Commission appointing the Right Honourable Viscount Jellicoe to be Governor-General of New Zealand.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 28th September, 1920.

THE following Commission, appointing the Right Honourable Viscount Jellicoe to be Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand, is published for general information.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

NEW ZEALAND.

COMMISSION passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet, appointing Admiral of the Fleet the Right Honourable Viscount Jellicoe, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., to be Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand.

GEORGE R.I.

George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India: To Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Cousin, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Admiral of Our Fleet, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Member of Our Order of Merit, Knight Grand Cross of Our Royal Victorian Order : Greeting.

We do, by this Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet, appoint you the said John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, to be, during Our pleasure, Our Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Dominion of New Zealand, with all the powers, rights, privileges, and advantages to the said Office belonging or appertaining.

II. And We do hereby authorize, empower, and command you to exercise and perform all and singular the powers and directions contained in certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster the Eleventh day of May, 1917, constituting the said Office of Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief or in any other Letters Patent adding to, amending, or substituted for the same, according to such Orders and Instructions as the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief for the time being hath already received, or as you may hereafter receive from Us.

III. And We do hereby appoint that so soon as you shall have taken the prescribed Oaths and have entered upon the duties of your Office, this Our present Commission shall supersede Our Commission under Our Sign Manual and Signet, bearing date the Twelfth day of May, 1917, appointing Our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Cousin (now Our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor) Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (now also Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), Member of Our Royal Victorian Order, to be Our Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Our Dominion of New Zealand.

IV. And We do hereby command all and singular Our Officers, Ministers, and loving subjects in Our said Dominion, and all others whom it may concern, to take due notice hereof, and to give their ready obedience accordingly.

Given at Our Court at Saint James's, this Fifth day of July, 1920, in the Eleventh Year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty's Command,

MILNER.

Alterations to the Scale of Fares, Rates, and Charges in Force upon the Tauranga to Opotiki Section, East Coast Main Trunk Railway.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 11 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, the Minister of Public Works, do hereby order and declare that the regulations, scale of fares, rates, and charges for passengers and goods, and the conditions on which passengers and goods will be carried on the Tauranga to Opotiki Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway prior to its being opened for traffic under the Government Railways Act, 1908, made on the 8th day of August, 1917, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 16th August, 1917, are hereby further altered by including therein the alterations made in the scale of fares, rates, and charges in force upon the New Zealand Government Railways as published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 24th August, 1920, so far as they affect the parts of the handbook referred to in Part I of the Schedule to the above-recited notice of the 8th day of August, 1917; and clause (5) of the said Part I shall accordingly be read as if the words "and the 24th

August, 1920," were inserted after the words "and the 22nd November, 1917," inserted by Warrant under the hand of the Minister of Public Works dated the 7th day of December, 1917, and published in Gazette No. 79, of 13th December, 1917. And I do further order and declare that such alterations shall come into force on the 1st day of October, 1920.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 20th day of September, 1920.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks I and IX, Alton Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Blocks I and IX, Alton Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Papatotara, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken :-

A. R. P.

3 1 34 Portion of Section 2, Block I.

2 3 13-8 " 6 " IX.

Situated in Alton Survey District (Southland R.D.). In the Southland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 49600, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 22nd day of September, 1920.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Date of Election to fill Extraordinary Vacancy on Hawera Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 27th September, 1920.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the rules made thereunder, I, George James Anderson, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Friday, the 15th October, 1920, to be the date for holding the election of one member of the Hawera Fire Board by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill an extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. F. C. Haycraft.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

Date of Election to fill Extraordinary Vacancy on Dannevirke, Hastings, and Napier Fire Boards by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 27th September, 1920.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the rules made thereunder, I, George James Anderson, being the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the 20th October, 1920, to be the date for holding the election of one member of the Dannevirke, Hastings, and Napier Fire Boards by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill an extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. F. C. Tattle.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

Plumbers Registration Act, 1912.-Removal of Name from Register.

PURSUANT to section 21 of the Plumbers Registration Act, 1912, the name of JOHN AULD, Reg. No. 439, has been removed from the Register for a period of six months from the 23rd day of August, 1920.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Public Health.