GAZETTE NOTIFICATIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2624, 29 June 1904, Page 58

GAZETTE NOTIFICATIONS.

WTXLIXGTON. June? 23. ■ The appointment is gazotied of Mr James Meacham Batham to ho D«pu*y Reßistrair?oncrnJ of Land for Now Zealamd, anJ Deputy District L^ml Rosji=.trav for tbe land and deeds registration district, of Wellington. lions. Roboit 80-eufvo '■» app^inte-d French, ftonanl at Avckland, with iuriuliction over New Zealand, Cook Archipelago, and Tonga, I^saul^. The appointments are gazetted of Horace Clare Watorfickl as piivate pocrotary to the Governor : Captain Francis Pow<?ll Braithwifite. of tine Noitlmmlwrland Fu=;liers. as aifie-de-capip ; and Lieutenant the Hon. Arthur Maurice Rob-ort Bingbim, of the Fif'h Laiicoi*', as second aide-de-camp.

The school roll of Woodvillo ha« d«erea?ed from 420 in .1898 to 371 in 1904.

An unusti.il application rame before the Awarua- Licensing Committee on the 20th, when the Union S.S. Company applied for a packet license for the s.s. Moana. The Chairman (Mr McCarthy , S.M.) remained tbat the I T ninn Company covlrt apply to pny liceming eormnitteo f>r th's license, and if they did not get it in Awarua they would get it somd-wheie else. Messrs Buxton, Beaven, and A. Cowie voted against granting the license, while Me&srs J. Cowie and Lindsay voted in iavour of it. Th« chairman ga\e both h's Uelibeiaiive and lils casting votp- in favour, and the lic3flS9 W&8 £vaatsd. — Southkad Tini^g.

The patents for the Dunlop pneumatio tyre expire (in England) this year, but those for the Woods valve, with which mil DunJop tyres are fitted, 4<> nn t expire until 1906.