Commissioner of the Supreme Court Appointed

HERBERT GUY BROOKE, Esquire, of Sydney, of the State of New South Wales, has this day been appointed by the Right Honourable Sir Humphrey Francis O'Leary, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in New South Wales under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of November, 1948.

A. E. REYNOLDS, Registrar, Supreme Court.

Registrars of Marriages &c., Appointed

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

Lyel Allan Reichenbach

To be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Oxford, on and from the 15th day of October, 1948.

Thomas Darcy O'Toole

To be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Orepuki, on and from the 27th day of October, 1948.

Frederick James Shearer

To be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Petone and Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Petone, on and from the 28th day of October, 1948.

Laurence Albert Shears

To be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Clevedon, on and from the 27th day of October, 1948.

Allan Henry Griffiths

To be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Denniston, on and from the 26th day of October, 1948.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commission,
Wellington, 8th November, 1948.

THE Public Service Commission has made the following appointments in the Public Service:-

Gavin Eugene Pollock

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Karori for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Wellington West Licensing District for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 15th day of October, 1948.

Thomas Evangelist O'Connell

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Otahuhu for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Otahuhu for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

Gerald Ellis Mortimer

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Onehunga for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Onehunga for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

William Thomas Patrick Heffernan

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Mount Albert for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

James Victor Sherborne

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Parnell for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

Hugh Osmond Thomson

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Lyttelton for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Lyttelton Licensing District for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

Lloyd Martin Hartigan

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Riccarton for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Riccarton for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

Charles Seddon Forbes

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of St. Albans for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

Cyril Douglas Pedersen

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Avon for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Avon for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

George Greenway

To be Returning Officer for the Sydenham Electoral District for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

Malcolm James Black Sommerville

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Tamaki for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Tamaki Licensing District for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

Carl William Blomfield

To be Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Remuera for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Remuera for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 13th day of October, 1948.

Dennis Alfred Roundhill

To be Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Rangitikei Electoral District for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Licensing District of Rangitikei for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 15th day of October, 1948.

Leicester Chisholm Webb

To be Director of Milk Marketing for the purposes of the Milk Act, 1944, on and from the 1st day of November, 1948.

Leslie Edward Geoffrey Wilson

To be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates' Court at Ruatoria for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1928, and Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates' Court at Ruatoria for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Act, 1926, on and from the 11th day of October, 1948.

William Vincent Morton

To be Assistant Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Southland pursuant to the provisions of section 4 (2) of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, on and from the 4th day of October, 1948.

Frederick Albert Sadler

To be Assistant Land Registrar for the Land Registration District of Auckland pursuant to the provisions of section 4 (2) of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, on and from the 13th day of September, 1948.

Ernest Leslie Egarr

To be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waimarino for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, on and from the 1st day of April, 1948.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Formation of Defence Rifle Clubs

Army Department,
Wellington, 4th November, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the formation of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Clubs:-

Te Puke Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Te Puke. Dated 13th October, 1948.

Rotorua Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Rotorua. Dated 22nd October, 1948.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Approval of Testing Officers Under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the persons named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officers under the said regulation for the authority specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Column 1. Column 2.
Christchurch City Council Clifford Acton.
" Russell Leonard Hurle.
" Henry William Morris.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of November, 1948.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

Declaring Area to be a Closely Populated Locality for the Purposes of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936

IN terms of section 3 of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936, the Minister of Transport doth hereby declare the area described in the Schedule hereto to be a closely populated locality for the purposes of the said section to the intent that a person driving any motor-vehicle on any road, street, or other place to which the public have access therein shall be subject to the maximum speed limit of thirty miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE

SITUATED within Taupo County-

All that area comprising Mangakino Village, as more particularly appears bordered in red on plan number TT. 1174, deposited in the office of the Commissioner of Transport at Wellington.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of November, 1948.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.