Oct. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2631

Lands permanently reserved.

PLUNKET, Governor.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of “The Land Act, 1908,” 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:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazettes specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

• Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th October, 1909.

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 CHARLES NIXON .. Cambridge.
CLEMENT LAURENCE DEVEREUX .. Ellesmere.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Consul of Japan, at Wellington, appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th October, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King’s Exequatur empowering

THOMAS YOUNG, Esq.,

to act as Consul of Japan, at Wellington, has received His Majesty’s signature.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Weedon Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 18th October, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 41 of “The Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908,” been pleased to appoint

LAURENCE BERNARD MANION

to be a member of the Weedon Domain Board, in the place of Patrick Manion, deceased.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Inspector and Officer under “The Fisheries Act, 1908,” appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 12th October, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by “The Fisheries Act, 1908,” appointed

HERBERT STANLEY ROSE,

of the Lower Hutt, to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing under the provisions of Part I, and to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

J. A. MILLAR.