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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 160

Trustees for the Hanmer Plains Public Cemetery appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section four of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

DAVID MANSON,
DAVID STEWART, and
EDWARD HENRY WHITMORE

to be trustees for the maintenance and care of the Hanmer Plains Public Cemetery, in the place of Edwin Richard Turton and William John Thomas, who have left the district, and John Hardy Mead, resigned, to act in conjunction with Walter George Morrison and John Dodds, previously appointed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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

Trustee for the Moa Flat Public Cemetery appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section four of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

WILLIAM CARL NICHOLSON

to be a trustee, in the place of Charles Samuel George Nicholson, resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Moa Flat Public Cemetery, in conjunction with Charles Nicholson, John Siliars, Henry Thompson, Alexander Gibson, and Robert Ashley Westcott, previously appointed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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

Trustee for the Sandon Public Cemetery appointed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by section four of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

HENRY JOHN FAGAN

to be a trustee, in the place of James Alexander Bailey, who has resigned, to provide for the maintenance and care of the Sandon Public Cemetery, in conjunction with George Williams, William John Phillips, Laurie Chesney Ellerm, and John Henry Shore Perrett, previously appointed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this eleventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

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

Land in Block XIII, Hautapu Survey District, Wellington Land District, set apart for a Rifle Range.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the eighty-eighth section of the Defence Act, 1909, it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may from time to time set apart any Crown land for permanent training-grounds, or for rifle or artillery practice, or for the erection of drill-sheds or other buildings necessary for military purposes, or for the erection of butts, ranges, and other accommodation for the use of the Defence Forces :

And whereas the Crown land described in the Schedule hereto is required for the purpose of a rifle range :

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby set apart the Crown land described in the Schedule hereto for a rifle range.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 41 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Section 12, Block XIII, Hautapu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west and north-east generally by Rifle Range Road, 153·3 links, and by part of Section 11, 167·1 and 3532·9 links; towards the south-east generally by a river-bank reserve along the Rangitikei River; and towards the south-west by other part of Section 11, 3564·8 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/750, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this fifteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

GEORGE WALTER BROWN

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Balfour, 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 October, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

Consul-General of Denmark for Australia and New Zealand appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th October, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King’s Exequatur empowering

OTTO WADSTED, Esq.,

to act as Consul-General of Denmark for Australia and New Zealand has received His Majesty’s signature.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

Appointment of Consular Agent of France at Apia, Samoa, recognized.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th October, 1917.

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

CECIL V. ALLOM

as Consular Agent of France at Apia, Samoa.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Returning Officer, County of Marlborough, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th October, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in terms of section 67 (2) of the Counties Act, 1908, to appoint

EDWARD JOHN HARVEY

to be Returning Officer for the purpose of conducting the triennial election of members of the County Council of the County of Marlborough.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.