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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 103

set opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule,
are authorised to take and receive statutory declarations
under the two-hundred-and-thirty-fourth section of “The
Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

SCHEDULE.

William Barker Appleby Chasland’s.
Robert John Henry Nicholas.. Hurleyville.
Edmond Burke Kaihu.
John Richard Martin Kurow.
John Hogg Matau.
Robert Russell Mauriceville.
Davy George Sustins Mercer.
Constance Seymour .. Okaiawa.
Caroline Mary Whimp Opuawhanga.
John Fraser Oxford.
John Wickstead Waipu.
Joseph Francis Fabian Waiuku.

As witness my hand, this sixth day of December,
one thousand nine hundred and two.

RANFURLY, Governor.

Appointing Poverty Bay to be a Port for the Importation of
Playing-cards.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested
by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I,
Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, do hereby approve of the Port of
Poverty Bay as a port for the importation of playing-cards.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twelfth day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and two.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Governor’s Order No. 162.]

Regulations revoking all By-laws made by any Local Authority
under “The Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act, 1894,” “The
Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act Amendment Act, 1895,”
or “The Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act Amendment Act,
1896.”—Notice No. 745.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Slaughtering and Inspection Act,
1900” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is pro-
vided that the Governor may from time to time make regu-
lations for the purposes therein mentioned, and also that all
by-laws made by any local authority under any Act repealed
by the said Act shall continue in operation until revoked by
regulations under the said Act: Now, therefore, in exercise
of the hereinbefore-recited powers, His Excellency the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby make
the following regulation for the purposes of the said Act,
that is to say :—

All by-laws made by any local authority under “The
Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act, 1894,” “The Abattoirs
and Slaughterhouses Act Amendment Act, 1895,” or “The
Abattoirs and Slaughterhouses Act Amendment Act, 1896 ”
(being the Acts repealed by the said Act), are hereby
revoked.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this thirteenth day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Legislative Councillors appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th December, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in His Majesty’s
name, summoned

FRANCIS ARKWRIGHT, Esq., of Marton,
WILLIAM COWPER SMITH, Esq., of Waipukurau,
GEORGE JONES, Esq., of Oamaru, and
RICHARD HARMAN JEFFARES REEVES, Esq., of Nelson,

to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by writs of
summons under the seal of the colony.

J. G. WARD.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

GEORGE OCTAVIUS STEPHENSON

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Waipu, vice John Wickstead, transferred,
on and from the 3rd December, 1902.

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th December, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point the undermentioned 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.
HENRY ARTHUR FRANKLIN JACKSON Kaikoura.
HARRY NORMAN CLEMENT LADLEY.. Riverton.

J. G. WARD.

Appointment in the Department of Lands and Survey.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 12th December, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ROBERT AIMERS PATERSON

to be Accountant in the Department of Lands and Survey.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Registrar of Brands appointed.—Notice No. 746.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th December, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

ALEXANDER IRONSIDE

to be a Registrar of Brands for the Oamaru Branding Dis-
trict, comprising the Oamaru Subdivision of the Otago
Sheep District, in terms of “The Stock Act, 1893,” vice
J. C. Miller, transferred.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Member of Southland Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 12th December, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
reappoint

DUNCAN KING

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of
Southland, as from the 27th day of December, 1902.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Manager of State Coal-mines appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 11th December, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance of the provisions
of section 6 of “The State Coal-mines Act, 1901,”

ALFRED BENJAMIN LINDOP, Esq.,

has been appointed Manager of the State coal-mine at Coal
Creek, in the Cobden Survey District, and also to have
control and supervision of the State coal-mine at Seddon-
ville, in the Mokihinui and Ngakawau Survey Districts, as
from the 15th day of November, 1902.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.