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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 14th April, 1927.

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

William Shattock Jones, Esquire,

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, Local Patent Officer for the purposes of section 15 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22, Registrar of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and Sheriff for the Districts of Wanganui and Rangitikei for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, at Wanganui, as from the 6th day of April, 1927.

James Power, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Rangiriri, as from the 12th April, 1927.

Christopher Ward, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of West Taieri, as from the 8th April, 1927.

Ralph Cox, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Hokitika, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Hokitika, as from the 8th April, 1927.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1927.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

William McPherson Gordon, Tokomaru Bay.
Ivan Innis McGregor, Gore.
Joseph Wolff Shepherd, Fortrose.
Joseph Anson Smith, Naseby.
William Edward Free, Apiti.
Cecil Ernest Anthony Francis, Whitianga.
John William Ahern, Oxford.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by Joint By-laws.

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

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 109 of the Counties Act, 1920, that so much of joint By-law No. 20, made by the Akitio, Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Castlepoint, Masterton, Wairarapa South, and Featherston County Councils, and sealed with the seal of each county on the 14th March, 1927, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the county fund of each county for the licensing of vehicles plying for hire, has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor-General.

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

By-laws of the Mataura Borough Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th April, 1927.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-laws made by the Mataura Borough Council on the 16th day of November, 1926.

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

IN pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within written by-laws and declare that the same came into force on the 26th day of November, 1926.

Dated this 8th day of April, 1927.

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

Result of Election of Members of River Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th April, 1927.

THE following result of election of members of a River Board has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913.

G. P. NEWTON,
Assistant Under-Secretary.

North Rakaia River District, County of Ellesmere—
Cowan, Edward James.
Gabbie, William Martin.
Lockhead, Walter.
McEvedy, John Peter.
McClelland, James Seaton.

Election of Member of Gisborne Land Board.

I, ERNEST HENRY FARNIE, Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Gisborne Land Board, do hereby notify, in accordance with the provisions of section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, and the regulations made thereunder, that the only person nominated to fill the vacancy occurring on the said Board was

George Oswald Donovan, Esquire, of Motu,

and I do hereby declare the said George Oswald Donovan duly elected a member of the Gisborne Land Board as from the 28th day of May, 1927.

ERNEST HENRY FARNIE,
Returning Officer.

Officiating Ministers for 1927.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1927.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information :—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend John Treharne Phillips.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Elections to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 19th April, 1927.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.