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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 53

Places for collecting Beer Duty under Part III of the Finance Act, 1915.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by Part III of the Finance Act, 1915, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Customs, do hereby amend Minister's Order No. 1094, dated the 1st day of December, 1915, and gazetted on the 2nd day of December then instant, by deleting the following words appearing in column No. 3 of the Schedule thereto, viz. :—

“Post-offices, Petone and Masterton, and the Police-station, Mangatainoka,”

and by substituting in lieu thereof the words—

“Post-offices, Petone, Masterton, and Pahiatua”;

and do appoint the post-offices at the three last-mentioned places to be places in the district of Wellington at which the duty (beer duty) leviable under Part III of the said Act as amended by Part IV of the Finance Act, 1921 (No. 2), shall be paid, received, and collected.

Given under my hand at Wellington this 13th day of June, 1923.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Customs.

Date of Election of Insurance Members of the Invercargill Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th June, 1923.

PURSUANT to section 18 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Internal Affairs, and the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 5th day of July, 1923, to be the day for the holding of an election of three members of the said Invercargill Fire Board by the fire-insurance companies which for the time being are carrying on business within the said Invercargill Fire District.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Election of Member of Teachers’ Superannuation Board.

Education Department,
Wellington, 15th June, 1923.

IN pursuance of regulations made under the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment Act, 1908, I hereby certify that for the election of a member of the Teachers’ Superannuation Board constituted by the said Act, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Oscar D. Flamank, the following nomination was received :—

Herbert Charles Jones.

As the number of persons nominated does not exceed the number of vacancies to be filled, I hereby declare that the said Herbert Charles Jones is duly elected a member of the said Board.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of June, 1923.

C. E. CRAWFORD,
Secretary to the Teachers’ Superannuation Board, and Returning Officer.

Certificate and Declaration of Execution of Criminal.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th June, 1923.

THE following certificate and declaration are published in conformity with the provisions of the Crimes Act, 1908.

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

CERTIFICATE.

I, HAMILTON ANDREW HUGH GILMER, the Medical Officer in attendance at the execution of Daniel Richard Cooper at the public prison at Wellington known as the Wellington Prison, do hereby certify and declare that I have this day witnessed the execution of the said Daniel Richard Cooper at the said prison, and I do further certify and declare that the said Daniel Richard Cooper was, in pursuance of the sentence of the Supreme Court, hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Given under my hand this sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at the Public Prison at Wellington.

HAMILTON A. H. GILMER, M.D.

DECLARATION.

WE do hereby testify and declare that we have this day been present when the extreme penalty of the law was carried into execution on the body of Daniel Richard Cooper, convicted at the Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court held at Wellington on the 8th day of May, 1923, and sentenced to death, and that the said Daniel Richard Cooper was, in pursuance of the said sentence, hanged by the neck until his body was dead.

Dated this sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at the public prison at Wellington known as the Wellington Prison.

W. A. HAWKINS, Sheriff.
G. S. CLARK, Deputy Sheriff.
M. HAWKINS, Inspector of Prisons.
J. C. SCANLON, Gaoler.
EDWIN ARNOLD, Justice of the Peace.
GORDON FREEMAN.
KENNETH L. USMAR.
BERNARD C. RYDER.
A. H. KIRBY.

Notice of Approval of Appointment of Manager of Private Industrial School.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th June, 1923.

BY virtue of the power vested in me by section 13 of the Industrial Schools Act, 1908, I, Christopher James Parr, Minister of Education of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify my approval of

The Rev. Mother Mary St. Venantius

as Manager of St. Mary’s Industrial School at Nelson.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Education.

Letters of Naturalization granted.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 18th June, 1923.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that letters of naturalization, or endorsement of letters of naturalization, in accordance with the provisions of the Aliens Act, 1908, have been granted to the persons named and described hereunder.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Internal Affairs.