And, using all diligence, you are required to report to me
from time to time, under your hands and seals, the result
of your inquiry into each river separately, with any recom-
mendations as you may think fit to make in the premises,
each river being reported upon as soon as possible after your
investigations have been completed, and the whole of the
said rivers shall be reported upon within a period of six
calendar months from the date hereof.

And it is hereby declared that these premises shall con-
tinue in full force and virtue although your inquiries are not
regularly continued from time to time or from place to place
by adjournment.

And, lastly, it is hereby further declared that these pre-
sents are issued under and subject to the provisions of the
Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right
Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile,
Earl of Liverpool, Member of His Majesty's
Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross
of the Most Excellent Order of the British
Empire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order,
Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John of
Jerusalem, Governor-General and Commander-
in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion
of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and
issued under the Seal of the said Dominion,
at the Government House at Wellington, this
eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.
Issued in Executive Council.
F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory
Declarations.

P URSUANT 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
MINNIE ALICE SMITH,
being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the
Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Ahuroa, 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 twelfth day of April, one
thousand nine hundred and nineteen.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

Trustees under the Peninsula County Libraries Act, 1877,
appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th April, 1919.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
JOHN RIDDLE,
COLIN MACANDREW, and
H. RENFREE
to be trustees under the Peninsula County Libraries Act,
1877, vice John Kerr, George McCartney, and A. M.
Cameron.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Vice-Consul of the United States of America
at Auckland recognized.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th April, 1919.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
notified that, in accordance with instructions from
His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has
recognized the appointment of
CHARLES GILBERT WINSLOW, Esq.,
as Vice-Consul of the United States of America at Auckland.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Consul of the Netherlands at Wellington appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th April, 1919.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
notified that he has been informed by His Majesty's
Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King's Exequatur
empowering
WALTER GORING JOHNSTON, Esq.,
to act as Consul of the Netherlands at Wellington has re-
ceived His Majesty's signature.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Members of Christchurch Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 7th April, 1919.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 4 of the Christchurch Domains Amend-
ment Act, 1913, been pleased to appoint
EDGAR FRASER STEAD,
JAMES JAMIESON, and
SIDNEY ARTHUR ORCHARD
to be members of the Christchurch Domain Board.
F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Crown Lands Ranger appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 12th April, 1919.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 29 of the Land Act, 1908, been pleased to
appoint
FRANCIS LEESE WARD
to be a Ranger of Crown Lands for the Nelson Land
District, as from the 1st April, 1919.
F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th April, 1919.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
EREVARD HANNAM HENDERSON
to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the district
of Bay of Plenty.
THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Deputy Official Assignee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th April, 1919.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
FRANK YOUNG
to be Deputy Official Assignee at Gore, vice J. Latham,
on and from the 3rd day of March, 1919.
THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Magistrate's Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th April, 1919.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Constable JAMES HERBERT ARMSTRONG
to be Clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Otorohanga, on and
from the 26th day of March, 1919, vice Constable J. W. S.
Robinson, deceased.
THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.