2612.                                                             THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.                                                              [No. 70

Polling-places for Egmont Electoral District appointed.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Legislature Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing polling-places in the Electoral District of Egmont, and do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be polling-places for the said Electoral District of Egmont.

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SCHEDULE.

The Athenæum Hall, Eltham (principal).
Mr. C. V. Sproull’s House, Moeroa.
Mr. Reader’s House, Omoana.
The Hall, Mangamingi.
The Hall, Rawhitiroa.
The Hall, Mangatoki.
The Athenæum Hall, Kaponga.
The Hall, Riverlea.
The Hall, Awatuna.
The Public School, Te Kiri.
The Public School, Mangahume (Eltham Road).
The Courthouse, Opunake.
The Hall, Oaonui.
The Public School, Opua.
The Public School, Kahui.
The Public School, Rahotu.
The Hall, Pungarehu.
The Hall, Warea.
The Public School, Newall Road.
The Public School, Puniho.
The Hall, Piha ma.
The Hall, Otakeho.
The Hall, Auroa.
The Hall, Kapuni.
The Hall, Matapu.
The Town Hall, Manaia.
The Dairy Factory, Inaha.
The Hall, Okaiawa.
The Public School, Te Roti.
The Public School, Fraser Road.
The Hall, Ararata.
The Post-office, Meremere.
The Hall, Mata.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

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Appointing a Member of the Otago Harbour Board.

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ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS it is provided by section seventeen of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, that the office of any member of a Harbour Board shall become vacant if, inter alia, he resigns his office by writing under his hand delivered to the Secretary or Chairman of the Board :
And whereas it is provided by subsection two of section eighteen of the said Act that when an elective member other than a representative of a constituent district vacates his office on the Board through the operation of the said section seventeen, the Governor may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place :
And whereas William Barclay, an elective member of the Otago Harbour Board, being a representative of the combined district of the Boroughs of Port Chalmers and the West Harbour, has resigned his office as a member of the Board, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person as a representative of that district in his place :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint Thomas Scollay to be a member of the Otago Harbour Board as a representative of the combined district of the Boroughs of Port Chalmers and West Harbour, in the place of William Barclay, resigned.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

F. M. B. FISHER.

High Commissioner for New Zealand appointed.

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Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd August, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint

The Hon. THOMAS MACKENZIE

to be the High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom, under and for the purposes of the High Commissioners Act, 1908; to hold the said office from the 23rd day of August, 1912, to the 22nd day of August, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Prime Minister.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th August, 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 WOLLESTON PYM HEWITT .. Huntly.
PATRICK JOHN ECCLETON .. Rakaia.
LEONARD CHRISTIAN HARTON .. Te Kuiti.
RALPH CATLEY .. Nelson.
AUGUSTUS EDWARD BRAITHWAITE .. Waimate Plains.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th August, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ERNEST ALFRED SMART

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Motupiko.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Cadet appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th August, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN VERDON CARMODY

to be a Cadet in the office of the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Wellington, on and from 19th August, 1912.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Member of Hyde Domain Board appointed.

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Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th August, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, been pleased to appoint

HUGH MCAULEY, Jun.,

to be a member of the Hyde Domain Board, in the place of Thomas Redmond Connolly.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

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Member of Wanaka Islands Domain Board appointed.

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Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th August, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, been pleased to appoint

The Rev. JAMES HENRY THOMSON

to be a member of the Wanaka Islands Domain Board, in the place of Charles Turnbull, left the district.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.