May 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1615

towards the north-east by lines, 187·3 and 455·6 links; and towards the south by a line, 128·4 links, to the commencing-point: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 57065/1, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink. For quarry purposes.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Nelson Land District.

PLUNKET, 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, William Lee, Baron Plunket, 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 land in the Nelson Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purpose in the said Schedule specified at the end of the description of the land so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 182 acres, more or less, being Reserve No. 14 (in red), Block I, Reefton Survey District. Commencing at the south-east corner of Section No. 1, Block I, Reefton Survey District. Bounded towards the south-east by a line bearing 247° 55′, 7986·4 links; towards the south-west by a line bearing 337° 55′, 3650 links; towards the north-west by a line bearing 67° 55′, 9000 links; and towards the north-east by a line bearing 157° 55′, 3630 links, and from this point (south-east corner) to the starting-point by Fletcher’s Creek: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: save and except from the above-described area Section No. 1, Block I, Reefton Survey District, reserved for timber purposes in New Zealand Gazette No. 67, of the 27th August, 1903, page 1870: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 56905/1, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For an addition to a timber reserve.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fourteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th May, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :

Name. District.
ROBERT MARTIN .. .. Mercury Bay.
ALEXANDER DAWSON .. .. Black’s.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.

New Zealand Militia Honorary Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned appointment:—

New Zealand Militia.

James O’Sullivan to be Quartermaster, with the rank of Honorary Captain. Commission to date from the 24th April, 1907.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Assistant Quartermaster-General, Nelson Military District.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th April, 1907.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 27, General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, 1906, of the appointment of

Captain (Adjutant) ROBERT WILLIAM STILES, 1st Battalion, Nelson Infantry Volunteers,

as Assistant Quartermaster-General, Nelson Military District Staff, and with effect from 1st May, 1907.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Arbor Day.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 20th May, 1907.

WEDNESDAY, the 24th day of July next, will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout New Zealand for the celebration of Arbor Day.

In order that the movement may be made as successful as possible, the Government hopes that the Mayors of the various municipalities and Chairmen of local bodies will place the matter prominently before the people of the colony, and do all they can to encourage the planting of public reserves and other available lands, both public and private, with trees suited to the locality.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.

Holiday to be observed on Prince of Wales’s Birthday.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1907.

MONDAY, the 3rd June next, being the anniversary of the birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout the colony.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Colonial Secretary.

Special Order made by the Waipukurau Town Board.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 20th May, 1907.

THE following special order, made by the Waipukurau Town Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

J. G. FINDLAY,
For Colonial Treasurer.

WAIPUKURAУ TOWN BOARD.

Special Order.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” or any amendments thereto, the Waipukurau Town Board hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £600, authorised to be raised by the Waipukurau Town Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of erecting library buildings and Town Board offices, the Waipukurau Town Board hereby makes and levies a special rate of ⅝d. in the pound on the rateable value of all rateable property of the Waipukurau Town District, comprising all that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District in Blocks XIV and XV, Waipukurau Survey District, as shown upon the plan deposited in the Head Office, Department of Land and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, under No. S.G. 54516, thereon bordered red; and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly on the 30th day of June and the 30th day of December in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-seven years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

I hereby certify that the above special order was made at a special meeting of the Waipukurau Town Board held on the 2nd day of April, 1907, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 6th day of May, 1907.

W. A. CHAMBERS,
Chairman.