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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

Miners’ Rights no longer issued at Opotiki Post-office.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the Mining Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the post-office at Opotiki shall no longer be a post-office at which Miners’ Rights may be issued.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 3rd day of May, 1934.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Mines.
(Mines N. 10/6.)

Appointing a Member of the Main Highways Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, John James Gibson, of Wellington, Accountant in the Public Works Department, was appointed a member of the Main Highways Board in terms of subsection three, clause (a), of section five of the Main Highways Act, 1922 :

And whereas the said John James Gibson died on the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four :

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Main Highways Act, 1922, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, do hereby appoint

Edwin Lloyd Greensmith,

of the Public Works Department, in Wellington, to be a member of the Main Highways Board in terms of the said subsection three, clause (a), of section five of the Main Highways Act, 1922.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of May, 1934.

JOHN BITCHENER, Minister of Public Works.

Reappointment of Members of the Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

Bernard Cracroft Aston, Esquire, and
Walter Reginald Brook Oliver, Esquire,

to be members of the Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand as constituted by the Royal Society of New Zealand Act, 1933.

GEO. W. FORBES,
Minister in Charge of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Inspector of Anatomy appointed.—(H.H. 128.)

Department of Health,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1934.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Donald Charles Fraser,

Superintendent of Police for the District of Dunedin, to be an Inspector of Anatomy at Dunedin in succession to Superintendent James McIlveney, retired.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

Member of the New Zealand Wool Committee appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 3186.)

PURSUANT to the powers conferred upon me by the Board of Trade (Wool Industry) Regulations, 1925, I, Charles Edward de la Barca Macmillan, Minister of Agriculture, do hereby appoint

Thomas James Maling, Esquire,

to be a member of the New Zealand Wool Committee established under the said regulations, vice Richard Luke Middleton Kitto, Esquire, resigned.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of May, 1934.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

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

Marine Department,
Wellington, 4th May, 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

Charles Palmer, of Awarua,

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

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, for Minister of Marine.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1934.

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

• William Henry Davys,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Taumarunui, as from the 26th day of April, 1934.

Henry Gilmore Smith,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at New Plymouth, as from the 26th day of April, 1934.

John Classon Harding,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Nelson, as from the 30th day of April, 1934.

Donald James Thomas,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Opunake, as from the 24th day of April, 1934.

Herbert William Gallagher,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waipawa, as from the 1st day of May, 1934.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Rodney County Council.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan Authority.

In the matter of section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Rodney County Council has been duly authorized to borrow by way of special loan the sum of two thousand pounds (£2,000) for the purpose of road construction at Tomarata, and the consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loan was given by Order in Council made on the 2nd day of December, 1930, and published in the Gazette on the 4th day of the same month, at page 3684 :

And whereas in respect of the said sum of £2,000 there has been raised and borrowed for the purpose aforesaid the sum of one thousand seven hundred pounds (£1,700), and it has not been found necessary to borrow the whole of the amount so authorized :

And whereas the Minister of Finance has duly notified the Rodney County Council in writing of his intention to cancel the loan authority to the extent of three hundred pounds (£300) not exercised :

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, as amended by section 46 of the Finance Act, 1931 (No. 4), and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Finance, do hereby cancel the authority of the Rodney County Council to borrow, under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the sum of three hundred pounds (£300), being the amount in respect of which the said loan authority has not been exercised :

Provided always that this cancellation is without prejudice to the validity in all respects of the loan of one thousand seven hundred pounds (£1,700) already borrowed pursuant to the said loan authority.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of May, 1934.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/359/2.)