resigns his office by writing under his hand addressed to the
Chairman or Secretary of the Board :
And whereas it is provided by subsection two of section
thirty-eight of the said Act that when an elective member
other than a representative of a constituent district vacates
his office on the Board through the operation of the said
section thirty-seven the Governor-General may by Warrant
under his hand appoint some qualified person in his place:
And whereas Gustavus Adolphus Gaustad, an elective
member of the Waitara Harbour Board, being the representative of the electors of the combined district of the
Borough of Waitara, the County of Clifton, and that part
of the County of Taranaki within the Waitara Harbour
District, has resigned his office as hereinbefore mentioned,
and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person as a representative of the electors of the said combined district in his
place:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint George
Alfred Foster of Waitara, to be a member of the Waitara
Harbour Board, as a representative of the electors of the
said combined district, in place of Gustavus Adolphus
Gaustad resigned.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of April, 1926.
G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th April, 1926.
IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the
Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed
Garnet Wilson Harty
to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of the said Act.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Gisborne Land Board appointed.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th April, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint
Alfred Gordon Nolan
to be a member of the Gisborne Land Board, as from the
10th April, 1926.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Trustees for Public Cemeteries appointed.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th April, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, been pleased
to appoint
Rutene Jackson
to be a trustee, in place of Charles Gordon, resigned, to
provide for the maintenance and care of the Ormond Public
Cemetery.
Frank Hardwick
to be a trustee, in place of Jabez Henry Carpenter, left the
district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Te
Puke Public Cemetery.
Alfred Henry Kendall
to be a trustee, in place of Thomas Benjamin Waters, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Tongaporutu Public Cemetery.
Thomas O'Hanlon
to be a trustee, in place of Carey John Pinnock, resigned, to
provide for the maintenance and care of the Hukerenui Public
Cemetery.
Frederick Walter Dobson and
William James Joseph Miller
to be trustees, in place of John George Little and John Inglis
Nichol Mackie, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and
care of the Kumeroa Public Cemetery.
Robert Hugh Matthews and
John Colley Macpherson
to be trustees, in place of Robert Jopp and Joseph Smail,
deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the
Riversdale Public Cemetery.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.
Marine Department,
Wellington, 10th April, 1926.
IT is hereby notified that his Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the
Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and
Documents Act, 1919, appointed
John Fox,
of Westport, Police Sergeant, to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing
under the first-mentioned Act.
G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st April, 1926.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Edward John Gifford
to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the district of
Tauranga, *ice C. V. Roberts.
F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice

Appointments in the Public Service.
Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 20th April, 1926.
THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointments in the Public Service:
John William Harvey, Esq.,
to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Hawke's Bay Land
District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, as from the
7th day of April, 1926.
Maltravers Campbell McLeod, Esq.,
to be an Inspector of Health for the purposes of the Health
Act, 1920, and an officer for the purposes of the Sale of Food
and Drugs Act, 1908, as from the 6th day of February, 1926.
Ronald Walker Connor, Esq.,
to be an Inspector of Health for the purposes of the Health
Act, 1920, and an Officer for the purposes of the Sale of Food
and Drugs Act, 1908, as from the 16th day of January, 1925.
Duncan Ritchie Ingram, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Ohakawai, at Kaikohe, as from the 31st day of March, 1926.
Samuel Victor Bargh, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the district of Ormondville, as from the 9th day
of April, 1926.
Niel Roy McIsaac, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the district of Taumarunui, and Registrar of Births and
Deaths of Maoris at Taumarunui, as from the 13th day of
April, 1926.
Francis Arthur Lowe, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the district of Picton, and Registrar of Births and Deaths
of Maoris at Picton, as from the 10th day of April, 1926.
Patrick John Eccleton, Esq.,
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the district of Akaroa, and Registrar of Births and Deaths
of Maoris at Akaroa, as from the 10th day of April, 1926.
A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1926.
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:
Donald Semple .. .. .. Maungaturoto.
Albert Charles Downey .. .. Taupo.
Robert Albert Mace .. .. Auckland (at Birkenhead).*
Harry Leslie Walker .. .. Birmingham.
Thomas James McCawe .. .. Reefton.

• Births and deaths only.
  W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.