Feb. 2.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 431

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Nelson Land District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor may declare his intention to change, exchange, or alter the dedication of any public reserve now or hereafter vested in His Majesty or the Governor for any of the purposes named in Class II of the Second Schedule to the said Act, whether the same be granted or not; and in the case of any reserve made under the authority of section three hundred and twenty-one of the Land Act, 1908, if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to change the purpose of such reserve or any part thereof from the purpose or presumed purpose for which it was set apart to any other purpose, or if it shall, in the opinion of the Governor, be expedient to exchange any of the land comprised in such reserve for other land of equal value, to be dedicated to one or more purposes named in the said Class II, the Governor may, by notice gazetted, make such change, exchange, or dedication, as the case may be, and in such notice declare the manner and terms in which the same is intended to be so made:

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, aforesaid, declare my intention to change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described in the second column of the Schedule hereto from that named in the first column of the said Schedule to that named in the third column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

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

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Lands.

Amending Regulations for the Conservation and Use of the Rotorua Sanatorium, Thermal Springs, and Grounds.—Notice No. 1473.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section three hundred and twenty-nine of the Land Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do by this notification revoke the charges for croquet contained in the regulations for the conservation and use of the Rotorua Sanatorium, Thermal Springs, and grounds made on the eleventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and three, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and four; and do hereby substitute the following in lieu thereof, to take effect on and from the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, that is to say:—

For croquet: 6d. for each game; £1 for season ticket.

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

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Tourist and Health Resorts.

Revoking Appointment of Postmaster to take and receive Statutory Declarations under the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the fourteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and ten, Ada Isabella Jeannie Barber, being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Waimumu, was, with other officers, duly authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908: And whereas it is expedient to revoke the said appointment: Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in this behalf enabling me, do hereby notify and declare that the appointment of the said Ada Isabella Jeannie Barber to take and receive statutory declarations as aforesaid is hereby revoked.

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

ISLINGTON, Governor.

Appointment of German Consul at Christchurch recognized provisionally.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th January, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that, in accordance with instructions from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has recognized provisionally the appointment of

KARL JOOSTEN, Esq.,

as German Consul at Christchurch.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th January, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DAVID EDWIN PARTON

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Taihape.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th January, 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.
CAROLINE JULIA BROOKE Rongotea.
JOHN OWENS Taihape.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.