MAY 25] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 615

Stipendiary Magistrate appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th May, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Guy Norman Morris, Esquire,

to be a Stipendiary Magistrate to exercise criminal and civil jurisdiction within New Zealand until the 22nd day of May, 1945.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace authorized to exercise Jurisdiction in Children’s Court

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize

Charles Rutherford Orr Walker, Esquire, J.P.,

to exercise jurisdiction in the Children’s Court established at Auckland.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1944.

IT is hereby notified that the following appointments have been made :—

Ella Catherine Lee (Miss)

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Mercury Bay, on and from the 8th day of May, 1944.

Albert Ernest Frederic Pierson

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Ross, on and from the 9th day of May, 1944.

Leslie McElhinney

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Wairau, on and from the 22nd day of May, 1944.

Albert Percival Desmond Bunting

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Kahukura at Ruatoria, on and from the 22nd day of May, 1944.

George Myring Newton

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Taupo, on and from the 12th day of May, 1944.

Herbert Stanley Cooper

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Hutt, on and from the 18th day of May, 1944.

Charles Stanley Clulee

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Ashburton at Mayfield, on and from the 11th day of May, 1944.

Elsie Margaret McQueen (Miss)

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Nokomai and Switzers, on and from the 15th day of May, 1944.

Elsie Shepherd Duff (Miss)

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Port Chalmers, on and from the 15th day of May, 1944.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1944.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :—

Donald Malcolm

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Gore for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, Clerk of the Warden’s Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar at Gore for the Mining District of Otago constituted under the Mining Act, 1926, and Maintenance Officer at Gore for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 26th day of April, 1944.

Charles Earnshaw White

to be District Public Trustee for the District of Invercargill for the purposes of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, on and from the 23rd day of May, 1944.

Frank Hugh Muirhead

to be District Public Trustee for the District of Masterton for the purposes of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, on and from the 10th day of May. 1944.

Doreen Maxwell (Mrs.)

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Mangapai, on and from the 29th day of March, 1944.

Denis Patrick Roughan

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Seddon, on and from the 4th day of May, 1944.

Harold James Smith

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Richmond, on and from the 6th day of May, 1944.

Corrigendum

In the New Zealand Gazette No. 39, 18th May, 1944, page 582, under the heading “ Appointments in the Public Service,” relative to the appointment of Herbert Leslie Bockett, for “ on and from the 1st day of March, 1944 ”, read “ on and from the 1st day of May, 1944.”

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Election of Members of Fire Boards by Insurance Companies

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1944.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, and the rules made thereunder, it is hereby notified that an election by the insurance companies carrying on business in New Zealand of members of the undermentioned Fire Boards will be held on Wednesday, the 14th day of June, 1944, in the manner prescribed by the said Act and rules. The number of members to be elected in the case of the Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board and of the Dunedin Metropolitan Fire Board shall be four. In the case of Wanganui, Wellington, and Christchurch Fire Boards, the number shall be three, and in all others two members :—

Auckland Metropolitan Fire Board.
Balclutha Fire Board.
Birkenhead Fire Board.
Cambridge Fire Board.
Christchurch Fire Board.
Dannevirke Fire Board.
Dargaville Fire Board.
Dunedin Metropolitan Fire Board.
Eltham Fire Board.
Feilding Fire Board.
Foxton Fire Board.
Gisborne Fire Board.
Greymouth Fire Board.
Hamilton Fire Board.
Hastings Fire Board.
Hawera Fire Board.
Hikurangi Fire Board.
Hokitika Fire Board.
Invercargill Fire Board.
Kaiapoi Fire Board.
Kaitangata Fire Board.
Lawrence Fire Board.
Levin Fire Board.
Lower Hutt Fire Board.
Masterton Fire Board.
Milton Fire Board.
Morrinsville Fire Board.
Napier Fire Board.

Nelson Fire Board.
New Plymouth Fire Board.
Oamaru Fire Board.
Ohakune Fire Board.
Opotiki Fire Board.
Otaki Fire Board.
Pahiatua Fire Board.
Palmerston North Fire Board.
Patea Fire Board.
Petone Fire Board.
Port Chalmers Fire Board.
Pukekohe Fire Board.
Rotorua Fire Board.
Taihape Fire Board.
Taumarunui Fire Board.
Tauranga Fire Board.
Te Aroha Fire Board.
Te Awamutu Fire Board.
Timaru Fire Board.
Upper Hutt Fire Board.
Waihi Fire Board.
Waipukurau Fire Board.
Wairoa Fire Board.
Waitara Fire Board.
Wanganui Fire Board.
Wellington Fire Board.
Westport Fire Board.
Whakatane Fire Board.
Whangarei Fire Board.
Woodville Fire Board.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 76/4/1.)

Members of the Taotaoroa Rabbit Board elected.—(Notice No. Ag. 4097)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1944.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer for the purposes of the first election of the Taotaoroa Rabbit Board established under the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, that—

John Birss Thacker Arnold,
Benjamin Norman Garland,
Charles Leslie Jones,
Charles Stanley Lambeth, and
James Crawford Latimer

have been duly elected to be members of the said Board.

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

The Pig Marketing Emergency Regulations 1943.—Amending Notice fixing Prices and Basic Values

Office of Minister of Marketing,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1944.

PURSUANT to Regulation 5 of the Pig Marketing Emergency Regulations 1943, I hereby further amend the notice (given under my hand on the 3rd day of November, 1943, and published in the Gazette on the 4th day of the same month at page 1287) which fixes the maximum prices that an operator may pay for pigs, by declaring that operators may pay for all kinds and grades of pigs, except choppers, purchased or killed during the month of May, 1944, prices greater by one halfpenny per pound dressed weight (including head) than the prices fixed by the said notice as heretofore amended.