Nov. 5.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
2555

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th October, 1942.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint
Albert Harold Lawn, Esquire,
to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Westland, vice the Hon. J. Goodall, deceased.
H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Judge of the Supreme Court resigns.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th October, 1942.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation of the Honourable Sir (Henry) Hubert Ostler, Kt., of his office as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, as from the 2nd day of February, 1943.
H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Savings-bank Officer appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 28th October, 1942.
PURSUANT to the powers delegated to me in terms of section 3 of the Savings-bank Act, 1908, I hereby approve the appointment of the undermentioned officer to the Invercargill Savings-bank :-
Name of Officer. Appointment. From
Millard, Frederick Ernest .. Junior Clerk 6th October, 1942.
B. C. ASHWIN, Secretary to the Treasury.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1942.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Percy Harold Wylde, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint Norman Hunter Steele to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Oxford.
P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1942.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Percy Harold Wylde, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint Margaret William Mills (Miss) to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Ellesmere.
P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 27th October, 1942.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Percy Harold Wylde, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint Joan Churchill (Miss) to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Rongotea.
P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 29th October, 1942.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Percy Harold Wylde, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint Ernest Russell to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Dunstan.
P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1942.
THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:-
Leslie Andrew Parlane to be Clerk of the Magistrates' Court at Otorohanga for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1928, and Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates' Court at Otorohanga for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 21st day of October, 1942.
Stanley Graham Heffernan to be Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Temuka for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Temuka for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 20th day of August, 1942.
Thomas Cecil Bowker to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral Districts of Wellington Central, Wellington East, Wellington North, Wellington South, Wellington Suburbs, and Wellington West for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from 17th day of September, 1942.
Gessenox Alfred Hislop to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral Districts of Dunedin Central, Dunedin North, Dunedin South, and Dunedin West Electoralates for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from 30th day of September, 1942.
Alfred Allan Besley to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral Districts of Christchurch East, Christchurch North, Christchurch South, Avon, Lyttelton, and Riccarton for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from the 2nd day of October, 1942.
Charles Edward Rose to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of East Taieri, on and from the 8th day of October, 1942.
Timothy Keogh to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Helensville, on and from the 12th day of October, 1942.
Alexander McLeod to be an Inspector of Factories for the purposes of the Factories Act, 1921-22, on and from 19th day of October, 1942.
William Petrie to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Fertilizers Act, 1927, on and from the 1st day of November, 1942.
G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Armistice Day, 1942.

Prime Minister's Office,
Wellington, 28th October, 1942.
CITIZENS and traffic control authorities throughout New Zealand are requested to observe the practice adopted in this Dominion on former similar occasions of two minutes’ silence from 11 a.m., and the suspension of all vehicular traffic during that period, on 11th November next.
Where a service is held it is suggested that it should be at the local cenotaph or war memorial, as the case may be.
P. FRASER, Prime Minister.

Notifying Land in Auckland Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th October, 1942.
PURSUANT to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 48 of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, notice is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto was acquired by the Crown on the 20th day of July, 1942, and became subject to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, as from that date.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.
ALL that area in the Whakatane County, situated in Block III, Whakatane Survey District, containing by admeasurement 199 acres 2 roods and 37 perches, more or less, being Lots 1 and 2 on D.P. 27550, being parts of Allotments 307, 307E, and 307D, Parish of Waimana, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title 699, folio 121, Auckland Registry. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/149/372, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.
J. G. BARCLAY, For the Minister of Lands.
(L, and S. 21/149/372.)