JUNE 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1727

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

Angus Alexander Fraser

to be a member of the Gisborne Harbour Board as a representative of the electors of the County of Waikohu, to fill the vacancy caused by the before-mentioned failure to elect.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of June, 1929.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Appointing Members of the Mokau Harbour Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by the twenty-eighth section of the Harbours Act, 1923, that if any constituent district or combined district fails at any election to elect the required number of representatives the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint such qualified persons as he thinks fit to be the representatives of that district in lieu of those who ought to have been elected; and the person so appointed shall hold office in all respects as if they had been duly elected in conformity with the said Act:

And whereas it is provided by the said Act that three members of the Mokau Harbour Board shall be elected by the electors of the Mokau Subdivision of the Mokau Harbour District; two members by the electors of the Tongaporutu Subdivision of the Harbour District, and two members by the electors of the Awakino Subdivision of the Harbour District:

And whereas at the elections held on the eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, the electors of the said Harbour District failed to elect any members to the said Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand in exercise of the hereinbefore recited power and authority doth hereby appoint the following to be members of the Mokau Harbour Board, to fill the vacancies caused by the before-mentioned failure to elect:

Samuel Whitehead,
Allen Gregory Sampson,
Frederick George Northern,

representing the Mokau Subdivision of the Harbour District.

William John McKeown,
Willie Douglas Black,

representing the Tongaporutu Subdivision of the Harbour District.

John Richards Terrill,
Albert William Sole,

representing the Awakino Subdivision of the Harbour District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of June, 1929.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Appointing a Member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by the twenty-eighth section of the Harbours Act, 1923, that if any constituent district or combined district fails at any election to elect the required number of representatives the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint such qualified persons as he thinks fit to be the representatives of that district in lieu of those who ought to have been elected; and the person so appointed shall hold office in all respects as if they had been duly elected in conformity with the said Act:

And whereas it is provided by the said Act that one member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board shall be elected by the electors of the combined district of those parts of the Counties of Eltham and Hawera included in the New Plymouth Harbour District:

And whereas at the election held on the eighth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, the electors of the said combined district failed to elect a member to the Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

Walter Charles Clement

to be a member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board as a representative of the electors of the said combined district, to fill the vacancy caused by the before-mentioned failure to elect.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of June, 1929.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces amended.—Amendments No. 26.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto the Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces published in the New Zealand Gazette dated the sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five; and I do hereby declare that the amendments hereby made shall take effect as from the date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

FINANCIAL INSTRUCTIONS AND ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES.

Section III.—Rations and Quarters, and Allowances in lieu.

1. PARAGRAPH 62.—Substitute a comma for the full-stop at the end of the paragraph, and add the following words: “with the exception that officers of the Permanent Forces who while attending camps are required to contribute to an officers’ mess may be refunded the actual amount of such contributions for each camp upon production of receipts for the same signed by the Mess President. For the purposes of this paragraph a camp will be considered to be any period up to ten days spent with the same unit.”

Bicycle Allowance.

2. Paragraph 95.—Line 4, for “£3” substitute “£2.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of June, 1929.

THOMAS M. WILFORD, Minister of Defence.

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, 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, 1928, 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.

William Hayward Subritzky .. .. Awanui.
Elsie Florence Sutherland (Mrs.) .. .. Glenorchy.
Alice Ross (Mrs.) .. .. Kahuika.
Annie Stuart White (Mrs.) .. .. Papatowai.
Alfred George Shirley .. .. Patetonga.
Leslie Arthur Whitham .. .. Waiau.
Clement William Eden .. .. Wairau Valley.

As witness my hand, this 18th day of June, 1929.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Honours conferred by His Majesty the King.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th June, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs the publication in the New Zealand Gazette of the Honours conferred by His Majesty the King as follows:—

Knight Bachelor—
The Honourable Alexander Lawrence Herdman, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
Henry Buckleton, Esquire, General Manager of the Bank of New Zealand.

Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George—
Leonard Cockayne, Esquire, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., of Wellington.
Robert Edward Hayes, Esquire, I.S.O., Paymaster-General and Secretary to the Treasury.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order—
Fortescue William Thomas Rowley, Esquire, Secretary, Labour Department.

W. A. VEITCH,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 12/4.)