Jan. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 15

Consul of Norway at Wellington appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th January, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that His Majesty’s Exequatur empowering Alexander Whitelaw Newton, Esquire, to act as Consul of Norway at Wellington, for the Dominion of New Zealand and the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa has been issued.

JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 13/35/125.)

Police Gaoler appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 24th December, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Constable Alec Howard Barnes to be Police Gaoler at Port Awanui, on and from the 17th December, 1929, vice Constable Olsen.

JOHN G. COBBE, for Minister of Justice.

Appointment in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Navy Office,
Wellington, 4th January, 1930.

THE New Zealand Naval Board have approved the following appointment in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division):—

Roland Bishopp Wallingford, as Probationary Paymaster-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), with seniority of 4th January, 1930.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th December, 1929.

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 John Kennedy, of Thames South, to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of Part I of the first-mentioned Act.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th December, 1929.

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 William Samuel Bateman Hardy, of Havelock, to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of Part I of the first-mentioned Act.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th December, 1929.

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 Ernest Thomas Aitken, of Kakahu Bush, Temuka, to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act, in respect of the South Canterbury Acclimatization District.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th December, 1929.

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 James Francis MacNamara, of Thames, to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of Part I of the first-mentioned Act.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 8th January, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint The Honourable William Henderson McIntyre, M.L.C., to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Buller.

T. K. SIDEY, Minister of Justice.

Shorthand Reporter appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 8th January, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Alice Phebe Anyon to be a Shorthand Reporter under the Shorthand Reporters Act, 1908.

T. K. SIDEY, Minister of Justice.

Child Welfare Amendment Act, 1927.

IN pursuance of the power vested in me by section 6, subsection (1), of the Child Welfare Amendment Act, 1927, I, Harry Atmore, Minister of Education, do hereby notify that the premises set forth in the Schedule below have been registered as from the date hereof as a Children’s Home for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

St. Saviour’s Babies’ Home, 42 River Road, Avonside, Christchurch.

Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of December, 1929.

HARRY ATMORE, Minister of Education.

Member of Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 4th January, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Mutunga Hoterene to be a Member of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Mangonui, vice Manihera Paneera, resigned.

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 31st December, 1929.

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.:—

Name. District.
Percival Steele Miller .. .. Kaitaia, at Awanui.
James Willis Bain .. .. Gore.
Bert Baden Powell Stevenson .. Mahurangi.
Edward Walter Benfell .. .. Fortrose.
Colin Roto Houghton .. .. Kaitia.
Albert Edward Lawson .. .. Te Awamutu.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.