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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 12

Approval of Testing Officers under the Motor-drivers' Regulations, 1931.

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers' Regulations, 1931, I, Robert Semple, 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 authority specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Inangahua County Council Main Highways Board Clifton County Council Cook County Council Rangiora County Council Kaikohe Town Board Eyre County Council Selwyn County Council Mount Albert Borough Council Whakatane County Council Marton Borough Council

Column 2. Arthur Bernard Archer, Reefton, Council Employee. Charles O'Brien, Warkworth. Claude Derwent Treadgold, Okaihau. Robert Metcalfe, Te Awamutu. David Marco Ford, Rotorua. James Scott, Te Kuiti. James Hood Delves, Rotorua. Alfred Errol Ansell, Stratford. John Edward Ainsworth, Auckland. John Henry Clark, Christchurch. Percy Leonard Rouse, Ashburton. William Arthur Boaz, Christchurch. William Rowland Ashwell, Temuka. William Barbour Bruce McDowell, Dunedin. John Hector Ronald Semple, Napier. Allan Edward Hodgson, Auckland. Norman Cyril Davenport, Pukekohe. Arthur Charles Crawford, Wellington. Charles Merritt Pilkington, Wairoa. Digby Desire Burdett, Gisborne. John William Coddington, Palmerston North. Jonathan Taylor Brough, Nelson. John Abraham Laird, Blenheim. Martin John Hartigan, Wellington. Reginald Pelham Chibnall, Westport. Donald Ernest Hopwood, Cheviot. Bryan Russell Hill, Dunedin. John Gerard Kennedy, Alexandra. Philip James Hunter, Balclutha. John Charles Carew Edwards, Invercargill. Leslie Ernest Simmons, Gore. Percy Collinson Watson, Wellington. Edward Wilson, Christchurch. George F. Rowe, Council Employee. George H. Dunn, Council Employee. Charles L. Dalzell, Council Employee. Archibald James Edwards, Employee. Arthur Wells Newton, Ohoka, County Clerk and Engineer. Erle Brooklyn Dalmer, Hororata, County Clerk. Ivan J. Day, Mount Albert, Council Employee. Louis Bidois, Te Whaiti, Part-time Constable. Colin Campbell McDonald, Marton, Town Clerk.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of February, 1937.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.

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Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

IN pursuance of section 10 of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license Harold William Mullaney, Esquire, of Palmerston North, to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister in Charge.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds within the Borough of Martinborough.- (Notice No. Ag. 3449.)

Department of Agriculture,

Wellington, 17th February, 1937.

THE following special order made by the Martinborough Borough Council on the 8th day of February, 1937, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

SPECIAL ORDER.

RESOLVED by way of special order under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, that the undermentioned plants be declared noxious weeds within the Borough of Martinborough:- Broom, gorse, hemlock, milk-thistle.

Fixing the Amount of Special Orchard-tax payable in the Gisborne Commercial Fruitgrowing District.- (Notice No. Ag. 3451.)

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon the Minister of Agriculture by subsection (3) of section 4 of the Orchard-tax Act, 1927, I, Frederick Jones, acting for the Minister of Agriculture, hereby order and direct that, in addition to the general orchard-tax payable under section 3 of the said Act, the occupier of every orchard within the Gisborne Commercial Fruitgrowing District shall in each year be liable to pay a special orchard-tax calculated at the rate of two shillings for every acre or part of an acre comprised in his orchard and planted with apple-trees, pear-trees, and quince-trees.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of February, 1937.

F. JONES,

For Minister of Agriculture.

Officiating Ministers for 1937.- Notice No. 5.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 23rd February, 1937.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :- The Roman Catholic Church. The Reverend Thomas Bergin. The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. The Reverend James Stuart Freeman. The Methodist Church of New Zealand. The Reverend John William Fielding. The Reverend Alexander Salmond, M.A. The Salvation Army. Captain Noel G. Pauling.

ERRATUM.- In the notification dated 28th January, 1937, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 28th January, 1937, at page 291, notifying the names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the Marriage Act, 1908, the name of "Lieut.-Colonel George Gratton," under the denomination The Salvation Army, should read "Lieut.-Colonel George Gratton."

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1937.- Notice No. 6.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 23rd February, 1937.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned name of an officiating minister has been removed from the List of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by request :- The Salvation Army. Adjutant Herbert G. Wallace.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.