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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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about 180 acres grass, flax, and rough feed; balance heavy mixed forest. Soil of good quality, on limestone formation; well watered by Waikorea Stream.

Section 8, Block II, Whaingaroa Survey District.—Altitude, 30 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Broken land, about 25 acres grass and flax, balance heavy mixed forest. Soil of good quality, on limestone formation; well watered by Waikorea Stream.

Section 9, Block II, Whaingaroa Survey District.—Altitude, 30 ft. to 625 ft. above sea-level. Broken forest country. Soil of good quality, on limestone formation; well watered by Waikorea Stream.

The forest on these sections is principally tawa, with a little rimu, totara, and puriri, and heavy undergrowth of kiekie, supplejack, &c. The sections are situated from 25 to 28½ miles from Ngaruawahia—by dray-road for 22 miles, and road partly formed and available for wheel traffic for another 3 miles.

Section 2, Block XIV, Awaroa Survey District.—Altitude, 300 ft. to 450 ft. above sea-level. Rough fern-country, with about 100 acres heavy mixed forest. Soil of rather inferior quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by streams.

Section 3, Block XIV, Awaroa Survey District.—Altitude, 300 ft. to 500 ft. above sea-level. Broken land, about three-fourths fern and manuka, balance heavy mixed forest. Soil of rather inferior quality, on sandstone formation; well watered by streams.

The forest on these sections is principally tawa, with a little rimu, totara, puriri, &c., and heavy undergrowth of kiekie, supplejack, and mangemange. Situated twenty miles from Rangiriri, twenty-three miles from Huntly, and nine miles from Awaroa Landing, by road formed to within two miles of the sections.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Polling-places for Christchurch North Electoral District appointed.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Legislature Act, 1908, and its amendments, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing polling-places in the Electoral District of Christchurch North, and do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be polling-places for the said Electoral District of Christchurch North.

SCHEDULE.

The Old Provincial Council Chambers (principal).
Knox School, Bealey Avenue.
The Methodist School, Rugby Street, Papanui Road.
The Institute, Knightstown.
The Primitive Methodist School, Edgeware Road, Madras Street.
The School, Leinster Road.
The Tolerton Hall, McFadden’s Road.
Marquee on vacant section at corner of Manchester Street and Bealey Avenue.
Mr. L. Freeman’s House, Innes Road.
Mr. G. W. Mummery’s Workshop, Merivale Lane.
Mr. W. E. Agar’s Store, 132 Bealey Street.
Mr. J. Yeatman’s House, 82 Caledonian Road.
Mr. Lord’s Store, Cranford Street.

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

J. CARROLL,
For Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

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.

THOMAS BENJAMIN SALMON .. .. Hawera.
ALBERT JOHN WILKINS JOHNSTON .. .. Hunterville.
JAMES GRAY STEELE .. .. Kaihu.
HENRY GEORGE EHU CLIFFORD .. .. Mercer.
ELIZABETH MARY RUSSELL .. .. Paparoa.
PERCY ALFRED FABIAN.. .. Riverlea.

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

ISLINGTON, Governor.

Postmaster 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

HENRY WALKER DAWSON,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Onehunga, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

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

ISLINGTON, Governor.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 7th August, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons 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.
ARTHUR STUART PALMER .. .. Mount Grey.
ISAAC WILLIAM TURNER .. .. Oxford.
ELIZABETH KENNY STEWART .. .. Ellesmere.
JOHN ALBERT YOUNG .. .. Porangahau.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of South Malvern Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 7th August, 1911.

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

HARRY LEVICK

to be a member of the South Malvern Domain Board, in the place of Patrick Kyne.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Land Transfer and Deeds Registration Officers appointed.

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 4th August, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

GEORGE GREVILLE BRIDGES

to be Registrar-General of Land for the Dominion of New Zealand, also District Land Registrar and Registrar of Deeds for the Land and Deeds Registration District of Wellington, as from the 1st day of July, 1911; and

JAMES JOSEPH LEANDER BURKE

to be Examiner of Titles for the Land Registration District of Wellington, as from the 1st day of July, 1911.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Stamp Duties.