Dec. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4329

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th December, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

LAWRENCE PATTERSON

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

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Visiting Justice, H.M. Prison, appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th December, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM REEVE HASELDEN, Esq., S.M.,

to be a Visiting Justice to His Majesty’s Prison at Rotoaira.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1914.

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.
REUBEN ORWIN .. .. .. .. Timaru.
ANN BEATRICE JAMES .. .. .. Stratford.
LYULPH EDWARD RHODES .. .. Motueka.
CHARLES WILKINSON COOKE .. .. Grey.
DUNCAN BLACK .. .. .. .. Oxford.
GEORGE LEVY .. .. .. .. Halcombe.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 16th December, 1914.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service :

ROBERT JOSEPH PATTON

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the District of Whangamomona, as from 10th December, 1914.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Acting Secretary.

Inspector of Offices and Relieving Officer, Lands and Survey Department, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 15th December, 1914.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service :

ALFRED CLARKE TURNBULL

to be Inspector of Offices and Relieving Officer, as from the 1st day of November, 1914.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Acting Secretary.

Provisional Appointment of District Manager, Public Trust Department, Wellington.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 16th December, 1914.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following provisional appointment in the Public Service :

KENELM NOEL HAWTREY BROWNE

to be District Manager at Wellington, for the purposes of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1912, as from 11th day of December, 1914, vice C. Zachariah promoted.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Acting Secretary.

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Official Assignees appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 14th December, 1914.

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

THOMAS DICK KENDALL

to be Official Assignee for the Supreme Court Districts of Christchurch, Ashburton, and Timaru, under the Bankruptcy Act, 1908, as from the 2nd day of December, 1914, vice G. A. Smyth, deceased.

CHARLES ZACHARIAH

to be Official Assignee for the Supreme Court Districts of Dunedin, Oamaru, Invercargill, Gore, Lawrence, and Queenstown, under the Bankruptcy Act, 1908, as from the 27th day of November, 1914, vice T. K. Kendall, transferred.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Acting Secretary.

Special Order made by the Pelorus Road Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th December, 1914.

THE following special order, made by the Pelorus Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Road Boards Act, 1908.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

PELORUS ROAD BOARD.

Special Order raising Special Loan.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and its amendments, the Hospital and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, and every other power in that behalf enabling it, the Pelorus Road Board hereby resolves (by special order) to borrow by way of special loan the sum of £650 for the purpose of providing the said Pelorus Road Board’s share of the costs in connection with the erection of the new Wairau Hospital, and for paying the costs of raising the loan, and the first year’s interest on the loan, also for the purpose of providing security for the repayment of the loan, and interests and sinking fund thereon, the said Pelorus Road Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/6d. in the pound upon the unimproved rateable value of all rateable property over the whole of the Pelorus Road District, such special rate to be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and to be payable on the 1st day of April in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of ten years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order was passed at a special meeting of the Pelorus Road Board held on the 3rd day of November, 1914, and duly confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 1st day of December, 1914.

W. K. MATTHEWS,
Clerk, Pelorus Road Board.

Despatch.—Nobel Peace Prize, 1915.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th December, 1914.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.—No. 476.)
Downing Street, 27th October, 1914.

My Lord,—I have the honour to transmit to your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of a notice issued by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament with regard to nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize of 1915.

2. I have to request that your Ministers will be so good as to cause the conditions of the prize to be made known to those bodies and persons who are qualified to nominate candidates.

3. It will be observed that the names of candidates should be received by the Nobel Committee before the 1st February, 1915.

I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.

Governor His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool, G.C.M.G., M.V.O., &c.