JAN. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 229

Defining Limits of Whakatane Harbour.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested by the sixth section of the Harbours Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.M.G., M.V.O., the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the existing limits of the Harbour of Whakatane, and do hereby define the limits of the said harbour to be—

All that area in the Bay of Plenty commencing at a point on the sea-coast at ordinary high-water mark of the Bay of Plenty, one nautic mile to the westward of the entrance to the Rangitikei River; thence to the westernmost point of Whale Island; thence by ordinary high-water mark along the southern coastline of the said island to its easternmost point; thence along the tangent to an arc of a circle described with a radius of three nautic miles, the centre of which is at the middle of the entrance to the said river; thence by the said arc to a point on the sea-coast at ordinary high-water mark of the Bay of Plenty three nautic miles to the south and east of the entrance to the said river; thence north and westerly by ordinary high-water mark of the Bay of Plenty along the sea-coast to the right bank of the said river; thence by ordinary high-water mark of the said river to the outer face of the downstream side of the reinforced-concrete bridge over the said river (on the main road between Whakatane and Te Teko); thence by the said bridge to the left bank of the said river; thence along the left bank by ordinary high-water mark of the said river, and the sea-coast by ordinary high-water mark of the Bay of Plenty, to the right bank of the said Rangitikei River; thence by ordinary high-water mark of the said river to the bridge over the said Rangitikei River on the main road from Matata to Whakatane; thence by the said bridge to the left bank of the said Rangitaiiki River; thence along the left bank by ordinary high-water mark of the said river, and the sea-coast by ordinary high-water mark of the Bay of Plenty to the point of commencement; the hereinbefore-mentioned line of ordinary high-water mark shall be deemed to cross the mouths of any tributaries of the said Whakatane River. As the same is delineated on the plan marked M.D. 5016, and thereon bordered red, and deposited in the office of the Marine Department at Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.

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.

JESSIE MCKENZIE LINDSAY .. .. Balfour.
ROBERT ALEXANDER BUCHANAN .. .. Clyde.
FREDERICK LANCELOT ANDREWES .. .. Murchison.
THOMAS BENJAMIN SALMON .. .. Oamaru.
CHARLES WILLIAM ROSS .. .. Rakaia
WILLIAM FORREST.. .. .. Rotorua.
JESSIE MARION PAGE .. .. Tahaia.
CHARLES HENRY BRIDGE .. .. Whakarapa.

As witness my hand this twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

Cancellation of Appointment of Fish Inspector for the Purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908.

Department of Public Health, Hospital, and Charitable Aid,
Wellington, 24th January, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to cancel the appointment of

MALCOLM MCALISTER

as Fish Inspector for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, for the City of Auckland.

Dated this 4th day of January, 1919.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Public Health.

Appointment of Chairman, North Island and South Island Railway Boards of Appeal.

Head Office,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to make the following appointment:—

JOHN GEORGE LEWIS HEWITT,

Stipendiary Magistrate, to act as a member of the North Island and South Island Railway Boards of Appeal, and to be Chairman of the said Boards as constituted under the Government Railways Act, 1908.

W. H. HERRIES,
Minister of Railways.

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

Marine Department,
Wellington, 18th January, 1919.

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

WILLIAM PARRANT,

of Petone, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.

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

Marine Department,
Wellington, 18th January, 1919.

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

FREDERICK CHRISTIAN JENSEN,

of Konini, Pahiatua, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine

Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st January, 1919.

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

JAMES DONOVAN, Esq.,

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

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Appointment of Member on the Board of Management for the Portobello Marine Fish-hatchery.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd January, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has, in pursuance of the power conferred upon him by subsection (3) of section 65 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

WILLIAM BLAXLAND BENHAM, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.,
Professor of Biology at the University of Otago,

to be a member on the Board of Management for the Portobello Marine Fish-hatchery, in place of Mr. Robert Chisholm, deceased.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th January, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

The Honourable ROBERT KIRKPATRICK SIMPSON, M.L.C.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the district of Rangitikei.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.