Sept. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3625

the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby vest in the Corporation of the Borough of Alexandra, as a municipal endowment, without power of sale, the land described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 16 acres 3 roods 22 perches, more or less, being Block XL, Town of Alexandra. Bounded towards the north-east generally by a public road from the easternmost corner of Section No. 3, Block XXXIV, to Blaskett Street; thence by that street for a distance of 1991·8 links; thence towards the south-east generally by lines bearing 239° 56′, distance 341·4 links, bearing 302° 5′, distance 53·7 links, bearing 212° 22′, distance 102·6 links, and bearing 239° 56′, distance 77·1 links; thence towards the south-west by lines bearing 294° 6′, distance 606·8 links, bearing 328° 21′, distance 190·2 links, bearing 333° 37′ 30″, distance 326·2 links, bearing 323° 9′ 30″, distance 880·9 links, and bearing 312° 47′, distance 673·2 links; and towards the north-west by a line bearing 232° 36′, distance 661·4 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid bearings and linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1913/1055, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon bordered red: excepting two proposed new roads coloured blue on the said plan.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

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Fixing the Price at which the Tauranga Harbour Board may acquire the Victoria and Town Wharves at Tauranga.

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LIVERPOOL, Governor.

WHEREAS by section seven of the Tauranga Harbour Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Tauranga Harbour Board may acquire, amongst other things, all the wharves and jetties and appurtenances thereto within Tauranga Harbour (excepting railway wharves) then under the control of any local body at such price as might be agreed upon by the Board and the local body under whose control the wharves then were, or in the event of no agreement being come to within three months after the passing of the said Act, then at a price to be fixed by the Governor after making such inquiry as he deems necessary:

And whereas at the time of the passing of the said Act the wharves in Tauranga Harbour, known as the Victoria Wharf and the Town Wharf, were under the control of the Tauranga Borough Council:

And whereas no price at which they might be acquired by the Tauranga Harbour Board was agreed to within three months after the passing of the said Act:

And whereas after due inquiry it is considered that the amount hereinafter set forth should be the price at which the said Board might acquire the before-mentioned wharves:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby fix the price at which the Tauranga Harbour Board may acquire the before-mentioned wharves from the Tauranga Borough Council to be as follows, namely:—

For the Victoria wharf, three hundred and twenty-five pounds; and for the Town wharf, five thousand five hundred and ninety-two pounds sixteen shillings; together with either interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, up to the date of payment of the amounts fixed for the wharves, or payment to the Tauranga Borough Council of the amount of revenue from the wharves collected by the Tauranga Harbour Board since that date, less the cost of collection.

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

F. M. B. FISHER.

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Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

ADA LOUISE GILPIN,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Matakohe, 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 seventeenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

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Inspector of Weights and Measures for the Borough of Campbelltown, &c., appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th September, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM PRYCE

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under the Weights and Measures Act, 1908, for the Boroughs of Campbelltown, Gore, Invercargill, Mataura, South Invercargill, Winton, and Riverton, and the Counties of Southland, Wallace, Fiord, and Stewart Island, during the absence from New Zealand as a member of the Expeditionary Force of George Dauvers Sutton, Inspector of Weights and Measures for the said districts.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Inspector of Weights and Measures for the County of Bruce, &c., appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th September, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable HENRY MARTIN

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under the Weights and Measures Act, 1908, for the Counties of Bruce and Clutha, and for the Boroughs of Milton, Balclutha, and Kaitangata, vice Constable J. Fox.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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Marshalls of Supreme Court appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 17th September, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WALTER ARNOLD HAWKINS and
ARTHUR HARRY HOLMES

to be Marshalls of the Supreme Court at Wellington and Christchurch respectively, in respect of its jurisdiction as a Colonial Court of Admiralty.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

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Members of Licensing Committee appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th September, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN EDWARD LANE and
PENROSE JOHN BARCROFT

to be members of the Licensing Committee for the District of Hawke’s Bay, vice W. H. Lane, deceased, and B. C. McCormick, resigned.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

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Medical Officer, H.M. Prison, appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th September, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN SLINGSBY REEKIE, Esq., M.D., Ch.M.,

to be Medical Officer to His Majesty’s Prison at Waikeria, Te Awamutu, on and from the 1st October, 1914.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.