Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th May, 1924.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :

John Young Cameron, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Tauranga, as from the 13th May, 1924; and

John David O'Connor, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Rakaia, as from the 15th May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Assistant Clerk of the Magistrates' Court appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1924.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service :

James Edwin Laing, Esq.,
to be Assistant Clerk of the Magistrates' Court at Morrinsville for the purposes of section 8 of the Magistrates' Courts Amendment Act, 1922, as from the 19th day of May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Clerk of the Magistrates' Court appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1924.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service :

James Miller, Esq.,
to be Clerk of the Magistrates' Court at Morrinsville, for the purposes of the Magistrates' Court Act, 1908, as from the 19th day of May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates' Court appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1924.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service :

William James Vernon, Esq.,
to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates' Court at Taihape for the purposes of the Magistrates' Court Act, 1908, as from the 7th day of May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrars of Electors appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th May, 1924.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :

John Young Cameron, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Tauranga, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 13th day of May, 1924; and

James Valentine Lawes, Esq.,
to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Manukau, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 19th day of May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Waipawa appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th May, 1924.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service :

Walter Parker, Esq.,
to be the Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Waipawa, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 2nd day of June, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrars of Electors and Returning Officers appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th May, 1924.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :

Percy Fulton, Esq.,
to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Gisborne, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of April, 1924; and

Leslie Gavin Campbell Bartrum Packard, Esq.,
to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Wellington Suburbs, for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 6th day of May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Registrars of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 28th May, 1924.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :

(Mrs.) Olive Janet Moir Clark

(to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Owhataiti, as from the 12th May, 1924.

Thomas Gracie, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Pukepoto, as from the 1st May, 1924.

(Miss) Elizabeth Mary Lena Gibbons
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Matapihi, as from the 1st May, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Cemetery Trustees resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 28th May, 1924.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignations of Richard Holman Parish, Lemuel Newport, George Smith, and James Cook as trustees of the Oxford Public Cemetery.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Military Defaulters List.

IN pursuance of the provisions in that behalf of the Expeditionary Forces Amendment Act of 1918, the Minister of Defence for the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby amend the Military Defaulters List, as published in the Gazette of the 14th May, 1919, by deleting therefrom the name set forth in the Schedule hereto.

Dated this 27th day of May, 1924.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Defence.

SCHEDULE.

DELETION under section 10 of the Expeditionary Forces Amendment Act, 1918 :
No. 93056. Copeland, Malcolm, Sailor, 97 College Hill, Auckland.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 21st May, 1924.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration to Major T. R. Creswell, the Wellington Regiment.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Defence.