Aug. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2433

General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Edward Moss Jackson, being a person holding the office of Accountant, Chief Post-office, Dunedin, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness my hand, this 2nd day of August, 1928.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

Howard Frederick Davis .. .. Arrowtown.
Joseph Hardy Fletcher .. .. Stratford.

As witness my hand, this 2nd day of August, 1928.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 31st July, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize

Keiha Hone Newton,

of Auckland, to act as an Interpreter of the First Grade under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Members of Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 4th August, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Te Whaiti,
Toka Potangaroa,
H. te Haeata,
Hamuera Mahupuku,
Earnest Boyd,
Hector Manihera, and
Takuta Tatere,

to be members of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Rongokako, vice Te Kawenata te Poukapura, Te Aoturoa Hemi, Taiawhio Tikawenga te Tau, Renata Paora te Iriwhere, Te Whitu Ataria Piripi, Te Ao Mataura Maaka, and Anaru Tuhokairangi, resigned.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th August, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

(Miss) Leila Gwendoline Inger

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Albertland, as from the 2nd July, 1928.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

Consul of United States of America, at Wellington, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st July, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that His Majesty’s Exequatur empowering

Bernard Gotlieb, Esquire,

to act as Consul of the United States of America, at Wellington, has been issued.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 13/35/11.)

Consul-General of Latvia for the Dominion of New Zealand, including Western Samoa, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st July, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that His Majesty’s Exequatur, empowering

Monsieur Charles Louis Seya

to act as Consul-General of Latvia for the Dominion of New Zealand, including the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa, has been issued.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 13/35/86.)

Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st August, 1928.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the undermentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Auckland Acclimatization District :—

William Thirwall Routledge, of Auckland.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/23/4.)

Appointment of Honorary Consul of Ecuador, at Auckland, recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st July, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that, pending the issue of His Majesty’s Exequatur, he has recognized provisionally the appointment of

William Birss, Esquire,

as Honorary Consul of Ecuador, at Auckland.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 13/35/129.)

Members of Domain Boards appointed.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 6th August, 1928.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, been pleased to make the following appointments :—

Nicholas Lawn

to be a member of the Reef ton Domain Board, in place of Richard Wills, deceased.

Andrew Austin

to be a member of the Opawa Domain Board, in place of James Austin, deceased.

John Downie

to be a member of the Murchison Domain Board, in place of Edward Kerr, deceased.

James Welsh

to be a member of the Makarewa Domain Board, in place of John Alexander Bell, resigned.

James Andrew Morrison and
Patrick Francis Troy

to be members of the Mataroa Domain Board, in place of Walter Williams and Herbert Arthur Lamb, resigned.

Richard Harker and
Stephen Peggie, sen.,

to be members of the Millerton Domain Board, in place of Andrew Beverland and John Jeffries, resigned.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 7th August, 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. :—

Frederick Lindo Harrington .. .. .. Waipara.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.