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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 71

Nos. 3735 and 3735A (in red), and forming parts of Rural Sections 33742, 886, 485, 522, 6390, 30503, and 818, situated in Block III, Halswell Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the north-eastern corner of Rural Section 818; thence bounded on the eastward by right lines aggregating 4403·1 links; on the south by right lines aggregating 5844·8 links; on the west by right lines aggregating 4173·9 links; and on the north-east by a road-line forming part of northern boundary of Rural Section 30503, a distance of 710 links, to the point of commencement: save and except therefrom a small piece of road on the western boundary of Rural Section 818: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked L. and S. 54910/71, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered green and red.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 44 acres 1 rood 1 perch, more or less, being Reserve No. 2735A (in red), and forming parts of Rural Sections 33742, 485, 522, 6390, 30503, and 818, situated in Block III, Halswell Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the north-eastern corner of Rural Section 818; thence bounded on the eastward by right lines aggregating 4403·1 links; on the south by right lines aggregating 5844·8 links; on the west by right lines aggregating 4173·9 links; and on the north-east by a road-line forming part of northern boundary of Rural Section 30503, a distance of 710 links, to the point of commencement: save and except therefrom the portion proclaimed as a scenic reserve in Gazette No. 82, of the 27th September, 1906, containing 52 acres 2 roods 39 perches, and a small piece of road on the western boundary of Rural Section 818: as the same is delineated upon the plan marked L. and S. 54910/71, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

High Commissioner for New Zealand appointed.

Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 29th August, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to appoint

THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM HALL-JONES, K.C.M.G.,
to be the High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom under and for the purposes of the High Commissioner Act, 1908. To hold the said office from 1st September, 1911, until 31st December, 1911.

J. G. WARD,
Prime Minister.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th August, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

LESLIE GAVIN CAMPBELL BARTRUM PACKARD
to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Takaka.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st September, 1911.

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.
GEORGE WILLIAM HAZLETON .. Porangahau.
STANLEY ERNEST HARROP .. Wairau.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Chief Draughtsman, New Plymouth, appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 1st September, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY JAMES LOWE
to be Chief Draughtsman in the District Lands Office, New Plymouth, as from the 1st day of September, 1911.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Chief Computer and Inspecting Surveyor appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 1st September, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to promote and appoint

REGINALD PALMER GREVILLE
to be Chief Computer and Inspecting Surveyor in the District Lands Office, Wellington, as from the 1st day of September, 1911.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor, Marlborough, appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM HENRY SKINNER
to be Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for the Land District of Marlborough, as from the 1st day of September, 1911, in the place of Frank Stephenson Smith, who has retired.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Conservator of State Forests, Marlborough, appointed.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM HENRY SKINNER
to be Conservator of State Forests for the Land District of Marlborough, as from the 1st day of September, 1911, in the place of Frank Stephenson Smith, who has retired.

J. G. WARD,
Commissioner of State Forests.

Appointing Official Member of Wairoa District Maori Council under the Maori Councils Act, 1900.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 1st September, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant JAMES COUGHLAN GRIFFITHS,
of Dargaville, to be official member of the Wairoa District Maori Council under the provisions of the Maori Councils Act, 1900, vice Samuel Thompson, retired.

J. CARROLL,
Native Minister.

Appointment of a Cadet.

Land and Income-tax Department,
Wellington, 19th August, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

HENRY CRANSTON GROUT
as a Cadet in the Land and Income-tax Department, as from the 1st day of August, 1911.

J. A. MILLAR.