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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

Exempting Crown Lands from the Operation of the Mining Act, 1926.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by paragraph (b) of subsection one of section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby exempt the land particularly described in the Schedule hereto from the operation of the Mining Act, 1926, and do also hereby declare that such exemption shall take effect as from the date of the gazetting thereof.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of Crown land in the Westland Land District, containing 19 acres 1 rood, situated in Block XI, Okarito Survey District. Bounded towards the north and north-west generally by the Okarito River, and towards the south and south-east generally by The Strand and Wharf Street of Okarito Township, and Reserves 1007 and 17. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked Mines, N. 6/4/22, and deposited in the Head Office of the Mines Department, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of May, 1933.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Mines.

(Mines, N. 6/4/22.)

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Legislative Councillor appointed.

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Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 20th May, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has in His Majesty’s name summoned

The Right Honourable Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, G.C.M.G., K.C.,

to the Legislative Council of New Zealand by writ of summons under the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand, dated the 20th day of May, 1933.

J. G. COATES Acting Prime Minister.

(I.A. 14/4.)

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

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Education Department,
Wellington, 12th May, 1933.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, John Bitchener, Acting Minister of Education, do hereby appoint the following persons as Honorary Child Welfare Officers for the purposes of the said Act, for the period ending 31st December, 1933.

Name. District.
Byrt, Michael Joseph . . . . . . . . Taumarunui.
Spence, Miss Jane Annie . . . . . . . Taumarunui.
Robertson, Rev. Fred . . . . . . . . Kaikoura.
Robertson, Mrs. Jannette Greenlees . . Kaikoura.
Tapp, Rev. Robert . . . . . . . . . Coromandel.

JOHN BITCHENER,
Acting Minister of Education.

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Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

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Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th May, 1933.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Richard John Shannon, of Half-moon Bay, Stewart Island,

to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of Part I of the first-mentioned Act.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

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Appointment of Officers under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

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Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th May, 1933.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Lindsay Horatio Hunter, of Patetonga, and
James McGill, of Arapuni,

to be officers for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act, in respect of the Auckland Acclimatization District.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

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Coroner appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 24th May, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Henry Thomson Johnson, Esquire, J.P.,
of Coromandel, to be a Coroner for the Dominion of New Zealand.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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Justice of the Peace resigns.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1933.

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

Johann Voss, Esquire,
of Christchurch, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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Appointments in the Public Service.

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Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1933.

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

Constable Richard John Shannon,

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Half-moon Bay for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the 10th day of May, 1933 ;

Vyvian Allan Rowe,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Matiere, as from the 12th day of May, 1933 ;

Melvyn Dexter Wells,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Granity, as from the 16th day of May, 1933.

T. MARK, Secretary.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1933.

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.
Richard Thomas Stitt . . . . . . Kohukohu.*
Phillip Archibald Orr . . . . . . Black’s.
Robert Reid Millar . . . . . . . Opotiki.
Wilfred Edwin Worsfold . . . . . Fortrose.
Leo Robert Higgins . . . . . . . New Plymouth.

• Births and Deaths only.

R. P. WARD, Registrar-General.