APRIL 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1111

Officer for signing and issuing Licenses under Animals Protection Acts, Westland District, appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Chief Postmaster at Hokitika to sign and issue to any person licenses to sell native game within the Westland District, consisting of the County of Westland (excepting Lake Rotokino, Lake Kanieri, and Lake Mahinapua, and the road reserve around the shore of the said Mahinapua Lake, and Mahinapua Creek and the road reserves on either side of the said creek), on payment of the sum of five pounds.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six.

ALBERT PITT.

Paradise Duck protected.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and “The Animals Protection Act 1880 Amendment Act, 1886,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do by this notification prohibit for one year from the date hereof the destruction of the paradise duck (Casarca variegata), a bird indigenous to the said Colony of New Zealand; and I do hereby declare that this notification shall take effect on the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six.

ALBERT PITT.

Trustees for the Waitaki North Public Cemetery appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

JAMES CARLSON and
DAVID WILLIAMS

to be Trustees, in the place of Edward Butt and Alfred Pelvin, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Waitaki North 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 twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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

FRANCIS HAROLD DOWDEN,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under “The Post Office Act, 1900,” at Nireaha, 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 nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and six.

PLUNKET, Governor.

Officers under the Fisheries Conservation Acts appointed, Otago.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1906.

IT is hereby notified that

JOHN ALEXANDER GREY, of Paerau;
THOMAS JOHNSTON, of Patearoa; and
SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM GREER, of Patearoa,

have been appointed to be Officers for the purposes of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and the Acts amending the same.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts appointed, Otago.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN ALEXANDER GREY,
THOMAS JOHNSTON, and
SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM GREER

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

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts appointed, Auckland.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM TAYLOR and
RICHARD COCKRAN

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

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, County of Hawke’s Bay, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN ROBERT ESSON

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1903,” for the Counties of Hawke’s Bay, Patangata, and Wairoa, and for the Boroughs of Napier and Hastings, vice Sergeant James Treanor, resigned.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Clerk resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th April, 1906.

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

ALEXANDER KLEE

of his appointment as a Clerk in the Supreme, District, and Magistrate’s Courts at Invercargill, as from the 30th day of April, 1906.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th April, 1906.

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

JOHN KERR, Esq., of Portobello,

of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Cadets appointed.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 12th April, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HAROLD VIVIAN RAMSAY,
CECIL JAMES CUNNINGHAM MARSHALL, and
JOHN HANCOCK

to be cadets in the Government Insurance Department; the appointments to date from the 24th February, 1906, 8th March, 1906, and 12th March, 1906, respectively.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Treasurer.