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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

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, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

JOHN PHILP VAUSE,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster, under “The Post Office Act, 1881,” at Te Awamutu, 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 twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred.

RANFURLY,
Governor.

Inspector of Abattoirs, &c., County of Horowhenua, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th July, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT CHAPMAN

to be an Inspector of Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses and of Cattle intended for Slaughter, under “The Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act, 1894,” within the County of Horowhenua.

J. G. WARD.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th July, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE FREDERICK DAY

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Taupo, vice Joseph William Salmon, transferred, on and from the 25th day of July, 1900.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1900.

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.
WILLIAM WILSON RIDGLEY .. .. Kawakawa.
FRANCIS STALLARD .. .. Aorere.
AUGUSTUS ALFRED ADOLPHUS HOOD .. Hororata.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

Clerks of Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st August, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN TERRY

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts and Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar at Patearoa; and

Constable WILLIAM SEFTON

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Courts at Kaitaia and Ahipara, from the 20th July, 1900, vice Constable Dunne.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Sittings of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st August, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The PUBLIC HALL at Patearoa

to be a place wherein a Magistrate’s Court shall be held under the provisions of “The Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1893.”

JAMES McGOWAN.

Inspector of Police appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 24th July, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Sub-Inspector TERENCE O’BRIEN

to be an Inspector of the New Zealand Police Force, from the 1st August, 1900.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1900.

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

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.

William Henry Hornibrook to be Surgeon-Captain. Commission to date from the 25th May, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON.

Dismissal of Volunteer.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th July, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under clause 50, “The Defence Act, 1886,” of the dismissal from the New Zealand Volunteer Force of

No. 344, Gunner JAMES WATT,

Auckland Naval Artillery Volunteers, for refusing to attend the parades of his corps when called upon to do so by his superior officer. Dismissal to date from the 7th July, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officer transferred.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the transfer of

Surgeon-Captain JAMES WHITTON

from the Oamaru Rifle Volunteers to the 2nd Battalion Otago Rifle Volunteers as Medical Officer, and with effect from the 19th July, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1900.

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

Thames Naval Artillery Volunteers.

Captain William Henry Potts. Resignation to date from the 26th July, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 30th July, 1900.

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

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.

Surgeon-Captain Thomas Nesbitt Wright. Date of resignation, 7th July, 1900.

R. J. SEDDON.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th July, 1900.

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

FRANCIS TURPIE, Esq.,

of Oamaru, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

JAMES McGOWAN.