Member of the New Zealand Meat-producers Board Appointed.--
(Notice No. Ag. 4921)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 17th October, 1950.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in
pursuance of subsection (3) of section 2 of the Meat-export
Control Act, 1921-22, to appoint--

Harry Dudley Cooper, Esquire,

To be a member of the New Zealand Meat-producers Board, and
the representative of the persons for the time being engaged in
business as stock and station agents on the said Board.

K. J. HOLYOAKE, Minister of Agriculture.
(Ag. 67/10/15.)

Registrar of Brands and Inspector of Stock Appointed

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 24th October, 1950.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint
on the 16th day of October, 1950-

Aubrey Sydney Desmond Geary

To be Registrar of Brands for the Chatham Islands and an Inspector
for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, vice John Paterson,
transferred.

K. J. HOLYOAKE, Minister of Agriculture.

Members of Board of Examiners Under the Mining Act, 1926,
Reappointed

Mines Department,
Wellington, 18th October, 1950.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve
the reappointment of

Alexander Francis Lowrie, Esquire, and
James Robert Noble, Esquire,

To be members of the Board of Examiners under the Mining Act,
1926, for a period of three years as from 12th October, 1950.

W. SULLIVAN, Minister of Mines.
(Mines 17/31.)

Member of Licensing Committee Appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th October, 1950.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint

John Macdonald, Esquire,

To be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of
Awarua.

T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

Revocation of Appointment of Certain Garage Proprietors for Issue
of Warrants of Fitness

IN terms of regulation 11 of the Traffic Regulations 1936, and
all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I, William Stanley
Goosman, Minister of Transport, do hereby revoke the approval of
the person and/or firm described in the Schedule hereto for the
purpose of the issue of warrants of fitness for motor vehicles.

SCHEDULE

Reginald Arthur McCutcheon.
McCutcheon's Service Garage, South Norsewood. (Approval
No. 2786.)

Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of October, 1950.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.

Registrars of Marriages, etc., Appointed

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 18th October, 1950.

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

Noel Christopher Shakespear

To be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Oruawharo on
and from the 23rd day of October, 1950.

John Cameron Pirrit Leathem

To be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Ohaeawai on and from the 9th day of October, 1950.

Walter Leslie Scott

To be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of
Auckland at Takapuna on and from the 30th day of June, 1950.

William David Jesse Hay

To be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Auckland at
Takapuna on and from the 10th day of October, 1950.

Margaret Muirhead Crawford (Miss)

To be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Matahi on and
from the 1st day of September, 1950.

P. H. WYLDE, Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commission,
Wellington, 25th October, 1950.

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

William Syer McLachlan

To be an Inspector under the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, on and
from the 19th day of October, 1950.

Robert Smith

To be Bailiff of the Magistrates' Court at Motueka for the purposes
of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1947, on and from the 1st day of
August, 1950.

Percy William Jones Cockerill

To be Deputy Sheriff at Timaru for the District of Timaru for the
purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, on and from the 19th day of
October, 1950.

Eric Walter Abercrombie

To be Deputy Sheriff at Whangarei for the District of North Auckland
for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, on and from the 25th
day of March 1947.

Albert Edward Johnson

To be Deputy Sheriff for the District of Hawke's Bay for the purposes
of the Judicature Act, 1908, on and from the 22nd day of September,
1947.

William John McKeown Conrad

To be Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates' Courts at Huntly
and Cambridge for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 26th day of June, 1950.

Thomas Geddes

To be an Inspector of Explosives for the Explosive and Dangerous
Goods Act, 1908, for the purposes of the inspection of explosives
at mines and quarries, on and from the 21st day of August, 1950.

Alexander Glen Wellwood Stevens

To be an Inspector for the purposes of the Dairy Industry Act, 1908,
the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, the Stock Act, 1908, and the Noxious
Weeds Act, 1928, on and from the 9th day of October, 1950.

V. W. THOMAS, Secretary.

Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Convention Order 1940

IT is hereby notified for general information that the International
Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, as
revised at London in 1934, applies as between New Zealand and the
Federal Republic of Germany.

The Federal Republic of Germany is treated as a convention
country for the purposes of section 54 of the Patents, Designs, and
Trade-marks Amendment Act, 1939, by virtue of the declaration
made by regulation 2 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks
Convention Order 1940, that Germany (among other countries) is a
convention country for the purposes of the Act.

Dated this 24th day of October, 1950.

T. CLIFTON WEBB,
Minister in Charge of the Patent Office.

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to Fill Extraordinary
Vacancy on the Wanganui Fire Board

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th October, 1950.

PURSUANT to the Fire Services Act, 1949, and the rules there-
under, the Minister charged with the administration of the
said Act doth appoint Friday, the 10th November, 1950, to be the
date for holding the election of one member of the Wanganui Fire
Board by the Fire-insurance Companies, such election being held
to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of
Mr. R. A. McCullough.

W. A. BODKIN, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 76/4/39.)

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 regulations for the authority specified in Column 1 of
the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE
Column 1. Column 2.
Wellington City Council Travis Joseph Dwan.
Wellington City Council James Richard Hodgman.
Wellington City Council Sydney Henry Johnston.
Wellington City Council Herbert William Julius.
Wellington City Council Frank Nightingale.

Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of October, 1950.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.