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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

Appointing a Member of the Nelson Harbour Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by section thirty-eight of the Harbours Act, 1923, doth hereby appoint

John Harband Brunt

to be a non-elective member of the Nelson Harbour Board, to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of John Liddell Brown of his office on the said Board.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 7th day of July, 1931.

JAS. B. DONALD, Minister of Marine.

Nomination of Persons as Assessors revoked and others nominated in lieu thereof for the High Court of the Cook Islands in the Island of Niue.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by section two hundred and ninety-five of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the nomination of persons qualified for appointment as Assessors in criminal trials in the High Court of the Cook Islands, made by Warrant gazetted in New Zealand Gazette, No. 52, of the fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, at page 2412, in respect of persons in the Island of Niue, and in lieu thereof I hereby nominate the persons named in the Schedule hereto as persons qualified for appointment as Assessors under the said Act generally in criminal trials in the High Court of the Cook Islands in the Island of Niue, and I declare that this Warrant shall take effect on the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

SCHEDULE.

THE following persons presently residing in the Island of Niue :—

Collins, Harry Woolaston.
Cunningham, Ernest Joseph.
Hamilton, Harry, sen.
Head, Allan George.
Head, Arthur Owen.
Head, Robert Dunn.
Jackson, Joseph.
Lonsdale, James.
Taylor, Harold.
Hamoa Vakaimotu.
Ikihetoa.
Ikimana.
Niutama.
Kilimafitu-ua.
Maletau.
Fakahuikula.
Mauvaka.
Palamu.
Hegotule.
Pitevalu.
Fakatala.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of July, 1931.

A. T. NGATA, Minister for the Cook Islands.

Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section three hundred and one of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Thomas Oswald Lambie, being a person holding the office of Supervisor, Postal Division, General Post Office, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness my hand, this 10th day of July, 1931.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General,

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Percival Steele Miller, being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, at Awanui, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness my hand, this 10th day of July, 1931.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

Officer of Police Force appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 9th July, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Sub-Inspector Patrick James O’Hara

to be an Inspector of the New Zealand Police Force, the appointment to take effect on and from the 1st July, 1931.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Coroners resign.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 15th July, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignations by

Caleb Lally, Esquire, J.P.,
of Te Puke, and

William Henry Lucas, Esquire, J.P.,
of Thames, of their appointments as Coroners for the Dominion of New Zealand.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 14th July, 1931.

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

THE NELSON-MARLBOROUGH MOUNTED RIFLES.

The undermentioned to be Second Lieutenants :—

Algy Vernon Neal. Dated 10th September, 1930.
Frederick Thomas Horton. Dated 11th September, 1930.

THE NORTH AUCKLAND MOUNTED RIFLES.

Lieutenant N. C. Shepherd to be Captain. Dated 13th May, 1931.

N.Z. INFANTRY.

The Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

Second Lieutenant F. C. Rauch, 2nd C Battalion, to be Lieutenant. Dated 10th March, 1928.

The Hauraki Regiment.

Lieutenant C. M. Gray, from the Canterbury Regiment, to be Lieutenant, with seniority as from the 7th December, 1928, and is posted to the 1st Battalion. Dated 4th July, 1931.

Lieutenant J. J. Buchan, from the Southland Regiment, to be Lieutenant, with seniority as from the 9th January, 1930, and is posted to the 2nd C Battalion. Dated 4th July, 1931.

The Wellington Regiment.

Captain J. R. Sutcliffe, 5th C Battalion, to be Major. Dated 9th July, 1931.

Lieutenant F. D. Hamilton, 1st Battalion, is transferred to the Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment. Dated 3rd July, 1931.

Second Lieutenant C. Jacobsen, 5th C Battalion, to be Lieutenant. Dated 10th July, 1931.