3064
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

TOWN LANDS.
Town of Rawene.—Hokianga County.

Situated close to Rawene Wharf and fronting Quay Road.

RURAL LAND.
Motatau Survey District.—Bay of Islands County.

2 | XII | 206 0 0 | 103 0 0

Undulating to broken land; well watered; about 60 acres swamp; 50 acres mixed forest; balance fern and tea-tree. Contains some fencing, grassing, and a garden. Situated about seven miles from Towai Post-office.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and six.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Polling-places abolished and appointed.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Electoral Act, 1905,” it is, among other things, enacted that the Governor may from time to time appoint, alter, and abolish polling-places for each electoral district within the limits thereof:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby abolish the places mentioned in the First Schedule hereto as polling-places for the electoral district the name of which is therein specified, and do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto to be additional polling-places for the electoral district the name of which is therein specified.

FIRST SCHEDULE.
POLLING-PLACES ABOLISHED.

Manukau Electoral District—
The Drill-shed, Onehunga.
The Railway-station, Manurewa.
The Schoolhouse, Woodside.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
ADDITIONAL POLLING-PLACES APPOINTED.

Manukau Electoral District—
The Public Schoolhouse, Manurewa.
The Methodist Schoolhouse, Woodside.

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

J. G. WARD.

Ministers appointed.

Private Secretary’s Office,
Government House,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has this day been pleased to appoint

The Honourable Sir Joseph George Ward, K.C.M.G., to be Minister of Defence, in place of the Hon. Albert Pitt, deceased;

The Honourable James McGowan to be Minister of Industries and Commerce, in place of the Hon. Sir J. G. Ward, who has resigned that office; and

The Honourable John George Findlay, LL.D., M.L.C., to be Colonial Secretary and Attorney-General, in place of the Hon. Albert Pitt, deceased.

By command.

H. C. WATERFIELD,
Private Secretary.

Member of the Executive Council appointed.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The Honourable John George Findlay, LL.D., M.L.C., to be a Member of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, and he has this day been sworn in as a Member of the said Council.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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

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

Name. District.
EDWARD DOLLIMORE .. .. Lyell.
JESSIE STEWART MCNEE .. .. Murchison.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Member of the Legislative Council appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1906.

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

The Honourable John George Findlay, LL.D., of Wellington, to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by Writ of Summons under the Seal of the said Colony of this day’s date.

J. G. WARD,
For Colonial Secretary.

Honorary Consul of Liberia, at Wellington, recognised.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been instructed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies to recognise the appointment of

Arnold Woodford Izard, Esq., M.A., M.B., &c.,
as Honorary Consul of Liberia, at Wellington.

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

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

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Andreas Christian Iversen

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

JAMES McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1906.

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.
ROBERT WILLIAM GALE LYE .. Mangonui.
WILLIAM JOHN MAHONEY .. .. Waimate Plains.

J. G. WARD,
For Colonial Secretary.