Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th April, 1928.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Charles Hastings Butcher
to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Kaipara, vice E. G. Tyler, on leave.
F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Trustees for Public Cemeteries appointed.—(H. 2/86.)
Department of Health,
Wellington, 26th April, 1928.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, been pleased
to appoint
Henry Atkins,
to be a trustee in place of Henry Nichol, whose seat has
become vacant by death, to provide for the maintenance and
care of the Patutahi Public Cemetery.
William Phillips,
to be a trustee in place of the late William Phillips, sen., to
provide for the maintenance and care of the Weedons Public
Cemetery.
James Hutchinson,
to be a trustee in place of Robert Duncan, whose seat has
become vacant by resignation, to provide for the maintenance
and care of the Blackball Public Cemetery.
John Noble Niven,
to be a trustee in place of James Quinn, whose seat has
become vacant by death, to provide for the maintenance and
care of the Seddonville Public Cemetery.
Marion de Stapcoole,
to be a trustee in place of Thomas Hobson, who has left the
district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the
Takapau Public Cemetery.
William Steere Maunder,
to be a trustee in place of Jack Howard Vincent, whose seat
has become vacant by death, to provide for the maintenance
and care of the Ashhurst Public Cemetery.
Andrew Carr,
to be a trustee in place of Alexander Currie, whose seat has
become vacant by death, to provide for the maintenance
and care of the Waikawa Public Cemetery.
William Edward Linsay, and
Colin McLeish,
to be trustees in place of John Linsay and Peter Colin Campbell McLeish, whose seats have become vacant by resignation,
to provide for the maintenance and care of the Calcium
Public Cemetery.
William John Dalkie,
John Henry Powell,
Leslie Ernest Powell, and
John Robertson,
to be trustees in place of George Arthur Archer, James Butterworth, Gilbert Harper Mouat, and George Morgan Powell,
whose seats have become vacant by resignation, to provide
for the maintenance and care of the Nile Hill Public Cemetery.
Frederick William Beccard,
Alexander Murray,
Peter Christopher Murray, and
Thomas Edmund Whiteside,
to be trustees in place of Robert Collins, and Philip Henry
Jones, whose seats have become vacant by resignation, William
Taylor, whose seat has become vacant by death, and Joseph
Turnbull, who has left the district, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Waipahi Public Cemetery.
Frank Allen,
Charles Coster,
William Horton,
John (G.) MacDonald,
Charles McIntosh,
Archibald McKay, and
Robert Miller,
to be trustees in place of George Cottell Batcheler, John
Richard Hamilton, Jenkin Evans, Paul A. R. Kania, Joseph
Murdoch Mackintosh, Henry Ernest Rutledge, and Donald
Young, whose seats have become vacant by resignation, to
provide for the maintenance and care of the Hedgehope
Public Cemetery.
J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Cemetery Trustees Appointed.—(H. 2/85.)
Department of Health,
Wellington, 28th March, 1928.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General, pursuant to sec-
tion 55 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, has been pleased
to appoint
The Te Kuiti Borough Council
to be trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of
the Te Kuiti Public Cemetery in the place of John Nicholls,
Samuel Thomas, Rev. Alfred Drake, and Rev. Charles Strand,
who have left the district, and Arnold Blackman, whose seat
has become vacant by resignation.
The Inangahua County Council
to be trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the
Boatman’s Public Cemetery in the place of John O’Regan,
Edward Joseph Gilsenan, David Kennedy Meharry, whose
seats have become vacant by resignation.
J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Appointments to Cook Islands Public Service.
Cook Islands Department,
Wellington, 1st May, 1928.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of
New Zealand has been pleased to make the following
appointments to the Cook Islands Public Service under sections 12, 104, and 110 of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and the
Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 :—
Ayson, Annie Irene Watt,
to be Assistant Mistress, Avarua Normal School, from 23rd
April, 1928.
Smith, Norris Y.,
to be Headmaster, Takitumu School, Rarotonga, from 30th
January, 1928.
Mackenzie, Alexander,
to be Headmaster, Aitutaki School, Cook Islands, from 24th
April, 1928.
Brass, Allister James,
to be Assistant Medical Officer, Cook Islands, from 24th April,
1928.
M. POMARE,
Minister for the Cook Islands.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.
NOTICE.
THOMAS TOLME BLYTH, Esquire, of 112 Gresham
House, Old Broad Street, London, England, a Solicitor
of the Supreme Court of Judicature in England, has this day
been appointed by the Honourable Sir Charles Perrin Skerrett,
K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of
the Supreme Court of New Zealand in England under the
47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of
administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and
affirmations as in the said section mentioned.
Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1928.
W. W. SAMSON,
Registrar, Supreme Court, Wellington.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 1st May, 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. :—
John Frederick Ericson .. Blueskin.
Victor Reginald Sellwood .. Auckland (at Ellerslie).*
John Arthur Storey .. .. Oxford.

• Births and deaths only.
  W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointment in the Public Service.
Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 28th April, 1928.
THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointment in the Public Service :—
James Selwyn Mosley, Esquire,
to be Clerk of the Warden’s Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue,
and Mining Registrar at Orepuki for the Otago Mining District,
constituted under the Mining Act, 1926, as from the 1st day
of April, 1928.
A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.