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the protection of a bridge from the Oroua River at Awa-
huri, Kairanga Survey District:
And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native
owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown:
And whereas a map in duplicate has been prepared of the
said land by the Manawatu Road Board, as required by the
eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act,
and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in that
behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the
land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule
hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purpose of the
said bridge-protection, and the said land shall vest in the
King, as from the twentieth day of June, one thousand nine
hundred and one.

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SCHEDULE.

THE parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

In the Wellington Land District; as the said parcel of land
is more particularly delineated on the plan marked as above
stated, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands
and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District,
and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Inspector of Weights and Measures, Counties of Tauranga
and Rotorua, and Borough of Tauranga, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant WILLIAM JOHN PHAIR

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under “The
Weights and Measures Act, 1868,” and the Acts amending
the same, for the Counties of Tauranga and Rotorua, and
for the Borough of Tauranga.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

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Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor, by his Deputy, has been
pleased to appoint

CHARLES HENRY WARNEFORD

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, and
also to be Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Okarito,
vice John Watt, transferred.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

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Member of Canterbury Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 17th May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to re-
appoint

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL PRINGLE

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of
Canterbury, as from the 15th June, 1901.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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Member of Otago Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 17th May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to re-
appoint

WILLIAM DALLAS

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of
Otago, as from the 5th June, 1901.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 17th May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector
under “The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to him the
district set opposite his name, viz. :—

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

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Clerk of Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point

Constable GEORGE HENRY HARRIS

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Mangaweka, from
the 19th instant, vice Constable B. Rutledge, transferred.

JAMES McGOWAN.

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Justice of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ac-
cept the resignation by

JOHN THOMAS BURRELL, Esq.,

of Tapanui, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for
the colony.

JAMES McGOWAN.

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Trustee of Volunteer Hall resigned and appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept, under “The Patumahoe Hall Site Act,
1878,” the resignation by

Mr. FRANK HENRY

of his appointment as a Trustee of the above hall as from
the 30th April, 1901, and also to approve of the appoint-
ment of

Mr. WILLIAM HOWARD

as a Trustee of the above hall from the 3rd May, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Medical Officers appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th April, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the under-mentioned appointments:—

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.

Alfred Osborne Knight to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of
commission, 13th June, 1898.

Archer Hosking to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of commis-
sion, 11th December, 1900.

John Lovell Gregg to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of com-
mission, 14th January, 1901.

George Alexander Morris to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of
commission, 22nd January, 1901.

Ernest Edward Porritt to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of
commission, 23rd January, 1901.

William Herbert Goldie to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of
commission, 14th February, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Corps attached to Battalion.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the

Owaka Rifle Volunteers

being added to the 1st Battalion, Otago Rifle Volunteers.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Defence.