JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1699

SECOND SCHEDULE.
VILLAGE LAND.

Kiwitea County.—Ongo Survey District.
Pakihikura Village.

(For sale for cash or deferred payments.)

Sections 4, 8, 10 to 14, Block VIII: Area, 5 acres 0 roods 21 perches. Upset price, £56. Deposit on deferred payments, £6; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £1 12s 6d. Weighted with the sum of £6 15s. for nine chains boundary fencing. This sum is payable in cash.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 30th day of May, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2641.)

Appointment of Assistant Public Trustee.

THE following Warrant, appointing an Assistant Public Trustee, is published for general information.

Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of May, 1931.

GEO. W. FORBES, Prime Minister.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

To William George Baird, Esquire, M.A., LL.B., Barrister-at-Law, of Wellington: Greeting.

In pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section three of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1917, as amended by section fourteen of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921-22, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf me enabling, I, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby appoint you, the said William George Baird,

to be an Assistant Public Trustee of the Dominion of New Zealand, with all the powers, privileges, and duties appertaining thereto, to hold office as on and from the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, during the pleasure of the Governor-General in Council.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Member of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; Governor-General in and over His Majesty's Dominion in New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion.

GEO. W. FORBES,
Minister in Charge of the Public Trust Office.

Approved in Council—
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
27th May, 1931.

Councillor for Borough of Hastings appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th May, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in terms of section 62 of the Hawke's Bay Earthquake Act, 1931, to appoint

Francis Edgar Smith

to fill an extraordinary vacancy in the office of Councillor for the Borough of Hastings.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.W. 19/28/40.)

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th May, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Ellis Porter Shier, Esquire,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Hurunui, vice J. W. Foster, deceased.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Member of the Umutoi Rabbit Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 2969.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 56 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928,

Sam Alfred Stephen Hart

as a member of the Umutoi Rabbit Board established under the said Act, vice Harold Knight, deceased.

A. J. MURDOCH, Minister of Agriculture.

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 2971.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Willison Murray

as an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, for the district within the jurisdiction of the Manukan County Council, the appointment to date from the 30th day of May, 1931.

A. J. MURDOCH, Minister of Agriculture.

Producers’ Representatives on the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 2970.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 4 of the Dairy-produce Export Control Act, 1923—

William Grounds, Esquire,
Dynes Fulton, Esquire, and
William Lee, Esquire,

as representatives of producers on the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board established under the said Act, each such person to hold office for a period of three years commencing on 1st day of July, 1931.

A. J. MURDOCH, Minister of Agriculture.

Crown Solicitor appointed.

Crown Law Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Alan Walter Brown, Esquire,

to be Crown Solicitor at Christchurch, such appointment to take effect on and from the 27th day of May, 1931, and to be for the period of the absence from New Zealand of Arthur Telford Donnelly, Esquire, Crown Solicitor.

THOMAS K. SIDEY, Attorney-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.

CHARLES MANDUIT LAWFORD, ESQUIRE, of Orange, New South Wales, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, has this day been appointed by the Honourable Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the State of New South Wales under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of May, 1931.

W. W. SAMSON,
Registrar of the Supreme Court, Wellington.