Chairman of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

Felix Hector Levien, Esquire, S.M.,
to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Kaipara, vice E. C. Cutten, Esquire, S.M.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

The Hon. William Henderson McIntyre, M.L.C., and
Robert Patterson, Esquire,
to be members of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Buller; and

George Alexander Brabant, Esquire, and
Albert Victor Merriman, Esquire,
to be members of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Rotorua.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

Patrick David Leahy
to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Waitaki, vice J. S. Mosley;

Joseph William Pooley
to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Stratford, vice O. S. Harvey; and

William Harte
to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Wairarapa, vice H. J. Henderson.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

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

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st February, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

Constable James Adam Tocker
to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates' Court at Colling-
wood, on and from the 14th day of January, 1928, vice Con-
stable C. Joss, transferred.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

Marine Department.
Wellington, 26th January, 1928.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-
General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the
Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and
Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Charles Henry McGlone, of Westport, Police Sergeant,
to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing under the first-mentioned Act.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.

PETER ANGUS MACFIE, ESQUIRE, of Bazaar Street,
Maryborough, Queensland, a Solicitor of the Supreme
Court of Queensland, 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 Queensland, 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 27th day of January, 1928.

W. W. SAMSON,
Registrar Supreme Court, Wellington.

Special Order made by the Waikato County Council merging
Road Districts.

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

THE following special order, made by the Waikato County
Council, is published in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Counties Act, 1920.

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

SPECIAL ORDER MERGING ROAD BOARDS.

THAT, in pursuance and in exercise of the provisions of
section 30 of the Counties Act, 1920, and section 4 of the
Counties Amendment Act, 1927, the Waikato County Council
resolves by special order that the Road Boards of the Whanga-
marino, Tamahere, and Cambridge Road Districts be dis-
solved, and that the aforesaid road districts be merged in the
County of Waikato, to take effect as from the 1st day of
April, 1928.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly
made.

T. B. INSOLL,
County Clerk, Waikato County Council.

(I.A. 19/30/36.)

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to fill Extra-
ordinary Vacancy on the Eltham Fire Board.

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

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, I, Francis
Joseph Rolleston, being the Minister charged with the
administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Wednesday,
the 22nd February, 1928, to be the date for holding the
election of one member of the Eltham Fire Board by the fire-
insurance companies concerned, such election being held to
fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of
Mr. Maurice W. Allom.

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

(I.A. 11/15/46.)

Open Season for Deer-shooting, Ashburton (Rangitata Gorge)
Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, Francis Joseph
Rolleston, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby declare the period from the 2nd
day of April, 1928, to the 11th day of May, 1928 (both days
inclusive), to be an open season in the Ashburton Acclimati-
zation District for the taking or killing of the following imported
game—viz., red-deers tags and hinds—within that part of the
said acclimatization district described in the First Schedule
hereto, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill red-deer stags and hinds may be
   issued by the Postmaster at Ashburton, upon the recom-
   mendation of the Secretary of the Ashburton Acclimatization
   Society, on payment of a license fee of £5, in the form prescribed
   in the Second Schedule hereto, and subject to the said Act
   and regulations thereunder and this notification. The number
   of such licenses to be issued by the said Postmaster shall not
   exceed three: Provided that not more than one such license
   shall be issued to the same person; and also that if the number
   of applications received for licenses exceeds the number of
   available licenses, then the persons to whom such licenses are
   to be issued shall be decided by ballot.

2. No licensee shall allow any dog to accompany either
   himself or any attendant he may have with him. Ball car-
   tridge only to be used; provided that no metal-patched or
   metal-cased bullet shall be used for killing such deer.

3. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorizing
   any person to sell any deer or portion thereof.

4. Regulations as to the use of marks of identification of
   deer-heads contained in section 6 of the regulations under the
   Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, published in the