1882
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

A relieving-allowance shall not be paid to an officer for any period in excess of one month, or in cases where the period of relief is likely to be in excess of one month, without the previous approval of the Commissioner thereto. In such cases, where practicable, a commuted allowance will be payable.

Regulation 142 is hereby revoked.

As witness my hand this 9th day of July, 1929.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, approves the foregoing regulations.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Approved in Council this 15th day of July, 1929.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Public Trust Office Act, 1908, and its Amendments.—Elections to administer Estates.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Public Trustee has filed in the Supreme Court an election to administer in respect of the several estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations (so far as known) are hereunder set forth.

Public Trust Office, Wellington, 15th July, 1929.
J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Appointment of Honorary Child Welfare Officers under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 17th July, 1929.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Harry Atmore, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint the following persons as Honorary Child Welfare Officers for the districts mentioned for the purposes of the said Act for the period ending 31st December, 1929:—

Name. District.
Te Kani Teua.. Waihirere, Gisborne.
Rev. Richard Hill Johnson Helensville.
William Robert Angus Eyre Hamilton.
Mrs. Mabel Saunders Otautau.

HARRY ATMORE, Minister of Education.

Election of Member of the Wellington Land Board.

IN accordance with the provisions of section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, and the regulations thereunder, I, Henry William Charles Mackintosh, Returning Officer for the election of a member of the Wellington Land Board, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on the 10th day of July, 1929, to be as follows:—

Burnett, Charles Harris .. .. 250
Handley, Frederick .. .. 164
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Total number of valid votes .. 414
Informal votes .. .. 23

And I do hereby declare that Charles Harris Burnett, having received the greater number of valid votes, is duly elected a member of the Wellington Land Board for a term of two years from the 10th day of July, 1929.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of July, 1929.

H. W. C. MACKINTOSH, Returning Officer.

Land Surveyors’ Examination, September, 1929, Australia and New Zealand.

The Survey Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 15th July, 1929.

IT is hereby notified, for general information, that the Survey Board, in conjunction with the Australian Surveyors’ Boards, will conduct an examination of candidates for licenses to survey, commencing at 10 a.m. on Monday, 16th September, 1929, at Wellington.

Candidates are notified that their applications, on the proper form, must reach the Secretary of the Board not later than Monday, 2nd September, and that the examination fee as under must be paid at the same time to the Secretary, from whom application forms and other particulars may be obtained. Candidates desiring to sit in other centres than Wellington must forward a fee of £2 2s.; only those completing may do this.

At this examination candidates sitting for the first time will be accepted, as well as those completing former sittings.

The fee to be paid by new candidates should be that under the new regulations which are expected to be gazetted before the date of this examination.

This fee is £5 5s. for new candidates.

For candidates completing and desiring to sit in other centres the fee is subject to adjustment to the above fee in consideration of fees already paid in the past, and a fee of £2 2s. should be sent with application to secure the right to sit, subject to adjustment as above.

The fee of £5 5s. may, in the discretion of the Board, cover two post examinations if required, and the subsequent fees for certificates and registration are less than under old regulations for license.

M. CROMPTON-SMITH,
Secretary, Survey Board.

Government Buildings, Wellington.