SEPT. 21] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1147

Member of Licensing Committee appointed Department of Justice, Wellington, 18th September, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Alfred Ernest Bedford, Esquire, to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Napier.

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

The Tobacco-growing Industry Act, 1935.-Members of Tobacco Board reappointed Department of Industries and Commerce, Wellington, 14th September, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities of section 3 of the Tobacco-growing Industry Act, 1935-

Walter Robert Olliver and Cedric Malcolm Paynter as representatives of manufacturers, and Nolan Rowling and Martin Henry Thorn as representatives of growers,

all of whom retired on the 31st July, 1944, in pursuance of section 4 of the above Act.

D. G. SULLIVAN, Minister of Industries and Commerce.

Wool-growers' Representatives on New Zealand Wool Council appointed.-(Notice No. Ag. 4135)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture, Wellington, 13th September, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Wool Industry Promotion Act, 1936, to appoint-

Noel Rutherford Jamieson, Esquire, and John Duncan Revie, Esquire,

to be members of and representatives of the wool-growers of the Dominion on the New Zealand Wool Council established under the said Act.

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

Trustees of the Balclutha Athenaeum appointed Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 13th September, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 3 of the Balclutha Athenæum Act, 1877, been pleased to appoint-

John Thomas Walter and Lewis John Edwards

to be trustees of the Balclutha Athenæum in place of David Thomas Fleming and George Dunnett Hunter, deceased.

R. G. MACMORRAN, Under-Secretary.

(L. and S. 22/3630/48.)

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 19th September, 1944.

IT is hereby notified that the following appointments have been made :- Roy Mortimer Green

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Putaruru, on and from the 1st day of September, 1944.

John Henry Dark

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Mount Benger, on and from the 1st day of September, 1944.

John Arthur Storey

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Dunstan, on and from the 18th day of August, 1944.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service Office of the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 19th September, 1944.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :- John Henry Miller

to be Clerk of the Magistrates' Court at Wairoa for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1928, Official Assignee at Wairoa for the Court District of Wellington for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Act, 1908, Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates' Court at Wairoa for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1928, Registrar of Marriages for the District of Wairoa for the purposes of the Marriage Act, 1908, Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Wairoa for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Wairoa for the purposes of the Maori Births and Deaths Registration Regulations 1935, on and from the 1st day of September, 1944.

Frank Bernard Loxley Jameson

to be Registrar of Marriages for the District of Nelson for the purposes of the Marriage Act, 1908, Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Nelson for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Nelson for the purposes of the Maori Births and Deaths Registration Regulations 1935, on and from the 11th day of September, 1944.

James Alexander Fyfe

to be Registrar of Marriages for the District of Buller for the purposes of the Marriage Act, 1908, Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Buller for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Westport for the purposes of the Maori Births and Deaths Registration Regulations 1935, on and from the 7th day of September, 1944.

Herbert James Keenan

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Clevedon, on and from the 28th day of August, 1944.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Notice constituting the Northland, Auckland, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty Provincial Patriotic Districts

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations 1939; the Minister of Internal Affairs doth hereby constitute and declare the areas specified in the Schedule hereto, being now subdivisions of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic District, Provincial Patriotic Districts under the said regulations, as from the 30th day of September, 1944, with the names and boundaries specified in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE PROVINCIAL PATRIOTIC DISTRICTS

1. The Northland Provincial Patriotic District ALL that area comprising-

The County of Mangonui, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 1st May, 1918, Vol. II, at page 1685, and including the Kaitaia Town District.

The County of Whangaroa, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 1st May, 1918, Vol. II, at page 1686.

The County of Hokianga, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of 1st May, 1918, Vol. II, at page 1686, and including the Rawene Town District and the Kohukohu Town District.

The County of Bay of Islands, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 25th September, 1930, Vol. III, at page 2823, and including the town districts of Kaikohe, Russell, and Kawakawa.

The County of Whangarei, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 28th January, 1932, Vol. I, at page 150, and including the Borough of Whangarei and the town districts of Hikurangi, Kamo, and Onerahi.

The County of Hobson, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 28th January, 1932, Vol. I, at page 149, and including the Borough of Dargaville.

The County of Otamatea, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 20th June, 1929, Vol. II, at page 1684.

2. The Auckland Provincial Patriotic District All that area comprising-

The County of Rodney, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 28th March, 1929, Vol. I, at page 790, including the Town District of Warkworth.

The County of Waitemata, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 2nd October, 1930, Vol. III, at page 2888, and including the boroughs of Birkenhead, Devonport, New Lynn, Northcote, and Takapuna, and the town districts of Glen Eden, Helensville, and Henderson.

The County of Eden, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 20th December, 1939, Vol. III, at page 3555, and including the City of Auckland and the boroughs of Newmarket, Mount Albert, Mount Eden, Onehunga, One Tree Hill, and Eellerslie.

The County of Manukau, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 2nd February, 1922, Vol. I, at page 273, and including the boroughs of Otahuhu, Manurewa, Papakura, and the town districts of Papatoetoe and Howick.

The County of Franklin, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 20th April, 1916, Vol. I, at page 1135, and including the Borough of Pukekohe and the town districts of Tuakau, Waiuku, and Mercer.

The County of Hauraki Plains, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 7th May, 1936, Vol. II, at page 842.

The County of Great Barrier Island, with the boundaries as defined in the New Zealand Statutes, 1912, No. 46, at page 203.

The County of Coromandel, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 21st January, 1937, Vol. I, at page 235.

The County of Thames, with the boundaries as defined in the Gazette of the 21st January, 1937, Vol. I, at page 235, and including the Borough of Thames.