APRIL 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1005

Defence Rifle Club re-designated.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 9th April, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve, under section 6 (a), Defence Act, 1909, that the Thames Valley Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Morrinsville, be re-designated the “Morrinsville Defence Rifle Club.”

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 9th April, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to Major D. W. McClurg, M.C., The Wellington Regiment.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 13th April, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Dawson, C.M.G., C.B.E., The Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Time and Place of the First Meeting of the Fireblight Committee of the Christchurch Commercial Fruitgrowing District appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 2962.)

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Fireblight Committee Regulations, 1928, under the Orchard-tax Act, 1927, I, Alfred James Murdooh, Minister of Agriculture, hereby appoint 8 o’clock p.m., on Tuesday, the 21st day of April, 1931, as the time, and the Chamber of Commerce Building, corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street, Christchurch, as the place, for holding the first meeting of the Fireblight Committee of the Christchurch Commercial Fruitgrowing District established pursuant to the said regulations.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of April, 1931.

A. J. MURDOCH, Minister of Agriculture.

Plumbers Registration Act.

RESULTS OF EXAMINATION, 31ST OCTOBER AND 1ST NOVEMBER, 1930.—(H.P.B. 44.)

THE following having now completed both portions of the examination of the Plumbers Board of New Zealand, held on the 31st October and 1st November, 1930, his name has been entered in the Register of Plumbers of New Zealand in pursuance of sections 9 and 17 (b) of the Act :—

Reg. No. Name. Address.
2196 .. .. Shirkey, J. A. Oamaru.

A. J. STALLWORTHY, Minister of Health.

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1931.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid.

John Madden, Assistant Postmaster, Auckland.
Douglas Llewellyn Hatton, Postmaster, Carterton.
Frederick George Nind, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Christchurch.
James Scott Porteous Clouston, Chief Postmaster, Dunedin.
Henry Clifford Jones, Postmaster, Eltham.
Allan Stanley Warner, Postmaster, Feilding.
Alfred Andrews, Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Gisborne.
Reginald Wallace Noake, Postmaster, Gore.
Albert Irving Flett, Chief Postmaster, Greymouth.
Walter Wackrill Sutton, Postmaster, Hastings.
Joseph Hardy Fletcher, Postmaster, Hawera.
Oliver Joseph Wright, Chief Postmaster, Invercargill.
David Pollock Porteous, Postmaster, Marton.
Ivan Innes McGregor, Postmaster, Masterton.
Duncan Malcolm McIntosh, Chief Postmaster, Napier.
John McGrath, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Napier.
James Wallace Logan, Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, New Plymouth.
George Clark, Chief Postmaster, Oamaru.
Frank Kingston Hyde, Postmaster, Paeroa.
Thomas James McCawe, Postmaster, Pahiatua.
Frederick Westland Furby, Chief Postmaster, Palmerston North.
Charles Clark, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Palmerston North.
Francis Rauben Price, Postmaster, Pukekohe.
David McCready, Postmaster, Stratford.
Alexander Leslie Murray Willis, Postmaster, To Aroha.
Edward Nicholas Pascoe, Postmaster, Te Awamutu.
William Peachey Aldridge, Chief Postmaster, Timaru.
Charles Andrew Condie, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Wanganui.
Robert Gordon May, Chief Postmaster, Westport.
Luther Hill, Postmaster, Whangarei.

JAS. B. DONALD, Minister of Telegraphs.

Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 9th April, 1931.

IN pursuance of section 10 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license

Norman Webley, Esquire,
of Dannevirke, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

JAS. B. DONALD, Minister in Charge.

Notice to Mariners No. 12 of 1931.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 11th April, 1931.

NEW ZEALAND.—NORTH ISLAND.—COOK STRAIT.—TURAKIRAE HEAD.

Submerged object reported.

Position : Lat. 41° 27′ S., long. 174° 55′ E.
Details : The Master of the s.s. “Port Hobart” reports having struck a submerged object on the 4th April in the above position.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1931.—Notice No. 15.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th April, 1931.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Albert George M. Carter.

The Ratana Church of New Zealand.
Hone Rare.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

I, JOHN STEPHEN TURNER, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Murchison Young Men’s Institute (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at Nelson, this 13th day of April, 1931.

J. S. TURNER,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.