SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

PART Section 13, Block I, Gore Survey District, Sounds County: Area, 6 acres l rood 9 perches; upset price, £600.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 5th day of August, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Amendment to Regulations governing the Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations governing the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two; and I do hereby declare that the amendment hereby made shall come into force as from the date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES, 1913.—APPENDIX IX.

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

SUBPARAGRAPH (12) is hereby revoked, and the following substituted :—

“(12.) Applications for the decoration shall be made on N.Z. Army Form No. 76E; and will be forwarded through the usual channel to General Headquarters. The Minister of Defence will recommend to the Governor-General for approval the applications of those officers who have qualified for the award. Where officers have served part of the necessary qualifying service in the Auxiliary Forces of the Empire, other than those of New Zealand, proof of such service, in the form of certified true copies of certificates or other documents, must accompany the application.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 3rd day of August, 1922.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Coroner appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1922.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Joseph Motley, Esq., J.P., of Te Aroha, to be a Coroner within the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Official Assignee resigns.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th August, 1922.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by

William Leonard Butler, Esq., of his appointment as Deputy Official Assignee at Gisborne.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Stipendiary Magistrate appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th August, 1922.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Victor Grace Day, Esq., to be a Stipendiary Magistrate for New Zealand; the appointment to take effect on and from the 1st August, 1922.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice

Member of Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 8th August, 1922.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Rameka Henare

to be a member of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Tongariro, vice Te Whetu Henare.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Clerk of the Magistrate's Court appointed at Temuka.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 7th August, 1922.

The Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:-

William Dryburgh Wallace

to be Clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Temuka, for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1908, as from the lst day of August, 1922.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Returning Officers for the Licensing Districts of Auckland and Wellington appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 7th August, 1922.

The Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:-

Frank Evans and Denzil Ardell

to be Returning Officers for the Licensing Districts of Auckland and Wellington respectively, for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, as from the 31st day of July, 1922.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 8th August, 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. :-

(Miss) Isabella Lucy May King .. Owhango. (Miss) Evelyn May Rapley .. Kaiwarawara. Albert Nyanza Wallace .. Mercer. (Miss) Adela Catherine McAtamney .. Hamilton. Percival Samuel Henry Chambers .. Cust. James Holmes .. Petone. Leonard Arthur Lee .. Waipara. * Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1922.—Notice No. 24.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 8th August, 1922.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information :-

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Edward Herbert Strong, M.A.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

Roy Valentine McKenzie, Esq., of Kerang, in the State of Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has this day been appointed by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Stout, P.C., K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the State of Victoria, under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of August, 1922.

W. A. HAWKINS, Registrar, Supreme Court.