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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

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

Marine Department,
Wellington, 31st October, 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

Ralph Arthur Payne, of Dannevirke,

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

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Police Gaoler appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 30th October, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable Edward McDonnell

to be Police Gaoler at Waipiro Bay, vice Constable Bradley.

GEO. W. FORBES, for Minister of Justice.

Chairman of Adjustment Commission appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th November, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Rex Clifford Abernethy, Esquire,

to be Chairman of the Canterbury and Westland Adjustment Commission for the purposes of the Mortgagors and Tenants Relief Act, 1933, on and from the 28th October, 1935, during the absence on account of illness of John Roberts Cunningham.

GEO. W. FORBES, for Minister of Justice.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 30th October, 1935.

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

Arthur Ingram,

to be Registrar of Brands for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, for the Waitaki Branding Registration District, as from the 1st day of November, 1935.

George Thompson McNally,

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, and the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of November, 1935.

Sergeant William Patrick Gilligan,

to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Hokitika for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, and Bailiff of the Warden’s Court at Hokitika for the Westland Mining District constituted under the Mining Act, 1926, as from the 4th day of October, 1935.

John Henry O’Donnell,

to be the Deputy of the Under-Secretary for Lands, as provided by section 27 of the Land Act, 1924, as from the 1st day of November, 1935.

Constable John Alexander Walker,

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Eketa huna for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the 1st day of November, 1935.

Constable William Herbert Bradley,

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Hunter-ville for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the 24th day of October, 1935.

Harold Ernest Tonge,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Dargaville, as from the 29th day of October, 1935.

William George Hammond,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Opotiki, as from the 5th day of November, 1935.

T, MARK, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 5th November, 1935.

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.
Harold Ernest Tonge Dargaville.
Miss Eva Janet Isabel Thomson Mangapai.
William George Hammond Opotiki.
Thomas Colin Campbell Nightcaps (at Ohai).*
John Michael Feehly Balfour.

• Births and Deaths only.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Approval of Testing Officer under the Motor-Drivers’ Regulations, 1931.

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.
Waipawa County Council Wallace Edwin Yates, of Waipawa, Traffic Inspector.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of November, 1935.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)

Despatch: Nobel Peace Prize, 1936.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th November, 1935.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, is published for general information.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Internal Affairs.

NEW ZEALAND.

Circular despatch C. No. 184. Downing Street,
1st October, 1935.

MY LORD,—

With reference to my Circular despatch C. No. 180 of the 22nd September, 1934, I have the honour to transmit the accompanying copies of a circular issued by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament regarding nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 1936.

2. It would be appreciated if the conditions of the prize could be made known to those bodies and persons who are qualified to nominate candidates.

I have, &c.,

J. H. THOMAS.

Governor-General His Excellency Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Viscount Galway, G.C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., &c.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

ALL proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed 10th December, 1936, must, in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the first of February of the same year.

Any one of the following persons is held to be duly qualified: (a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; (b) Members of Parliament and Members of Government of the different States, as well as Members of the Interparliamentary Union; (c) Members of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague; (d) Members of the Council of the International Peace Bureau; (e) Members and Associates of the Institute of International Law; (f) University Professors of Political Science and of Law, of History, and of Philosophy; and (g) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations.

According to the Code of Statutes, §8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to.

According to §3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print.

For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Oslo.