APRIL 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1413

Appointing Member of Timaru Harbour Board.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section eleven of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, that if any constituent district or combined district fails at any election to elect the required number of representatives, the Governor may by Warrant under his hand appoint such qualified persons as he thinks fit to be the representatives of that district in lieu of those who ought to have been elected :

And whereas the Returning Officer for the Combined District of Tengawai and Point Ridings of the Levels County and the Pleasant Point Town District has reported that no member was nominated to represent that combined district on the Timaru Harbour Board, and consequently there has been a failure to elect :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

CHARLES EDWARD STICKINGS

to be the representative of the said combined district on the Timaru Harbour Board.

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

J. A. MILLAR.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, County of Egmont, appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th April, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE CLARK CLOUSTON

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under the Weights and Measures Act, 1908, for the County of Egmont, vice Constable Thomas Hickman, retired.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

District Surveyor appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 21st April, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to promote and appoint

THOMAS CARROLL

to be a District Surveyor as from the 1st day of April, 1911.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Native Interpreters appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 25th April, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN KORAKO RINI, of Raetihi,
WI KARENA WIHAPI, of Te Puke,
JOHN EDWARD ESPIE, of Gisborne,

to act as licensed Native Interpreters of the First Grade; and

GEORGE PRATT, of Gisborne,

to act as a licensed Native Interpreter of the Second Grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Shorthand-writer and Typist appointed.—Notice No. 1497.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 26th April, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN FREDERICK CHARLES HARRISON

to be a Shorthand-writer and Typist in the Civil Service of the Government of New Zealand (Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists), the appointment to date from 3rd April, 1911.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

Poultry-station Overseer appointed.—Notice No. 1498.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 26th April, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

LESLIE MARSHALL WILSON (at present a temporary officer)

to be a Poultry-station Overseer in the Civil Service of the Government of New Zealand (Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists), the appointment to date from 1st April, 1911.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

Appointment of a Clerical Cadet, Defence Department.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st April, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HUGH GORDON WILSON

to be a Clerical Cadet in the Defence Department as from the 1st April, 1911.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Appointments of Territorial Force Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st April, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments :—

New Zealand Medical Corps.

William John Williams, M.D., to be Captain. Date of commission, 1st April, 1911.

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The Reverend William Grigg to be Honorary Chaplain. Date of commission, 5th April, 1911.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Trustee, Petone Drill-shed Reserve.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st April, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under Part V of the Defence Act, 1908, of the appointment of

Lieutenant CHARLES HENRY MATTHEWS, No. 2 Company, Wellington Division New Zealand Garrison Artillery,

as a Trustee of the Petone Drill-shed Reserve, vice Lieutenant Harry Stuart Norton Robinson, resigned. Appointment to date from 21st April, 1911.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.