 1st January, 1900.

W. C. WALKER.

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd January, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

WEST MARCON AWDY, Esq., of Redcliff, and CHARLES AUGUSTUS FITZROY, Esq., of Hastings.

of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the colony.

T. THOMPSON.

Special Order made by the Mangorei Road Board, County of Taranaki.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 5th January, 1900.

THE following special order, made by the Mangorei Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

J. CARROLL,
For Colonial Secretary.

MANGOREI ROAD BOARD.

Special Order.

THAT the loans raised by the Board under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” in 1888 and 1899, be readjusted pursuant to “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Act, 1899,” so as to bear interest at “four and a half per centum per annum for a term of twenty-six years.”

JAMES WADE,
Chairman.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed (as a “special order”) at a meeting of the Mangorei Road Board held on the 30th day of December, 1899.

JAMES WADE,
Chairman.

Notice to Mariners, No. 1 of 1900.

MAGNETIC VARIATION ON THE SOUTH COAST OF NEW ZEALAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 10th January, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that a new magnetic survey of the colony is now being taken in hand by the Lands and Survey Department. The following table for the South Island is the result of numerous observations which have lately been taken by the Survey Department. The observations seem to show a tendency to an increase of the easterly variation from that shown on the latest Admiralty charts by about ½° to ¾°.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty charts Nos. 2598, 1212, and all the New Zealand south coast charts.

WM. HALL-JONES.

VALUES of the MAGNETIC DECLINATION, commonly called the Variation of the Compass, at Places on the Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

• At the places marked with an asterisk the magnetic variation has been found to be very irregular.