Mar. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 607

SEVENTH SCHEDULE.

THE following persons presently residing in the Island of Manihiki :—

Abela Williams. Napara.
Araipu Tokoa. Pokipoki.
Ben Ellis. Purua.
Dan Ellis. Puti.
Fafie. Taepae Boaza.
George Williams. Taia.
John Dean. Temu Samuela.
Metuangaro. Temu Tamaroa.
Munakoa Taia. Toka Eli.
Munakoa Timo. Toma Iti.

EIGHTH SCHEDULE.

THE following persons presently residing in the Island of Rakahanga :—

Atama. Robati.
David Greig. Soma.
Elisaia. Setephano.
Eriakina. Takai Amarama.
Hagai Iti. Takai Stephano.
Isaia. Tuaraki.
Kairua. Tuarau Apera.
Motutara. Tuarau Hagai.
Ngaari. Tuatai.
Pake. Vaine.

As witness the hand of his Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of February, 1926.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations under the 288th Section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

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

William James Forsyth, Esq.,

being a person holding the office of District Public Trustee at Dannevirke, 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 March, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Crown Solicitor appointed.

Crown Law Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Arthur Izard, Esquire, LL.B.,

to be Crown Solicitor at Wanganui during the absence from Wanganui of Gifford Marshall, Esquire.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Attorney-General.

Cemetery Trustees resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 6th March, 1926.

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

Humphrey Callister,
Joseph Alfred Dudson,
Thomas Edward Maunsell,
William Howard Booth,
Henry Mansfield Burney Trapp,
William Bennett Allen,
George Allen,
William Charles Deller, and
William Tucker

as trustees of the Carterton Public Cemetery.

F. J. ROLLESTON, for Minister of Lands.

Cemetery Trustees resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1926.

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

James Beattie Black,
Christopher Leslie Clearwater,
John Clearwater,
Edwin Arthur Leonard Grigg, and
Albert George McTaggart

as trustees of the Dunoon Public Cemetery.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Lands.

Member of Nelson Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th February, 1926.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 49 of the Land Act, 1924, reappointed

George MacMahon

as a member of the Nelson Land Board, as from the 9th March, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Courthouse appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 10th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

The Ex-Soldiers’ Club, Takaka,

to be a place wherein a Magistrate’s Court shall be held under the provisions of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, in lieu of the Courthouse, Takaka, previously appointed.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Appointments in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy :—

Surgeon-Commander Sheldon Francis Dudley, O.B.E., M.D., D.P.N., R.N., to H.M.S. “Dunedin” as Squadron Medical Officer; to date 22nd March, 1926.

Surgeon-Commander George Donald Macintosh, M.B., R.N., to H.M.S. “Diomede” (additional), and to that ship vice Dudley, on relieving him.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Appointment in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointment in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy :—

Mr. Robert Yule Baillie,

appointed to H.M.S. “Philomel” as Probationary Schoolmaster, to date 10th March, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1926.

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

Allan Lansley, Esq.,

to be a Nautical Surveyor of Ships and Inspector of Ships’ Compasses for the purposes of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, as from the 16th day of February, 1926.

Neil Fleming, Esq.,

to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Wellington Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, as from the 1st day of March, 1926.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.