Feb. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 561

Appointments, Promotions, and Retirement of Officers of the N.Z. Military Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 20th February, 1935.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments, promotions, and retirement of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces:—

STAFF.

Major K. L. Stewart, O.B.E., N.Z. Staff Corps, having returned to the Dominion after completing a tour of duty with the Ceylon Defence Forces, ceases to be seconded, and is appointed Brigade Major, 3rd N.Z. Mounted Rifles Brigade and Assistant Staff Officer-in-Charge, No. 11 Regimental District, Dunedin. Dated 19th December, 1934.

Major W. I. K. Jennings, D.S.O., N.Z. Staff Corps, relinquishes the appointment of Brigade Major, 3rd N.Z. Mounted Rifles Brigade. Dated 18th December, 1934.

Captain A. J. Edney, Royal Engineers, who arrived in New Zealand on the 2nd January, 1935, on loan from the British Army, has been granted the local rank of Major in the N.Z. Permanent Forces, with effect from that date, and is attached to the General Staff at General Headquarters, for engineering duties.

THE CANTERBURY YEOMANRY CAVALRY.

Lieutenant G. Brown to be Captain. Dated 23rd August, 1934.

THE HAWKE’S BAY REGIMENT.

The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) D. P. Lindsay, 3rd Cadet Battalion, is confirmed.

THE CANTERBURY REGIMENT.

Lieutenant C. A. Noble, 6th Cadet Battalion, to be Captain. Dated 22nd August, 1934.

The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) P. M. Collins, 4th Cadet Battalion, is confirmed.

THE OTAGO REGIMENT.

Wallace Hawthorn Kelleher Simmers to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) and is posted to the 2nd Cadet Battalion. Dated 19th December, 1934.

N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

Lieutenant S. G. Forbes, 3rd Composite Company, to be Captain. Dated 23rd August, 1934.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.

Regiment of N.Z. Artillery.

Major H. P. Warnock is posted to the Retired List with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 6th February, 1935.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Deputy District Public Trustee.

N OTICE 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 Michael James Lynch, of the Public Trust Office, Whangarei, to be Deputy of the District Public Trustee, Whangarei, during the absence of such District Public Trustee from his headquarters from any cause, and all previous warrants appointing any Deputy of the said District Public Trustee have been revoked. Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of February, 1935.

E. O. HALES, Public Trustee.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1935.

I T 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.
Roy Ernest Douglas . . . . Matakana.
Norman Alexander Bailie . . . . Amuri.
Thomas Colin Campbell’ . . . . Gore (at Riversdale).*

• Births and Deaths only.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st February, 1935.

T HE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Charles Murray Whyte,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waitara, as from the 14th day of February, 1935.

Ashton Hart,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Manaia, as from the 14th day of February, 1935.

Kenneth Noel Garrett Murray,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Manaku, as from the 16th day of February, 1935.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Post Office Savings-bank: Cancelling Exemptions from Limits of Interest-bearing Deposits.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 26th February, 1935.

I N exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 82 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Minister of Finance, do hereby give notice as follows:—

(1) On and after the 1st day of March, 1935, no interest shall be payable to any depositor in respect of any amount of his deposit in the Post Office Savings-bank in excess of £2,000.

(2) Paragraphs (2) and (3) of the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette on the 31st July, 1934, by virtue of which certain depositors (including savings-banks, friendly societies, and other non-mercantile societies) were entitled to interest on the amounts of their deposits in excess of £2,000 are hereby cancelled as from the 28th day of February, 1935.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Finance.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 23rd February, 1935.

T HE following notice, received from the Mayor, Borough of Tauranga, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1928.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/174/7.)

BOROUGH OF TAURANGA.

Waterworks Loan, 1935, £21,000.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1928, I have to advise that a proposal to raise the above loan was submitted to a poll of ratepayers taken on 7th February, 1935, when the number of votes recorded was as follows:—

Votes.
For the proposal . . . . . . . . 420
Against the proposal . . . . . . . 58

And I hereby declare the said proposal to be carried.

Tauranga, 20th February, 1935.

A. F. TUNKS, Mayor.

Approving of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers’ Regulations, 1931.

I N 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 a Testing Officer under the said regulations for the local authority described in column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Borough of Port Chalmers . . . . James McElwee, Wood and Coal Merchant, Port Chalmers.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of February, 1935.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)