Mar. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 897

Member of Hawke’s Bay Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 24th March, 1928.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

James Livingston,

to be a member of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board as from the 15th day of May, 1928.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Lands.

Chairman of Board of Examiners under the Mining Act, 1926, appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th March, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the appointment of

John Henderson, Esquire, M.A., D.Sc., B.E., A.O.S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act, 1926, vice Percy Gates Morgan, Esquire, M.A., A.O.S.M., F.G.S. (deceased).

J. G. COATES, for Minister of Mines.

Chairman of Board of Examiners under the Coal-mines Act, 1925, appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th March, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the appointment of

John Henderson, Esquire, M.A., D.Sc., B.E., A.O.S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Board of Examiners under the Coal-mines Act, 1925, vice Percy Gates Morgan, Esquire, M.A., A.O.S.M., F.G.S. (deceased).

J. G. COATES, for Minister of Mines.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1928.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned person has been appointed to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district set opposite his name, viz. :

Herbert Richard John Brewer .. Mercury Bay.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 27th March, 1928.

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

Name. Electoral District.
Robert Gordon May, Esquire .. Franklin.
James Selwyn Mosley, Esquire .. Wallace.
William Drake, Esquire .. Hauraki.
Frank Evans, Esquire .. Auckland Suburbs.
George Nelson, Esquire .. Wairarapa.
Edward John Gifford, Esquire .. Tauranga.
Eric Robilliard Graham, Esquire .. Oroua.
James Joseph William Pooley, Esquire Stratford.
Sydney Herbert Fitchett, Esquire .. Rangitikei.
Claude Cyril Williamson Kilgour, Esquire Motueka.

to be Registrars of Electors for the electoral districts shown, for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 1st day of April, 1928.

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Robert James Gillies, Esquire,

to be the Registrar of Electors for the electoral district of Raglan for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 10th day of March, 1928.

William Henry Davys, Esquire,

to be the Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Waimarino for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 1st day of April, 1928.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Post Office Savings-bank : Rates of Interest payable on Deposits.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 28th March, 1928.

IN exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 16 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1927, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Finance, do hereby give notice as follows :

1. On and after the 1st day of April, 1928, the Post Office Savings-bank rate of interest shall, subject to the following clauses hereof, be in the case of each depositor—

(a) On so much of his deposit as does not exceed five hundred pounds a rate of four per centum per annum ; and

(b) On so much thereof as exceeds five hundred pounds and does not exceed two thousand pounds, a rate of three and a quarter per centum per annum.

2. In the case of each depositor the amount of whose deposit on the 31st day of March, 1928, exceeds two thousand pounds and does not exceed five thousand pounds the rate of interest on so much thereof as exceeds five hundred pounds and does not exceed five thousand pounds shall be a rate of three and a quarter per centum per annum in respect of moneys lodged to the account on or before the 31st day of March, 1928, but so that no interest shall be allowed on any moneys lodged to the account on or after the 1st day of April, 1928, unless and until the balance at credit does not exceed two thousand pounds, and thereafter interest shall be allowed only on so much thereof as does not exceed two thousand pounds.

3. In the case of savings-banks established under the Savings-banks Act, 1908, registered friendly societies, societies incorporated under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1908, and such other non-mercantile societies as the Minister of Finance from time to time prescribes, the aforesaid limit of two thousand pounds shall not apply.

4. All depositors in the Post Office Savings-bank on the 31st day of March, 1928, exempt under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, from the interest-bearing limit by virtue of section 77 of that Act as continued by subsection (3) of section 16 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1927, shall, until further notice, continue to be exempt from the interest-bearing limit hereby imposed.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

By-law of the Kaikohe Town Board confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th March, 1928.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-law made by the Kaikohe Town Board on the 18th day of November, 1927.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

IN pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-law, and declare the same shall come into force on the 1st day of April, 1928.

Dated this 28th day of March, 1928.

F. J. ROLLESTON,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 19/20/22.)