Sept. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3139

Additional Rule under Part III of the Infants Act, 1908
(relating to the Adoption of Children).

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, rules were made under the provisions of section twenty-five of the Infants Act, 1908, relating to the adoption of children: And whereas it is expedient to amend such rules in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me in that behalf by the twenty-fifth section of the Infants Act, 1908, do hereby make the additional rule set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1A. Every such application shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the entry of the registration of the birth of the child referred to therein.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Justice.

Appointing a Member of the Bluff Harbour Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS it is provided by section seventeen of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, that the office of any member of a Harbour Board shall become vacant if, inter alia, he dies:

And whereas it is provided by subsection two of section eighteen of the said Act that when an elective member other than a representative of a constituent district vacates his office on the Board through the operation of the said section seventeen the Governor may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place:

And whereas William Fraser Inder, an elective member of the Bluff Harbour Board, being the representative of the electors of the Boroughs of Gore and Mataura, has died, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person as a representative of the electors of the said boroughs in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint JOHN LOWDEN, of Mataura, to be a member of the Bluff Harbour Board, as a representative of the electors of the Boroughs of Gore and Mataura, in place of William Fraser Inder, deceased.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Marine.

Postmasters 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 the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

BROWN, THOMAS .. .. .. Tokaanu.
SEELAN, ALBERT GEORGE .. .. .. Methven.

As witness my hand this twentieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Member of Spreydon Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th September, 1916.

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

HERBERT EDMUND GREEN

to be a member of the Spreydon Domain Board, in the place of William Baxter Gow, who has resigned.

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

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.—Notice No. 1847.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALBERT ROSS

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, for the district under the jurisdiction of the Mount Wellington Road Board; the appointment to date as from the 16th September, 1916.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st September, 1916.

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

(Mrs.) CELIA ISABELLA GRANT

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the District of Wanaka, as from the 4th September, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th September, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL BRODIE HILL

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Mauriceville, on and from the 9th September, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 27th September, 1916.

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.
ROBERT MARTIN .. .. Helensville.
PERCIVAL LOUIS HESTER .. .. Kaiapoi.
CHARLES ALLEN McLAREN .. .. Waimate Plains.
FRANK LEWIS CUNNOLD .. .. Whakatane.
EDWARD NATHAN FALCK .. .. Mount Benger.
ROLAND JOHN WEBB .. .. Opotiki.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Disbandment of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 20th September, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the disbandment, under section 43 (1) and (2) and section 44 of the Defence Act, 1909, of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club:—

THE MARIMA DEFENCE RIFLE CLUB,

with headquarters at Marima, Wellington Military District.
Date of disbandment, 19th September, 1916.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.