2022
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

Postmasters 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 the persons named in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster, under “The Post Office Act, 1900,” at the places 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.

Hubert Severne Green Broad Bay.
Edwin John White Kaikoura.
George Henry Russell, sen. Marsden.
Elon Cashmore Opitonui.
George Frederick Day Opotiki.
Leonard Sylvester Downes Oxford.
Alfred Fedor Lechner Tarawera.
Herbert Leabourn Te Kopuru.
William Maitland Whangamata.

As witness my hand, this first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and three.

RANFURLY, Governor.

Trustees for the Wanganui Racecourse appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

EWEN ALEXANDER CAMPBELL,
ROBERT CHARLES EARLE,
ALEXANDER HATRICK,
JOHN HENRY NIXON, and
ARCHIBALD DUDINGSTON WILLIS

to be Trustees of the Wanganui Racecourse, under an Act of the Wellington Provincial Council intituled “The Wanganui and Rangitikei Racecourses Act, 1862.”

J. G. WARD.

[NOTE.—The above notice is in substitution of notice published in Gazette No. 67, of the 27th August, 1903.]

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Wellington, 4th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK JAMES OLIVER

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

J. G. WARD.

Sittings of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 9th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The Courthouse at Levin

to be a place wherein sittings of the Magistrate’s Court shall be held, in lieu of the Wirokino Road Board Office, previously appointed.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Member of Wellington Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 4th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

ALEXANDER REESE

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Wellington, as from the 23rd day of August, 1903.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Inspector under “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” appointed.
—Notice No. 807.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 7th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT ARCHIBALD STRANG

to be an Inspector under and for the purposes of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” for the Borough of Gladstone; the appointment to date from the 27th August, 1903.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Deputy Registrar appointed in Old-age Pensions Department.

Old-age Pensions Department,
Wellington, 4th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES ROLAND COLYER, Esq.,

to be Deputy Registrar for the Invercargill Old-age Pensions District, vice John Gaunson Petrie, Esq., resigned. The appointment to date from 1st September, 1903.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Treasurer.

Official Member under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” appointed.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 29th August, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to make the following appointment under the provisions of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900”:-

ELSDON BEST, Esq., of Ruatahuna,

to be Official Member of the Matatua Maori Council, vice John Thomas Wainhouse, resigned.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice.
Wellington, 4th September, 1903.

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

GEORGE HENRY SAXTON, Esq.,

of Marshlands, Christchurch, of his appointment as Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Resignation of Member of Council under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” accepted.

Office of Minister of Native Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1903.

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

WILLIAM WILSON MCCARDLE, Esq., of Kawhia,

of the office of member of the Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa District Maori Land Council, under the provisions of “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900.”

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Surgeon, New Zealand Permanent Force, at Wellington resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the resignation of the appointment held by

Surgeon-Captain ARTHUR CASTRIOT DE RENZI, New Zealand Militia,

as Surgeon to the Permanent Force, Wellington, and with effect from 22nd August, 1903.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.