Appointment of Members of the Board of Land Purchase Commissioners.

NOTICE is hereby given that in exercise of the powers conferred in this behalf by section 4 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, as amended by section 38 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1914, I have this day appointed

JOHN EDWARD WELLS, of Okaihau, North Auckland;
OSCAR MONRAD, of Palmerston North, Wellington;
ARTHUR JOHN MURRAY, Kekerangu, Marlborough; and GEORGE MACMAHON, of Tapawera, Nelson;

to be members of the Board of Land Purchase Commissioners constituted under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, for the period ending 31st March, 1921.

Given under my hand this 20th day of June, 1919.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Resignation of Trustee of Motu Public Cemetery accepted.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, by his Deputy, been pleased to accept the resignation of EDWARD RICHARDSON as trustee for the Motu Public Cemetery.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Member of Napier Harbour Board.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 18th June, 1919.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of section 18 of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, as amended by section 2 of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1913, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, appointed WILLIAM JAMES McGRATH

to be a member of the Napier Harbour Board, in place of Alfred Luther Beattie, resigned.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Marine.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint CHARLES VERNON ROBERTS

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the district of Waipawa, vice H. G. Smith, transferred.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Sittings of Magistrate's Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th June, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint THE WAIKOHU COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, TE KARAKA, to be a place wherein a Magistrate's Court shall be held under the provisions of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1908.

THOMAS M. WILFORD,
Minister of Justice.

Registrar of Electors appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th May, 1919.

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

WILLIAM HARTÉ

to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Waitaki, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 7th day of May, 1919.

T. MARK,
Acting-Secretary.

Substitute Registrar of Electors appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 14th June, 1919.

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

ALEXANDER CATHCART WALLACE MURDOCH

to be Substitute Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Stratford, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of June, 1919.

T. MARK,
Acting-Secretary.

Registrars of Births, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 20th June, 1919.

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

CHARLES ALEXANDER GAITT

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Vaccination Inspector, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris for the district of Awakino, as from the 4th June, 1919.

A. C. TURNBULL,
Secretary.

Deputy Sheriff appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1919.

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

JOHN HENRY CARBAD

to be Deputy Sheriff for the district of Nelson, for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, as from the 29th day of April, 1919.

A. C. TURNBULL,
Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1919.

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.:—

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds by the Mount Eden Borough Council.—Notice No. 1965.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 24th June, 1919.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Mount Eden Borough Council has, by special order, declared gorse (Ulex europaeus) and fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

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