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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 95

District as set forth in the Schedule hereto, and declare that the said district shall hereafter be comprised as described in the said Schedule; and do also hereby appoint the place named in the Schedule hereto to be the registration office of the said district.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH BRANDING REGISTRATION DISTRICT.

Branding Registration District.—All that area comprising the counties of Sounds, Marlborough, and Awatere as at present constituted, and including all boroughs and town districts in or adjacent to that area, together with D'Urville, Arapawa, and the other adjacent islands.

Registration Office.—Borough of Blenheim.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of December, 1922.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Certified Home under the Reformatory Institutions Act, 1909.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by Warrant dated the tenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, the Christchurch Diocesan Mission Home at Styx, Christchurch, was certified to be a Reformatory Home under the Reformatory Institutions Act, 1909 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”): And whereas the said Home has been transferred from the property situated at Styx to property situated at No. 429 Papanui Road, Christchurch, and it is desired to recertify the building on the last-named property as a Reformatory Home under the said Act:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, being satisfied as to the fitness of the Home, do hereby certify the building at No. 429 Papanui Road, Christchurch, as described in the Schedule hereto, to be a Reformatory Home under the said Act, in lieu of the building certified in the said Warrant dated the tenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

SCHEDULE.

ST. ANNE'S HOME FOR GIRLS, 429 PAPANUI ROAD,
CHRISTCHURCH.

ALL that building, containing twelve rooms, with appurtenances thereto, situate on Lot 4, D.P. 2063, part of Rural Section No. 135, Christchurch Survey District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 0 roods 8 perches, more or less, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 323, folio 82, Canterbury Land Registry.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of December, 1922.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Cemetery Trustees resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th December, 1922.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignations of THOMAS BENNETT, GEORGE MURDOCH, and SAMUEL BOYD McLAUCHLAN as trustees of the Mayfield Public Cemetery.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Consul of France at Auckland recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th December, 1922.

His Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that, in accordance with instructions from His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has recognized provisionally, pending the receipt of the King's Exequatur, the appointment of Monsieur PAUL SERRE

as Consul of France at Auckland, with jurisdiction over New Zealand, the Cook, Suwarrow, Penrhyn, and Palmerston Islands, and Tonga.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment as Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint ARTHUR JAS. SAUSBY BLYTHE, of Papatoetoe, to be a Ranger under the said Act for the Auckland Acclimatization District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 12th day of December, 1922.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th December, 1922.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint ROBERT H. SHEPPARD to be a Ranger under the said Act for the Auckland Acclimatization District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 20th day of December, 1922.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

Minister of Internal Affairs.

Visiting Justice to H.M. Prisons appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 16th December, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint MICHAEL HAWKINS, Esq., to be Visiting Justice to His Majesty’s prisons at “Waikune,” Erua, and “Hautu,” near Tokaanu.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace resigns.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th December, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by DANIEL HOLLY WILLIAMSON, Esq., of Aramoho, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court of New Zealand appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th December, 1922.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service :— JOHN KENNEDY to be Deputy Registrar at Palmerston North of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of December, 1922.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrars of Births, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 14th December, 1922.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :— JOSEPH THOMAS ECCLETON to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris, for the district of Opunake, as from the 9th December, 1922.

IVAN INNES McGREGOR

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Hutt, as from the 29th November, 1922.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.