Dec. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3499

SURVEYORS FROM AUSTRALASIAN STATES.

XVI. Any surveyor licensed to survey in any of the Australasian States who produces his certificate of competency, or his license, together with a letter of recommendation dated within the preceding twelve months from the Board of the State in which he is licensed, and satisfactory evidence of identity and of good character, shall be entitled to a license to practise as a surveyor, and shall have his name entered in the Register of Surveyors:

Provided that any surveyor producing his certificate of competency or his license, as above, who, by his absence from the State in which he obtained his license, is prevented from obtaining the letter of recommendation, shall be entitled to a license upon passing such examination as the Board may require, and upon producing satisfactory evidence of identity and of good character.

LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION.

XVII. The Board may grant a letter of recommendation to any licensed surveyor of New Zealand, either without examination, or upon such examination as in the opinion of the Board may be necessary.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Chairman, Surveyors’ Board.

C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Signed at Wellington, this 29th day of October, 1907.

In pursuance of the provisions of “The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors and Board of Examiners Act, 1900,” His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, approves of the foregoing regulations.

Approved in Council, this sixth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of Executive Council.

Members of Aorangi Drainage Board appointed and elected.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HAROLD JARVIS

to be a member of the Board of Trustees of the Aorangi Drainage District under “The Land Drainage Act, 1904.”
The undermentioned persons have been elected members of the Board of the above-named district under the said Act:—

JOHN GORING JOHNSTON,
ALFRED A. MITCHELL,
CHARLES COLLIS, and
DAVID PROUSE.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Arrangements for First Election, &c., Frankton Town District, County of Waipa.

Office of Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th December, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM AUBREY GOSLING,

of Frankton Junction, to be Returning Officer to conduct the first election of the Commissioners of the Town District of Frankton, County of Waipa, as constituted under “The Town Districts Act, 1881”; also to appoint Wednesday, the 8th day of January, 1908, to be the time, and the office of the said William Aubrey Gosling, at Frankton Junction, to be the place, at which such first election shall be held; and also to appoint Friday, the 10th day of January, 1908, at half past 7 o’clock in the afternoon, to be the time, and the said office of William Aubrey Gosling, at Frankton Junction, to be the place, at which the first meeting of the said Commissioners shall be held.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Sittings of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th December, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The FORESTERS’ HALL, Waitara,

to be a place wherein sittings of the Magistrate’s Court shall be held, in lieu of St. John’s Hall, previously appointed.

JAMES McGOWAN.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 9th December, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER FRASER

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Tuapeka, vice H. Craig, deceased.

JAMES McGOWAN.