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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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And also to have before you and examine any books, writings, records, or documents whatsoever which you shall deem necessary for your information in the premises.

And I do also require you, not later than the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, or as much sooner as the same can conveniently be done (using all diligence), to report to me under your hands and seals your proceedings herein and your opinion touching the several premises.

And I do further declare that this Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that subject to these presents you the said Commissioners shall and may from time to time proceed in the subject-matters thereof as you shall judge expedient, and that your powers and functions hereunder shall continue in full force, notwithstanding that the inquiry hereby directed may not be formally adjourned.

And, lastly, it is declared these presents are 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, Privy Councillor, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at Wellington, this sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Native Minister.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
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

ALBERT BARNETT,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Waitewhena, 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 sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

Assistant Law Officer resigned.

Crown Law Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1912.

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

THOMAS NEAVE, Esq., B.A., LL.B.,

of his appointment as an Assistant Law Officer to the Government of New Zealand, as from the 23rd March, 1912.

J. G. WARD,
Prime Minister.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1912.

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.
DAVY GEORGE FLETCHER SUSTINS .. Carterton.
ARTHUR STUART PALMER .. Mount Grey.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th April, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons 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.
GEORGE MORTIMER COLEBROOK .. Tolaga Bay.
HERBERT FREDERIC THOMAS GOODMAN .. Tokatoka.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Chief Electoral Officer appointed.

Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE AVERY CORMACK

to be the Deputy Chief Electoral Officer for the Dominion of New Zealand, under the Legislature Act, 1908. Appointment to take effect from the 1st April, 1912.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

Resignation of Member of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners.

Land for Settlements Department,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1912.

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

WILLIAM CHARLES KENSINGTON, Esq., I.S.O.,

as a member of the Board of Land Purchase Commissioners constituted under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, as from 31st March, 1912.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Approval of Appointment of Manager of Private Industrial School.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th April, 1912.

BY virtue of the power vested in me by section 13 of the Industrial Schools Act, 1908, I, Josiah Alfred Hanan, the Minister of Education, do hereby notify my approval of

Sister MARY AMBROSE

as Manager of St. Joseph’s Industrial School at Upper Hutt.

J. A. HANAN,
Minister of Education.

Members of Aotea District Maori Land Board reappointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 6th April, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

ALBERT BARNS and
TAKARANGI METE KINGI,

of Wanganui, to be members of the Aotea District Maori Land Board as constituted under the Native Land Act, 1909.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Native Minister.

Promotion of New Zealand Staff Corps and Royal New Zealand Artillery Officers.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 6th April, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the promotion of the undermentioned New Zealand Staff Corps and Royal New Zealand Artillery Officers :—

Captain Harry Harwood Browne, New Zealand Staff Corps, to be Major. Dated 26th March, 1912.

Captain Herbert Edward Pilkington, Royal New Zealand Artillery, to be Major. Dated 26th March, 1912.

Captain Harry Rowland Potter, New Zealand Staff Corps, to be Major. Dated 26th March, 1912.

Captain Murray Menzies Gard’ner, Royal New Zealand Artillery, to be Major. Dated 26th March, 1912.

Captain George Spafford Richardson, New Zealand Staff Corps, to be Major. Dated 26th March, 1912.

Lieutenant Jesse Alfred Wallingford, New Zealand Staff Corps, to be temporary Captain whilst employed as an Area Group Officer. Dated 26th March, 1912.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Defence.