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Appointment of Member of the Island Council of the Cook Islands.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by section sixty-five of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and by an Order in Council of the twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, establishing, inter alia, an Island Council for the Island of Manihiki in the Cook Islands and determining the constitution thereof, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby nominate and appoint

Ben Ellis, of Tukao,

to be a member of the said Island Council of Manihiki in lieu of Tapoka (alias Tapaha), resigned, during my pleasure as from the date hereof.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand this 28th day of January, 1926.

M. POMARE, Minister for the Cook Islands.

Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations under the 288th Section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section two hundred and eighty-eight of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, and section sixteen of the Justices of the Peace Amendment Act, 1923, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

Francis Joseph Shanks,

being a person holding the office of Inspector, General Post Office, Wellington, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand, this 29th day of January, 1926.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Honours conferred by His Majesty the King.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th January, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs the publication in the New Zealand Gazette of the honours conferred by His Majesty the King as follows :—

Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)—

Alexander Fowler Roberts, Esq., C.B.E.

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)—

William Edwin Charles Reid, Esq.

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

Cancellation of Appointment and Appointment of Member of Hawera Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th January, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to cancel the appointment of

Harry Lionel Spratt,

as Government Representative on the Hawera Fire Board, and to appoint

Harry Leopold Spratt

as Government Representative on the Hawera Fire Board in place of Richard A. D. Welsh, deceased.

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

Commissioner of Police appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 28th January, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Bernard McIlveney, Esquire,

to be Commissioner of the New Zealand Police Force as from 1st February, 1926, vice Arthur Hobbins Wright, Esquire, resigned.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Officers of Police Force appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 28th January, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Inspector Ward George Wohlmann and
Inspector Albert Tivy Emerson

to be Superintendents,

Sub-Inspector John Walter Hollis and
Sub-Inspector Thomas Simpson Charles Kemp

to be Inspectors, and

Senior Sergeant Peter Harvey

to be a Sub-Inspector

of the New Zealand Police Force; the appointment in each case to take effect from 1st February, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Shorthand Reporter appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Agatha Hyacinth Keaney

to be a Shorthand Reporter under the Shorthand Reporters Act, 1908.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Justice.

Chairman of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

James Rankin Bartholomew, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Dunedin, Dunedin South, and Chalmers, vice H. W. Bundle, Esq., S.M.

C. J. PARR, for Minister of Justice.

Members of Special Revaluation Committees appointed under Deteriorated Lands Act, 1925.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1926.

PURSUANT to section 4 of the Deteriorated Lands Act, 1925, I hereby appoint the following special revaluation committees for the purposes of the said Act, viz :—

NORTHERN COMMITTEE.

G. W. Richards, Farmer, Otorohanga (Chairman).
R. C. Pollock, Field Inspector, Lands and Survey Department, Auckland.
T. Sheehy, District Valuer, Valuation Department, New Plymouth.

SOUTHERN COMMITTEE.

J. Wall, Farmer, Porirua (Chairman).
R. J. Knight, Lands and Survey Department, Auckland.
A. B. Jordan, District Valuer, Valuation Department, Te Kuiti.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd February, 1926.

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

Joseph Hardy Fletcher, Esq.,

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Stratford for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 15th day of January, 1926.

Henry William Charles Mackintosh, Esq.,

to be Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wellington Land District, for the purposes of the Land Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of February, 1926.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.