2294
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a Travelling-stock Reserve in Mangaone Survey District, Wellington Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms portion of a reserve heretofore duly set apart as a resting-place for travelling stock, being a purpose within Class II of the Second Schedule to the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 :

And whereas it is expedient that the purpose of the portion of the said reserve should be changed to a reserve for gravel purposes :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the purpose of the portion of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a resting-place for travelling stock to a reserve for gravel purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 10 acres 0 roods 20 perches, more or less, being Section 77 (formerly portion of Section 8), Block V, Mangaone Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east, east, and south generally by Section 8, 195 links, and by a line along the middle of a stream and of the Ngatahaka Stream; towards the west generally by Section 9, 510 and 178·9 links, and by North No. 1 Road, 725 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/5/44, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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

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.

NEWELL, ADA Awatuna.
McSHERRY, ARTHUR THOMAS FRANCIS Kahukura.

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

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

NORMAN JAMES WARD,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Pukerau, 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 fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Member of Rawene Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th June, 1917.

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

WILLIAM MARI COCHRANE

to be a member of the Rawene Domain Board, in the place of James Joseph Butler, who has left the district.

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

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st June, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JAMES GRACE

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Auckland, vice Lemuel J. Bagnall, deceased; and

GEORGE RENNER

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Hurunui, vice H. L. Flower, resigned.

J. A. HANAN,
Minister of Justice.

Police Gaoler appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st June, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable MICHAEL JOHN KYNE

to be Police Gaoler at Port Awani, vice Constable P. Duddy, transferred.

J. A. HANAN,
Minister of Justice.

Resident Agent, Postmaster, &c., at Mauke, Cook Islands, appointed.

Cook Islands Department,
Wellington, 31st May, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM SAUNDERSON COOPER

to be the Resident Agent and Postmaster, a Commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands, and Deputy Registrar of the High Court of the Cook Islands, Mauke.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 5th June, 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.
EDWARD NATHAN FALCK Port Chalmers.
ALFRED EDWARD KING Ellesmere.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Award of Long-service and Good-conduct Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 31st May, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 14, Appendix IX, Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand, 1913, of the award of the Long-service and Good-conduct Medal to

No. 955, Sergeant (temp. Captain) FREDERICK MALCOLM TURNER, M.C., Royal New Zealand Artillery.
No. 970, Sergeant (temp. Lieutenant) VICTOR GEORGE JONES, Royal New Zealand Artillery.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Authorizing the Laying-off of Turenne Street, in the Town of Ilminster Extension No. 2, of a Width of not less than 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th May, 1917.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 15 of the Land Act, 1908, I hereby authorize the laying-off of Turenne Street, in the Town of Ilminster Extension No. 2, Hawke’s Bay Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft. instead of 99 ft.

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

Officiating Ministers for 1917.—Notice No. 21.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1917.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned name has been withdrawn from the list of Officiating Ministers by request:—

Methodist Church of New Zealand.
Mr. JONATHAN LAWRENCE.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.