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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1908.—Public Auditor appointed.

Stamp Duties Department,
Wellington, 15th March, 1934.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Keith Hamilton Hume

a Public Auditor under section 19 of the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1908.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Stamp Duties.

Members of Switzer’s Commonage appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th March, 1934.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of

William McKissock,
Louis Stevenson,
Stanley Lee,
Leonard Ryder,
William Varley,
Edward Hamer, and
Thomas Cockburn

being members of the committee appointed to provide for the care and management of the Switzer’s Commonage in accordance with the rules and regulations dated the 7th September, 1925.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

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

Education Department,
Wellington, 19th March, 1934.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Robert Masters, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint Mrs. Mary Paterson Basley, of Coromandel, as an Honorary Child Welfare Officer for the purposes of the said Act for the period ending the 31st December, 1934.

R. MASTERS, Minister of Education.

Appointments and Promotions in the Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division) and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Navy Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1934.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments and promotions in the Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division) and Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division):—

Lieutenant Andrew Douglas Holden promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, R.N.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 1st March, 1934.

Acting Commander Claude Hilton Kersley confirmed in the rank of Commander, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 1st March, 1934.

Probationary Sub-Lieutenant Ewan Cameron confirmed in the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 12th January, 1933.

Probationary Sub-Lieutenant Howard Leon Mallitte confirmed in the rank of Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 21st February, 1933.

Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant Kenneth Reid Buck promoted to the rank of Paymaster-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 8th February, 1934.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

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

Marine Department,
Wellington, 9th March, 1934.

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

Duncan MacDonald, of Blenheim,

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act in respect of the Marlborough Acclimatization District.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th March, 1934.

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.
William Raymond Ellery .. .. Owhango.
Albert George Smith .. .. Napier.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Amending Warrant declaring Open Seasons for Imported and/or Native Game in certain Acclimatization Districts in so far as it affects the Wellington Acclimatization District, and declaring an Open Season for Imported and Native Game in the Wellington Acclimatization District.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, James Alexander Young, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend the Warrant dated 9th March, 1934, made under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, and published in New Zealand Gazette No. 14 of the 12th idem, at page 520, by deleting all that portion of such Warrant included under the heading “Wellington Acclimatization District” and do hereby declare the period from the 1st day of May to the 31st day of July, 1934 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the Wellington Acclimatization District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 60 of 15th September, 1932, at page 1998, for the taking or killing of the following imported game, viz., hares, and the period from the 1st day of May to the 30th day of June, 1934 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the said district for the taking or killing of the following imported game and native game, viz., cock pheasants, Californian quail, Australian quail, grey duck, mallard duck, and shoveller duck, and the period from the 1st day of May to the 15th day of May, 1934 (both days inclusive), to be an open season in the said district for the taking or killing of the following native game, viz., black swan, subject to the following conditions.

CONDITIONS.

1. LICENSES to take or kill such imported game and native game within the Wellington Acclimatization District will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each, and the Secretary of the Wellington Acclimatization Society, or any person authorized by such Secretary in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

2. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than two head of cock pheasants, or take or kill more than two head of black swan, or take or kill a number exceeding ten head in all of grey duck and/or shoveller duck (provided that this number shall be reduced by the number of mallard duck shot).

3. Nothing herein shall apply to hares in the counties of Akitio, Castlepoint, Masterton, Pahiatua, Featherston, and Wairarapa South, wherein these animals are not protected.

4. No person shall commence shooting earlier than one hour before sunrise or continue shooting later than one hour after sunset on any day during the open season.

5. No person shall use live birds of any species as decoys, nor shall use artificial decoys so that more than fifteen artificial decoys are used at any one time (whether by one or several persons) on any particular water within an area of less than one hundred yards square.

6. No person shall use or cause to be used any motor-vehicle in connection with the taking or killing of imported and native game: Provided that this condition shall not be so construed as to prohibit the use of any motor-vehicle for the purpose of travelling either generally or to or from a rendezvous.

7. No person shall use or cause to be used for the purpose of taking or killing any imported game or native game any unmoored floating stand, pontoon, hide, mai-mai, or lou, or any boat artificially dressed or covered in any way.

8. No person engaged in shooting from any shelter, mai-mai, mud-hole, boat, louvre, or other contrivance shall have or use more than one gun.