Nov. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3577

2. The said lands may be purchased for cash, or be selected for occupation with right of purchase, or on renewable lease, subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Act, 1915, and amendments.

3. After the first half-year's rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of three years shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board thinks fit.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMEA COUNTY.—HOPE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Light-bush Land.

(Exempt from Rent for Two Years.)

SECTION 8, Block VII: Area, 1,047 acres. Capital value, £1,370. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £34 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £27 8s.

Altitude, from about 1,400 ft. to 1,900 ft. About 80 acres good ploughable ground, with heavy clay soil; balance easy slopes and gentle spurs, a number of which could be ploughed for some distance up. Good sheep-country. Bush chiefly brown and red birch, with a few rimu; underscrub very dense in main valley; horopito, puka, and birch scrub in gullies. Access by proposed road up Cow Creek. Distance about three miles from Glenhope. Well watered by permanent streams. Contains several homestead-sites.

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

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

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Amended Regulations under the Mining Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Mining Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby revoke regulation seventy-six of the regulations made under the said Act on the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the Gazette of the fifth day of August then instant, and, in exercise of the like powers, doth hereby make the regulations set forth hereunder; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force from the date of the gazetting thereof.

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REGULATIONS.

76. If the instrument deposited for registration is a transfer of a mining privilege or of any interest therein, or of any part thereof, then the license or document of title shall be produced to the Registrar, who, when registering such instrument, shall, provided all arrears of rent have been paid, endorse on such license or document a memorial under his hand setting forth the registered number of such instrument, its nature (e.g. “transfer by way of sale,” “mortgage,” or as the case may be), the office of registration, the names of the parties, and the precise time of registration. In the case of a transfer of any surveyed portion of any surveyed claim the following course shall be pursued: The Registrar shall, as provided in the regulations, register such transfer, and shall cancel the plan on the special-claim license as to the transferred portion of such claim, and shall issue a new license for such transferred portion (the cost of putting plans thereon to be paid by the transferor), and shall also deliver to the transferor the license for the untransferred balance.

106A. The holder of such mining privilege shall be entitled to do such cutting of timber, if such holder shall so desire, either on wages or by a contract for the cutting and delivery of such timber, as such holder may require for any of the purposes aforesaid; provided, however, that in the latter case the contractor or contractors shall be employed solely by the holder of such mining privilege; and provided, moreover, that for each separate contract the holder of the mining privilege shall obtain a warrant under Regulation 111, and shall pay the fees imposed by Regulation 112.

127r. When, in the opinion of the Inspector of Mines, timbering by sets is necessary, then a subsidy on the cost of timber, in no case exceeding 2s. per foot of driving or one-half the cost of such timber placed in position, may be paid. No subsidy, however, shall be paid unless the Inspector certifies that the timbering has been satisfactorily done and is of a substantial character.

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

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Mines.

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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

JESSE THOMAS REDMOND,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Whangamomona, 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 November, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor

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Appointment of Acting Consul for the Republic of China at Wellington recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has recognized provisionally the appointment by the Consul for the Republic of China at Wellington of

YUE HENRY JACKSON, Esq.,

as Acting Consul for the Republic of China at Wellington during the absence of the Consul, Mr. Kwei Chih.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

[NOTE.—The above notice is published in substitution for that published on page 3509 of the New Zealand Gazette No. 126, of the 9th November, 1916.]

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Appointment of Consul of Peru at Auckland recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th November, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that, in accordance with instructions from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has recognized provisionally, pending the receipt of the King’s Exequatur, the appointment of

G. H. BAKER, Esq.,

as Consul of Peru at Auckland.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th November, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 70 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

FRANCIS CLAUDE FORSTER STOREY,

of Waiterimu, Ohinewai, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.