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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

Peace Amendment Act, 1913, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson,
Baronet, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zea-
land, do hereby notify and declare that

Arthur William Morris,

being a person holding the office of Accountant, Chief Post-
office, Dunedin, 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 fourth day of May, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-seven.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th April, 1927.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-
General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the
Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

Bernard Brocas, of Rotorua, and
Frederick Maloney, of Rotorua,

to be officers for the purposes of Part II of the said Act for
the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

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

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th May, 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 Whangarei Acclimatiza-
tion District.

Harding Hawken, of Maungatapere.

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

Appointment of Honorary Child-welfare Officers under the
Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th May, 1927.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925,
I, Robert Alexander Wright, Minister of Education, do
hereby appoint—

Hill, Lillian Josephine, of Taihape, and
Pigott, John (Rev.), of Waipiro Bay,

as Honorary Child Welfare Officers for the purposes of the
said Act, for the period of one year from 1st May, 1927.

R. A. WRIGHT, Minister of Education.

Coroner resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to accept the resignation by

John Butterill Ariell, Esquire,

of Paparoa, of his appointment as a Coroner within the
Dominion of New Zealand.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Justice.

Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

Eric Robilliard Graham

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Oroua, vice A. Whitaker, transferred; and

John Kennedy

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Waipawa, vice W. Parker, transferred.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Justice.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

Henry Palmer Horne, Esquire,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Pahiatua, vice W. Snell, Esquire, resigned,

Henry Herbert Holland, Esquire,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Christchurch, vice R. M. Speirs, Esquire, resigned; and

Gordon Maitland, Esquire,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Wairau.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Justice.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 6th May, 1927.

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

Alban Whitaker, Esquire,

to be Assistant Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Wellington
for the purposes of section 8 of the Magistrates’ Courts
Amendment Act, 1922, as from the 2nd day of May, 1927.

Walter Parker, Esquire,

to be Assistant Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Christ-
church for the purposes of section 8 of the Magistrates’
Courts Amendment Act, 1922, as from the 2nd day of May,
1927.

John Kennedy, Esquire,

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Courts at Waipawa and Wai-
pukurau for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act,
1908, as from the 27th day of April, 1927.

Thomas Cecil Bowker, Esquire,

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of
Palmerston for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908,
as from the 17th day of March, 1927.

William John Smith, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the district of Takaka, and Registrar of Births and Deaths
of Maoris at Takaka, as from the 25th day of April, 1927.

Henry Joseph Fletcher, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the district of Kahukura, as from the 22nd day of
April, 1927.

Charles Frederick Stevens, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the district of Mercer, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of
Maoris at Mercer, as from the 29th day of April, 1927.

Thomas Ernest Youngman, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of
Upper Hutt, as from the 2nd day of May, 1927.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th May, 1927.

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

Name. District.
James Edwin Brown .. .. Mauriceville.
William James Drysdale .. .. Te Araroa.
Charles Edmund Vigers .. .. Little River.
Herbert William McGuckin .. .. Shannon.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, and Transfers of
Officers of the N.Z. Military Forces.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
approve of the appointments, promotions, resigna-
tions, and transfers of the undermentioned officers of the N.Z.
Military Forces.