JUNE 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1573

Lands temporarily reserved in the Wellington Land District.

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 Wellington Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre and 22 perches, more or less, being Section No. 61, Block VI., Waiopenu Survey District. Commencing at peg marked I.T. xxxv., the said peg being distant 237176 links south and 75938·8 links west of Mount Stewart Trig. Station, and extending from thence in an easterly direction by a line bearing S. 69° 39′ E., a distance of 519 links; thence in a westerly direction by Pretoria Road, bearing S. 71° 41′ W., a distance of 700·4 links; and thence in a northerly direction by a line bearing N. 24° 0′ E., a distance of 438·8 links, to peg marked I.T. xxxv. aforesaid: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. For a gravel reserve.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 66 acres 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 55, Block VI., Waiopenu Survey District. Bounded towards the north by road reserve along the left bank of the Ohau River; towards the east by said road reserve and Kimberley Road; towards the south by Pretoria Road, by Section No. 61, Block VI., Waiopenu Survey District, and by Section No. 76, Block V., Waiopenu Survey District: save and except a portion of Kimberley Road, which intersects the above-described boundaries. For a forest reserve.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 40 acres 1 rood, more or less, being Section No. 76, Block V., Waiopenu Survey District. Bounded towards the north and east by a road reserve along the left bank of the Ohau River and Section No. 55, Block VI., Waiopenu Survey District; towards the south by Pretoria Road; and towards the west by Subdivision No. 14, Horowhenua Block, to the road reserve along the left bank of the Ohau River aforesaid. For a forest reserve.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 3 roods 7 perches, more or less, being Section No. 56, Block VI., Waiopenu Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Pretoria Road; towards the east by Kimberley Road; and towards the south by Section No. 59, Block VI., Waiopenu Survey District. For a site for a public school.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 8 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section No. 58a, Block VI., Waiopenu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section No. 11, Block VI., Waiopenu Survey District; towards the south-east by Section No. 58 of said Block VI.; towards the south-west by a public road, 50 links wide; and towards the west by road reserve along the left bank of the Ohau River. For a forest reserve.

As the same are delineated on the plan marked S.G. 51958, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Amending Regulations as to Detective Police.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by “The Police Force Act, 1886,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby revoke Regulation No. 236 of the Police Regulations made under the said Act, and published in a Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette dated twelfth January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the following regulation, namely,—

CHIEF DETECTIVES.

236. Appointments to the office of Chief Detective will be made from the Detective Branch by the selection of those officers whose ability, energy, and general fitness qualify them for such appointments.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Justice.

Animals Protection Acts.—Declaring Reserve for Native and Imported Game, Yarr’s Lagoon, Canterbury.

PLUNKET, Governor.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred upon him by “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand doth hereby notify that native and imported game shall not be taken or killed within that portion of the Leeston Survey District, in the Canterbury Land District, more particularly described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 190 acres, more or less, being Section No. 3706, and known as Yarr’s Lagoon, Block XII., Leeston Survey District. Bounded towards the northward by the southern boundaries of Rural Sections 10070, a road-line, 10470, 10662, 19796, a road-line, 10663, and 20389; towards the eastward by the western boundaries of Rural Sections 11388, the L.I. Creek, and 7390; towards the south-eastward and southward by the north-western boundaries of Rural Sections 4761, 6699, 7707, and the No. 2 Creek; and towards the westward by the eastern boundaries of Rural Sections 9932, 10621, and 11102.

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

J. G. WARD.

Appointments to the Staff of His Excellency the Governor.

Private Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th June, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HORACE CLARE WATERFIELD, Esq.,
to be Private Secretary;

Captain FRANCIS POWELL BRAITHWAITE,
Northumberland Fusiliers, to be Aide-de-Camp; and

Lieutenant the Honourable ARTHUR MAURICE ROBERT BINGHAM,
5th Lancers, to be Second Aide-de-Camp.

H. C. WATERFIELD,
Private Secretary.

Officers under the Fisheries Conservation Acts appointed, Wellington.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th June, 1904.

IT is hereby notified that

ANDREW CLUNIE BISHOP, of Pukehinau, and
DONALD BENNETT, of Whareama,

have been appointed to be Officers for the purposes of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and the Acts amending the same.

C. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office.
Wellington, 16th June, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the