Nov. 14.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3299

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 7th November, 1935.

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

Henry Arthur Kitto,
Henry Ernest Allen,
George Blair,
Francis Robert Bould,
Harold Roy Denize,
John Moultrie Ferriday,
Osman Oliver Mackley,
William Brown Manning,
Enrico Adrian McKinlay,
James Fowler Ross, and
Thomas Donaldson Urquhart

to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Poultry Act, 1924, as from the 5th day of November, 1935.

Robert Alfred Burnet,
Walter Collinson Carr,
Alexander Bain Mackenzie,
Joseph Murphy,
Edward Frank Taine,
Archibald Telfer,
Francis Durrant Usher,
Stanley Anthony White, and
Harold Anson Armstrong Cato

to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of November, 1935.

Constable William George Wood,

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

Constable Walter Alfred Sammon Fowler,

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Naseby for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, and Clerk and Bailiff of the Warden’s Court at Naseby for the Otago Mining District constituted under the Mining Act, 1926, as from the 5th day of November, 1935.

Constable John Richard Corston,

to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Taihape for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the 22nd day of October, 1935.

Reginald Vincent Kay,

to be a Commissioner of the High Court of Western Samoa as from the 6th day of November, 1935.

Donald James Thomas,

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

Leslie Gilbert Watson,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Raglan, as from the 31st day of October, 1935.

Timothy Joseph Crowe,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Kaiapoi, as from the 2nd day of November, 1935.

Robert Raymond Judd,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waiohau, as from the 6th day of November, 1935.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 12th 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.
Ivan James Agnew .. .. Nightcaps.
John Michael Dwyer .. .. Waimate.
Timothy Joseph Crowe .. .. Kaiapoi.
Leonard Henry Whittaker .. Wainui.
William Frederick Leggott .. Pelorus.
Adrian Hurcules Gray .. .. Eketahuna.
William Slater Groom .. .. Aorere.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Approval of Testing Officers 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 persons named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officers under the said regulations for the local authorities specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Tauranga County Council .. Thomas Bishton Turley, of Tauranga, Traffic Inspector.
Waipa County Council .. Sydney Samuel Saulbrey, of Ngaruawahia, Farmer.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of November, 1935.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/4/3.)

Rangitaiki Land Drainage.—Notice of Intention to make and levy Rates.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th November, 1935.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is intended, pursuant to the Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act, 1910, and its amendments, to make and levy, on the unimproved value of all land within the district constituted under the said Act, the general rates to meet maintenance-costs for the period 1st April, 1935, to 31st March, 1936, as described in the First Schedule hereto; and the special rates to meet interest on capital for the period 1st April, 1935, to 31st March, 1936, as described in the Second Schedule hereto.

The amount of such rates will be payable in one sum on the 2nd day of December, 1935.

The valuation roll of the district is open for inspection at the office of the Collector of Rates, Chief Drainage Engineer’s Office, Room 45, Government Buildings, Customs Street, Auckland, and a copy of same may be inspected at the office of the Chief Drainage Engineer, at Thornton, near Whakatane, at all times at which those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

GENERAL RATES.

Class A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, one penny and ninety-seven one-hundredths of a penny (1·97d.) in the pound.

Class B: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, one penny and thirty-two one-hundredths of a penny (1·32d.) in the pound.

Class C: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, sixty-six one-hundredths of a penny (0·66d.) in the pound.

Class D: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class D, twenty-two one-hundredths of a penny (0·22d.) in the pound.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

SPECIAL RATES.

Class A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the arbitrators appointed under the said Act, twopence and twenty-two one-hundredths of a penny (2·22d.) in the pound.

Class B: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, one penny and forty-eight one-hundredths of a penny (1·48d.) in the pound.

Class C: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, seventy-four one-hundredths of a penny (0·74d.) in the pound.

Class D: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class D, one farthing in the pound.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/11/108.)