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THE NELSON, MARLBOROUGH, AND WEST COAST REGIMENT.
Lieutenant F. M. Smyth, 2nd Cadet Battalion, is transferred
to the Wellington Regiment. Dated 23rd August, 1938.

THE OTAGO REGIMENT.
The undermentioned Lieutenants, Regimental Depot, to
be Captains, Dated 1st August, 1938:
C. Wilson.
E. F. Walden.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.
Captain E. P. Spencer, M.B., attached 1st Field Company,
Corps of N.Z. Engineers, to be Major. Dated 31st May,
1938.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
The Otago Regiment.
Lieutenant A. D. Macartney is posted to the Retired List
with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed
uniform. Dated 18th August, 1938.

N.Z. DENTAL CORPS.
The undermentioned are posted to the Retired List with
permission to retain their rank and wear the prescribed
uniform. Dated 19th August, 1938:
Captain C. C. Moffett.
Lieutenant C. J. Newell, with the rank of Captain.
Lieutenant P. F. Phillips, with the rank of Captain.
Lieutenant J. Bird, with the rank of Captain.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Members of Remount Committee for the Wairoa Service District
appointed.--(Notice No. Ag. 3607.)

PURSUANT to Regulation 2 of the Remounts Subsidy
Regulations, 1938, I, William Lee Martin, Minister of
Agriculture, hereby appoint
Alfred Gordon Nolan, Esquire,
William Langley Torbett, Esquire, and
Arthur Joseph Devery, Esquire,
to be members of the Remount Committee for the Wairoa
Service District.
Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of September, 1938.
W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

Appointments in the Public Service.
Office of the Public Service Commissioners,
Wellington, 7th September, 1938.
THE Public Service Commissioners have made the following
appointments in the Public Service:
William John Rzoska,
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at
Otaki, as from the 26th day of August, 1938.
Francis Clement Owen Griffith,
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at
Pukekohe, as from the 29th day of August, 1938.
Sydney Alexander Angell,
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at
Nelson, as from the 1st day of September, 1938.
Orion Victor Lattimore,
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at
Morrinsville, as from the 6th day of September, 1938.
James Stewart,
to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the District of Fortrose, as from the 29th day of
August, 1938.
Ernest Joseph Cleghorn,
to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the District of Duntroon, as from the 15th day of
August, 1938.
G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

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Deputy Registrars of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 1938.
IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned person has
been appointed Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths
of Maoris at the place set opposite his name, viz:--
Name. Place.
Clarence Herbert Turnbull ... Feilding.
G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 1938.
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.
Clarence Herbert Turnbull .. Feilding.
Robert Paul Geary .. Kaikohe (at Okaihau).*
Ernest Baden Anderson.. Otaki.

• Births and Deaths only.
  G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Summer Time.
Prime Minister's Office,
Wellington, 12th September, 1938.
IT is hereby notified for general information that, under
the Summer Time Act, 1929, and Summer Time Amendment Act, 1933, summer time commences at two o'clock
New Zealand standard time in the morning of Sunday, the
25th instant, and ends at two o'clock New Zealand standard
time in the morning of Sunday, 30th April, 1939.
For the purpose of giving effect to the Act the time will
therefore be advanced thirty minutes as from 2 a.m. New
Zealand standard time on Sunday, the 25th instant, and be
put back thirty minutes as from 2 a.m. New Zealand standard
time on Sunday, 30th April, 1939.
M. J. SAVAGE, Prime Minister.

The Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22.--Prohibiting the Sale
within the Borough of Tauranga of certain Goods comprised
in the Trade of a Grocer.
WHEREAS a petition in writing, signed by a majority
of the occupiers of all the grocers' shops within the
Borough of Tauranga, has been forwarded to me desiring
that the sale of certain goods comprised in the trade of a
grocer--namely, baking-powder, blue, candied peel, candles,
cocoa, currants, flour, jam, jellies, mustard, oatmeal, pepper,
raisins, rice, sago, salt, soap (other than toilet soap), soups,
spaghetti, spices, starch, sugar, tapioca, tea, tinned fish,
vinegar, and wheat-meal--be prohibited during such time
as the shops in such trade are required to be closed in pursuance of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22:
And whereas, I, Hubert Thomas Armstrong, Minister of
Labour, am satisfied that the sale of the said goods is comprised
in the said trade within the said borough, and that the
signatures to such petition represent a majority of the occupiers
of all the said shops within the said borough:
Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 33 of the said Act,
I do hereby direct that on and after the 3rd day of October,
1938, the sale of the said goods within the said borough shall
be and is hereby prohibited as follows: On Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays after the hour of
5·15 p.m., on Fridays after the hour of 9 p.m., and on Saturdays
after the hour of 1 p.m., with the following exceptions:
(1) When Anniversary Day, Good Friday, Anzac Day, or
the King's Birthday falls in the day upon which the late
night is usually observed, then, on the evening of the working-
day immediately preceding such day, the sale of the said goods
is prohibited after the hour of 9 p.m., and (2) On the evening
of the working-day immediately preceding Christmas Day
and on the evening of the working-day immediately preceding
New Year's Day the sale of the said goods is prohibited
after the hour of 10 p.m.
Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of September, 1938.
H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Labour.