JUNE 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1207

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 warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes 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-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

North Island Representation Commission.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint

JOSEPH GILES, Esq.;
WILLIAM AIREY RICHARDSON, Esq.;
JOHN WILLIAM ALLMAN MARCHANT, Esq., the Surveyor-General;
JAMES MACKENZIE, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District; and
GERHARD JOHN MUELLER, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Auckland Land District,

to be a permanent Commission, to be called “the North Island Representation Commission,” for the purposes of “The Representation Act, 1887,” and the Acts amending the same.

J. G. WARD.

Middle Island Representation Commission.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th May, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint

NATHANIEL YOUNG ARMSTRONG WALES, Esq.;
THOMAS SHAILER WESTON, Esq.;
GEORGE JOHN ROBERTS, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Westland Land District;
THOMAS HUMPHRIES, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Canterbury Land District; and
DAVID BARRON, Esq., the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Otago Land District,

to be a permanent Commission, to be called “the Middle Island Representation Commission,” for the purposes of “The Representation Act, 1887,” and the Acts amending the same.

J. G. WARD.