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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

SCHEDULE.

MARKS, THOMAS HENRY .. .. .. Ahuroa.
ANDREWS, ADA .. .. .. Awatuna.
SHANNON, CHARLOTTE RAILLE .. .. Broad Bay.
HAZARD, SIDNEY FADE .. .. .. Greymouth.
GIBSON, THOMAS HANS .. .. .. Te Aro.
MCINTOSH, MARGARET JAMES .. .. Waikawa.

As witness my hand this twenty-first day of April,
one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor

Arrangements for First Election, &c., Roto-o-rangi Road District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th April, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ELISHA VEALE, of Cambridge,

to be the Returning Officer and the person to prepare roll of ratepayers for the purposes of the first election of the four members of the Board of the Roto-o-rangi Road District, as constituted under section 27 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act of 1916; also to appoint Wednesday, the 9th day of May, 1917, to be the day, and Mr. J. M. Hall’s cottage, on the Mangapiko Deviation Road, to be the place, at which such first election shall be held; also to appoint Saturday, the 12th day of May, 1917, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, to be the time, and the Farmers’ Club Room, Cambridge, to be the place, at which the first meeting of the members of the Board so elected shall be held.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Consul-General of Denmark for Australia and New Zealand recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st April, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that, in accordance with instructions from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has recognized provisionally, pending the receipt of the Exequatur, the appointment of

OTTO WADSTED, Esq.,

as Consul-General of Denmark for Australia and New Zealand.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Cambridge Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 17th April, 1917.

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

RICHARD REYNOLDS

to be a member of the Cambridge Domain Board, in the place of Edward Evan Roberts, M.B., who has resigned.

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

Members of Waikino Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 17th April, 1917.

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

ALEXANDER HILL and
ADAM CRABB

to be members of the Waikino Domain Board, in the place of Henry James Field, deceased, and Frederick Ernest Flatt, resigned.

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

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th April, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOSEPH GIBSON and
EDWARD RINALDI

to be members of the Licensing Committee for the District of Hurunui, vice F. G. Lewton and D. Rutherford; and

ARTHUR JOHN JOBLIN

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waimarino, vice T. H. Kiely.

J. A. HANAN,
Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 24th April, 1917.

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.
AGNES GWENDOLINE COOKSEY .. .. Maungaturoto.
ALBERT GEORGE CHARLES EDMONDS .. Hikurangi.
ARTHUR WOLLESTON PYM HEWITT.. .. Otorohanga.
ISABELLA LUCY MAY KING .. .. Owhango.
FRANCIS ERNEST ROBERTSON .. .. Birmingham.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrars of Births and Deaths appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 24th April, 1917.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
WILLIAM HENRY DILLICAR .. .. Auckland (at Ellerslie)
FOWLER PRAIN .. .. .. Runanga.
JOHN MAXWELL MURRAY .. .. Orepuki (at Tuatapere).

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Empire Day to be observed as a Holiday on King’s Birthday.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st April, 1917.

EMPIRE DAY will be celebrated on Monday, the 4th June, 1917 (the anniversary of the birthday of His Majesty the King, and falling this year on Sunday), and that day will be observed as a public holiday in the Government Offices throughout the Dominion.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Town District, Waikumete, County of Waitemata.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th April, 1917.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor, under the Town Boards Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a town district under the said Act, by name the Town District of Waikumete. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said town district which they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED TOWN DISTRICT OF WAIKUMETE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point on the Oratia Stream where it is crossed by the Auckland-Kaipara Railway; thence along the said railway-line to the middle of the road forming the