JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1509

Dismissal from the Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 31st May, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the dismissal of the undermentioned soldier of the Territorial Force from the New Zealand Defence Forces, under section 6 (b), Defence Act, 1909, he having been convicted by the Civil power :—

Private G. D. Inkster, 1st Battalion, Hauraki Regiment.

Dated 19th May, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Club disbanded.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the disbandment of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :—

Bannockburn Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Bannockburn.

Dated 24th April, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Club disbanded.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 31st May, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the disbandment of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :—

Gladstone Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Gladstone.

Dated 20th May, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Club accepted.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 31st May, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the services of the undermentioned defence rifle club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909 :—

Mangatawhiri Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Mangatawhiri Valley, Pokeno.

Dated 4th May, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Appointments in High Commissioner’s Office.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th May, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 9 of the High Commissioner Act, 1908, the following persons as officers in the office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, as on and from the date specified opposite the name of each respectively :—

Joyce Gladwys Sandford .. .. 1st March, 1926.
Delia Maud Clare Connolly.. .. 1st March, 1926.
Rowland Ellis Bird .. .. 1st March, 1926.
Edwin Alfred Broadbridge.. .. 1st March, 1926.
Francis George Kelly .. .. 1st March, 1926.

RICHARD F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 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. :—

James Daniel McTamney .. Naseby, at Ranfurly.
Robert Joshua Ashley .. Blackball.
Alexander Speakman Louisson .. Nelson.
Norman Webley .. Dannevirke.
Frederick Donald Armour .. Tauranga.
Lindsay Alexander Murtagh .. Hyde.

• Births and Deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 1st June, 1926.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :—

Claude Albert Gibbs, Esq.

to be an Assistant Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and a Ranger of Beaches for the purposes of the Harbours Act, 1908, as from the 6th day of April, 1926.

John McInnes McKenzie, Esq.,
William Patrick Dale, Esq.,
Alfred Herbert Murray Farrell, Esq.,
Leslie Harold Brown, Esq.,
Robert McKenzie Henderson, Esq.,
Walter Scott, Esq.,
James Alexander Griffith, Esq.,
Henry Ernest Allen, Esq.,
Evan Trevor Hughes, Esq.,
Edward Carrington Taylor, Esq.,
John Garnder Niccol, Esq.,
Herbert Arthur Sanderson, Esq.,
Raymond Ernest Hepworth, Esq.,
William John Coulter, Esq.,
Claude Augustus Haynes, Esq.,
Hamish Howard, Esq.,

to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of May, 1926.

The Registrar of the Supreme Court at Greymouth

to be Clerk of Awards for the Westland Industrial District for the purposes of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, as from the 27th day of May, 1926.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

New Zealand Government Railway Department.

NEW LOCOMOTIVE WORKSHOPS AT HILLSIDE (DUNEDIN)
AND NEW CAR AND WAGON SHOPS AT ADDINGTON
(CHRISTCHURCH).

WRITTEN tenders will be received up to noon on the 1st November, 1926, at the office of the Railway Board, Wellington, New Zealand, for the erection of new locomotive workshops at Hillside, Dunedin, and new car and wagon workshops at Addington, Christchurch.

Plans, specifications, and conditions of contract may be seen at the offices enumerated below :—

United Kingdom .. The office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London.
Canada .. The office of the Department of Labour, Ottawa.
Australia .. The New Zealand Government Offices at Sydney and Melbourne.
New Zealand .. The Chief Engineer’s Office, Railway Buildings, Wellington.
The Railway Engineer’s Offices at Auckland, Wanganui, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
Telegraphic tenders will not be considered.
Separate tenders for either new locomotive workshops at Hillside or new car and wagon shops at Addington will not be considered.

By Order.

Officiating Ministers for 1926.—Notice No. 17.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1926.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information :—

The Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend Eugene Bernard Schoonhof.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 28th May, 1926.

THE Wellington Friendly Societies’ Jubilee Commemoration Fund, situated at Wellington, is registered as a Friendly Society under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 28th day of May, 1926.

WILLIAM M. WRIGHT,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.