APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 915

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

ROBERT CROPP,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster, under “The Post Office Act, 1881,” at Tarawera, 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 eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and two.

RANFURLY, Governor.

Trustee for the Kaponga Public Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

FREDERICK JOHN ERNEST GAPPER

to be a Trustee, in the place of John Livesay Harwood, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Kaponga Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Trustee for the Hawkesbury Public Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

GEORGE MAXWELL

to be a Trustee, in the place of Alexander Grant Reid, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Hawkesbury Public Cemetery, in conjunction with the other persons previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Officer under “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” Canterbury District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th April, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 9 of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,”

ANDREW BEATTIE, of Hororata,

has been appointed an officer for the purposes of that Act for that part of the Provincial District of Canterbury to the north of and including the Rakaia River, and for the waters of the Clarence River which are within the County of Marlborough.

J. G. WARD.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, Canterbury District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ANDREW BEATTIE

to be a Ranger, under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Canterbury.

J. G. WARD.

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Public Vaccinator appointed.

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 15th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK JAMES WATSON, Esq., M.B., &c.,

to be a Public Vaccinator, under “The Public Health Act, 1900,” for the District of Rangitikei.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.

Vaccination Inspectors appointed.

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 15th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Vaccination Inspectors, under “The Public Health Act, 1900,” for the districts respectively opposite their names, viz. :

Name. District.
George Guthrie Harper .. .. East Taieri.
Alison Walker Bain .. .. Kaponga.
Samuel Forsaith Logan .. .. Waipukurau.
Bateman Thomas Missen .. .. Amuri.
John Burden .. .. Napier.
Mary Agnes Hickson .. .. Kuaotuna.
Arnold William Mann .. .. Waihi.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.

Port Health Officer appointed.

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 18th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FREDERIC MAURICE PURCHAS, Esq., M.B., &c., Edin., 1896,

to be a Port Health Officer, under “The Public Health Act, 1900,” for the Port of Kaipara, vice Captain John Christy Smith, resigned.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.

Members of the Waikato Hospital and Charitable-aid Board appointed.

Hospitals Department,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in terms of section 7 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM PHILIP CHEPMELL,
ANDREW JOSEPH FARMER, and
WILLIAM CHARLES RING

to represent the Piako County Council on the Waikato Hospital and Charitable-aid Board.

J. G. WARD,
For Minister in Charge.

Coroner appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 24th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES JERVIS BAGNALL, Esq., J.P.,

of Feilding, to be a Coroner within the Colony of New Zealand.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Appointment of Persons to act on the Committee of the Maerewhenua Portion of the Waitaki Islands.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 15th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following persons acting on the Committee for the Care and Management of the Maerewhenua Portion of the Waitaki Islands, in terms of clause 2 of the rules and regulations for the management of the aforesaid portion of the said islands, dated the 11th day of September, 1895 :—

JAMES PARK,
ANDREW BELL, and
MALCOLM McIVER,

the said gentlemen having retired, and having been re-elected in terms of the said regulations.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.