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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

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

DUNCAN MACDONALD,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Waipukurau, 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 seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Trustees for Havelock Commonage appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 4 of the Havelock Commonage Act, 1877, been pleased to appoint

JOHN UREN and
GEORGE SCOTT

to be Trustees for the management of the land described in the Schedule to the said Act, in place of Peder Fuldseth, deceased, and John Pearson, resigned.

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

Officer under the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 17th June, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

HENRY BUCK,

of Featherston, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

F. H. D. BELL.

Clerk, House of Representatives, appointed.

Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 21st June, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER FRANCIS LOWE, Esq.,

to be Clerk of the House of Representatives, vice Henry Otterson, Esq., retired. Appointment to date from the 23rd day of June, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY.

Member of Auckland Land Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th June, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

VERNON HERBERT REED

to be a member of the Auckland Land Board.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Wellington Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th June, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

JOSEPH DAWSON

to be a member of the Wellington Land Board as from the 16th June, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 21st June, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOSEPH KEANE

to be an Inspector under the Factories Act, 1908. The appointment is dated the 14th day of June, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 24th June, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Justices of the Peace for New Zealand, viz. :

BURLING, ALFRED, Esq., of Waihaha, Co. Bay of Islands,
LAWRENCE, WILLIAM RICHARD, Esq., of Totara North, Co. Whangaroa.
MOUNTAIN, WALTER CLAPHAM, Esq., of Purerua, Co. Bay of Islands.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st June, 1915.

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

JENS PETER LARSEN

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Tokomaru Bay, as from the 14th June, 1915.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st June, 1915.

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

ANNIE TAYLOR

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Kenana, as from the 1st June, 1915.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Promotion of an Officer, New Zealand Staff Corps.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 18th June, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the promotion of the undermentioned officer, and with effect from 10th September, 1914 :

New Zealand Staff Corps.

Colonel Alfred William Robin, C.B., C.M.G., t.d., New Zealand Staff Corps, to be Brigadier-General.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Promotion of a Staff Officer in New Zealand Defence Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 18th June, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the promotion of the undermentioned staff officer :

Staff.

Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Charles Monk Gibbon, p.s.c., to be Colonel in the New Zealand Defence Forces while employed as Chief of the General Staff, New Zealand. Dated 16th June, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.