APRIL 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1195

same month, declaring a special shooting season for imported and native game in the Otago Acclimatization District:

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby restrict the number of Californian quail that may be killed by any one person in any one day to not more than forty head in all, in lieu of twenty-five head as stated in the Warrant of the seventh April, which said Warrant is hereby amended accordingly.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a Reserve in the Town of Foxton, Wellington 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 reserve described in the Schedule hereto from a site for a post-office and telegraph-station to a reserve for railway purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Section 583, Town of Foxton. Bounded towards the north by Government reserve, 200 links; towards the east by Main Street, 125 links; towards the south by a closed street, 200 links; and towards the west by Government reserve, 125 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. VI/3 (35), deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Medical Officer to H.M. Prison resigned.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1916.

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

ETHEL ADELAIDE SANDS, L.R.C.P. Edin., &c.,

of her appointment as Medical Officer to His Majesty’s Prison at Addington, as from 31st March, 1916.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Justice.

Inspector of Sea Fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th April, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by subsection (1) of section 4 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, has appointed

ROBERT CUTHBERT BRIEN,

of New Brighton, Police Constable, to be an Inspector of Sea Fishing under the above-mentioned Act.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Marine.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1916.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:

Name. District.
THOMAS MITCHELL .. Winton.
WILLIAM JAMES DOUGLAS CURRIE .. Granity.
MATILDA CHRISTINA CUTTLE .. Paparoa.
FRANCIS STANLEY SCHAAB .. Geraldine.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Inspector for the Purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 17th April, 1916.

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

WILLIAM JOHN WALTER

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of April, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of a Road in Patriarch Survey District, Marlborough Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 213 of the Land Act, 1908, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 3rd day of March, 1916, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 9th day of November, 1915.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land taken:

A. R. P. Portion of
1 1 8 Small-grazing Run No. 140; Block XVI.
18 0 32 "
15 2 0 " Block XV.

Situated in Patriarch Survey District.

In the Marlborough Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 16/232, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Dated this 22nd day of April, 1916.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Right-of-way in Favour of Lucy Frances Warren and Anna Lydia Williams over Railway Land assented to.

In the matter of the Public Works Act, 1908; and in the matter of a grant of a right-of-way to Lucy Frances Warren, wife of Thomas Corry Warren, of Pukehou, and of Anna Lydia Williams, spinster, of Te Aute, all of Hawke’s Bay, as part compensation for land taken for railway purposes.

WHEREAS by Proclamation published in the New Zealand Gazettes No. 21, of 12th March, 1914, page 902, and No. 8, of 21st January, 1915, page 268, and deposited in the District Land Registration Office at Napier