Mar. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 951

Act, 1908, shall not apply to the road specified in the Schedule hereto.

“Schedule.

“All that portion of the road known as the Fairhall Valley Road, in the Wairau Road District, Marlborough Land District, commencing at the point marked ‘A,’ and thence to the point marked ‘B,’ on the plan deposited in the Land Transfer Office at Blenheim as No. 769, and passing through Sections 100 and 102, Blocks I and II, Taylor Pass Survey District”:

And whereas it is deemed expedient that such resolution should be approved:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the above-in-part-recited Acts, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby approve of the said resolution.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that portion of the Fairhall Valley Road, situated in the Marlborough Land District, Wairau Road District, adjoining or passing through part Sections 100 and 102, Omaka, Blocks I and II, Taylor Pass Survey District. As the said portion of road is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 47663, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured blue.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amalgamation of Military Groups.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend, in the manner and to the extent set forth hereunder, the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette Extraordinary of the eighteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, relative to the boundaries of military districts, groups, and areas.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY MILITARY DISTRICT.

No. 9 (Christchurch) Group and No. 11 (North Canterbury) Group are hereby amalgamated and designated No. 9 (Christchurch) Group. This Group is comprised as follows: The counties of Waimairi, Heathcote, Paparua, Halswell, Mount Herbert, Akaroa, Wairewa, Amuri, Cheviot, Waipara, Ashley, Kowai, Rangiora, Oxford, Eyre, Tawera, Malvern, Springs, Ellesmere, and Selwyn, and Chatham Islands.

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

J. G. COATES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Anthrax, Erysipelas, and Tetanus declared to be Infectious Diseases.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of section twelve of the Public Health Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the diseases known as anthrax, erysipelas, and tetanus to be infectious diseases within the meaning of the said Act.

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

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of Public Health.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Act appointed for Taranaki District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th March, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

BENJAMIN TIPPINS

a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the Taranaki Acclimatization District.

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Head Office,
Wellington, 11th March, 1920.

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

EDWARD PAGE,

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. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Railways.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable LAWRENCE FOX

to be an Inspector under the Factories Act, 1908. The appointment is dated the 25th day of February, 1920.

W. H. HERRIES,
For Minister of Labour.

Clerk of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 24th March, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant JOHN DOUGAN

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Port Chalmers, on and from the 1st day of April, 1920, vice A. E. Reynolds.

J. G. COATES,
Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd March, 1920.

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.
Walter Wackrill Sutton .. .. Feilding.
(Miss) Mary Frances Ingles .. Linwood (at Christchurch).
Robert Bertie Brebner .. .. Middlemarch.
(Miss) Beatrice Ellen McClean .. Maungaturoto.
John Frances Barrett .. .. Otahuhu.
Cecil Edward Shanaghan .. .. Nelson.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

Registrars of Births, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 18th March, 1920.

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

MARCUS CHRISTIAN HANSEN

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths, and Vaccination Inspector, for the district of Granity (at Millerton), as from the 10th January, 1920.

HENRY ONSLOW BOWDEN

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Vaccination Inspector, for the district of Waitahuna, as from the 16th February, 1920.

WILLIAM THOMAS COAD

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Vaccination Inspector, for the district of Westport, as from the 13th March, 1920.

PERCY EDWARD ISLIP

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Vaccination Inspector, for the Hyde Railway District, as from the 8th March, 1920.

A. C. TURNBULL,
Secretary.