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least two years prior to his death, and that application is made within twelve months after the date of the death of the miner.

3. In these regulations "Gold-miner" and "miner" mean any person employed in or about a gold-mine, and include persons employed in batteries.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Mines.

Regulations under the Deeds Registration Act, 1908.

WHEREAS by the Deeds Registration Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Registrar-General of Land may from time to time with the approval of the Governor in Council make regulations as in the said Act mentioned, and generally for regulating the practice and procedure of the register offices under the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, George Greville Bridges, Registrar-General of Land, in exercise of the power aforesaid, and with the approval of the Governor in Council, do hereby make the following regulations, that is to say:

1. In these regulations "the Act" means the Deeds Registration Act, 1908, including any amendments thereof, and all other terms have the same signification as when used in the Act, unless a contrary intention appears.

2. Every Deeds Register Office shall be open to the public for the purpose of searching daily from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., except on Saturdays, when the hours shall be from 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon; and on Sundays and public holidays.

3. No instrument shall be received for registration or deposit except between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on ordinary days and 10 a.m. and 12 noon on Saturdays.

4. Every instrument presented for registration shall have endorsed thereon the date thereof, the names of the parties thereto, and the nature of the instrument, in addition to the number of the last registered instrument, as provided by section 28 of the Act.

5. In the case of an instrument endorsed upon or annexed to a registered instrument and affecting the same land it shall not be necessary for the purpose of registration to endorse upon such first-mentioned instrument a plan of the land affected.

6. On payment of the prescribed fees any person may search the Index-book, the Record-books, and all powers of attorney and other deposited instruments.

7. For the purpose of assessing search fees, every search shall be deemed to be completed on the day on which the same is commenced: Provided that the Registrar may at his discretion allow a search uncompleted on one day to be completed on the following or a subsequent day without further fee.

8. Every person making a search shall enter his name and affix stamps for the search fees in a book to be kept for that purpose at the time of searching.

9. Reasonable assistance may be afforded by the officers of the Department to persons searching, but no search may be made by such officers except by special arrangement approved by the Registrar-General of Land, and no responsibility shall be incurred for the accuracy of any information so obtained.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

G. G. BRIDGES,
Registrar-General of Land.

Approved,
LIVERPOOL, Governor, 21st March, 1914.

Approved in Council.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council, 20th March, 1914.

Officer for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 21st March, 1914.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

ALFRED RELPH,
of Karioi, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

H. D. BELL.

Officer for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 21st March, 1914.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

FREDERICK WALTER PELLETT,
of Green Island, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

H. D. BELL.

Member of Owhango Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st March, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint

DONALD JOHN MCLENNAN
to be a member of the Owhango Domain Board, in the place of Henry Fritz Fraser, resigned.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 14th March, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR GORBELL BIGNELL
to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wanganui.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Chairman of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 24th March, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOSEPH WILLIAM POYNTON, Esq., S.M., to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Oroua, Palmerston, and Otaki, vice L. G. Reid, Esq., S.M.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th March, 1914.

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

WILLIAM ISBISTER, Esq., of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for New Zealand.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Licensing Officer under the Arms Act, 1908, appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 24th March, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant JAMES KERR SIMPSON, of the New Zealand Police Force, to be a Licensing Officer under the Arms Act, 1908.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Assayer appointed.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 11th March, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

EDGAR DOUGLAS WHITE
to be an Assayer of Gold for the purposes of the Gold Duty Act, 1908.

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs.