JUNE 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1555

Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

Melvin Brown Esson,

being a person holding the office of Senior Inspector of the Post and Telegraph Department, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand, this 17th day of June, 1924.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Resignation of Minister.

Official Secretary’s Office, Government House,
Wellington, 25th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation of

The Honourable David Henry Guthrie

of the office of Minister of Lands, as on and from the 25th June, 1924.

By Command.

A. CECIL DAY, Official Secretary.

Member of Executive Council appointed.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 25th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Alexander Donald McLeod, Esquire,

to be a member of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand, and the above-named gentleman had taken the oath of office accordingly.

By Command.

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

Minister appointed.

Official Secretary’s Office, Government House,
Wellington, 25th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

The Honourable Alexander Donald McLeod,

to be Minister of Lands as on and from the 25th June, 1924.

By Command.

A. CECIL DAY, Official Secretary.

Legislative Councillors appointed.

Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in His Majesty’s name, summoned

Alexander Scott Malcolm, Esquire, of Balclutha, and
Vernon Herbert Reed, Esquire, of Kawakawa,

to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by writs of summons under the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand, dated 16th June, 1924.

W. F. MASSEY, Prime Minister.

Appointment of Consul-General of Belgium at Sydney recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th June, 1924.

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, pending the receipt of the King’s Exequatur, provisionally recognized the appointment of

Mons. H. Segaert

as Consul-General of Belgium at Sydney for Australia, New Zealand, and the British possessions in the Pacific.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Auckland Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

John Powell Bailey

to be a member of the Auckland Land Board, as from the 10th day of May, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Members of the Wellington Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

James Georgetti

to be a member of the Wellington Land Board as from the 2nd day of May, 1924; and

Charles McIntyre

to be a member of the Wellington Land Board as from the 29th day of May, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Member of the Canterbury Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

Robert Fleet Henderson

to be a member of the Canterbury Land Board.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Marshals of the Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to appoint

William Walters Samson, Esq.,

to be a Marshal of the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Christchurch, and

Ernest White Cave, Esq.,

to be a Marshal of the Supreme Court of New Zealand at Dunedin in respect of its jurisdiction as a Colonial Court of Admiralty under the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Appointment of Representative to Hospital Boards.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, under section 45 (2) of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909,

Joseph Weldon Hebbard,

as representative of the Sounds County on the Picton Hospital Board.

M. POMARE, Minister of Health.

Appointments in the New Zealand Naval Forces.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 19th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments in the New Zealand Naval Forces:—

Gunner (T) Frederick W. Hale, appointed to “Philomel,” to date 10th May, 1924.

Lieutenant Thomas B. R. Woodrooffe, R.N., appointed to “Dunedin,” to date 16th June, 1924.

Lieutenant David R. Campagnac, R.N., appointed to “Philomel,” to date 16th June, 1924.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
For Minister of Defence.