APRIL 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 959

Chairmen of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

WYVERN WILSON, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the District of Kaipara, vice F. J. Burgess, Esq., S.M.

WILLIAM KERR, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Napier, Hawke’s Bay, and Waipawa, vice J. W. Poynton, Esq., S.M.

LEONARD GREENWELL REID, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Pahiatua and Wairarapa, vice W. Kerr, Esq., S.M.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN CARROLL

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wallace, vice C. J. Hewlett.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD JOHN STEVENS

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wallace.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE MELMOTH SCOTT, Esq.,

of Te Waikato Sanatorium, to be a Justice of the Peace for New Zealand.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Inspectors for the Purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th March, 1918.

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

WILLIAM HUGHES and
HENRY JAMES KNIGHTBRIDGE

to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of February, 1918.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Registrar of Electors, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th March, 1918.

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

WILLIAM BAKER

to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Tauranga for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 20th day of March, 1918.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Registrars of Births, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 28th March, 1918.

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

CLAUDE CYRIL WILLIAMSON KILGOUR

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths and Vaccination Inspector for the District of Waipawa (at Otane), as from the 14th March, 1918.

THOMAS COLE

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Vaccination Inspector, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris for the District of Waitara, as from the 18th March, 1918.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1918.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned person 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.
FRANK KINGSTON HYDE .. .. .. Wairoa.
ROBERT MARTIN .. .. .. Cambridge.
SAMUEL AUGUSTUS NEILL .. .. .. Raglan.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Laughing Jackasses (Dacelo gigas) turned at large in East Coast Acclimatization Society’s District declared to be vested in that Society.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st March, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that the East Coast Acclimatization Society have turned at large a number of laughing jackasses (Dacelo gigas) in the East Coast Acclimatization District, and that the property in such laughing jackasses and their offspring, and in every bird of a like species at large in that acclimatization district, is deemed to be absolutely vested in the said East Coast Acclimatization Society for a period of two years from the date hereof, as provided by section 56 of the Animals Protection Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Date of Election to fill Extraordinary Vacancy on Christchurch Fire Board by Insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1918.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the rules made thereunder, I, George Warren Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Saturday, the 13th day of April, 1918, to be the day for holding the election of one member of the Christchurch Fire Board by the insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill an extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. J. F. Grierson.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks XV and XVI, Porangahau Survey District, for Road Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Blocks XV and XVI, Porangahau Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Castlepoint, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in