2398
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 57

14A. Regulation No. 14 shall not apply to purchases of live-stock, for which the approval of the Permanent Head must be previously obtained. In specially urgent circumstances, however, officers if authorized by the Permanent Head may make purchases not exceeding £100 in value in one lot, but in every such case the matter must be immediately reported to the Permanent Head.

Regulation No. 15 is hereby amended by deleting the words “Minister of the Department,” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “Permanent Head or such officer as the Minister may appoint.”

Regulation No. 16 is hereby amended by deleting the words “in excess of £10,” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “in excess of £20.” The regulation is further amended by deleting the words “for transmission to the Minister.”

As witness my hand this first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, approves of the foregoing regulations.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
By his Deputy, ROBERT STOUT.

Approved in Council this eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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

JAMES CORLESS,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Poukawa, 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 second day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 8th June, 1914.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES EDWARD RIDDELL

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Pahiatua; and

HARRY ALBERT ROBERTSON and
EDWIN HENRY LOUGH

to be members of the Licensing Committee for the District of Dunedin South, vice T. Fiddis, deceased, and W. Cuttle, resigned.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th June, 1914.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable DAVID HYLAND

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Temuka, vice Constable E. Booth.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Crown Solicitor appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th June, 1914.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL GEORGE RAYMOND, Esq., K.C.,

to be Crown Solicitor at Christchurch.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th June, 1914.

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

GEORGE RUTHERFORD, Esq.,

of Springbank, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for New Zealand.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Visiting Justice appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1914.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HERBERT REGINALD RYDER, Esq., J.P.,

to be a Visiting Justice to His Majesty's Prison at Waikeria.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Sheriff appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 10th June, 1914.

The Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

ARTHUR HARRY HOLMES

to be Sheriff for the District of Canterbury, as from the 14th February, 1914.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.