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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

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.

Hugh William Kelleher .. .. Mauriceville.
John Edward Southam .. .. Tututawa.

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

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
By his Deputy,
CHARLES PERRIN SKERRETT.

Crown Solicitor appointed.

Crown Law Office,
Wellington, 20th May, 1926.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

James Blair, Esquire,

to be Crown Solicitor at Gisborne, such appointment to take effect on and from the 26th day of May, 1926, and to be for the period of the absence from Gisborne of Frank Wrey Nolan, Esquire.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Attorney-General.

Clerk of Magistrates’ Court, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th May, 1926.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant Charles Walter Tonkinson,

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Campbelltown on and from the 12th day of May, 1926, vice Sergeant W. E. Packer, transferred.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th May, 1926.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Colin Ainslie Montgomerie

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Buller, vice A. G. Johnston.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Magistrate appointed to Exercise Jurisdiction in Children’s Court.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th May, 1926.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Edward Page, Esq., S.M.,

to exercise jurisdiction in the Children’s Courts established at Wellington, Petone, Lower Hutt, and Upper Hutt.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Visiting Justice appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 13th May, 1926.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Walter Crowley Weston, Esq., J. P.,

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

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Appointments in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy and Confirmation of Appointment in the Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Navy Office,
Wellington, 26th May, 1926.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy and confirmation of appointment in the Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division):-

Mr. William George Richards, Warrant Shipwright, R.N., to H.M.S. “Dunedin” (additional), and to that ship vice Sleeman, on relieving him.

Mr. Robert Yule Baillie, Schoolmaster (probationary), R.N., to H.M.S. “Dunedin,” vice Kew, to date 10th May, 1926.

Probationary Sub-Lieutenant Andrew Douglas Holden as Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 1st March, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Members of Domain Boards appointed.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 19th May, 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:-

Walter Harry Weeds

to be a member of the Waione Domain Board, in place of Victor Tomasi, left the district.

Reginald Ralph Fitzgerald

to be a member of the Pakuranga Domain Board, in place of Thomas Richard Willoughby Gill, deceased.

Rutene Jackson

to be a member of the Ormond Domain Board, in place of Charles Gordon, resigned.

Frank Hubert Courage

to be a member of the Kowai Domain Board, in place of George Bayntun Starky, deceased.

Cleon Mervyn Newman

to be a member of the Broadwood Domain Board, in place of Louis Edward George Lee, deceased.

John Marsh and Laurence Workman

to be members of the Glentunnel Domain Board, in place of Gordon Douglas Marsh and Alexander McNie Wilson, resigned.

Robert John Christie, William Roy McCullough, and Alec Whiteman

to be members of the Patetonga Domain Board, in place of George Henry Mayn, Cornelius Hubert O’Dwyer, and Emmerick Ference Tomas Potoky, resigned.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Member of Wellington Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 15th May, 1926.

Notice is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, under the provisions of section 49 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to reappoint

James Georgetti

to be a member of the Wellington Land Board, as from the 2nd May, 1926.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 25th 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 respectively opposite their names, viz.:-

Henry Joseph Davern .. .. .. Rawene.
Eli Cooper .. .. .. Cust.
Percival Steele Miller .. .. .. Kaitaia.
Albert Edward Lawson.. .. .. Te Awamutu.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.