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Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 5th May, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
James Milne Adam
to be Clerk of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of
Hamilton and Raglan, vice M. Simmonds ;
James Edward Laing
to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Rotorua, vice J. L. Crowther, on leave; and
Arthur Frederick Bent
to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Wairau, vice A. L. Tresidder.
F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Appointments to Cook Islands Public Service.

Cook Islands Department,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1926.

[H] IS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand has been pleased to make the follow-
ing appointments to the Cook Islands Public Service under
section 13 of the Cook Islands Act, 1915 :—
Philip Ruston
to be Headmaster, Aitutaki School, Rarotonga, on and from
the 18th January, 1926.
Mrs. P. Ruston
to be Assistant Teacher, Aitutaki School, Rarotonga, on and
from the 18th January, 1926.
L. G. Emens
to be Superintendent, Radio Station, Rarotonga, on and
from the 6th April, 1926.
Samuel A. Heginbotham
to be Radio Operator, Rarotonga, on and from the 30th
March, 1926.
M. POMARE, Minister for the Cook Islands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 4th May, 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 re-
spectively opposite their names, viz :—
Frederick Ernest Waters ... ... Mangapehi.
Ernest Russell ... ... Manuherikia.
Joseph McLaughlin ... ... Waimangaroa.
William Carter ... ... Hamilton.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 4th May, 1926.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointments in the Public Service :—
John Beck, Esq., and
James Robert McClune, Esq.,
to be Superintendent and Deputy-Superintendent respectively
of the Child Welfare Branch of the Department of Education,
as constituted by the Child Welfare Act, 1925, as from the
lst April, 1926.
A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Member of Engineers Registration Board appointed.

WHEREAS by Warrant published in Gazette No. 23, of
2nd April, 1925, page 998, Frederick William Furkert,
Esquire, Civil Engineer, Engineer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary
of the Public Works Department, was appointed a member
of the Engineers Registration Board, in terms of the Engineers
Registration Act, 1924 :
And whereas the said Frederick William Furkert has left
New Zealand, and has resigned his office in terms of the said
Engineers Registration Act :

Now, therefore, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of
Public Works, in pursuance and exercise of the powers con-
ferred by the said Act, do hereby appoint
Charles John McKenzie, Esquire,
Civil Engineer, Acting Engineer-in-Chief and Under-Secretary,
Public Works Department, to be a member of the Engineers
Registration Board.
As witness my hand at Wellington, this 5th day of
May, 1926.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 30/922.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XII, Pakaumanu
Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute
a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road ;
and for the purposes of such public work the land described
in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is
hereby further given that the plan of the land so required
to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Kopaki, and
is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by
the execution of the said public work or by the taking
of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded
objections to the execution of the said public work or to the
taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send
such writing, within forty days from the first publication of
this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be
taken :—
A. R. P.
Being Portion of
0 1 32 Rangitoto-Tuhua 36B 3E; coloured blue.
8 3 16 " 36B 3D " red.
0 2 13 " 36B 3D " red.

Situated in Block XII, Pakaumanu Survey District. (S.O.
23906.)
In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 65562,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 28th day of
April, 1926.
J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 37/1/1.)

Notice of Intention to take Land for the Development of Water-
power (Arapuni Scheme) in Block III, Otahuhu Survey
District.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under
the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to
take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the
development of water-power (Arapuni scheme): And
notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land
so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office
at Penrose, and is there open for inspection; and that
all persons affected by the taking of the said land should,
if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of
such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such
writing, within forty days from the first publication of this
notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be
taken :—
A. R. P.
Being Portion of
0 3 38 Allotment 15 and part Allotments 14 and 16,
Subsection 4; coloured yellow.
1 1 24 Part Allotment 16 and part Allotment 17,
Section 4; coloured blue.
0 2 5 Part Allotment 17, Section 4; coloured red.
2 0 0 " 17 " 4 " blue.

Situated in Village of Panmure, Block III, Otahuhu Survey
District (Auckland R.D.).
In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are
more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 66028,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon
coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 4th day of
May, 1926.
RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 60/156.)