JUNE 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1575

Officer authorized to convene Courts-martial and to confirm the Findings and Sentences thereof.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section thirteen, Defence Amendment Act, 1912, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize the undermentioned officer to convene general or district courts-martial for the trial under that Act of such persons subject to military law as are, for the time being, under or within the territorial limits of his command and empower such officer to confirm the findings and sentences of general or district courts-martial whether passed before or after the issue of this Warrant :—

Colonel I. T. Standish, C.M.G., D.S.O., R.N.Z.A., while holding the appointment of Officer Commanding the Central Command. Dated 7th May, 1935.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Notice bringing Part of Recreation Reserve within the operation of the Mining Act, 1926.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by section twenty-five of the Mining Act, 1926, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the part of the recreation reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall be brought within the operation of the Mining Act, 1926, and do hereby further declare that this notice shall take effect as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres, more or less, and being part of recreation reserve, Block XIII, Mid-Wakatipu Survey District, being a 2-chain strip extending 15 chains along the southern boundary of 25-mile, or Simpson’s Creek, from the eastern boundary of recreation reserve. As the same is more particularly shown on the plan marked Mines N. 6/92, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Mines, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, this 1st day of June, 1935.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 6/92.)

Member of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research appointed.

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington, 29th May, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance and by virtue of the powers conferred upon him by section 6 of the Scientific and Industrial Research Act, 1926, and by section 2 of the Scientific and Industrial Research Amendment Act, 1931, to appoint

George Andrew Duncan, Esquire,

to be a member of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, with effect as from the 1st day of June, 1935, until the 31st day of December, 1935.

R. MASTERS,
For Minister-in-Charge,
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

King’s Counsel appointed.

Department of Justice, Wellington, 31st May, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Humphrey Francis O’Leary, Esquire, of Wellington,

to be King’s Counsel; the Right Honourable the Chief Justice having concurred in such appointment as provided in regulations made by Order in Council dated the 21st day of January, 1907.

JOHN G. COBBE, for Attorney-General.

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

Head Office, Stamp Duties Department, Wellington, 28th May, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Harold George Carr

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

ADAM HAMILTON, for Minister of Stamp Duties.

Members of Assessment Court for the Farm-land List for the Town District of Kaitaia appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 31st May, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in terms of section 10 of the Urban Farm Land Rating Act, 1932, to appoint

William Rose, Esquire, Farmer, of Awanui,

to be a member of the Assessment Court for the Town District of Kaitaia ; and also to appoint

George Rickard, Esquire, Merchant, of Kaitaia,

on the recommendation of the Kaitaia Town Board, to be a member of the said Assessment Court.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1935/223/1.)

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice, Wellington, 5th June, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Edward Darker Mosley, Esquire, S.M.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wellington, vice W. F. Stilwell, Esquire, S.M.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Appointment of Officer for Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department, Wellington, 29th May, 1935.

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

Robert Henry Twist, of Rotorua,

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

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Members of the Howard Estate Advisory Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 3291.)

Department of Agriculture, Wellington, 28th May, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has this day been pleased—

(1) In pursuance of subsection (2) of section 2 of the Howard Estate Amendment Act, 1927, and on the joint or other recommendation of the respective bodies mentioned in paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of subsection (3) of the said section, to appoint

Edward Averill, Esquire,
William Cuthbertson, Esquire, and
Arthur Robottom, Esquire,

respectively, to be members of the Howard Estate Advisory Board ; and

(2) in pursuance of subsection (5) of the said section 2 to appoint

James Livingston, Esquire, and
John Herbert Absolom, Esquire,

respectively, to be the representatives on the said Board of the respective bodies mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (e) of subsection (3) of the said section ; and

(3) in pursuance of section 3 of the said Act to name

Edward Averill, Esquire,

to be Chairman of the said Board.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.