3698
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 124

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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 the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth sections of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

Cox, Violet Selina . . . Fortrose.
Purdie, William . . . Limestone

As witness my hand this second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

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

LIVERPOOL, 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 for which such reserve 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 of the 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, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon 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 Part II of the Schedule hereto from that named in Part I of the said Schedule to that named in Part III of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

PART I.

Description and Purpose of Original Reserve.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing 2,560 acres, more or less, around and including the hot springs on the Hanmer Plain, near Jollie’s Pass, forming a parallelogram at the base of the hills bounding the plain on the north. Reserved for public purposes in Nelson Provincial Gazette No. 2, of the 11th February, 1860, page 6.

PART II.

Description of Portion of Reserve the Purpose of which it is intended to Change.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 32 perches, more or less, and being Section 5, Block II, Hanmer Springs Township, bounded as follows: On the north-east by Section 4, Block II, of the said township, 300 links; on the south-east by Sections 8 and 14 of the said block, 150 links; on the south-west by Section 6 of the said block, 300 links; and on the north-west by Amuri Road, 150 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/1 (86), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

PART III.

Intended Purpose.

Site for a fire-brigade station.

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

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

Inspector of Weights and Measures, County of Waitaki, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

THOMAS GEORGE FIELDER

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures, under the Weights and Measures Act, 1908, for the Counties of Waitaki and Waihemo and the Boroughs of Oamaru and Palmerston, vice Sergeant McGrath, retired.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Makotuku Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 1st November, 1915.

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

PATRICK VAUGHAN

to be a member of the Makotuku Domain Board, in place of George Drew, deceased.

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

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st November, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALFRED ERNEST REYNOLDS

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Port Chalmers, vice S. R. McDonald.

W. H. HERRIES,
For Minister of Justice.

Native Interpreters appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 28th October, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to authorize

HAMUERA NGARIMA, of Whareponga, Waipiro Bay,
TE TAKINGA ARTHUR GRACE, of Taupo, and
ERNEST EDWARD DAIN HOOPER, of Gisborne,

to act as licensed Native Interpreters of the First Grade; and

WAITARINGA MAPU, of Dannevirke,
MICHAEL ROTOHIKO JONES, of Te Kuiti, and
TAKAWE NGOTANA, of Auckland,

to act as licensed Native Interpreters of the Second Grade, under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1909, and the regulations made thereunder.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

Head Teacher, Tufukia School, Niue, appointed.

Cook Islands Administration Department,
Wellington, 29th October, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN CROUCHLEY MURRAY EVISON, Esq.,

to be Head Teacher at the Tufukia School, Island of Niue, as from the 1st day of October, 1915.

M. POMARE,
Minister in Charge, Cook Islands Administration.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1915.

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

JOHN DENIS NOBLE BEASLEY

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Factories Act, 1908, at Rotorua, as from the 1st day of November, 1915.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.