Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3491

Section 20, Block X: Area, 142 acres 1 rood 28 perches. Capital value, £400. Occupation with right to purchase: Half-yearly rent, £10. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £8.

Situated about one mile and three-quarters from Gorge Railway-siding, Post-office, and School. Access by good metal road. Practically level bush land, all sawmilling timber having been removed. There is a considerable quantity of good fencing-material. Watered by streams. All bush area of these sections has good dry bottom, with the exception of approximately an area of 20 acres on Section 64, which is swamp, but can be drained.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of December, 1925.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Lands.

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 16th December, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize

Lucy Reid

of Taupo, to act as an Interpreter of the First Grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th December, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been pleased to appoint

Dr. J. Allan Thomson and
Mr. B. C. Aston

to be members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute as constituted by the New Zealand Institute Act, 1908.

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

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

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 16th December, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority conferred by section seventy-nine of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

Alfred Allan Campbell, of Tawanui,

to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

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

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th December, 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 under-mentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Wellington Acclimatization District:—

Walter Robert Nash, of Wadestown.

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

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th December, 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 under-mentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Otago Acclimatization District, viz.:—

John Duncan, jun.

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

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th December, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Walter Robert Nash, of Wadestown,

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

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

Chairman of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st December, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Henry Wilfred Bundle, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the districts of Dunedin, Dunedin South, and Chalmers, as from the 1st of December, 1925, vice J. R. Bartholomew, Esq., S.M., on leave.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, revoked.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 16th December, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has revoked the appointment made under the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointing

Charles Burridge, of Petone,

to be an officer for the purposes of the first-mentioned Act in respect of the Wellington Acclimatization District.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 16th December, 1925.

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

Arthur Sutherland Gibson, Esq.,

to be a Nautical Surveyor of Ships, Inspector of Ships’ Compasses, and Inspector of Seamen, for the purposes of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and its amendments, as from the 11th day of December, 1925.

John Moultrie Ferriday, Esq.,

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, and for the purposes of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, as from the 12th day of December, 1925.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Appointment of Deputy Public Trustee.

NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section 3 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, I, the Public Trustee of the Dominion of New Zealand, have appointed

Adam Rae McNeilly,

of the Public Trust Office, Hawera, to be Deputy of the District Public Trustee, Hawera, during the absence of such District Public Trustee from his headquarters.

Dated at Wellington this 16th day of December, 1925.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st December, 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.:—

Lloyd Andrew Betten . . . . Waimate.
Richard John Snow . . . . West Taieri.
Wallace Charles Ivan Sumner . . . . Rotorua.
Malcolm Ellis Eagle . . . . Mount Cook.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.