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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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.

CLINCH, GEORGE Balclutha.
MORRISH, GEORGE HAYMES Otorohanga.
RUSSELL, HERBERT JAMES Russell.
TURNER, HARRY GILBERT Wairoa.

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

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

GERTRUDE CLEMENCE

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Te Arai, 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 twentieth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor

Member of Newman Public Cemetery resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th January, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of

RICHARD GYDE

as a Trustee of the Newman Public Cemetery.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Honorary Rangers, Kauri-gum Reserves, appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 11th January, 1916.

IT is hereby notified that—

Walter Wilfrid Povey,
Edward Charles Henry Gambel,
Thomas Benjamin Taaffe,
George Albert Povey,
Charles Augustus Watson,
Edward Vincent Blake,
Frank Rupert Burnley,
Edward Churton Clarke,
Robert Mitchell McIvor, and
John Charles Olsen

have been appointed Honorary Rangers under the provisions of section 8 of the Kauri-gum Industry Amendment Act, 1910.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Place for Sittings of Magistrates’ Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th January, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THE PUBLIC HALL, OHAeAWAI,

to be a place wherein a Magistrates’ Court shall be held under the provisions of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th January, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN O’BRIEN

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Ohaeawai, on and from the 1st day of February, 1916.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Justice.

Member of Greymouth Harbour Board appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 24th January, 1916.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor in Council has, in pursuance of the provisions of section 4 of the Greymouth Harbour Board Act, 1884, and of the Harbours Act, 1908, appointed

JOHN RYALL,

Chairman of the Grey County Council, to be a member of the Greymouth Harbour Board, in place of Patrick Ryder, resigned.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Marine.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th January, 1916.

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

FRANCIS REUBEN PRICE

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the District of Takaka, as from the 17th January, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, and Transfers of Officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 18th January, 1916.

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

Staff.

Captain Hubert Havard Wright to be Major. Dated 21st November, 1915.

Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (temporarily) during the absence of officers with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Dated 10th December, 1915:—

Quartermaster-Sergeant Edward Arthur Hawkins, vice Lieutenant Crawshaw.
George Lewin Bacon, vice Lieutenant O’Dowd.
Sergeant-major Lisle Carrington Jennins, vice Lieutenant Janson.

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Major James Gladwin Wynyard to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 30th December, 1915.
The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Arthur Gilbert Quartley is confirmed.

4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

Sergeant Alexander Charles Harry Milne to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 16th December, 1915.

6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles.

The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) John Ralph Taylor is confirmed.

9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.

Captain James Armstrong to be Major, under the provisions of paragraph III, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 11th November, 1915.
The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Richard Erroll Wardell Riddiford is confirmed under the provisions of paragraph III, General Regulations, 1913.