APRIL 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1121

BY-LAW.

THE port charges set forth in the Schedule hereto are hereby fixed and authorized to be levied and taken in respect of Picton Harbour.

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SCHEDULE.

Port Charges.

ON every vessel over twenty tons register (whether coming from seaward or not, and whether propelled by steam or not) navigating or plying (whether for hire or not), the sum of 1d. per ton on arrival, but so that the owner, agent, or master of any such vessel shall not be called upon to pay more than 1s. per ton in any half-year.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Resident Agent and Postmaster for the Island of Mangaia and Commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands appointed.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion or New Zealand, do hereby appoint

John McGruther, Esquire,

to be Resident Agent for the Island of Mangaia, and to be a Commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands, and also to be Postmaster at the Island of Mangaia, and to hold the said office during my pleasure on and from the ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of April, 1927.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

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Deputy Registrar of the High Court of the Cook Islands appointed.

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CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

John McGruther, Esquire,

to be a Deputy Registrar of the High Court of the Cook Islands, and to hold the said office during my pleasure on and from the ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of April, 1927.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

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Member of the Island Council of Mangaia appointed.

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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 Mangaia 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

Rani, of the district of Tavaenga,

to be a member of the said Island Council of Mangaia, in lieu of Miria, deceased, to hold office 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 14th day of April, 1927.

M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

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

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th April, 1927.

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 Auckland Acclimatization District :—

William James Stone, of Rangiriri.

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

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

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th April, 1927.

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 Ashburton Acclimatization District :—

Henry Margetts, of Ashburton.

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

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Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th April, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Stephenson Meldrum, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waiwera on and from the 19th April, 1927.

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

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Chairman of Licensing Committee appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th April, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Edward Page, Esquire, S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Hutt and Wellington, vice W. G. Riddell, Esquire, S.M., on leave.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Justice.

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Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th April, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Ernest Leslie Egarr, Esquire,

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Egmont, vice J. S. Macdonald ;

William Harte, Esquire,

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wairarapa, vice W. S. Jones, transferred ; and

Henry Morgan, Esquire,

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Hamilton and Raglan, vice J. N. Adam, transferred.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Justice.