2562
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

THE NELSON, MARLBOROUGH, AND WEST COAST REGIMENT.
Captain B. M. Davis, 2nd Cadet Battalion, is transferred to the Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own). Dated 30th September, 1933.
2nd Lieutenant K. K. Gascoigne, 1st Battalion, is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Class I (b), R.D. 9. Dated 14th September, 1933.
Donald Milsham Furness to be 2nd Lieutenant, and is posted to the 1st Battalion. Dated 14th September, 1933.

THE OTAGO REGIMENT.
The undermentioned Lieutenants are transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Class I (b). Dated 2nd October, 1933:—
W. W. Small, 1st Battalion, R.D. 11.
R. S. Stewart, Regimental Supernumerary List, R.D. 10.
2nd Lieutenant J. M. Cornford, Regimental Supernumerary List, is posted to the 1st Battalion. Dated 26th July, 1933.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.
Captain H. S. Kenrick, M.B., F.R.C.S., 1st Field Ambulance, to be Major. Dated 13th September, 1933.
Lieutenant E. P. Spencer, M.B., 1st Field Ambulance, to be Captain. Dated 31st May, 1933.
Edward Harold Harvey Taylor, M.B., to be Lieutenant, and is posted to the 3rd Field Ambulance. Dated 1st September, 1933.

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.
The Reverend R. S. Watson, M.C., M.A., Chaplain, 3rd Class (Presbyterian), is transferred from R.D. 5 to R.D. 10. Dated 26th September, 1933.
The Reverend T. W. Edwards, Chaplain, 4th Class (Church of England), is transferred to the Reserve List, Class I. Dated 30th September, 1933.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
The Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment.
Lieutenant E. H. J. Knyvett resigns his commission. Dated 30th September, 1933.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, appointed.—
(Notice No. Ag. 3145.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th October, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Kenneth Moncrief Wright

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, for the Raglan County, the appointment to date from 14th October, 1933.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th October, 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.
James William Holland Featherston.
John Matheson McKay Hampden.
Edward John Nolan Mangawai.

G. G. HODGKINS,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointment of Deputy District Public Trustee.

NOTICE is hereby given that in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section 3 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, I, the Public Trustee of the Dominion of New Zealand, have appointed Vincent Jervis, of the Public Trust Office, Wellington, to be Deputy of the District Public Trustee, Blenheim, during the absence of such District Public Trustee from his headquarters, and all previous appointments in this behalf are hereby revoked. Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of October, 1933.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th October, 1933.

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

Constable John Hamilton,

to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Cromwell for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928; and Bailiff of the Warden’s Court at Cromwell for the Otago District constituted under the Mining Act, 1926, as from the 4th day of October, 1933.

Joseph Vincent Strachan Oswald,

to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Dunedin for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the 9th day of October, 1933.

Thomas Baden Adams,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Kaiapoi, as from the 6th day of October, 1933.

John William Harvey,

to be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Taranaki Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, as from the 11th day of October, 1933.

William Hayward Subritzky,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Mangonui, as from the 10th day of October, 1933.

Gessenox Alfred Hislop,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Dunedin, as from the 18th day of October, 1933.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Approving of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers’ Regulations, 1933.

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers’ Regulations, 1931, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Transport, do hereby approve, until further notice, of the person named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officer under the said regulations for the local authority described in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Taranaki County Council Arthur Valentine Cooper, County Officer, New Plymouth.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of October, 1933.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)

Notice as to an Area in Southland Land District declared to be a Forest Fire District.

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 18th October, 1933.

PURSUANT to section 27 of the Forests Act, 1921–22, I do hereby notify that, on the recommendation of the Director of Forestry and the Land Board of the district, the area described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared by me to be a fire district, and I do further specify the period from the 1st day of September in any year to the 31st day of March in the following year, inclusive, as the period during which it shall not be lawful for any person within the said district, save pursuant to the written permit of a Forest Officer, to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any timber (whether standing or not), or any undergrowth, or any debris from forest operations, or any land-clearing operations, or grass or other specially inflammable material, without taking such precautions as may be prescribed by a Forest Officer.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.

Pebbly Hills Plantation Fire District.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing approximately 9,950 acres, situated in Blocks I, VI, and VII, Lindhurst Hundred, Block II, Lothian Hundred, Block I, Mabel Hundred, and Blocks III and IV, Forest Hill Hundred, and bounded generally as follows: Commencing at the north-eastern corner of Section 51 in Block I, Lindhurst Hundred;