JULY 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2167

Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke a certain Warrant dated the fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and four, and gazetted on the sixth day of that month, appointing trustees for the Kawhia Public Cemetery, as described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-KAWHIA PUBLIC CEMETERY. SECTION 1, Block VI, Kawhia North Survey District: Area, 12 acres 3 roods, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of July, 1926.

O. HAWKEN, for Minister of Lands.

Cancellation of Appointment of Ranger under the Animals Protection Act.

Internal Affairs Department, Wellington, 15th July, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to cancel the appointment made on the 11th December, 1908, of Robert Maxwell, of Dunedin, as a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the Otago Acclimatization District.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 13th July, 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 undermentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Feilding and District Acclimatization District:- William James Dorward, of Kimbolton.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 14th July, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed William James Dorward, of Kimbolton, to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 16th July, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Olive Hartnell (Miss) to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district of Albertland, on and from the 28th June, 1926.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Shorthand Reporter appointed.

Department of Justice, Wellington, 13th July, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Esther Kelsie Clendon to be a Shorthand Reporter under the Shorthand Reporters Act, 1908.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Trustees for Havelock Commonage appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 14th July, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor General has, in pursuance of section 4 of the Havelock Commonage Act, 1877, been pleased to appoint John Auld to be a trustee for the Havelock Commonage, described in the Schedule to the said Act, in the place of George Scott, resigned.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department, Wellington, 15th July, 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 Archibald Banks to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of the firstmentioned Act in respect of the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Official Visitor under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, within the Provincial District of Wellington, appointed.

Mental Hospitals Department, Wellington, 25th June, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Mrs. Annie McVicar to be an Official Visitor under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, within the Provincial District of Wellington.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister in Charge of Mental Hospitals.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 16th July, 1926.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:- Marion Frances Jones (Mrs.) to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waitahanui, as from the 10th day of May, 1926. Philip Foster, Esq., to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Whakawhitira, as from the 7th day of April, 1926. Katherine Sophie Pees (Miss) to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Kaharoa, as from the 17th day of May, 1926. Jane Heni Topia (Miss) to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Manukau, as from the 14th day of June, 1926. Alfred John Douglas, Esq., to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Porangahau, as from the 16th day of July, 1926. John Ross, Esq., to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Waipawa, as from the 16th day of July, 1926. Joseph Holmes, Esq., to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Waipukurau, as from the 16th day of July, 1926.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.