JULY 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2175

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land not required for railway :-

27·l perches, railway land, formerly portion of Section 4. Coloured red on plan.
36 perches, railway land, formerly portion of Section 4. Coloured brown on plan.

Situated in Block XIV, Rimu Survey District.
In the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 37541 (sheet 2), deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Additional Regulations relating to Maori Land Boards, under the Native Land Act, 1909.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of June, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the Native Land Act, 1909, and its amendments, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time by Order in Council make regulations for the purposes specified in the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the said Act, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulations following relating to the confirmation of alienations of land situated in the Chatham Islands.

REGULATIONS.

1. EVERY application to confirm an alienation of land situated in the Chatham Islands shall be made to the Board in the usual form, and shall be lodged with the Registrar at Wellington, and Regulations Nos. 1 to 9 inclusive, and Nos. 22 to 28 inclusive, embodied in the Order in Council dated the 24th day of August, 1914, regulating the practice of Maori Land Boards shall, mutatis mutandis, apply accordingly, subject as hereinafter provided.

2. The Registrar shall as soon as conveniently may be after any such application as aforesaid has been received fix a time and place in the Chatham Islands for the hearing of such application by the Stipendiary Magistrate exercising jurisdiction there, and shall notify the same in the Gazette and Kahiti in accordance with Regulation No. 4 in the said Order in Council, and shall transmit all necessary papers and information to such Magistrate.

3. The Magistrate may, if he thinks fit, by notice in writing posted addressed to the parties, before the date fixed for hearing, adjourn such hearing to such other time or place in the Chatham Islands as may be convenient, and shall, in addition, have all the powers of adjournment and other powers of the Board in relation thereto.

4. On the hearing of any application as aforesaid the Magistrate may proceed to determine the same in the same manner and with the same powers as the Board.

5. The Magistrate may receive such evidence of the value of the property the subject-matter of the application as he may think fit.

6. A certificate of confirmation by the Magistrate may be in the following form:-

At a sitting held at in the Chatham Islands on the day of 19 , I, Stipendiary Magistrate exercising jurisdiction in the Chatham Islands, acting

in pursuance of section 89 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1913, and, after due inquiry, being satisfied that the alienation purporting to be effected by the within-written instrument has been effected in all respects in accordance with the law in force at the time of the execution thereof, and as to all matters upon which a Maori Land Board is by law required to be satisfied on an application for confirmation, do hereby confirm the alienation (so far as it affects the shares of those persons whose names are written in the Schedule hereto) purporting to be effected by the within-written instrument.

SCHEDULE.

Given under my hand this day of ,19 .

..............

Stipendiary Magistrate,
Chatham Islands.

7. When the Magistrate shall have determined any application for confirmation he shall transmit all documents received by him to the Registrar at Wellington.

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

Abolishing an Office from and adding an Office to the Administrative Division of the Public Service, under the Public Service Act, 1912.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of June, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection two of section eighteen of the Public Service Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Public Service Commissioner may, whenever it appears advantageous to the Public Service so to do, certify to the Governor that it is expedient to add any office to or to abolish any office in the Administrative Division of the Public Service of New Zealand, and the Governor in Council may, upon such certificate, add any office to the Administrative Division or abolish any office therein:

And whereas the Public Service Commissioner has certified to the Governor that it is expedient to abolish the office of one “Assistant Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department,” and to add the office of “First Assistant Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department”:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby abolish the office of one “Assistant Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department,” from the Administrative Division of the Public Service of New Zealand, and doth further hereby add the office of “First Assistant Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department,” to the said Administrative Division.

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

Abolishing an Office from and adding an Office to the Administrative Division of the Public Service, under the Public Service Act, 1912.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of June, 1915.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by subsection two of section eighteen of the Public Service Act, 1912, it is enacted that the Public Service Commissioner may, whenever it appears advantageous to the Public Service so to do, certify to the Governor that it is expedient to add any office to or to abolish any office in the Administrative Division of the Public Service of New Zealand, and the Governor in Council may, upon such certificate, add any office to the Administrative Division or abolish any office therein:

And whereas the Public Service Commissioner has certified to the Governor that it is expedient to abolish the office of “Inspector-General of Schools,” and to add the office of “Director of Education”: