Aug. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2639

General Regulations of the Defence Forces amended.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations; and I do hereby declare that such regulations shall come into force on the twentieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

SCHEDULE.

1. AFTER Regulation 123 add,—

CANCELLATION OF COMMISSIONS.—OFFICERS TO COMPLETE TRAINING TO WHICH THEY MAY BE LIABLE.

123A. An officer whose commission is cancelled under section 5 (a) of the Defence Act, 1909, will complete the training to which he may be liable as in subparagraphs (1) and (2), Regulation 123.

2. After Regulation 190 add,—

MEMBERS OF PERMANENT STAFF LIABLE TO DISMISSAL IF ADVERSELY REPORTED UPON.

199A. Members of the Permanent Staff who are adversely reported upon by their Officer Commanding District in the matter of zeal and efficiency as Instructors, or for misconduct, will be liable, with the approval of the Commandant of the Defence Forces, to dismissal.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

J. ALLEN,
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, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

JOHN ROCKWELL CROCKER,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Waiau, 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 sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th August, 1913.

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.
LEONARD CHARLES JOLLY .. .. Waipara.
JAMES O'NEIL .. .. Mauriceville.
ERNEST JOHN REID .. .. Ormondville.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Official Visitors under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, within the County of Taupo West appointed.

Mental Hospitals Department,
Wellington, 20th August, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES GLADWIN WYNARD, Esq., and
HERBERT INNES JONES, Esq.,

to be Official Visitors under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, within the County of West Taupo.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Minister in Charge of Mental Hospitals.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 19th August, 1913.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed 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.
SIDNEY ALEXANDER OGILVIE .. .. Taupo.
WALTER RICHARD HOWARD .. .. Rongotea.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Revoking all Licenses issued under the Race Meetings Act, 1909.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington 13th August, 1911.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by section 4 of the Race Meetings Act, 1909, I hereby revoke all licenses issued under the said Act for the period ending 31st July, 1913.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Inspectors for the Purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908.

Office of Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 11th August, 1913.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.