SEPT. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3295

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

Dorothy Maud Campbell,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Pohonui, 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 September, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

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Clerks of Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st September, 1915.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable Benjamin O'Brien

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Morrinsville, on and from the 8th day of September, 1915, vice Constable W. R. Lowry, resigned; and

Constable Charles John Halke

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Waverley, on and from the 3rd day of September, 1915, vice Constable B. O’Brien, transferred.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Justice.

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Chairman of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th September, 1915.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

George Cruickshank, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Awarua and Wallace, on and from the 3rd day of September, 1915, vice T. Hutchison, Esq., S.M.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Justice.

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Licensing Officer under the Arms Act, 1908, appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 16th September, 1915.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable Charles John Halke,

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

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister in Charge of Police Department.

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Trustees of Makaraka Public Cemetery resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st September, 1915.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignations of

Richard James Reynolds,
Thomas Holden,
Charles Gray,
John William Bright, and
William Edward Akroyd

as Trustees of the Makaraka Public Cemetery.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st September, 1915.

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.
Charles Ethelbert Scott .. .. Waihi.
Robert Thomas James Henderson .. Whakatane.
Samuel James Martin .. .. Houhora.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General

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Inspector for the Purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, and the Fertilizers Act, 1908, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 20th September, 1915.

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

Alfred Francis Blackburn

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, and the Fertilizers Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of September, 1915.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

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Grant of Temporary Rank, Promotion, and Appointments of Officers employed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Europe).

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 17th September, 1915.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned grants of temporary rank, promotions, and appointments of officers employed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Europe:—

Divisional Staff.

Honorary Captain William Thomas Beck (D.A.D.O.S.), New Zealand Military Forces, to be Captain. Dated 14th June, 1915.

New Zealand Mounted Rifle Brigade.

Auckland Mounted Rifle Regiment.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants:—

Sergeant-major Ernest Albert Jurd, vice Lieutenant Cornelius James, killed in action. Dated 19th May, 1915.

Sergeant Clarence Taylor Coburne, vice Lieutenant Preston Logan, killed in action. Dated 19th May, 1915.

Sergeant Henry Frederick Ernest Mackesy, since killed in action, vice 2nd Lieutenant Frederick James Weir, died of wounds. Dated 12th June, 1915.

Wellington Mounted Rifle Regiment.

Lieutenant Thomas Percy James to be Captain, since died of wounds, vice Captain William James Hardham, V.C., invalided. Dated 17th June, 1915.

Sergeant-major Patrick James Cotton, vice 2nd Lieutenant Charles Watt, killed in action. Dated 30th May, 1915.

Sergeant Arthur Desmond Herrick, vice Lieutenant Percy Tivy Emerson, killed in action. Dated 30th May, 1915.

Sergeant Ralph Fitz-Roger Beetham, vice Lieutenant Norman Donald Cameron, killed in action. Dated 30th May, 1915.

Canterbury Mounted Rifle Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas Lomax Gibbs, to be Lieutenant. Dated 23rd May, 1915.

New Zealand Engineers.

Lieutenant Frederick Walter Skelsey to be Captain, vice Captain Antonie Beekman, invalided. Dated 26th June, 1915.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants, to complete establishment:—

Frank Clifford Wilson. Dated 24th June, 1915.

Henry Harrison Fisher. Dated 25th June, 1915.

William Stevens McCrorie. Dated 26th June, 1915.

Sergeant Charles Wallace Saunders, to be 2nd Lieutenant, vice Captain D. P. Simpson, invalided. Dated 17th June, 1915.

Sergeant C. W. Salmon, to be 2nd Lieutenant, vice Lieutenant Frederick Walter Skelsey, promoted. Dated 26th June, 1915.

New Zealand Infantry Brigade.

Auckland Battalion.

Captain Samuel Alexander Grant, New Zealand Staff Corps, since died of wounds, to be 2nd in Command (temporarily), and is granted the temporary rank of Major whilst so employed. Dated 7th June, 1915.