Mar. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 757

Chairmen of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 14th March, 1928.

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; and

Henry Wilfred Bundle, Esquire, S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waitaki, vice C. R. Orr Walker, Esquire, S.M.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th March, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Thomas Anderson, Esquire,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Chalmers, and

David Larnach, Esquire,

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

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Magistrates’ Court, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th March, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, to appoint

Constable Percy Clemence

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Houhora on and from the 3rd day of March, 1928, vice Constable M. Thornell, transferred.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Appointments in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Navy Office,
Wellington, 16th March, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division) :—

Commander Alexander David Boyle, R.N. (retired), as Commander, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 15th March, 1928.

Commander Ernest Frazer Watson, R.D., R.N.R. (retired), as Commander, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 15th March, 1928.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 16th March, 1928.

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

Patrick James Burke, Esquire,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Ngaruawahia, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Ngaruawahia, as from the 10th March, 1928.

Charles Vernon Roberts, Esquire,

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Otahuhu for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, as from the 2nd day of March, 1928, and to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Onehunga for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, as from the 19th day of March, 1928.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1928.

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. :—

Thomas William James . . . Paparoa.

Henry Dalton Walker . . . Nokomai and Switzers.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Portion of Te Kao Consolidation Scheme confirmed.

In the matter of section 6 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that a scheme of consolidation in part, dated the 28th day of December, 1927, dealing with the Pakohu No. 1, Parengarenga 5b 3, and other blocks, as set out in the said scheme, having been prepared by the Native Land Court in accordance with the above-mentioned Act, and submitted under the seal of the said Court to the Native Minister for his approval; and the Native Minister, being satisfied that the portion of the scheme so submitted is just and equitable, and is in the public interest, doth hereby confirm the portion of the said scheme of consolidation which was so submitted on the 28th day of December, 1927.

Dated this 29th day of February, 1928.

R. A. WRIGHT, for Native Minister.

Notice of Intention to take the Leasehold Interest in Land in Block XIV, Karioi Survey District, for the Purposes of a Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the Public Works Amendment Act, 1913, to take the estate of leasehold in the land described in the Schedule hereto held by James Brenil Vowles under occupation license from His Majesty the King, such license being registered in the Land and Deeds Registry Office at Auckland in Register Vol. 249, folio 209, for the purposes of a road : And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at Te Papatapu, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said interest should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of such interest, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land in respect of which the leasehold interest is required to be taken : 1 acre 3 roods 25 perches.

Being portion of Section 16, situated in Block XIV, Karioi Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 24392.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 70874, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 21st day of March, 1928.

F. J. ROLLESTON,

For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 34/618.)

Notice under the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, and its Amendment, fixing the Closing-hours of Tobacconists’ Shops within the Combined District of Auckland.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to me from the occupiers of tobacconists’ shops within the Combined District of Auckland, comprising the City of Auckland, the boroughs of Birkenhead, Devonport, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, Newmarket, Northcote, Onehunga, and Takapuna, and the town districts of Ellerslie, Glen Eden, New Lynn, and Henderson, pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22 :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 32, I, George James Anderson, Minister of Labour, do hereby direct that on and after the 9th day of April, 1928, all tobacconists’ shops within the said combined district shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows: (1) Occupiers of shops