Nov. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3697

the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the national endowment lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twentieth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—WAITAKI COUNTY.—BENMORE SURVEY DISTRICT.

First-class Land.

SECTION 11, Block I: Area, 11 acres 2 roods 20 perches; capital value, £15; half-yearly rent, 6s.
Section 12, Block I: Area, 11 acres 2 roods 28 perches; capital value, £15; half-yearly rent, 6s.
Section 13, Block I: Area, 11 acres 2 roods 29 perches; capital value, £15; half-yearly rent, 6s.
Section 14, Block I: Area, 11 acres 3 roods 20 perches; capital value, £15; half-yearly rent, 6s.

Second-class Land.

Section 15, Block I: Area, 68 acres 2 roods 31 perches; capital value, £45; half-yearly rent, 18s.
Section 16, Block I: Area, 84 acres 1 rood 9 perches; capital value, £55; half-yearly rent, £1 2s.

Sections 11, 12, 13, and 14 are level, and Sections 15 and 16 are on a ridge. A water-race from Omarama River has been cut through Section 11, and the other sections could be connected with the race. Sections 15 and 16 afford very fair grazing for stock, but very little land on these sections could be cultivated. Light soil, on a shingle subsoil. Situated quite close to Omarama Post and Telephone Office, and about thirty-six miles from Kurow Railway-station by a good road.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands

Trustees for the Rotongaro Public Cemetery appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fourth section of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in Part I of the Schedule hereto to have the control and management of the public cemetery specified in Part II of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Names of Trustees.

FREDERICK FOSTER CAPSTICK.
JOHN FURNISS.
FRANK MORRIS LEEK.
JOSEPH COMINS.
GEORGE FARMER.

PART II.

Name of Public Cemetery and Description of Land.

ROTONGARO.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 5 acres, more or less, being Section 8, Block X, Rangiriri Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Section 7, Block X, Rangiriri Survey District, 1314·6 links; towards the south generally by a public road 100 links wide, 277, 472·9, and 205 links; and towards the west by a public road 100 links wide, 1122 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 2/102, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan 15410, blue.)

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

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands

Amendments made to the Regulations under the Public Service Act, 1912.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred on him by the Public Service Act, 1912 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor in Council, doth hereby, in respect of the regulations affecting any officer or other person employed as a workman in the Public Works Department (made under the said Act on the third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen) make the amendments shown in the Schedule hereto. Such amendments shall have effect from and after the date of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATION 28 is hereby amended by deleting all words from “Sick-leave” in the first line down to “granted” in the second line, and substituting in lieu thereof the words “Sick-leave to permanent workmen may be granted by the Permanent Head.”

Regulation 40 is hereby amended by adding the word “permanent” before the word “workmen” in the first line.

As witness my hand this twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, approves of the foregoing regulations.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Approved in Council this first day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

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