APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 869

Motunau Rabbit-proof Fencing District.—Prescribing the Number of Ratepayers of which the Board of Trustees shall consist.—Notice No. Ag. 2569.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by section eighty-seven of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby prescribe that the number of ratepayers of which the Board of Trustees of the Motunau Rabbit-proof Fencing District, constituted by Warrant made on the twenty-second day of February, 1926, and gazetted on the twenty-fifth day of February then instant, shall consist be five, instead of three as prescribed in the said Warrant.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 30th day of March, 1926.

O. HAWKEN, Minister of Agriculture.

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.

Mary Jane Goldsmith West (Mrs.) .. Kekerangu.
Frederick George Reed .. Mamaku.
James Houston .. Opapa.
Alexander Dawson .. Palmerston North
John Caird .. Tokomaru Bay.

As witness my hand this 25th day of March, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 30th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize

Wi Karena Wihapi,

of Te Puke, to act as a Native Interpreter of the first grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Denis Patrick Roughan

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district of Motupiko, on and from the 6th March, 1926; and

(Miss) Myrtle Alice Inger

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district of Albertland, on and from the 16th May, 1925.

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

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Allan Patterson, of Auckland, and
William Higgins, of Patetonga,

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

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

Acting Vice-Consul of Sweden at Auckland recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has provisionally recognized the appointment by the Consul-General for Sweden at Sydney of

J. T. F. Mitchell, Esq.,

as Acting Vice-Consul of Sweden at Auckland during the temporary absence of the Vice-Consul from the Dominion.

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

Members of Domain Boards appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, been pleased to make the following appointments:—

George Alexander McLean

to be a member of the Leithfield Domain Board, in place of Charles Kirkby, resigned.

John Cook

to be a member of the Hinds No 2 Domain Board, in place of the Rev. Robert McCully, resigned.

Michael Ryan

to be a member of the Te Araroa Domain Board in place of George McKenzie McKeddie, resigned.

Hugh James Macartney

to be a member of the Rhodes Park Domain Board, in place of Thomas George Beadel, deceased.

Andrew John Dodunski, and
Gordon Harry Marsh

to be members of the Kaiawai Domain Board, in place of Thomas Wilson Long and William Howes Reader, resigned.

Thomas Samuel Ferguson, and
Peter Hansen

to be members of the Harihari Domain Board, in place of Ronald Ramage and Herbert McMillan, resigned.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Cemetery Trustees resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th March, 1926.

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

James Dickson,
John James McCartney,
James Patterson McCartney,
William McGill, and
James Hutchison Seaton

as trustees of the Portobello Public Cemetery.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Lands.

Visiting Justice to Prison appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 24th March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to make the following appointment:—

Robert Ward Tate, Esq.,

to be a Visiting Justice to His Majesty’s Prison, New Plymouth.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Courthouse appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st March, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

the Courthouse, Te Puke,

to be a place wherein sittings of the Magistrates’ Court shall be held under the provisions of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, in lieu of the Alliance Hall, Te Puke, previously appointed.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.