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order and declare that the portion of the Kairara Kauri-gum Reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall, from the thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, cease to be subject to the Kauri-gum Industry Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 32 acres, more or less, and being Section 5, Block XVI, Tutamoe Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 26/17527, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged blue.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing Resident Commissioner for Cook Islands.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

To HUGH FRASER AYSON, Esquire, a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do by these presents issued under my hand and the Seal of the Dominion appoint you

HUGH FRASER AYSON, Esquire,

to be Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga, to be Chief Judge of the High Court of the Cook Islands, and also to be the Chief Judge of the Native Land Court of the Cook Islands, to hold the said offices during my pleasure as from the twenty-third day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, such offices to be held concurrently with your office as Judge of the Native Land Court of New Zealand.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this 13th day of October, 1922.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

Appointing Resident Commissioner for the Island of Niue, Cook Islands.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do by these presents issued under my hand and the Seal of the Dominion appoint

GUY NORMAN MORRIS, Esquire,

to be the Resident Commissioner of Niue, and also to be a Judge of the High Court of the Cook Islands, and also to be a Judge of the Native Land Court of the Cook Islands, to hold the said offices during my pleasure as from the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand; and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this 2nd day of October, 1922.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

Appointment as Rangers 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

MICHAEL MCAULIFFE, of Monowai,

to be a Ranger under the said Act for the Southland Acclimatization District; and

WALTER JAMES VINCENT, of Manaia,

to be a Ranger under the said Act for the Hawera Acclimatization District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 11th day of January, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Honorary Consul of Japan at Auckland appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th January, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King’s Exequator empowering

Mr. A. B. ROBERTON

to act as Honorary Consul of Japan at Auckland received His Majesty’s signature on the 25th October.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th January, 1923.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

WALTER JAMES VINCENT, of Manaia,

to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of the said Act.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Trustee for Midhirst Public Cemetery appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th January, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, been pleased, on the 13th day of January, 1923, to appoint

JOSEPH EDGAR SCHUMACHER

to be a trustee, in place of Dominick Fischer, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Midhirst Public Cemetery.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Sea Fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th January, 1923.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments Act, 1919, appointed

GLASS MURRAY,

of Te Hapua, Parenga, to be an Inspector of Sea Fishing for the purposes of the first-mentioned Act.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Medical Officer appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 12th January, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK WILLIAM KEMP, Esq., M.D.

to be Medical Officer to the Wi Tako Prison, Trentham.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th January, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

ALFRED JAMES SUNCHELL and
BERNARD JOSEPH MACKLE

to be members of the Licensing Committee for the district of Hurunui; and

WILLIAM GEORGE BASSETT

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the district of Wanganui.

F. H. D. BELL, Minister of Justice.