Jan. 13.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 29

Appointment of a Representative of the Waimate County Council on the Waimate Hospital Committee of Management.

Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 7th January, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, under section 15 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, to appoint

ISAAC ANDREWS, of Waihoa Downs,

as a representative of the Waimate County Council on the Waimate Hospital Committee.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Health.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 11th January, 1921.

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. :—

Henry Joseph Fletcher .. Waipawa (at Otane).*
John Excell .. Matamata.
John Morton .. Lyttelton.
Arthur Henry Hayman .. Oxford.
John Thomas Williams .. Dargaville.
Hugh Reid Scott .. Otepopo.
Francis Thomas Port .. Mataura.
James Bruce Davis .. Naseby.
Albert Pulman Stuart .. Whakatane.
William Morrison Allan .. Kaiapoi.
Margaret Louise Theobald (Miss) Norsewood.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Registrar of Native Land Courts appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1920.

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

HENRY SEYMOUR KING

to be Registrar of the Native Land Courts for the Ikaroa District and the South Island District, for the purposes of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the amendments thereof, as from the 1st day of December, 1920.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrars of Births, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 5th January, 1921.

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

JOHN JOSEPH KEARNEY

to be Registrar of Marriages, Registrar of Births and Deaths, and Vaccination Inspector, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris, for the district of Feilding, as from the 20th December, 1920.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Local Deputy Public Trustee appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 7th January, 1921.

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

PERCY REGINALD WINCHCOMB

to be local Deputy Public Trustee at Palmerston North, as from the 5th day of January, 1921.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Superintendent of Prison appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 7th January, 1921.

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

THOMAS VINCENT

to be Superintendent of the Auckland Prison for the purposes of the Prisons Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of December, 1920.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

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Registrars of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 4th January, 1921.

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

ALBERT JOSEPH MULLER

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths, and Vaccination Inspector, for the district of Devonport, as from the 17th December, 1920.

WILLIAM FLETCHER KENNEDY

to be Registrar of Marriages, Registrar of Births and Deaths, Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris, and Vaccination Inspector, for the district of Rangitikei, as from the 14th December, 1920.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Promotions and Changes in Seniority of Officers of the N.Z. Staff Corps and the Regiment of Royal N.Z. Artillery.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 29th December, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following promotions and changes in seniority of officers of the N.Z. Staff Corps and the Regiment of Royal N.Z. Artillery.

N.Z. STAFF CORPS.

Captain William Ivan Kirke Jennings, D.S.O., is granted additional seniority in his rank as from 1st April, 1916.

Captain Daniel Eric Bremner, M.C., is granted additional seniority in his rank as from 1st April, 1917.

Captain (on probation) Owen Herbert Mead, D.S.O., is granted additional seniority in his rank as from 1st June, 1917.

The undermentioned to be Captains, with seniority as from 1st December, 1919 :—

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Keith Lindsay Stewart, M.B.E.

Lieutenant Leonard George Goss.

Lieutenant Donald Hamish William Hawken Donaldson.

REGIMENT OF ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY.

Captain Reginald Miles, D.S.O., M.C., is granted additional seniority in his rank as from 1st April, 1916.

Captain (on probation) Thomas Farr, D.S.O., M.C., is granted additional seniority in his rank as from 1st September, 1919.

The undermentioned to be Captains, with seniority as from 1st December, 1919 :—

Lieutenant Graham Beresford Parkinson.

Lieutenant Ronald Stuart Park.

The increments in pay appropriate to these promotions and changes in seniority will take effect as from 1st January, 1921, and with no retrospective effect.

R. H. RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Club disbanded.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 30th December, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the disbandment of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club, in accordance with section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :—

Rapanui Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Wanganui.

Dated 10th December, 1920.

R. H. RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Dismissals from the Defence Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 22nd December, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the dismissal of the undermentioned from the New Zealand Defence Forces, under section 6 (b) of the Defence Act, 1909, they having been convicted by the Civil power :—

No. 49/3243, Private CHARLES CRIG COOK SHIEFFELBEIN, 8th (Southland) Regiment.

No. 50/993, Private EDWARD WEAVERS, 8th (Southland) Regiment.

Dated 11th December, 1920.

R. H. RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury, Wellington, 6th January, 1921.

I HEREBY acknowledge receipt of the sum of £1, forwarded to the Collector of Customs by a person unknown, as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

J. J. ESSON,
Acting Secretary to the Treasury.