MAY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1311

Banks Peninsula Rabbit-proof Fencing District.—Prescribing the Number of Ratepayers of which the Board of Trustees shall consist, and appointing the Returning Officer and the Day for the First Election of the Board.—Notice No. 1197.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by section five and subsections one and two of section six of “The Rabbit-proof Wire-netting Fences Act, 1898” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is provided that for every district constituted and declared a rabbit-proof fencing district for the purposes of the said Act there shall be a Board of Trustees (hereinafter called “the Board”), to consist of such number of ratepayers, being not less than three nor more than seven, as the Governor prescribes; that the Governor shall appoint a fit person to be the Returning Officer for the purposes of the first election of the Board; and that the Governor shall appoint the day for the first election of the Board:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby prescribe that the number of ratepayers of which the Board of Trustees for the Banks Peninsula Rabbit-proof Fencing District shall consist shall be seven; do hereby appoint Mr. Thomas Quealy, Clerk of the Little River Road Board, at Ataahua, to be the Returning Officer for the purposes of the first election of the Board; and do hereby appoint the twenty-second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight, to be the day for the first election of the Board.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Minister of Agriculture.

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Cadet appointed.

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Public Works Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE STAFFORD BOGLE

to be an engineering cadet in the Public Works Department, as from 1st January, 1908.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

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District Agent appointed.

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Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 5th May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HOWARD WILSON CAPPER

to be District Agent at Timaru under “The Deeds and Instruments Registration Act, 1886,” as from the 13th day of April, 1908.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Stamp Duties.

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Cadet appointed.

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Native Department,
Wellington, 28th April, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN HARVEY

to be a cadet in the Native Department, as from the 13th instant.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

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Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th April, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM WILSON MORTON

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Riccarton, vice A. Boyle, resigned.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Minister of Justice.

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Stipendiary Magistrate appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES SIM EVANS, Esq.,

to be a Stipendiary Magistrate within the Dominion of New Zealand; to exercise the ordinary and extended jurisdiction of the Magistrate’s Court.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Minister of Justice.

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Chairmen of Licensing Committees appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES SIM EVANS, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Tuapeka and Wakatipu, from the 5th day of May, 1908, vice F. J. Burgess, Esq., S.M.; and

FREDERICK JAMES BURGESS, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Thames and Ohinemuri, from the 1st day of May, 1908, vice H. W. Northcroft, Esq., S.M.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Minister of Justice.

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Clerks, &c., appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ROBERT MACGREGOR GOLDSMAN

to be a Clerk in the office of the Official Assignee, at Dunedin, from the 22nd day of April, 1908;

FREDERICK HENDERSON JOYCE

to be a cadet in the Magistrate’s Court, at Dunedin, from the 22nd day of April, 1908; and

HENRY EARL HUSTON

to be a cadet in the District and Magistrate’s Courts, at Masterton, from the 1st day of May, 1908.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Minister of Justice.

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Resignation of Female Official Visitor accepted.

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Department of Justice (Prisons Branch),
Wellington, 3rd May, 1908.

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

MISS ALICE MAUD BOWMAN

as a Female Official Visitor to H.M. Prison at Dunedin.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Justice.

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Assistant Superintendent of Mercantile Marine for the Port of Auckland appointed.

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Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th May, 1908.

IT is hereby notified that

THOMAS ALEXANDER GRESLEY ATWOOD

has, under the provisions of “The Shipping and Seamen Act, 1903,” been appointed to be Assistant Superintendent of Mercantile Marine for the Port of Auckland, as from the 1st January, 1907.

J. A. MILLAR.

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Member of Hawke’s Bay Land Board reappointed.

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Department of Lands,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

ROBERT READ GROOM

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Hawke’s Bay, as from the 20th day of May, 1908.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.