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THE WELLINGTON REGIMENT (CITY OF WELLINGTON'S OWN). Donald Wallace Sinclair to be 2nd Lieutenant and is posted to the 1st Battalion. Dated 10th October, 1938.

THE TARANAKI REGIMENT. The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants, 2nd Cadet Battalion, to be Lieutenants:—
D. G. Sherson. Dated 4th June, 1937. C. C. Day. Dated 1st August, 1938.

THE SOUTHLAND REGIMENT. George Harper Geddes to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) and is posted to the 1st Cadet Battalion. Dated 1st August, 1938.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS. Major W. H. B. Bull, E.D., M.B., ceases to be attached to the 1st Battalion, The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington's Own) and is appointed Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, Army Headquarters. Dated 1st September, 1938. Major J. L. R. Plimmer, M.B., F.R.C.S. Edin., ceases to be posted to the 2nd Field Ambulance and is attached to the 1st Battalion, The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington's Own). Dated 1st September, 1938. Major T. R. Ritchie, M.B., D.P.H., from the Retired List, to be Major. Dated 28th September, 1938. Francis Sidney Maclean, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.B., B. Chir. (late Royal Field Artillery), to be Captain. Dated 14th October, 1938.

N.Z. VETERINARY CORPS. Lieutenant C. V. Dayus, M.R.C.V.S., ceases to be attached to the Southern Artillery Group. Dated 7th October, 1938. Lieutenant W. J. Gray, M.R.C.V.S., ceases to be attached to the Manawatu Mounted Rifles. Dated 7th October, 1938.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS. N.Z. Medical Corps. Captain F. F. A. Ulrich, M.B., is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Major and with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 13th October, 1938.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Members of Domain Boards appointed. Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 9th November, 1938. HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 49 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, been pleased to make the following appointments:— Ernest George Bennett, and Samuel Charles Glew, to be members of the Carleton Domain Board in place of William Henry Cross and James Reid, resigned. Vallance Bishop Jaggar, to be a member of the Governor's Bay Domain Board in place of David Turnbull, resigned. George Johnston Murdoch, to be a member of the Mayfield Domain Board in place of Edgar Charles Darfield Withell, resigned. Thomas Templeton Murray, and Percy Arthur Griffiths, to be members of the Toko Domain Board in place of William Henry Were, deceased, and John Bird Hine, resigned. Ebenezer Robert Joseph Stewart, James Dixon Anderson, and William Summerville, to be members of the Darfield Domain Board in place of John Coombes, deceased, George Cridge and William Stott, resigned. William Thomas Fisher, and Charles Dalziel, to be members of the Nelson Creek Domain Board in place of Andrew Dalziel, deceased, and James Donnellan, left the district. Reginald Robert Alexander Long, and Thomas Mitchell, to be members of Ranfurly Domain Board in place of Henry William Davis and Bertzow Franklin Simonsen, resigned.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands. (L. and S. 1./74.)

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Member of Canterbury Land Board appointed. Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 15th November, 1938. NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to appoint James Michael Kelly to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Canterbury for a term of two years from the 8th day of November, 1938. FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands. (L. and S. 22/748/8.)

Member of the Waimatuku Rabbit Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 3620.) PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by section 37 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, I, William Lee Martin, Minister of Agriculture, do hereby appoint Osman Oliver Mackley, being an Inspector under Part I of the said Act, to be a member of the Waimatuku Rabbit Board established under the said Act. Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of November, 1938. W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed. Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 15th November, 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. William Allison Kelly Dannevirke. Ephraim Leo Dickie Eltham. Bruce McFarlane Hutt. Arthur Roger Carre Claridge Palmerston North. Births and Deaths only. G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service. Office of the Public Service Commissioners, Wellington, 10th November, 1938. THE Public Service Commissioners have made the following appointments in the Public Service:— Reginald Arthur Jones, to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Mangapehi, as from the 29th day of October, 1938. Norman Holden, to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Mangonui, as from the 1st day of November, 1938. Owen Theodore Evans, to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Rangiawhia, as from the 5th day of September, 1938. William Allison Kelly, to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Dannevirke, as from the 9th day of November, 1938. Beryl Gladys Broadhurst (Mrs.), to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waiorongomai, as from the 5th day of September, 1938. Harold Vivian Ward, to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Motueka for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, as from the 3rd day of November, 1938. Sergeant Donald Watson Black, to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates' Court at Bluff for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1928, and Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates' Court at Bluff for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, as from the 1st day of November, 1938.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.