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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 80

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-General 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.

ALBERT OSBORNE BATEMAN . . . . Kaitaia.
WILLIAM ROBERT ROSS . . . . Puketiro.

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

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

Inspectors of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 27th May, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

NORMAN FRANK FURNESS,
Constable JAMES MICHAEL CUMMINGS, and
Constable WILLIAM DANIEL FARR

to be Inspectors under the Factories Act, 1908. The appointments are dated the 13th day of May, the 5th day of March, and the 3rd day of May, 1918, respectively.

W. H. HERRIES,
Acting Minister of Labour.

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th May, 1918.

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

ROBERT LAING, Esq.,

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

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Deputy Official Assignee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

JOHN MARTIN BUNT

to be Deputy of the Official Assignee at Oamaru during the absence of A. W. Woodward on leave with the Expeditionary Force, commencing on and from the 1st day of May, 1918.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Chairman of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th May, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

SAMUEL ERNEST MCCARTHY, Esq., S.M.,

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

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Inspector of Sea Fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 21st May, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, has appointed

NATHAN MCDOWELL,

of Parenga, to be an Inspector of Sea Fishing under the above-mentioned Act.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.

Appointment of Teachers at the Cook Islands.

Cook Islands Administration,
Wellington, 29th May, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to make the following appointments to the Cook Islands Public Service:—

WILLIAM CHARLES SMITH to be Head Teacher of the Avarua School, from the 1st day of May, 1918.

HERBERT DOUGLAS BANNERMAN to be Head Teacher, and ISLAY BANNERMAN to be First Assistant Teacher, of the Aorangi School, Rarotonga, on and from the 1st day of May, 1918.

STANLEY MATTHEW MILLS to be Head Teacher, BERTHA MILLS to be First Assistant Teacher, ANNIE GRAHAM to be Second Assistant Teacher, and MARY OLAUSEN to be Third Assistant Teacher, of the Takitumu School, Rarotonga, on and from the 1st day of February, 1918.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

Assistant Medical Officer appointed, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

Cook Islands Administration,
Wellington, 28th May, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

EDWARD JOSEPH MOORE, Esquire, F.R.S.C.I.,

to be Assistant Medical Officer of Rarotonga, on and from the 9th day of May, 1918, vice D. G. Mathieson, Esquire, resigned.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 30th May, 1918.

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.
HELEN RYLE FRANCES STUART WHITMORE . . Mangonui.
ISABELLA LUCY MAY KING . . Manaia.
STEPHEN CUMMING . . Masterton.
WILLIAM MCPHERSON GORDON . . Ohaeawai.
CLAUDE FEATHERSTON ROWE . . Wellington (at Courtenay Place).*

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Acting Deputy Registrar of Supreme Court appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th May, 1918.

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

FREDERICK WILLIAM SCHRAMM, Esq.,

to be Acting Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, as from the 3rd day of May, 1918.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.