JULY 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2195

Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that at the next general licensing poll (being the first licensing poll after the gazetting of this notice) the poll to be taken in each of such new districts on the questions relating to local restoration shall be taken under section eight of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910, and I do hereby notify that, pursuant to section seventy-three of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, no local no-license poll will be taken in any other licensing district on the question whether licenses shall continue to be granted in that district.

SCHEDULE.

NEW DISTRICTS IN WHICH LICENSING POLL UNDER SECTION 8 OF THE LICENSING AMENDMENT ACT, 1910, TO BE TAKEN.

Auckland Suburbs. Wellington South.
Eden. Wellington Suburbs.
Grey Lynn. Oamaru.
Roskill. Clutha.
Masterton. Mataura.
Wellington East. Invercargill.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of July, 1928.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Member of Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 3rd July, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Leslie Roy Capp

to be the official member of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Wairoa, vice James Coughlan Griffiths, resigned.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Resignation of Clerk of the Writs.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th June, 1928.

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

James Hislop, Esquire,

as Clerk of the Writs.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 10/17.)

Probation Officer appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 3rd July, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Harry Coltman, Esquire,

to be Probation Officer under the Offenders’ Probation Act, 1920, and the Crimes Amendment Acts, 1910 and 1920, for the Borough of Nelson.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Stipendiary Magistrate appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 9th July, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

James Miller, Esquire,

a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, to be a Stipendiary Magistrate, to exercise criminal and civil jurisdiction within New Zealand, the appointment to take effect on and from the 9th day of July, 1928.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th July, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Swale, Esquire,

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

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 4th July, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

James Selwyn Mosley

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wallace, vice P. W. J. Cockerill.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 5th July, 1928.

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

Ernest John Robert Cumming, Esquire,

to be Commissioner of Taxes under the Land and Income Tax Act, 1923, and its amendments, as from the 1st day of June, 1928.

Charles Edwin James Dowland, Esquire,

to be Deputy Commissioner of Taxes under the Land and Income Tax Act, 1923, and its amendments, as from the 1st day of June, 1928.

Gilbert Graham Hodgkins, Esquire,

to be Chief Electoral Officer for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 1st day of July, 1928.

Charles Herbert Newson

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, as from the 2nd day of July, 1928.

Constable William Corsie Robertson

to be Clerk of the Warden’s Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Murchison, for the Karamea Mining District, constituted under the Mining Act, 1926, as from the 26th day of June, 1928.

Constable Cecil Ruddell

to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Feilding for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, as from the 4th day of July, 1928.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th July, 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. :—

Leonard Cornelius Boardman . . Weber.
William John Hastings . . . . Ashburton at Mayfield.*
Charles Irvine . . . . . . . . Tokatoka.
Thomas William James . . . . . Paparoa
Percival Steele Miller . . . . Mangonui.

• 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, 7th July, 1928.

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.

THE REGIMENT OF N.Z. ARTILLERY.

Captain R. F. Bale, 7th Field Battery, is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Class I (b), R.D. 6. Dated 26th June, 1928.

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 54, of 5th July, 1928, relating to Lieutenant C. L. Walter, for “30th March, 1828,” read “30th April, 1928.”

CORPS OF N.Z. ENGINEERS.

Southern Depot.

2nd Lieutenant R. Faville, from the Canterbury Regiment, to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 2nd July, 1928.