MAR. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 991

Trustee for the Foxhill Public Cemetery appointed.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

JOHN ALFRED THOMPSON

to be a Trustee, in the place of John Gaukrodger, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Foxhill Public Cemetery, in conjunction with Andrew Godbaz, Peter Higgins, John Mead, and Herbert Hunt, previously appointed by His Excellency the Governor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this tenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Whangarei Abattoir Site Commission.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

To all to whom these present shall come, and to ERNEST CARGILL CUTTEN, Stipendiary Magistrate, Auckland : Greeting.

WHEREAS the Whangarei Abattoir Site Act, 1908, gave the Governor power to cancel the reservation over seventeen acres three roods twenty-four perches of the Whangarei Cemetery, in order that the Whangarei Borough Council might establish a public abattoir on the said area:

And whereas it has been represented that it is inadvisable to establish the abattoir on the above-mentioned site, and a difference of opinion exists amongst the inhabitants of the Borough of Whangarei as to the suitability of the site for the purposes of an abattoir:

And whereas it is desirable that full inquiry should be made into the suitability or otherwise of the said site for the said purpose:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby constitute and appoint you, Ernest Cargill Cutten, Stipendiary Magistrate, Auckland, to be a Commission for the purpose of making inquiry into the several matters mentioned in these presents—that is to say, whether the said site is a good and suitable one for the purposes of an abattoir; whether the said site should be retained instead as part of the Whangarei Cemetery; and whether there is a better and more suitable site within the Borough of Whangarei that could be secured by the Whangarei Borough Council for the purposes of an abattoir at a reasonable cost.

And for the better enabling you, the said Commission, to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorized and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents at such times and places in the said Dominion as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and from place to place as you think fit, and to call before you and examine on oath or otherwise, as may be allowed by law, such person or persons as you think capable of affording you information in the premises; and you are also hereby empowered to call for and examine all such books, documents, plans, maps, or records as you deem likely to afford you the fullest information on the subject-matter of the inquiry hereby directed to be made, and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all lawful means whatsoever.

And, using all diligence, you are required to transmit to me, under your hand and seal, your report and recommendations in respect to the matter inquired into by you not later than the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

And it is hereby declared that these presents shall continue in force and virtue although the inquiry be not regularly continued from time to time or from place to place by adjournment.

And, lastly, it is hereby further declared that these presents are issued under and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.

H. D. GROCOTT,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

JAMES PASSELL,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Whangape, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand, this ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

Member of Public Service Classification Board appointed.

Prime Minister's Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN LOMAS, Esq., Secretary of Labour, being a permanent head of a Department of the Public Service, to be a member of the Public Service Classification Board under the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Act, 1908, vice Edward Tregear, Esq., retired.

J. G. WARD, Prime Minister.

Member of Dental Board appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 3rd March, 1911.

IT is hereby notified that

KNOX GILMER, Esq., of Wellington, has been appointed to the Board set up to conduct examinations in dentistry in accordance with the requirements of section 2 of the Dentists Amendment Act, 1910.

D. BUDDO, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Government Statistician appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 8th March, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

MALCOLM FRASER, Esq., to be Government Statistician under the Census and Statistics Act, 1910, vice W. M. Wright, Esq., transferred. Appointment to date on and from 8th March, 1911.

D. BUDDO, Minister of Internal Affairs.