Feb. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 391

Trustees for the Eketahuna Public Cemeteries appointed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section fifty-five of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke a certain Warrant dated the twenty-eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seven, appointing trustees for the Eketahuna Public Cemeteries, and do hereby appoint

THE EKETAHUNA BOROUGH COUNCIL

to be trustees to have the maintenance and care of the Cemeteries described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

EKETAHUNA CEMETERIES.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 7 acres 3 roods 20 perches, more or less, being Section No. 155, Block X, Mangaone Survey District.

Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 15 perches, more or less, being Lot No. 2 of Section No. 40, Block VI, Mangaone Survey District.

Also all that area in the Wellington Land District, containing 10 acres 1 rood 4 perches, more or less, and being Suburban Section 183, Town of Parkville.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of February, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

The Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the N.Z. Military Forces amended.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto the Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the New Zealand Forces, published in the Gazette dated the sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and I do hereby declare that the amendment hereby made shall take effect as from the date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

FINANCIAL INSTRUCTIONS AND ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS FOR NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES.

AFTER paragraph 43 add the following new paragraph :—

“43A. (i.) A warrant officer, Class I, who is promoted to commissioned rank shall, notwithstanding such promotion, continue to qualify for the increments to which he would have been entitled under paragraph 46 as though he had not been appointed to commissioned rank, if the rates for warrant officers are higher than those for the commissioned rank held.

(ii.) A warrant officer, Class II, who is promoted to commissioned rank shall, notwithstanding such promotion, be entitled to receive the rate of pay laid down for warrant officer, Class I, as from the date upon which he would have qualified for promotion to warrant officer, Class I, had he remained a warrant officer, also the increments provided for that rank, if the rates for same are higher than those for the commissioned rank held.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 3rd day of February, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Member of Tongariro National Park Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1926.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section one hundred and thirty-four of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1924, been pleased to appoint

Sir James Henry Gunson, Kt., C.M.G., C.B.E.,

to be a member of the Tongariro National Park Board, the term of such appointment to expire on the 16th January, 1929.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Members of Tongariro National Park Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 27th January, 1926

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 5 of the Tongariro National Park Act, 1922, been pleased to appoint

William Hughes Field, M.P.,
William Salt,
Thomas Arthur Blyth, and
Alexander Grant Simpson

to be members of the Tongariro National Park Board, as on and from the 17th January, 1926.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

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

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 8th February, 1926.

PURSUANT to section 4 of the Deteriorated Lands Act, 1925, I hereby appoint the following Special Revaluation Committee for the purposes of the said Act, viz. :—

EAST COAST COMMITTEE.

C. Gordon, Opotiki (Chairman).
H. L. Primrose, Lands and Survey Department, Gisborne.
H. P. Hamilton, Valuation Department, Gisborne.

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

Appointments in the Office of the High Commissioner.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st February, 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 :—

Name, Date of Appointment.
Eileen Alice Baker .. 24th October, 1924.
Stanley Charles Buswell .. 20th August, 1923.
Cecil Catton .. 1st January, 1925.
Violet Ena Chapple .. 21st September, 1925.
Grace Isabella Cullum .. 18th June, 1823.
Ethel Davies .. 8th October, 1923.
George James Day .. 8th June, 1919.
Reginald Snell Gibbs .. 14th January, 1924.
Frederick Milton Goodhead .. 1st April, 1924.
Eric Francis Sydney Hodges .. 1st April, 1924.
Alice Louisa Matilda Holwell .. 5th October, 1925.
Winifred Dorothy Holwell .. 11th February, 1924.
Emily Johnson .. 1st April, 1924.
Gerald Leslie Keeble .. 23rd November, 1925.
Harry Robert Kersey .. 2nd November, 1925.
Elsie Florrie Kingham .. 22nd September, 1924.
Doris Nellie Mawby Lawrence .. 14th April, 1924.
Phyllis May Lockey .. 1st April, 1924.
Doris Edith Lovejoy .. 14th April, 1924.
Mary Daisy Lovett .. 1st January, 1925.
George Crosby Marriott .. 11th December, 1923.
Rosalind Ella Mead .. 1st October, 1917.
Bernard Egan Murphy .. 6th July, 1921.
Ernest David Pettit .. 29th June, 1925.
Edward Albert Prosser .. 30th January, 1924.
Herbert Alfred Saunders .. 1st April, 1924.
Marjorie Granville Turner .. 1st September, 1925.
Douglas James Thomas Vinnicombe 1st January, 1925.
Winifred Olive Whittington .. 10th April, 1922.
Ruby Ethel Williams .. 2nd November, 1925.
Frances Huia Woodard.. .. 24th July, 1922.

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

Resignation of Chief Justice.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Stout, P.C., K.C.M.G., of his office as Chief Justice of New Zealand as from the thirty-first day of January, 1926.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.