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Commissioner of Taxes, to be a person upon whose information any penalty imposed under the said Act shall be recoverable in a summary way, as provided in the said Act.
This appointment to be exercised generally.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five.

R. J. SEDDON.

Person appointed to lay Informations under “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1900.”

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section eighty-eight of “The Land and Income Assessment Act, 1900,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

FRANCIS JOHN MORTON DUGDALE WALMSLEY, Esq.,

Deputy Commissioner of Taxes, to be a person upon whose information any penalty imposed under the said Act shall be recoverable in a summary way, as provided in the said Act.

This appointment to be exercised generally.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five.

R. J. SEDDON.

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, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

CLARA TEGNER,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under “The Post Office Act, 1900,” at Pohonui, 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-sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and five.

PLUNKET, Governor.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
ERNEST COOKE BROWN .. .. .. Taumarunui.
(On and from the 10th February, 1905.)
ARNOLD WILLIAM MANN.. .. .. Waihi.
(On and from the 15th February, 1905.)
CHARLES EDMUND NICHOLAS .. .. Tauranga.
(On and from the 15th February, 1905.)

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint 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.
JOHN BUSHELL .. .. .. Tokomairiro.
HERBERT ARTHUR PENN .. .. Ellesmere.

J. G. WARD.

Vice-Consul of the Argentine Republic at Dunedin appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King’s exequatur empowering

The Honourable THOMAS FERGUS

to act as Vice-Consul of the Argentine Republic at Dunedin has received His Majesty’s signature.

J. G. WARD.

Vice-Consul of Belgium at Wellington appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King’s exequatur empowering

GUY FEATHERSTON JOHNSTON, Esq.,

to act as Vice-Consul of Belgium at Wellington has received His Majesty’s signature.

J. G. WARD.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Borough of Gisborne and Counties of Cook and Waiapu, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant JOHN CAMPBELL MACKENZIE

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1903,” for the Borough of Gisborne and the Counties of Cook and Waiapu, vice Sergeant James Siddells.

J. G. WARD.

Stipendiary Magistrate appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT WILLIAM DYER, Esq.,

to be a Stipendiary Magistrate within the Colony of New Zealand, to exercise the extended jurisdiction of the Magistrate’s Court.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Clerk of Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable GEORGE AMOS TAPP

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Helensville, from the 17th day of January, 1905, vice Constable J. Watt, transferred.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL GEORGE FERGUSON, Esq., of Little Wanganui; JAMES MACKAY, Esq., of Wellington; and CHARLES GEORGE FREDERICK MORICE, Esq., of Greymouth,

to be Justices of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

JAS. McGOWAN.

Clerk and Interpreter resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1905.

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

CHARLES RERE PRATT

of his appointment as a Clerk and Interpreter in the Native Land Court at Wellington.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Surgeon appointed.

Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 26th January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN ALEXANDER NEWELL, Esq., B.A., M.B., B.Ch.,

to be Surgeon of H.M. Prison at Lyttelton, vice Dr. Thomas Wyld Pairman, resigned.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Justice.