JUNE 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1653

cash or in twenty years by forty half-yearly instalments of £24 1s. 6d. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £63 1s. 6d. Situated four miles and a half from Warkworth and two miles and a half from Woodcocks Railway-station. School adjoins property. About 30 acres worn-out pasture, 150 acres bush land felled and grassed, balance unimproved, in scrub and light bush. Very well watered by running streams. Little blackberry and gorse, which could be easily controlled. Property practically ring-fenced, only 3 chains to complete. Divided into twelve paddocks.

As witness the hand of his Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of June, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Legislative Councillors appointed.

Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in His Majesty’s name, summoned

Carey John Carrington, Esquire, of Dargaville,
Thomas Shailer Weston, Esquire, of Wellington, and
The Honourable Josiah Alfred Hanan, of Dunedin,

to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by writs of summons under the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand dated 17th June, 1926.

J. G. COATES, Prime Minister.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th June, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

James Buckley, of Hawea Flat,

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

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

Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th June, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the under-mentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Westland Acclimatization District:—

James Gunn Leckie, of Timaru.

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

Rangers under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th June, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the under-mentioned persons have been appointed Rangers under and for the purposes of that Act for the Whangarei Acclimatization District:—

William James McKegg, of Whangarei.
Clarence Harris, of Hikurangi.
Howard Lund Whimp, of Whangarei.

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

Appointment of Associate Members of the Children’s Courts under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Department of Education,
Wellington, 11th June, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, been pleased to appoint for a period of one year ending on the 30th day of April, 1927, the several persons whose respective names and addresses are set out in the first and second columns respectively of the Schedule hereto as persons to be associated with the respective Children’s Courts named in the third column of the said Schedule generally in relation to all matters that may be dealt with by such respective Courts.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 11th day of June, 1926.

R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.

Appointment of Child Welfare Officers under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 15th June, 1926.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Robert Alexander Wright, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint

Miss Ada Elizabeth Gates, of Peter Street, Ashburton,

as a Child Welfare Officer for the purposes of the said Act.

R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.

Appointment of Child Welfare Officers under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 15th June, 1926.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Robert Alexander Wright, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint

as honorary Child Welfare Officers for the purposes of the said Act, for the period of one year from 30th June, 1926.

R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.

Appointment of Representative of the Waimate County Council on the Waimate Hospital Committee of Management.

Department of Health,
Wellington, 9th June, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, under section 15 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909, to appoint

John Henry Mitchell

as a representative of the Waimate County Council on the Waimate Hospital Committee.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 15th 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 Edward Biggar .. Tapanui.
John Stephenson Anderson .. Palmerston.
William Marsh .. Kaitaia (at Awanui).
James Stuart Wilson .. Waipu.
Ethelbert Frank Codyre .. Ashburton (at Mayfield).
William Mann Wade .. Naseby.
Robert McKay .. Wellington.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.