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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 84

Opening Settlement Land in Hawke's Bay Land District for Selection.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Thursday, the eighth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT.—WAIRoa COUNTY.—TONGOIO SURVEY DISTRICT.—TONGOIO SETTLEMENT.

Second-class Land.

SECTION 9, Block I: Area, 867 acres and 10 perches; rent per acre per annum (approximate), 4s.; half-yearly rent, £36 12s. 6d.

Hilly pastoral land, from 80 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level; well watered. Fair soil, on limestone formation. Open land, covered with a fair sole of grass, but places have gone back to native pasture and require to be resown. There are patches of manuka and other scrub, and the section is more or less infested with blackberry. Distant about a mile and a half from Tongoio School and post-office, and fifteen miles and a half from Napier.

The improvements included in the capital value of the land consist of fencing on part western boundary and near road on the northern boundary, the whole valued at £85 2s.

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

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Member of Hinds No. 2 Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th August, 1914.

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

STANLEY WATSON

to be a member of the Hinds No. 2 Domain Board, in the place of William Knox Rennie, deceased.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands

Member of Ellesmere Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th August, 1914.

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

HENRY NEAVE

to be a member of the Ellesmere Domain Board, in the place of Leonard Thomas Hartnell, resigned.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Appointment of a Person to sue for Penalties under the Land and Income Assessment Act.

Land and Income Tax Department,
Wellington, 4th August, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALBERT EDWARD FOWLER, Esq.,

Deputy Commissioner of Taxes, to be a person upon whose information any penalty imposed under the Land and Income Assessment Act, 1908, shall be recoverable.

JAMES ALLEN.

Clerk of Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 12th August, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable FRANCIS JOB DOAK

to be Clerk of the Magistrates' Court at Half-moon Bay, on and from the 29th day of July, 1914, vice Constable J. M. Irwin, retired.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 7th August, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN HENRY HALL

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Gisborne, vice A. Dewing, deceased.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 8th August, 1914.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed 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.
EDWINA SHIELDS .. Sanson.
ROBERT MARTIN .. .. Te Kuiti.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 11th August, 1914.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:

WILLIAM ROBERT HURWORTH FREE

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages for the District of Matamata, as from the 18th July, 1914.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Gaoler appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 12th August, 1914.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:

MICHAEL HAWKINS

to be Gaoler at H.M. Prison, Wellington, as from the 1st April, 1914, vice J. C. Scanlon, transferred.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, and Resignations of Officers of the Staff and Territorial Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 6th August, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, transfers, and resignations of the undermentioned officers of the Staff and Territorial Force:

New Zealand Staff Corps.

The undermentioned to be Lieutenants. Dated 14th August, 1914:

2nd Lieutenant (temporary Lieutenant) Thomas Martin Wilkes.
2nd Lieutenant (temporary Lieutenant) Robert Gleadow Purdy.
2nd Lieutenant William Wallace Allison Burn.