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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 68

Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 21st July, 1914.

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

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th July, 1914.

IT is hereby notified that

JESSIE BLANCHE NEWMAN

has been appointed to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Wellington North.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, Grant of Temporary Rank to and Transfers of Officers of New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 14th July, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, resignations, and grant of temporary rank to and transfers of the undermentioned officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force :—

New Zealand Staff Corps.

The undermentioned Lieutenants are granted the temporary rank of Captain while employed as Adjutants :—

John Henry Grover.
William Caesar Sarsfield Colclough.

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Captain Albert Edward Wilkinson is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 15th June, 1914.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery.

Lieutenant George Brooke Carter is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 1st May, 1914.

2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment.

Lieutenant Colin Ferrier is seconded, under the provisions of paragraph 139 of General Regulations, 1913.

5th (Wellington) Regiment.

The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated 28th January, 1914 :—

John Richard Hughes, vice Hawthorn, transferred to Reserve of Officers.
Edward Puttick, supernumerary to establishment.

2nd Lieutenant Leo Sigismund Cimino to be Lieutenant, vice Hughes, promoted. Dated 28th January, 1914.

16th (Waikato) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Eric John Freeland Fraser to be Lieutenant, to complete establishment. Dated 26th August, 1913.

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The Reverend Robert Ferguson, Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class), to be Chaplain to the Forces (3rd Class). Dated 15th May, 1914.

Unattached List (b).

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette dated 12th February, 1914, relative to the appointment of Major (on probation) James Robb, is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor :—

James Robb (formerly Major of the Junior Cadets) to be Major. Dated 19th January, 1914.

Captain Charles Ernest Clifton is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 17th June, 1914,

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants :—

Aeneas William Tolster O’Sullivan. Dated 17th June, 1914.
Alexander Knox Anderson. Dated 17th June, 1914.
Colin McGregor Littlejohn. Dated 17th June, 1914.
Joseph Atwill. Dated 24th June, 1914.
Philip Blakland Benham. Dated 24th June, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant Humphrey Churchill Money resigns his commission. Dated 2nd July, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Alfred Edward Caddick resigns his appointment. Dated 17th April, 1914.

Colour-Sergeant Cecil Francis Jellie to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 30th June, 1914.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

By-laws of the Waimate County Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th July, 1914.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of by-laws made by the Waimate County Council on the 24th June, 1914.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 14th day of July, 1914.

Dated this 17th day of July, 1914.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Varied Notice fixing Closing-hours of Chemists’ Shops in the Borough of Masterton under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops in the Borough of Masterton, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops within the borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 p.m.; And whereas the Masterton Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the chemists’ shops within the borough:

Now, therefore, I, William Ferguson Massey, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that from and after the 27th day of July, 1914, all chemists’ shops in the Borough of Masterton shall be closed on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8 p.m., and Saturday at 10 p.m.

NOTE.—The statutory half-holiday is on Thursday from 1 p.m., but chemists’ shops may open again from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. for the sale of medicine and surgical appliances.

The notice gazetted on the 18th day of August, 1910, fixing the closing-hours of all such shops in the Borough of Masterton is hereby varied accordingly.

Dated at Wellington this 21st day of July, 1914.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour,