SEPT. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2913

John Donaldson

to be a trustee, in place of William Calder, left the district and resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the West Melton Public Cemetery.

Charles Don

to be a trustee, in place of Peter William Rive, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Georgetown Public Cemetery.

Thomas Mitchell

to be a trustee, in place of James Mitchell, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Ranfurly Public Cemetery.

Sydney John Williams

to be a trustee, in place of Frank Burdett, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Matakohé Public Cemetery.

Arthur Ebdon Lewis

to be a trustee, in place of Walter Faulkland Cheverton, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Waimate Cemetery.

John Hastie

to be a trustee, in place of Alexander Barrie Mann, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Swinburn Public Cemetery.

Thomas Edward White

to be a trustee, in place of George Sanderland McMillan, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Harihari Public Cemetery.

Lenold Kelcher, and
Alexander Lindsay

to be trustees, in place of William Webster Wylie and Robert Cochrane Wilson, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Maheno Public Cemetery.

Michael Costello, and
Alexander McRae

to be trustees, in place of John Cross, deceased, and Arthur John Milnes, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Otokia Public Cemetery.

George Herron, and
Leonard Thomas Woodfield

to be trustees, in place of Charles Bennett and Richard Thomas Edwards, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Pukerau Public Cemetery.

Thomas Chappell, and
Thomas A. Guy

to be trustees, in place of John Frederick Franks and Arthur George Raynor, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Yaldhurst Public Cemetery.

Henry David Norman,
Robert Scott, and
George Herbert Stancombe

to be trustees, in place of Hector Robert McIvor, William Young, and James King, left the district and resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Tuatapere Public Cemetery.

Kenneth Ross,
Frank Adams, and
George Fiveash

to be additional trustees and in place of Colin Marsh Martin, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Tahakopa Public Cemetery.

William Barclay,
Michael Downey, and
Michael McHenry

to be trustees, in place of Thomas Milne, deceased, Samuel McCully, deceased, Donald McKenzie, deceased, and John Menzies, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Hakataramea Public Cemetery.

William Gordon, jun.,
Alexander McCaughan, and
Patrick McNamee, jun.,

to be trustees, in place of William Gordon, sen., deceased, William Davis Soper, deceased, Thomas Murray, deceased, Patrick McNamee, sen., deceased, and William Scott, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Garston Public Cemetery.

David Dunlop,
Archibald Thomas Elliott,
George Alexander Fraser, and
David McFadzien

to be trustees, in place of William Dunlop, James McFadzien, James Riddle, and Henry Jonathan Middleton, who have either died or left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Fortrose Public Cemetery.

Francis Phœbe Arnold,
John Mangos,
Nicholas Pupich, and
Milan Henry Pupich

to be trustees, in place of Bailie Sloan, deceased, Thomas McFarlane, deceased, and Frederick Harrison and Arthur Arnold, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Lyell Public Cemetery.

Robert Brigham, and
John Patrick Keogh

to be trustees, in place of Reginald Rawlings, left the district, and William Tebbutt, deceased, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Hukerenui Public Cemetery.

Robert Grant, jun.,
Herbert West, and
Roderick Church

to be trustees, in place of Donald McDonald, Robert Learmouth, Hans Peter Henrikson, and John Collie Macpherson, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Balfour Public Cemetery.

Joseph Moody

to be a trustee, in place of William Grant Johnson, left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Taneatua Public Cemetery.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 20th September, 1927.

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

William Harte, Esquire,

to be the Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Masterton for the purposes of the Legislature Act, 1908, as from the 15th day of September, 1927.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th September, 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.:—

Charles Winter Farrer .. .. Bull’s.
Bertram Arnold Crowe .. .. Christchurch (at New Brighton).*
Edward Andrew Finlin .. .. Kurow.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

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

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 19th September, 1927.

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

STAFF.

The undermentioned officer, on exchange from British Army in India, having left New Zealand on return to India, relinquishes the local rank of Captain. Dated 2nd September, 1927.

Lieutenant (local Captain) F. J. Dillon, M.C., Royal Artillery.

Colonel A. T. Markman, N.Z. Corps of Signals, relinquishes the appointment of Director of Signals, and is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Class I (a). Dated 1st September, 1927.

1st N.Z. MOUNTED RIFLES (CANTERBURY YEOMANRY CAVALRY).

Lieutenant C. R. Creswell, having complied with paragraph 141, General Regulations, 1927, his original seniority is restored—viz., 19th December, 1925. Dated 5th September, 1927.