Jan. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 191

Street; towards the south by Ford Street; and towards the west by Allotment 154 of Section 2, Town of Opotiki: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 5483/4, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

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

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Defence.

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

GEORGE WILLIAM HAZLETON,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Porangahau, 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 tenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th January, 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.
JAMES EDWARD WARD Granity.
BEAUCHAMP URQUHART BARLOW Morrinsville.
ROBERT CHARLES GROOM Ormondville.
AMY STEAD RICHARDS. Waimangaroa.
WILLIAM BUCHANAN Napier.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th January, 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.
ARTHUR BICE Methven.
VICTOR CHARLES LAWN Brunner.
ALBERT EDWARD FORDHAM Campbelltown.
ALLAN ORTON Pleasant Point.
WILLIAM EWEN MCKAY Waipara.
ALBERT GEORGE SEELEN Akaroa.
HENRY PATRICK STANAWAY Cust.
THOMAS COLE Birmingham.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Port Health Officer appointed.

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 10th January, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG MACFARLANE, Esq., M.B., Ch.B.,

to be a Port Health Officer, under section 10 of the Public Health Act, 1908, for the Port of Hokianga, vice Dr. Forrest.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Public Health.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th January, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK JOHN FOOTE

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Marsden, vice D. Wright, resigned; and

FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERT JOHN KING

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Auckland.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Magistrate's Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 17th January, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable CHARLES CLARKE KING

to be Clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Porangahau, from the 30th day of December, 1911, vice Constable J. Keane, transferred.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Justice.

Cadet appointed to the Marine Department.

Marine Department,
Wellington. 11th January, 1912.

IT is hereby notified that

PATRICK AMBROSE BURKE

has been appointed a Cadet in the Marine Department, as from the 3rd July, 1911.

J. A. MILLAR.

Member of Board of Examiners under the Coal-mines Act, 1908, appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 15th January, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN CONNELL BROWN, Esq.,

to be a member of the Board of Examiners under the Coal-mines Act, 1908, vice Jonathan Dixon, Esq., deceased.

R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

Cadet appointed.—Notice No. 1574.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 16th January, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALBERT MCKINNON

to be a Cadet in the Civil Service of the Government of New Zealand (Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists); the appointment to date from 3rd January, 1912.

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

Orchard Instructors and Inspectors for the Purposes of the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1908, appointed.—Notice No. 1575.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 16th January, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE STRATFORD,
WILLIAM CHARLES HYDE,
JOHN LANGLEY WILLIAMS, and
JOHN HERBERT THORP