JULY 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1299

Lands permanently reserved.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the two-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the warrant the date of which is specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notification of which was published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-ninth day of June, one thousand nine hundred.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

Member of the Executive Council resigned.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 27th June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has this day been pleased to accept the resignation by

The Honourable JOHN MCKENZIE

of his office as a member of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Member of the Executive Council appointed.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 3rd July, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS YOUNG DUNCAN, Esq.,

to be a member of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, and he has been sworn in as a member of the said Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

Resignation of certain Ministerial Offices.

Private Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

The Honourable JOHN MCKENZIE

of the offices of Minister of Lands, Minister for Agriculture, and Commissioner of Forests.

DUDLEY ALEXANDER,
Private Secretary.

Ministerial Appointments.

Private Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS YOUNG DUNCAN, Esq.,

to be Minister of Lands, Minister for Agriculture, and Commissioner of Forests.

DUDLEY ALEXANDER,
Private Secretary.