Nov. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3279

Exempting Crown Land in the Westland Land District from Mining.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by paragraph (b) of subsection one of section eighteen of the Mining Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be exempted from mining; and do hereby further declare that this notice shall take effect as from the date of the gazetting thereof.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement 33 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section 3593, Block II, Brunner Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan marked N. 6/4/22, deposited in the Head Office of the Mines Department at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged green.

All that parcel of land in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 0 roods 25 perches, more or less, being Reserve No. 697, situated in Block II, Brunner Survey District. As the same is delineated on plan marked N. 6/4/22, deposited in the Head Office of the Mines Department at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor General, this 14th day of November, 1925.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N 6/4/22.)

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th November, 1925.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—
James William Yexley Miles, Esq.,
to be Deputy Registrar of Copyright, in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1913, and Deputy Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks, under section 114 (l) of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22, as from the Ist day of November, 1925.

William Edward West, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Makomako, as from the 26th October, 1925.

George Nicholas Cole, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waiomatatini, as from the 2nd November, 1925.

Thomas Tudhope, Esq.,
to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Auckland Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, as from the 19th day of November, 1925.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Officer for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th November, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Alfred Oxenham, of Beechlands,
to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Rangers under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the undermentioned persons have been appointed Rangers under and for the purposes of that Act for the Auckland Acclimatization District:

Alfred Oxenham, of Beechlands,
Allen Colin Lowe,
Lionel Harold Hillman,
George Alexander Nisbet.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 17th November, 1925.

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 and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Arthur Gladstone Woodley,
of Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island, Police Constable, to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of Part I of the firstmentioned Act.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Chairman of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th November, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Charles Rutherford Orr-Walker, Esq., S.M.,
to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Waitomo, Taranaki, Stratford, and Egmont, vice J. W. Poynton, Esq., S.M.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Clerks of Magistrates' Courts appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th November, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable William Temple Dark
to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates' Court at Owaka on and from the 31st day of October, 1925, vice Constable G. F. Bonisch, transferred, and

Constable Arthur Gladstone Woodley
to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates' Court at Halfmoon Bay on and from the 2nd November, 1925, vice Constable F. J. Doak, transferred.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

James Gifford Grierson ... Geraldine.
Jonathan Arnold Burgess ... Motupiko.
William Rickerby ... Tirau.

J. L. PALETHORPE, Acting Registrar-General.