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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

Changing the Purpose of Reserves in Canterbury.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

WHEREAS the provisions and the requirements of the seventh section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” have been duly complied with in respect of the lands described in the first column of the Schedule hereto: And whereas notices in the Gazette have been duly published for four consecutive weeks, and laid before both Houses of Assembly, as provided by the said section of the said Act: And whereas no resolution of either House of Assembly has been passed that such House does not concur in the intention declared in any such notice:

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 Act aforesaid, do hereby change the specific purpose of the reserves described in the first column of the Schedule hereto from that named therein to the specific purpose named in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Reserved on 13th August, 1896, for tramway, water-race, and plantation purposes; Gazette No. 64, of 20th August, 1896.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and two.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Branding Registration District of Napier reconstituted, and Branding Registration District of Wairoa constituted; also Registrars and Registration Offices appointed. — Notice No. 743.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Napier Branding Registration District should be reconstituted, and that a new branding registration district, to be known as the Wairoa Branding Registration District, should be constituted: Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by “The Stock Act, 1893,” do hereby declare that the said districts shall hereafter be comprised as described in the Schedule hereto; and also do hereby appoint the persons and places named in the said Schedule to be the Registrars and registration offices of the said districts respectively.

SCHEDULE.

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

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Regulations respecting Public-School Cadet Corps.

RANFURLY, Governor.
By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon me by “The Defence Act Amendment Act, 1900,” and of all other powers hereto me enabling, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby cancel paragraph (a) of clause 14 of the regulations relating to public-school cadet corps made under the said Act on the thirteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the fifteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two, and in lieu thereof do substitute the words set forth in the First Schedule hereto; and, with the like authority, I do hereby make the additional regulations set forth in the Second Schedule hereto in respect of the said public-school cadet corps.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

(a.) If already enrolled in a public-school cadet company a boy may continue to belong to it after he has left school until he reaches the age of sixteen, provided that there is no Volunteer cadet corps in the locality.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

25. To qualify for capitation a cadet company or detachment must have fulfilled the following conditions: Provided that, for the year 1902, the Minister may relax any or all of them:—

(a.) It must have held during the school year at least twenty-four daylight parades for drill, not more than four of which have been battalion parades.

(b.) Each such parade must have been attended by at least two-thirds of the enrolled strength.

(c.) At each such parade the time devoted to actual drill shall not have been less than forty minutes.

(d.) The parades must as a rule have been held in the open air, the exceptions, on account of bad weather or other circumstances, not being more than twelve.

26. Capitation will be paid in respect of each officer or cadet who has attended during the school year not less than sixteen parades held in accordance with clause 1 hereof.