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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

Notice exempting Crown Lands from the Operation of the Mining Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the Mining Act, 1908, and of every other power and authority enabling me in that behalf, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby exempt the lands referred to and described in the Schedule hereto from the operation of the Mining Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing 85,800 acres, more or less, being the whole of Lillburn and parts of Alton and Hauroto Districts, and bounded as follows: Commencing at the north-west corner of Block II, Alton District; thence due west along the south boundaries of Lillburn and Hauroto Districts to the south-east corner of the Sounds National Park; thence north along the eastern boundary of the Sounds National Park aforesaid to the north boundary of the said Hauroto District; thence east along the north boundaries of Hauroto and Lillburn Districts aforesaid to the Waiau River; thence southerly along the right bank of the said Waiau River to a point in line with the south-west boundary of Section 3A, Block III, Alton District aforesaid; thence to and along the said south-west boundary and that boundary continued to the south-east boundary of Section 31 of the said Block III; thence north-easterly along the aforesaid boundary and that boundary continued to the south-west corner of Block II of the said Alton District; thence northerly along the western boundary of the said Block II to the commencing-point: including the island containing Section 16, Block I, Lillburn District.

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

W. FRASER,
Minister of Mines.

Postmaster 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

JAMES MAXWELL,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Mangatoki, 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 eleventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Minister of Immigration appointed.

Private Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 16th August, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The Hon. Sir FRANCIS HENRY DILLON BELL, K.C.M.G., K.C.,

to be Minister of Immigration, in place of the Hon. Josiah Alfred Hanan, who has resigned that office.

By Command.

GAVIN M. HAMILTON,
Private Secretary.

Officer for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 13th August, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

ALEXANDER PEARSON,

of Kye burn, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Member of South Orari River Board appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th August, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM QUIRK

to be a member of the South Orari River Board, in terms of subsection (2) of section 6 of the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Trustees of Sefton-Ashley Drainage District appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th August, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased, in terms of section 10 of the Land Drainage Act, 1908, to appoint

FREDRICK LANG and
GEORGE HERBERT MINTON

to be Trustees of the Sefton-Ashley Drainage District.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Members of Wanaka Islands Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th August, 1915.

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

THOMAS MCKENZIE and
JAMES MACPHERSON, M.B.,

to be members of the Wanaka Islands Domain Board, in place of George Patterson and the Rev. James Henry Thomson, who have resigned.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 18th August, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM JAMES VERNON

to be an Inspector of Factories under the Factories Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of June, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Inspectors of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 11th August, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable JAMES O'HALLORAN

to be an Inspector under the Factories Act, 1908. The appointment is dated the 10th day of August, 1915.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Labour.

Justices of the Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 14th August, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignations by

FRANK FROUDE GERVIS CRESPIN, Esq., of Mount Eden, Auckland; and
ANDREW FRASER, Esq., of Glenorchy,

of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

A. L. HERDMAN,
Minister of Justice.