Jan. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 27

declare that the rural land described in the Schedule here-
to shall be open for selection on and after the twenty-fourth
day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four;
and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may
be selected on lease in perpetuity only, in accordance with the
provisions of section one hundred and twenty-one of the
said Act, as it contains, or is supposed to contain, metals,
minerals, or valuable stone; and I do hereby also fix the
price at which the said land shall be leased, as mentioned
in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land
shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of “The
Land Act, 1892,” and “The Mining Act, 1898,” and amend-
ments.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT. — MARLBOROUGH COUNTY. —
WAKAMARINA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Two-thirds open land covered with tutu and fern, re-
mainder mixed bush; pastoral; steep slopes; clay soil.
Altitude, 400 ft. to 1,500 ft. above sea-level. Situated about
eight miles from Havelock.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-first day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Hares protected in the Mungaroa Riding, County of Hutt.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,”
I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of
the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby declare that in the
Mungaroa Riding, County of Hutt, hares shall come within
the operation of the said Act and be deemed to be game
from and after the date hereof.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-third day of December, one thou-
sand nine hundred and three.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declara-
tions.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the
eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act
Amendment Act, 1888,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of
Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby notify and declare that

JAMES TAIT,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster, under “The
Post Office Act, 1900,” at Coromandel, is authorised to take
and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-
and-thirty-fourth section of “The Justices of the Peace
Act, 1882.”

As witness my hand, this twenty-second day of
December, one thousand nine hundred and three.

RANFURLY, Governor.

Trustees for the Campbelltown (Rongotea) Public Cemetery
appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries
Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM DARRAGH,
JULIUS SIMONSEN,
JAMES PENNEY,
JOHN GLOVER, and
JOHN ANDREW RODGERS

to be Trustees, in the place of John Richard Harper, Wilson
Douglas, and John Hoban, deceased, and Samuel Knight
and Frederick Costall, who have left the district, to provide
for the maintenance and care of the Campbelltown (Rongo-
tea) Public Cemetery, in conjunction with Vincent Christo-
pher Ransom, John Dalton, William Hunt, and William
Tucker, previously appointed by His Excellency the Go-
vernor.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Duty to be levied on Ground Cocoa-shells.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS a certain article of merchandise known as
ground cocoa-shells is imported into New Zealand,
which possesses properties in the whole or in part which
can be used for a similar purpose as cocoa, the latter being
a dutiable article under “The Customs and Excise Duties
Act, 1888”:

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 conferred on me
by the seventeenth section of “The Customs and Excise
Duties Act, 1888,” do hereby direct that on and after the
date hereof there shall be levied on ground cocoa-shells a
duty of threepence the pound, such duty being equal to the
duty on cocoa.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor,
this twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and three.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.

Governor’s Order No. 165.]

Registrars of Electors, City of Auckland, Eden, Grey Lynn,
Parnell, Invercargill, and Awarua, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th December, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

EDWIN HAROLD MONTGOMERY

to be Registrar of Electors, under “The Electoral Act,
1902,” for the Electoral Districts of City of Auckland, Eden,
Grey Lynn, and Parnell, vice John King; also to appoint

WILLIAM ALFRED SAUNDERS

to be Registrar of Electors under the said Act for the
Electoral Districts of Invercargill and Awarua, vice
P. McEwan. Appointments to date from 1st January, 1904.

J. G. WARD.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Wellington, 18th December, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
point the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Regis-
trars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the dis-
tricts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:—

Name. District.
ALBERT WILLIAM COOK .. .. Ashley-Clinton.
HUGH TANNOCK DAWSON .. .. Cust.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
appoint

ANTONIE BEEKMAN

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births
and Deaths for the District of Otepopo.

JAS. McGOWAN,
For Colonial Secretary.