MAY 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1455

Resignation of Member of the New Zealand Wool Publicity Committee.— (Notice No. Ag. 3655.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 4th May, 1939.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of section 3 (6) of the Wool Industry Promotion Act, 1936, to accept the resignation by

Bernard Edward Howard Tripp, Esquire,

of his office as a representative of the Woolgrowers of the Dominion on the New Zealand Wool Publicity Committee established by the said Act.

W. LEE MARTIN, Minister of Agriculture.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 9th May, 1939.

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 Charles De La Mare .. .. Dipton.
Bruce McFarlane .. .. Pukekohe.
Charles Kissick Skelley .. .. Maungakaramea.
Karl Franz Walker .. .. Kaitaia.
Jack Tasman Arthur Beaumont .. Palmerston North.
Patrick Michael Martin .. .. Napier.
Leslie Ernest Vaughan .. .. Rongotea.
Albert Murray Kennedy .. .. Waihi.
Sydney Richard Wallace .. .. Blackball*

*Births and Deaths only.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Death of Member of House of Representatives for Electoral District of Christchurch South.

Office of Minister in Charge of Electoral Department,
Wellington, 8th May, 1939.

WHEREAS the House of Representatives is not now in session, and there is no Speaker of the said House: Now, therefore, pursuant to the provisions of the Electoral Act, 1927, His Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that Edwin John Howard, Esquire, Member of the House of Representatives for the Electoral District of Christchurch South, died on the 26th day of April, 1939; and that the seat in the House of Representatives for the said electoral district is vacant by reason of such death.

M. J. SAVAGE,
Minister in Charge of the Electoral Department.

Portion of Te Arawa Consolidation Scheme confirmed.

In the matter of subsection (6) of section 161 of the Native Land Act, 1931, and in the matter of an application dated the 29th day of January, 1925, to the Court to prepare a scheme of consolidation in respect of Tihiotonga A and other blocks.

NOTICE is hereby given that a scheme of consolidation (in part, being the third instalment) dated the 21st day of June, 1938, dealing with Rimu Horohoro and other blocks within the Waiariki Native Land Court District, having been prepared by the Native Land Court in accordance with the above-mentioned Act and submitted under the seal of the said Court to the Native Minister for his approval, I, Henry Greathead Rex Mason, acting for the Native Minister, being satisfied that the portion of the scheme so submitted is just and equitable and is in the public interest, do hereby confirm the portion of the said scheme of consolidation which was so submitted on the 21st day of June, 1938.

Dated at Wellington, this 8th day of May, 1939.

H. G. R. MASON,
For the Native Minister.

(N.D. 29/4/1/5.)

Social Security Act, 1938.—Maternity Benefits.

Office of the Minister of Health,
Wellington, 10th May, 1939.

PURSUANT to section 79 of the Social Security Act, 1938, I, Peter Fraser, Minister of Health for the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby determine that maternity benefits in accordance with the said Act will be available throughout New Zealand on and after the 15th day of May, 1939.

P. FRASER, Minister of Health.

Election of Members of the Hauraki Plains Bobby Calf Pool Committee.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Chairman of the Hauraki Plains Bobby Calf Committee established by the Bobby Calf Marketing Regulations, 1939, that

John Motion,
Stanley Oliver Phelps,
Roy Frances Green,
Wallace Frances Jones,
Alexander Wily,
Samuel Shaw Murray,
Henry Hector Hicks,
William Chick, and
Herbert Eden Cole

have been duly elected to be members of the said committee pursuant to the provisions in that behalf of the said regulations.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of May, 1939.

W. LEE MARTIN,
For the Minister of Marketing.

Election of Members of the Rangitaiki Plains Bobby Calf Pool Committee.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Chairman of the Rangitaiki Plains Bobby Calf Committee established by the Bobby Calf Marketing Regulations, 1939, that

Charles Robert Wilson,
Ian Burman Gow,
William Alexander McCracken,
Ivan Maskell Withy,
Stuart Chalmers Spence,
Eardley Arthur Haultain, and
Andrew McLean

have been duly elected to be members of the said committee pursuant to the provisions in that behalf of the said regulations.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of May, 1939.

W. LEE MARTIN,
For the Minister of Marketing.

Election of Members of the Te Awamutu Bobby Calf Pool Committee.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Chairman of the Te Awamutu Bobby Calf Committee established by the Bobby Calf Marketing Regulations, 1939, that

William George Neill,
William Gordon Parker,
Ernest Cameron Perrott,
Norman Bailey Fletcher,
John Thomas Young,
Cecil Old,
Allen Robert Weal,
Allen Bryant,
Bertie Columb O’Connor,
Cyril James Flay,
Godfrey Owen Jourdain,
Laurence Baxter Marx,
Sidney Herbert West,
Martin Alexander Tuck, and
William Perrin

have been duly elected to be members of the said committee pursuant to the provisions in that behalf of the said regulations.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of May, 1939.

W. LEE MARTIN,
For the Minister of Marketing.