Jan. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 69

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 and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
William Austin Hutchings .. Ariki.
Hector Robertson .. Patetonga.
Derek Desmond Thomson .. Taitimu.
Percy James Howell .. Te Pohue.

As witness my hand this 21st day of December, 1925.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Postmaster 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 Gerald Watson McCarthy,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Pleasant Point, 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 21st day of December, 1925.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Member of Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 21st December, 1925.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Rawiri Hemopo

to be a member of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Tongariro, vice Kahu te Kuru, resigned.
J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 29th December, 1925.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize Wakarara Karaka,

of Tokomaru Bay, 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.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th December, 1925.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed John Duncan, jun., of Mataura,

to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Argentine Vice-Consul at Auckland.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1925.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty's Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs that the King's Exequatur empowering Frank Seering Battley, Esq.,

to act as Argentine Vice-Consul at Auckland received his Majesty's signature on the 17th October, 1925.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd 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 undermentioned persons have been appointed Rangers under and for the purposes of that Act for the Southland Acclimatization District:
Peter Auld, of Pyramid.
James Liggatt, of Woodlands.
James Newman, of Te Anau.
Norman Cameron, of Te Anau.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th 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 undermentioned person has been appointed Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Auckland Acclimatization District :
Alan Pye, of Waimiha.
G. JAS. ANDERSON,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Hawera Fire Board appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st January, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Harry Lionel Spratt

as Government Representative on the Hawera Fire Board in place of Richard A. D. Welsh, deceased.
G. JAS. ANDERSON,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Justices of the Peace appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th January, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Henry Dorrington Edwards, Esq., of Wellington, and Thomas Rowley Lees, Esq., of Palmerston North,

to be Justices of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies.
C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Shorthand Reporters appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th January, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Doris Maxwell,

Elsie Elizabeth Soan, and Allan Sutherland

to be Shorthand Reporters under the Shorthand Reporters Act, 1908.
C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.