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Appointing Public Trustee to be Administrator of an Estate under the Reformatory Institutions Act, 1909.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section thirty-seven of the Reformatory Institutions Act, 1909, it is enacted that when an order has been made against any person (whether before or after the commencement of that Act) for his detention in an institution, the Public Trustee may be appointed as the administrator or interim curator of his estate, in accordance with Part III of the Prisons Act, 1908, and all the provisions of sections fifty-five to seventy-five of that Act shall, so long as the order of detention remains in force, apply to that person accordingly in the same manner in which those provisions apply to persons imprisoned:

And whereas on the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, an order was made by the Stipendiary Magistrate at Havelock for the detention of Francis William Denton, of Havelock, in the certified Inebriates' Home situate at Rotoroa Island:

And whereas it is expedient to appoint the Public Trustee as the administrator of the estate of the said Francis William Denton:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the before-mentioned powers and authorities, doth hereby appoint

THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE

to be the administrator of the estate of the said Francis William Denton during the Governor-General's pleasure.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, at Wellington, this ninth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Member of Petone Fire Board appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th July, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

JAMES KERR, Esq.,

to be a member of the Petone Fire Board, as constituted under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Officers for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th July, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

HENRY ANDREW, Sen., of Paparoa, and ERNEST A. FROST, of Ellerslie,

to be Officers for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Dunsandel Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 11th July, 1918.

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

JAMES ALDRIDGE

to be a member of the Dunsandel Domain Board, in the place of Charles Alexander Wright, who has left the district.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands

Native Interpreters appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 6th July, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

ELLA NGAWAI CLARK, of Kohukohu, E. STEWART, of Waotu,

to act as licensed Native Interpreters of the First Grade; and

HEKE BOYD, of Greytown, Rev. EREATARA M. ERUINI, of Tokomaru Bay, Mrs. LAURA HOULAHAN, of Rata,

to act as licensed Native Interpreters of the Second Grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

Officer for the Purposes of Parts I and II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 28th June, 1918.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

CHARLES JOSEPH EVANS,

of Invercargill, to be an Officer for the purposes of Parts I and II of that Act.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.

Deputy Official Assignee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th July, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

EDWIN MARTEL SILK

to be Deputy Official Assignee at Wanganui, vice T. R. Saywell, on and from the 15th day of July, 1918.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th July, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by

ALFRED BISH, Esq.,

of Carterton, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.- Notice No. 1932.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, Wellington, 16th July, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE FEAR

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, for the Borough of Waitara; the appointment to date as from the 5th July, 1918.

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