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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

Section 16, about half forest, containing 176½ dead kauri-trees, or 332,168 superficial feet timber. Section 17 contains 244 dead kauri-trees, or about 530,850 superficial feet; 307 singed trees, or 924,071 superficial feet; and 66 green trees, or 203,498 superficial feet timber. The lands are about eighteen miles from Whangarei, and the timber will have to come out by the Moengawahine River.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Anawhata River and its Tributaries, Auckland, notified under “The Timber-floating Act, 1884.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the second section of “The Timber-floating Act, 1884,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following river and streams within the colony may be used under license for the purposes of the said Act:—

The Anawhata River and its branches or tributary streams, all situate in the Waitemata County, in the Auckland Provincial District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Hares may be taken or killed in the County of Waimate and part of the County of Mackenzie.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that from and after the date hereof hares shall cease to be within the operation of the said Acts within the County of Waimate and that portion of the County of Mackenzie lying to the west of a line commencing at Mount Cook, and proceeding by a right line over the Ball Hut to the Tasman Glacier, thence along the western boundary of the Tasman Glacier to the Tasman River, thence by a line along the middle of that river and the middle of Lake Pukaki and the middle of the Pukaki River to the Waitaki River.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Land temporarily reserved in the Land Districts of Westland and Canterbury.

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:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Land Districts of Westland and Canterbury described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose of a national park.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that parcel of land in the Westland Land District, containing by admeasurement 17,000 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 347, Block X., Otira Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Otira River and Section No. 2194; towards the east by Deception River; towards the south by the western boundary of the Canterbury Land District from Goat Pass to Mount Rolleston; and towards the west by the Rolleston River and Sections Nos. 1515, 1616, and 1185: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing 150,000 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 3535, situated in the Minchin, Bealey, Davie, and Hawdon Survey Districts. Bounded by a line commencing at the confluence of the eastern and western branches of the Poulter River, and proceeding thence along the summit of a spur leading to the Poulter Range; thence along the summit of that range to its junction with the Southern Alps; thence westerly along the summit of the Southern Alps to Black Range; thence along the summit of Black Range to the spur upon which Trig. Station P is erected; thence along the summit of that spur to a point in line with the western boundary-line of Ferry Reserve No. 2461; thence along a right line to that boundary; thence by the said western boundary-line and its production to the north bank of the Waimakariri River; thence along the north bank of that river to the western boundary-line of Rural Section No. 35208; thence along that boundary-line and a spur leading to the summit of Brown Hill; and thence along the summit of a spur of the said Brown Hill to the commencing-point: as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked S.G. 44401, deposited at the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Land District of Wellington, and bordered pink thereon: excluding from the above-described parcel of land all freehold land and reserves.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this second day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Inspectors of Weights and Measures, Boroughs of Kaiapoi and Hampden, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 1st May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned persons to be Inspectors of Weights and Measures under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending the same, for the districts set opposite their names respectively, viz.:—

Name. District.
Constable MICHAEL JOYCE Borough of Kaiapoi.
Constable DAVID CARTMILL Borough of Hampden.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Acts, Wanganui District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM BROOKES

to be a Ranger under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Wanganui.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM ALFRED WHITE

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Manuherikia, vice Robert Boyne, on and from the 1st May, 1901.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN WATERS

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Black’s.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Colonial Secretary.