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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 11

Sections 32s and 35s : The lessee will be required to take one-twelfth share of miscellaneous license over Section 2, Block XXIII, Teviot District, the area of which is 77 acres, and the total annual rental £5, and to pay in cash £50, being one-twelfth share with the lessees of Runs 603, 638 to 644, and Allotments 3s, 7s, and 8s, in huts, dip, yards, also bridge over the Teviot River.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Teviot Settlement is situated about five miles from Miller’s Flat and about twenty miles from Beaumont Railway-station, the present terminus of the Lawrence-Roxburgh Railway. The land is undulating, each section containing a large proportion of ploughable land. The greater part is at present in pasture. The soil is a good schist loam, on a clay or rubble subsoil. Capable of growing cereal, root crops, and very good grass. Access is provided by formed roads.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of February, 1925.

R. HEATON RHODES,
For Minister of Lands.

Member of Island Council of Mauke, Cook Islands, appointed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by section sixty-five of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and by an Order in Council of the twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, establishing (inter alia) an Island Council for the Island of Mauke, in the Cook Islands, and determining the constitution thereof, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Teauai

of the district of Ngatiarua, to be a member of the said Island Council of Mauke in lieu of Akarere, deceased, to hold office during my pleasure as from the date hereof.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of February, 1925.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take an receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

Emily Louisa Young (Miss) . . . . Half-moon Bay.
Janet Evans (Mrs.) . . . . Tahai.
Samuel James Williams . . . . Te Kuiti.

As witness my hand, this 6th day of February, 1925.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Officer appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section two hundred and eighty-eight of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, and section sixteen of the Justices of the Peace Amendment Act, 1923, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Oliver Joseph Wright, being a person holding the office of Accountant, Chief Post Office, Christchurch, 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 6th day of February, 1925.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Additional Appointment to Staff of His Excellency the Governor-General.

Government House,
Wellington, 6th February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to make the following additional appointment to his Staff:—

David Johnston Keswick, Esq., to be Assistant Private Secretary.

G. J. LITTLE, Private Secretary.

King’s Counsel appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Henry Hubert Ostler, Esq.,

of Auckland, to be King’s Counsel, the Right Honourable the Chief Justice having concurred in such appointment as provided in regulations made by Order in Council dated the 21st day of January, 1907.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Judge of the Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Henry Hubert Ostler, Esq., K.C.,

to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, under section 11 of the Judicature Act, 1908.

F. H. D. BELL, Attorney-General.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

George Ritchie, Esq.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Dunedin ; and

Alexander John Magson, Esq.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Ellesmere.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th February, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Hugh Munro

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Franklin, vice E. J. Gifford.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 11th February, 1925.

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

(Mrs.) Mary Elizabeth Ada Martin

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Apiti, as from the 28th January, 1925 ; and

Walter Wackrill Sutton, Esq.,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Eltham, as from the 2nd February, 1925.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.