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Appointment of Honorary Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor-General.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1938.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Captain Hugh Merriman Barnes, Royal Navy, H.M.S. “Philomel,” to be Honorary Naval Aide-de-Camp on his staff for a period of one year, vice Captain I. G. Glennie, Royal Navy, whose period of appointment in the New Zealand Division has expired.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 17th January, 1939.

I T is hereby notified that the undermentioned person has been appointed Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at the place set opposite her name, viz.:—

Name. Place.
Jean Isabella Carroll (Mrs.) . . .. Kauangaroa.

K. D. C. MORRISON,
Acting Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 17th January, 1939.

I T 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 district set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name. District.
Henry Moulds Barrett . . . . . . Wairoa.
Mervyn Simmonds . . . . . . Invercargill.
Arthur Ronald Ferguson . . . . . Kahukura.
John Norman Rauch . . . . . . Cambridge.
John Bowmar . . . . . . Ohakune.
Harry Roy Ansford . . . . . . Mangapehi.
Cyril Lynn McLean . . . . . . Hampden.
Sydney Richard Wallace . . . . . Brunner.

• Births and Deaths only.

K. D. C. MORRISON,
Acting Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 18th January, 1939.

T HE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Allan Kirkpatrick,

To be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Wellington (at Kilbirnie), as from the 29th day of December, 1938.

James Barrington Bateman,

To be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Levin, as from the 1st day of January, 1939.

Harold Clive Hulme,

To be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Taranaki Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, as from the 4th day of January, 1939.

James Bond Dixon,

To be Receiver of Land Revenue for the Nelson Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, as from the 6th day of January, 1939.

Frederick William Moor,

To be an Assistant Inspector for the purposes of section 95 (2) of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926, as from the 31st day of October, 1938.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

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Carter Observatory Board.

H IS Excellency the Governor-General is recommended in accordance with section 5 of the Carter Observatory Act, 1938, to appoint the following to be members of the Carter Observatory Board for a period of two years as from the 1st January, 1939:—

Edward Kidson, O.B.E., M.A., D.Sc.
Charles Guy Glossop Berry, Esquire.
Edwin Philip Norman, B.E., B.Sc., A.M.Inst.C.E.
Martin Maxwell Fleming Luckie, LL.B.
David Charles Hamilton Florance, M.A., M.Sc.
Murray Geddes, M.A.
Charles Edward Adams, D.Sc., F.R.A.S., A.I.A. (Lond.).
Ernest Marsden, D.Sc., F.R.S.N.Z., C.B.E., M.C.

D. G. SULLIVAN,
Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block II, Motu Survey District, for the Purposes of an Aerodrome, subject to certain Interests.

N OTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of an aerodrome—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken, subject to the leasehold interest created therein by a lease registered in the Land Registry Office at Gisborne as number 3479: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Motuhora and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken: 50 acres 1 rood 15 perches, coloured yellow; 1 acre 2 roods 0·1 perches, coloured red.

Being parts Whakapaupakihi No. 4 Block.

Situated in Block II, Motu Survey District (Gisborne R.D.) (S.O. 1565, brown.)

In the Gisborne Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 100337, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thercon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 13th day of January, 1939.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.
(P.W. 23/381/72.)

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

I N terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers' Regulations, 1931, the Minister of Transport does 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 authority specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Column 1. Column 2.
Wanganui City Council . . Elliott Hamling, of Wanganui, Traffic Inspector.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of January, 1939.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Transport.
(TT. 9/4/3.)