JAN. 19.]

mostly in gullies; balance manuka and fern, carrying a
quantity of danthonia feed; suitable for sheep; undulating
to broken. Distant from Taumarere or Hukerenui railway-
stations, thirteen and ten miles, by cart-road from Taumarere
and fair formed road from Hukerenui.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 11th day of January, 1922.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.
Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by the
two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices
of the Peace Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
notify and declare that the person set out in the Schedule
hereto, being a person holding the office of Postmaster under
the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the place set opposite
his name in the said Schedule, is authorized to take and
receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-
eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.
SCHEDULE.
Otto Eigil List, Piopio.
As witness my hand, this 16th day of January, 1922.
JELLICOE, Governor-General.
Trustees of Waipa Drainage District appointed.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th January, 1922.
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased,
in terms of section 10 of the Land Drainage Act, 1908,
to appoint
Mary Ann Farmer,
Samuel Lytton Chadwick,
Herbert Arthur Lurman,
John James Walker, and
Thomas Tomlins
to be members of the Board of Trustees of the Waipa Drainage
District.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
Member of Marlborough Land Board reappointed.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th January, 1922.
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to reappoint
Archibald McCallum
to be a member of the Marlborough Land Board, as from
the 17th January, 1922.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.
Trustees for Public Cemeteries appointed.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th January, 1922.
His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, been pleased,
on the 11th day of January, 1922, to appoint
Ernest Windley and
Courtenay Walter Solomon
to be trustees, in the place of John Rod, deceased, and Frederick
Herbert Petrie, resigned, to provide for the maintenance
and care of the Porirua Public Cemetery.
James Hoban and
William John MacMillan
to be trustees, in the place of John Butler and William Edward
Hare, left the district, to provide for the maintenance
and care of the Culverden Public Cemetery.
John James Chapman, Jun.,
William Schmidt, and
Thomas Edmund Astwood
to be trustees, in the place of Edward Walsh, John Sheehy,
and John James Chapman, sen., left the district, to provide
for the maintenance and care of the Tongaporutu Public
Cemetery.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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Commissioner of Police appointed.
Police Department,
Wellington, 11th January, 1922.
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Arthur Hobbins Wright, Esq.,
to be Commissioner of the New Zealand Police Force, as from
1st January, 1922, vice John O'Donovan, Esq., M.V.O.,
resigned.
E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.
Officers of Police Force appointed.
Police Department,
Wellington, 11th January, 1922.
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Inspector Bartholomew Sheehan
to be a Superintendent,
Sub-Inspector Joseph Charles Willis
to be an Inspector, and
Senior Sergeant William Eccles
to be a Sub-Inspector
of the New Zealand Police Force, the appointment in each
case to take effect from 1st January, 1922.
E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice,
Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.
Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 11th January, 1922.
In pursuance of the 10th section of the Friendly Societies
Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has
been pleased to license
Thomas Clarence Howard Nicholls, of Inglewood,
to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act,
1909.
G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister in Charge.
Inspector of Factories appointed.
Department of Labour,
Wellington, 17th January, 1922.
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Thomas George Dunn
to be an Inspector of Factories for the purposes of the
Factories Act, 1908.
G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Labour.
Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.
Notice No. 2132.
Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 12th January, 1922.
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
William Rowson
to be an Inspector of the purposes of the Noxious Weeds
Act, 1908, for the Borough of Stratford, the appointment
to date as from the 12th January, 1922.
W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.
Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 17th January, 1922.
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.--
William Craw ... Waipara.
Leonard Graham ... Little River.
Thomas Henry Stewart ... Waitara.
Herbert James Sanders ... Buller.
Godfrey Montgomery ... Hamilton.
Ephraim Leo Dickie ... Awakino.
James Edward Biggar ... Catlin's.
John Hayman Lynch ... Morrinsville.
Edwin Gordon Palmer ... Otorohanga.
W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.