Nov. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2153

Trustees for the Homeview and Jed Public Cemeteries appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the forty-fifth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the local authority specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be Trustees to have the control and management of the public cemeteries specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres 1 rood 20 perches, more or less, being Reserve No. 3068, Block VII., Cheviot Survey District. Bounded on the north-west by Sections Nos. 53 and 52 of the said block, 1563·4 links; on the north-east by the Parnassus Road, 1323·5 links; and on the southward by Section No. 46 of the said block, 1849 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

JED CEMETERY.
All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 3067, Block X., Cheviot Survey District. Bounded on the north-west by Section No. 3 of said block, 648·1 links; on the north-east by Section No. 1 of said block, 600 links; on the south-east by the same section, 891 links; and on the south-west by a road, 100 links wide, reserved along the River Jed: save and except a road, 100 links wide, which intersects the area hereby described: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch. |

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

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Minister of Lands.

Appointing F. R. Flatman to be a Member of the Commission to inquire and report generally in Respect to the Constituting and Setting-apart of Watercourses in the Land Districts of Otago and Southland, in place of T. Y. Duncan, resigned.

WHEREAS a Commission was issued on the ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the nineteenth day of April then instant, appointing John Hayes, of Wellington, Esquire, Inspecting Engineer to the Mines Department; James Pillans Maitland, of Dunedin, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Otago; David Barron, of Invercargill, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District of Southland; Thomas Young Duncan, of Pukeuri, Esquire, Member of the House of Representatives; and Henry Andrew Gordon, of Auckland, Esquire, Mining Engineer, to inquire and report generally in respect to the constituting and setting-apart of watercourses in the Land Districts of Otago and Southland as watercourses for the discharge of tailings and waste water produced by mining operations:

And whereas the said Thomas Young Duncan resigned his appointment as a member of the said Commission, and it is expedient to appoint some other person to be a member of the said Commission in the place of the said Thomas Young Duncan:

Now, therefore, know ye that I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, reposing trust and confidence in the knowledge, integrity, and ability of Frederick Robert Flatman, Esquire, Member of the House of Representatives, and acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby constitute and appoint the said Frederick Robert Flatman to be a member of the said Commission, in place of the said Thomas Young Duncan, and with the like advice and consent. I do hereby confirm the said Commission, except as altered by these presents.

In witness whereof I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the said colony, have hereunto set my hand, and have caused these presents to be issued under the Seal of the said colony, at Wellington, in the said colony, this thirteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred.

RANFURLY, Governor.

Issued in Executive Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

CHARLES JAMES NORTON,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster, under “The Post Office Act, 1881,” at Pahiatua, 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 sixteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred.

RANFURLY, Governor.

Public Vaccinator, Otepopo District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GAVIN LIDDELL, Esq., M.B., C.M., Edin.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1876,” for the District of Otepopo.

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th November, 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 Ellesmere.

W. C. WALKER,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALBERT ERNEST MOORE

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

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Sittings of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The Courthouse at Mangaweka

to be a place wherein sittings of the Magistrate’s Court shall be held, in place of the Assembly Rooms, previously appointed.

JAMES McGOWAN.