and Hauraki Plains is deceased, and an extraordinary vacancy
in the membership of the Board has thereby been created, and
it is desirable to appoint a qualified person in his place:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-
recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

James McCormick

to be a member of the Thames Harbour Board as a representa-
tive of the combined district aforesaid, in the place of the said
Samuel Jamieson Laughlin, deceased.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 25th day of September, 1931.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Additional Member of Domain Board appointed.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 46 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and
National Parks Act, 1928, been pleased to increase the number
of members of the Okaihau Domain Board from seven to eight;
and to appoint

Alfred Faithfull

as the additional member thereby rendered necessary.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 1/694.)

Members of Domain Boards appointed.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 49 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and
National Parks Act, 1928, been pleased to make the following
appointments:-

Albert Henry Latta

to be a member of the Owaka Township Domain Board, in
place of Matthew Latta, deceased.

Andrew Richard Carter

to be a member of the Templeton Domain Board, in place of
James Banks, resigned.

Malcolm Alexander Bellerby

to be a member of the Putorino Domain Board, in place of
Vincent Barry, who has been absent from three consecutive
meetings without the consent of the Board.

John Pringle,
John Graham Weir, and
George Friend

to be members of the Ranfurly Domain Board, in place of
Alexander Smith, deceased, and Aaron Dyke and John
McLeod Millar, left the district.

William Henry Archie Battershall,
William Thomas Harman,
David John Lambert,
Reginald Parfitt, and
Alexander Troupe

to be members of the Stockton Domain Board, in place of
William Albert Berry, Arthur Whittington Merrett, Abram
Rowley Greta Geddes, John Macmillan, and Harold Wallace
McEwen, resigned.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

Crown Solicitor appointed.

Crown Law Office,
Wellington 24th September, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has this day been
pleased to appoint

Ronald Henry Quilliam

to be Crown Solicitor at New Plymouth, vice Claude Horace
Weston, resigned, such appointment to take effect on and
from 1st October, 1931.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Attorney-General.

Members of Maniapoto Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint

Mutone Moerua, and
Tewi Tana

to be members of the Maori Council for the Maori Council
District of Maniapoto, vice Tewhakaririka Peter Barton and
Rongo Wetere, resigned.

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1931.

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

Eleazar Griffiths

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the District of Waikouaiti, as from the 1st day of
October, 1931.

Malcolm Niccol

to be Assistant Clerk of the Magistrates' Court at Hawera,
for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1928, as
from the 22nd day of September, 1931.

William Thompson

to be Crier at Wanganui of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, Bailiff of the
Magistrates’ Court at Wanganui for the purposes of the
Magistrates' Courts Act, 1928, and Maintenance Officer at the
Magistrates' Court at Wanganui for the purposes of the
Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, as from the 1st day
of September, 1931.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Summer Time.

Prime Minister's Office,
Wellington, 28th September, 1931.

IT is hereby notified for general information that, under
the Summer Time Act, 1929, summer time commences
at 2 o'clock New Zealand standard time in the morning of
Sunday, the llth proximo, and ends at 2 o'clock, New
Zealand standard time, in the morning of Sunday, 20th March,
1932.

For the purpose of giving effect to the Act the time will
therefore be advanced thirty minutes as from 2 a.m. New
Zealand standard time, on Sunday the 11th proximo, and be
put back thirty minutes as from 2 a.m. New Zealand standard
time on Sunday, 20th March, 1932.

GEO. W. FORBES, Prime Minister.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XII, Wairoa
Survey District, for the Purposes of a Police-station.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to take the
land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of a
police-station: And notice is hereby further given that the
plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the
post-office at Waitotara, and is there open for inspection;
and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land
should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the
taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send
such writing, within forty days from the first publication of
this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken:
1 acre 3 roods 6.2 perches.
Being Lots 142-147 (inclusive) on D.P. 68, being part Section
305, Okotuku R.D.

Situated in Block XII, Wairoa Survey District.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 82711,
deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at
Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 30th day of
September, 1931.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 25/366.)