May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1549

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

Education Department,
Wellington, 8th May, 1931.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Harry Atmore, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint Mrs. Mary Stancombe of Tuatapere, as an Honorary Child Welfare Officer for the period ending 31st December, 1931.

HARRY ATMORE, Minister of Education.

Appointing Members of the Engineers Registration Board.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Engineers Registration Act, 1924, I, William Burgoyne Taverner, the Minister of Public Works, do hereby appoint the following persons to be members of the Engineers Registration Board as from the 1st day of April, 1931, the three last named having been recommended by the Council of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers (Incorporated) :—

Frederick William Furkert, Esquire, Civil Engineer; Engineer-in-Chief, and Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department.

Frederick Templeton Mannheim Kissel, Esquire, Electrical Engineer; Chief Electrical Engineer, Public Works Department.

Sydney Arthur Robert Mair, Esquire, Civil Engineer, Engineer to the Rangitikei County Council.

Francis William MacLean, Esquire, Civil Engineer, Wellington.

Matthew Cable, Esquire, Electrical Engineer to the Wellington City Council.

David Ker Blair, Esquire, Mechanical Engineer, Wellington.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 18th day of May, 1931.

W. B. TAVERNER, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 30/922.)

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th May, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Ernest Cargill Cutten, Esquire, S.M.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Auckland, Waitemata, and Parnell, vice F. K. Hunt, Esquire, S.M., also

George Augustus Empson, Esquire,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waitomo.

JOHN G. COBBE,
Minister of Justice.

Appointing Nominated Members of the Hawke’s Bay Adjustment Court.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th May, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Herbert Douglas Vickery, Esquire, and Heinrich Ferdinand von Haast, Esquire,

to be nominated members of the Hawke’s Bay Adjustment Court constituted under the Hawke’s Bay Earthquake Act, 1931.

GEO. W. FORBES, for Minister of Justice.

Native Interpreter appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 16th May, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize

Te Arapeta Marukitipua Awatere,

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

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 19th May, 1931.

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.
Melvyn Dexter Wells .. .. Hyde.
Thomas Edward Hutt .. .. Mamaku.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th May, 1931.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :—

David John Graham

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Drury, as from the 7th day of May, 1931.

Patrick Michael Martin

to be Registrar of the Hawke’s Bay Adjustment Court constituted under the Hawke’s Bay Earthquake Act, 1931, as from the 12th day of May, 1931.

Arthur Cuthbert Christophers

to be a Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and an officer for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, for the Rotorua Acclimatization District, as from the 14th day of May, 1931.

Gordon Ambrose Eastick

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Awitu, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waiuku, as from the 12th day of May, 1931.

Alexander Leslie Murray Willis

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Te Aroha, as from the 30th day of April, 1931.

Edwin John Williams

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Kaikoura, as from the 2nd day of May, 1931.

Arthur Fowler

to be Assistant Land Registrar at Christchurch pursuant to the provisions of section 4 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, as from the 2nd June, 1931.

Philip William Cantwell

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Auckland, at Takapuna, as from the 1st day of April, 1931.

Vincent Peter Scaletti

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Auckland, at Birkenhead, as from the 12th day of May, 1931.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, and Retirements of Officers of the N.Z. Military Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 15th May, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, transfers, and retirements of the undermentioned officers of the N.Z. Military Forces :—

STAFF.

Captain E. L. G. Bown, N.Z. Staff Corps, relinquishes the appointment of Area Officer, Area 10A, Christchurch, dated 21st April, 1931, and is appointed Ordnance Officer, Main Depot, and Officer-in-Charge Trentham Military Camp, Trentham, dated 22nd April, 1931.

CORPS OF N.Z. ENGINEERS.

2nd Lieutenant J. W. Mason, Central Depot, to be Lieutenant. Dated 29th April, 1931.

N.Z. CORPS OF SIGNALS.

Lieutenant A. E. Smith, Northern Depot, to be Captain. Dated 28th August, 1930.