Jan. 18.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the area of land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF CROWN LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 14 acres 1 rood 37 perches, more or less, being Section 32, Block XII, Kaeo Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Old Land Claim 803, 373·3 links; towards the east by Section 14, Block XII, Kaeo Survey District, 3880 links; towards the south by Section 10, Block XII aforesaid, 371·6 links; and towards the west by Section 30, Block XII aforesaid, 3915·4 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/1672, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 14 acres 1 rood 37 perches, more or less, being Lot 1 of Section 14, Block XII, Kaeo Survey District. Bounded towards the north by Section 3, Block VIII, Kaeo Survey District, 3198 links; towards the south generally by a public road, 1360·8, 336·8, 539·9, 777·9, and 291·3 links; and towards the south-west by the other part of Section 14 aforesaid, 1081·6 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/1672A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland Plan No. 18719.)

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

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

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

ANNIE PARRY,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Pukapuka, 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 twelfth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Sounds County Representation on Picton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

Department of Public Health, Hospitals, and Charitable Aid,
Wellington, 15th January, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint, under section 46 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909,

GEORGE SEMPLE JOHNSON,
GEORGE OSWALD BEECH, and
DONALD McCORMICK

to represent the Sounds County on the Picton Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister in Charge of Hospitals.

Member of Clutha River Board appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th January, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

DAVID MACKENZIE,

of Balclutha, to be a member of the Clutha River Board under the Clutha River Board Empowering Act 1898 Amendment Act, 1900, vice David Thomas Fleming, of Balclutha, resigned.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Public Health.

Clerk of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 8th January, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Constable EDMUND JOHN MURPHY

to be Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Alexandra, on and from the 16th day of December, 1916, vice Constable T. Shanahan, transferred.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 17th January, 1917.

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.
SIDNEY CHARLES MAHON .. .. .. Awitu.
WILLIAM ERNEST JACKSON .. .. .. Palmerston.
HENRY ED SER .. .. .. .. .. Catlin’s.
CHARLES EDWARD FOWKE .. .. .. Cust.

W. W. COOK,
Registrar-General.

By-law of the Masterton County Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th January, 1917.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-law made by the Masterton County Council on the 29th day of November, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-law, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of January, 1917.

Dated this 11th day of January, 1917.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs

By-laws of the Woodville County Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

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

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the by-laws made by the Woodville County Council on the 6th day of April, 1916.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of May, 1916.

Dated this 10th day of January, 1917.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.