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the said Dominion, doth hereby validate the said special rolls as though they had been properly deposited and advertised, and doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings relative to both loans shall not be called in question by reason of the irregularity in each case aforesaid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land temporarily reserved for Gravel Purposes in Pukete Parish, Auckland Land District.

ISLINGTON, 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 :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for gravel purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre and 2 perches, more or less, being Allotment 262A, Pukete Parish. Bounded towards the north by a public road 100 links wide, 515 links; towards the east by a public road 100 links wide, 400 links; and towards the south-west by a public road 100 links wide, 660 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less : as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1912/379, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan 8231, red.)

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

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Part of Lake Rotomahana declared a Sanctuary for Imported and Native Game.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the area described in the Schedule hereto shall be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Animals Protection Act, and that no imported game or native game shall be taken or killed within the said area.

SCHEDULE.

A RADIUS of one mile from the end of the Tarawera Wharf, on Lake Rotomahana.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Amended Notification respecting Shooting Season for Imported and Native Game, Rotorua Acclimatization District.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend, in manner hereinafter provided, the notification made under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, dated the twentieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-fourth day of the said month of April :

Now, therefore, I, John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, Baron Islington, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that the following native game—viz., grey duck—may not, from the date of the publication hereof to the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, be killed on Lake Rotomahana, the said lake being part of the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirtieth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th April, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM MCINNES

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

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th April, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR WILLIAM MORRIS

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

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Acting Consul of China, at Wellington, recognized.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th April, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has recognized the appointment by the Consul of China, at Wellington, of

ALFRED DE BATHE BRANDON, Esq.,

as Acting Consul of China, at Wellington, during the absence of the Consul, Chow Si Lauchu.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Members of Public Service Classification Board appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th April, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN STRAUCHON, Esq., Under-Secretary, Department of Lands ;
WILLIAM BARR MONTGOMERY, Esq., Secretary of Customs ; and
GEORGE ALLPORT, Esq., Secretary of Marine,

being permanent heads of Departments of the Public Service, to be members of the Public Service Classification Board, under the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Act, 1908, vice William Charles Kensington, Esq., and Frank Geoffrey Waldegrave, Esq., retired, and Hugh Pollen, Esq., deceased.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Loburn Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1912.

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

GEORGE THOMAS CROFT

to be a member of the Loburn Domain Board, in the place of James Brady, resigned.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.