Aug. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2695

Registrars of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 14th August, 1916.

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

LYONEL JOHN STAFFORD BUSH

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris for Kakanui, as from the 1st August, 1916.

FRANK LISLE

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris for Waitapu, as from the 1st August, 1916.

LEONARD H. SMITH

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris for Whangape, as from the 1st August, 1916.

(Miss) VIOLET WARD

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris for Okautete, as from the 14th August, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Clerk of Magistrates’ Court appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 15th August, 1916.

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

ARTHUR HARRY CUTLER

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Rotorua, under the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, as from the 31st day of July, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1916.

IT is hereby notified that

EDWINA SHIELDS

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

F. W. MANSFIELD
Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 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.
ANGUS URQUHART .. .. Kurow.
WILLIAM FORRESTER JARVIE .. .. Carterton.
FREDERICK JAMES PRETSCH .. .. Waimate.
ISABELLA LUCY MAY KING .. .. Tairua.
ROBERT MARTIN.. .. .. Mercury Bay.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Appointments and Promotions of Officers serving in Samoa.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 9th August, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments and promotions of officers serving in Samoa:—

Lieutenant Rupert Walter Westmacott, from the Reserve of Officers (General List), to be Aide-de-Camp to the Administrator, and is taken on the strength of the Expeditionary Force (Samoa). Dated 3rd August, 1916.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 13th March, 1916.

George Nelson Moffat.
Andrew Melville Jamieson.

Warrant Officer John Allen to be Lieutenant while acting as Harbourmaster. Dated 1st March, 1916.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Officers proceeding on Active Service, New Zealand Military Forces.

Defence Department,
Wellington, 16th August, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor is respectfully advised to approve of the appointments of the undermentioned officers proceeding on active service, New Zealand Military Forces, with the ranks specified, with effect from 10th August, 1916:—

Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Herbert Basil Hinson, New Zealand Staff Corps.
2nd Lieutenant George Justin Humphries Reid, Unattached List (a).
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Grant Ross Crawford, Unattached List (b), General List, Otago District.
2nd Lieutenant Oswald Lovell Ferens, Unattached List (b), General List, Otago District.

New Zealand Field Artillery.

2nd Lieutenant Thompson John Ennis, Unattached List (b), General List, Wellington District.
2nd Lieutenant Hugh Rea Kirker, Unattached List (b), General List, Wellington District.

Note.—The rank of Ralph Allan Brewer and Gilbert Howe, who proceeded with an earlier draft, is that of 2nd Lieutenant respectively, and not Lieutenant as published in New Zealand Gazette No. 78, dated 20th July, 1916.

New Zealand Engineers.

2nd Lieutenant Archibald Hugh Bogle, Unattached List (b), General List, Wellington District.

Infantry.

Captain Herbert William King, Unattached List (b), Auckland District.
Captain Robert John Cade, 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.
Captain John Lane Haselden, Reserve of Officers, General List, Wellington District.
Lieutenant Eric John Freeland Fraser, 16th (Waikato) Regiment.
Lieutenant Alfred John Breach, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District.
Lieutenant John Patrick O’Sullivan, New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps.
Lieutenant Herbert Addison Stratford, Unattached List (b), Wellington District.
Lieutenant Leslie Potter, New Zealand Staff Corps.
Lieutenant Colin Bryce (late Kaitangata Rifle Volunteers).
2nd Lieutenant Ronald Bampton Morton, 16th (Waikato) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant Douglas William McAlister, Unattached List (b), Otago District.
2nd Lieutenant Andrew Douglas Wilkie, 1st (Canterbury) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant Ralph Malcolm, 10th (North Otago) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant James Patrick Hanratty, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District.
2nd Lieutenant William Rogers Worsley, Unattached List (b), Auckland District.
2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Alexander Snedden, Unattached List (b), Auckland District.
2nd Lieutenant Ivor Alfred Bristol, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant Carl Frederick Waldemir Rasmussen, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Ernest George Moncrief, Unattached List (b), General List, Auckland District.
2nd Lieutenant George Wallace Bollinger, Unattached List (b), General List, Wellington District.
2nd Lieutenant Leslie Bertram Hutton, Unattached List (b) General List, Canterbury District.
2nd Lieutenant Acland Withiel Thomas, Unattached List (b), General List, Wellington District.
2nd Lieutenant John Reginald Begg Hay, Unattached List (b), General List, Otago District.
2nd Lieutenant Gordon Good, Unattached List (b), General List, Otago District.
2nd Lieutenant Sydney Allan Murrell, Unattached List (b), General List, Wellington District.
2nd Lieutenant Edgar Haydon, Unattached List (b), General List, Canterbury District.
2nd Lieutenant Edwin Newton, Unattached List (b), General List, Auckland District.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Melville Sim, Unattached List (b), General List, Otago District.
2nd Lieutenant Percy Richard Brambley, Unattached List (b), General List, Auckland District.
2nd Lieutenant Edward Andrew Horan, Unattached List (b), General List, Otago District.