Jan. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 271

SCHEDULE.
NORTHCOTE SCENIC RESERVE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 23 acres 3 roods 39 perches, more or less, being Section No. 8, Block XII, Waitemata Survey District (Parish of Takapuna). Bounded towards the north-west by Lots 4, 3, 2, and 1 of Original Allotment 9 of the Parish of Takapuna, 1452 links; towards the north-east by Allotment 12 and Lot 25 of Original Allotment 11 of the aforesaid parish, 844·7 and 852·5 links; towards the south-east by Lots 29 and 30 and other parts of Original Allotment 7 of the aforesaid parish, 1447·6 links; and towards the south-west by Lot 4 of Original Allotment 4, and Lot 3 of Original Allotment 6, of the aforesaid parish, 1618 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 52698/44, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Otago Land District for other Land.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by section eleven of the Scenery Preservation Amendment Act, 1910, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he deems it expedient for the purposes of scenery-preservation, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land which in his opinion is of approximately equal value, and that such exchange may be made under the provisions of section 142 of the Land Act, 1908:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto for the land described in the second column of the said Schedule, and the owner of the land described in the second column of the said Schedule has agreed to such exchange:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the first column of the Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the area of land described in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 18 acres 1 rood 35 poles, more or less, being Section 48, Block I, Clarendon Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section 51, towards the east by Section 46, towards the south-west by Section 65, and towards the north-west by a public road: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 315/55, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green. | All that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 19 acres 3 roods 7·5 poles, more or less, being Section 66, Block I, Clarendon Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section 27 (scenic reserve), towards the south-east by Section 28, towards the south-west by Section 67, and towards the north-west by a public road: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 315/55, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered brown. |

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

MATHERS WILLIAM LETTS .. .. Waiotemarama.
JAMES ROBERTSON .. .. Awatuna East.
FRANK JUDSON STAPLES .. .. Newton.

As witness my hand, this twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1911.

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

Name. District.
HENRY SCOTT .. .. Chatham Islands.
HENRY ERNEST GILBERT .. .. Waitara.
ALEXANDER KLEE .. .. Whangamomona.
ALBERT BENNER .. .. Patea.
JOHN REDMOND .. .. Waverley.
CHARLES EDMUND HYLTON .. .. Wanganui.
HENRY DEWEY LOWRY .. .. Pleasant Point.
JAMES JOHN FRANCE .. .. Mount Cook.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Election of a Member of Auckland Fire Board by Fire Insurance Companies.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th January, 1911.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Auckland Fire Board by fire insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules made under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Auckland Fire Board :

Thomas Samuel Jacka, vice A. S. Russell, resigned.

Cadet appointed in Department of Lands.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 20th January, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CLIFFORD HENRY WRIGHT

to be a Clerical Cadet in the Department of Lands, as from the 11th day of October, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Cadet appointed in Department of Lands.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 20th January, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

REUBEN JAMES CORNWELL

to be a Clerical Cadet in the Department of Lands, as from the 11th day of October, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.