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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Southland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for an addition to a national park.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Southland Land District, containing by estimation 159,700 acres, situated in Fiord County. Commencing at a point on the southern shore of Dusky Sound due north of Hollow Peak: bounded towards the north by that sound to the head of Nine-fathom Passage; thence by a line bearing approximately 124° to Long Burn; thence by Long Burn to Long Sound; thence by Long Sound, Preservation Inlet, Chalky Inlet, Cunaris and Edwardson Sounds to a point due south of Hollow Peak aforesaid; thence by a line due north to the point of commencement: as the same is delineated on the plan marked S.G. 51656/109, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Special Regulations for Deer-shooting, Otago.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1907, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the conditions under which certain red deer may be destroyed in the Otago Acclimatisation District:—

REGULATIONS.

1. Notwithstanding anything contained in the regulations made under the Animals Protection Act, 1907, the secretary of the Otago Acclimatisation Society at Dunedin, or any person or persons duly authorised in writing by such secretary, may, during the period hereinafter mentioned, kill red deer of either sex and of any age which in the opinion of the said secretary or of the said authorised persons should be destroyed either by reason of age, deformity, or other physical imperfection.

2. Such deer may be destroyed as aforesaid during the period commencing from the date hereof until the 31st August, 1908.

3. A return shall be furnished to the Minister of Internal Affairs by the said secretary within one calendar month after the expiry of the aforesaid period, and such return shall state the number and sexes of all red deer so destroyed as aforesaid, the dates, and name of the person by whom, and the locality in which, the deer were destroyed.

4. Nothing herein contained shall extend to authorising any person to sell any deer or any portion thereof.

5. Any person who commits a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Paradise Duck protected.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1907, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do by this notification prohibit for one year from the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight, the destruction of the paradise duck (Casarca variegata), a bird indigenous to the said Dominion of New Zealand.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Fixing Form of License to kill Imported Game (other than Deer).

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1907, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulation:—

REGULATION.

The form of license to kill imported game shall be as follows:—

License to kill Imported Game (other than Deer).

, of , having this day paid the sum of £1, is hereby authorised to kill within the Acclimatisation District of , from the day of , 1908, to the day of , 1908, both days inclusive, subject to the provisions of the Animals Protection Act, 1907. All lands notified or set apart under any Act as sanctuaries or reserves for the preservation of imported or native game within the said district are exempted from the operation of this license.

Dated at , this day of , 1908.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the eighth section of “The Justices of the Peace Act Amendment Act, 1888,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

JAMES MANCHESTER TASKER,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under “The Post Office Act, 1900,” at Makotuku, 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 eleventh day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

PLUNKET, Governor.

Arrangements for First Election, &c., Leamington Town District, County of Waipa.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th April, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HUGH FITZGERALD

to be the Returning Officer to conduct the first election of the Commissioners of the Town District of Leamington, County of Waipa, as constituted under “The Town Districts Act, 1881,” and to be the person to prepare a roll of electors for the purposes of the said first election; also to appoint Wednesday, the 13th day of May, 1908, to be the date, and the Public Hall, Cambridge West, to be the place, at which such first election shall be held; and also to appoint Wednesday, the 20th day of May, 1908, at 7 o’clock in the afternoon, to be the time, and the said Public Hall, at Cambridge West, to be the place, at which the first meeting of the said Commissioners shall be held.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th April, 1908.

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

Name. District.
HELENA ALICE SIMPSON Tairua.
PATRICK DALY MAGUIRE Tokomairiro.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.