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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 82

Supplementary Teachers' Register and Supplementary Graded List of Primary, Secondary, and Technical School Teachers, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st November, 1925.

THE following list of teachers is issued under the authority of the Minister of Education, in accordance with the requirements of the Education Act. The list contains the names of—

(a.) Teachers added to the Teachers' Register:
(b.) Teachers already in the Teachers' Register

(1.) Now graded, but not previously graded :
(2.) Whose grading has been altered as the result of correction in marks or change in certificate;
(3.) Who are now graded under an additional division.

JNO. CAUGHALEY, Director of Education.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 16th November, 1925.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration to Lieutenant J. R. T. Slipper, 7th N.Z. Mounted Rifles (Wellington East Coast).

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Notice to Persons in whom is vested Ecclesiastical Authority over Religious Bodies.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 25th November, 1925.

THE attention of the persons or person within the Dominion of New Zealand in whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies enumerated in the Third Schedule annexed to an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled the Marriage Act, 1908, and of all other persons concerned, is directed to the 11th section of the above-mentioned Act, requiring the several ecclesiastical authorities as aforesaid to send in to the Registrar-General, in the month of December in every year, a correct list of their Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the Marriage Act, 1908, of each of the said religious bodies.

The following are the religious bodies above referred to:

• The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
• The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
• The Roman Catholic Church.
• The Methodist Church of New Zealand.
• All Congregational Independents.
• Baptists.
• The Lutheran Church.
• All Hebrew Congregations.
• The Society of Friends.
• The Salvation Army.

In default of any person having ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies named above, the name of the Officiating Minister of any congregation of such religious body may be certified to by two recognized office-bearers thereof.

A minister of religion not connected with any of the aforesaid bodies must send to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year a certificate signed—

(a.) By the recognized head in New Zealand of the religious body to which he belongs; or

(b.) By two duly recognized ministers of such religious body; or

(c.) By ten adult members thereof, who append to their signatures their description as being such members, declaring that such minister is their Officiating Minister, the said signatures and descriptions being attested by some person who shall verify the signatures to the certificate as the genuine signatures of the persons whose they purport to be, by a statutory declaration signed by such person and appended to the certificate.

Neglect in sending the certificate will deprive the minister of his status as an Officiating Minister under the Marriage Act.

N.B.—It is requested that the Christian names and the addresses of the several ministers may be specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.

In order to obviate the necessity for further inquiry, it is also requested that the reason for omitting the name of any minister be stated (such as on account of death, absence from New Zealand, or as the case may be).

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1925.—Notice No. 34.

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

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:

• Roman Catholic Church
  • The Reverend Peter Breen.
  • Noel O'Sullivan.
• Methodist Church of New Zealand.
  • The Reverend Ernest Sydney Emmitt.

J. L. PALETHORPE, Acting Registrar-General.