any case the arrangements made in respect of his board and lodging shall first be approved by the authorities of the school attended.

4. Where the young person lives at home and is, in the opinion of the Director of Education, obliged to travel by means other than rail more than four miles daily each way in order to prosecute his studies, he shall if he regularly attends day classes as aforesaid be entitled to a refund of the amount actually and necessarily expended by him in such travelling up to £5 per annum, or up to £10 per annum if he regularly attends a secondary school, a district high school, or a technical high school, or is the holder of a University or an educational bursary.

5. A bursary under these regulations shall not be tenable after the holder attains the age of twenty-three years.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Withdrawing Exemption from Training of Persons residing in certain Areas.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1917.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE SIR JAMES ALLEN, K.C.B., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Proclamation dated the twenty-seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the same date, certain areas were defined, and the persons residing therein were exempted, until further notice, from training in time of peace, in accordance with the provisions of the Defence Act, 1909, and the Defence Amendment Act, 1910: And whereas it is expedient to withdraw such exemption:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, and in pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon him by section seventy, subsection (c), of the Defence Amendment Act, 1912, doth hereby withdraw the exemption from persons residing in the areas specified in the aforesaid Proclamation, and doth hereby declare that all persons liable, residing in the said areas, shall henceforth be subject to all the requirements of the Defence Act, 1909, its amendments, and regulations made thereunder, as regards the performance of personal service.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Amending the Wood-pulp Regulations under the Land Act, 1908.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred by section one hundred and forty-one of the Land Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby amend, in manner set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations under the said section dated the fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the seventeenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

SCHEDULE.

CLAUSE 8 of the said regulations is hereby amended by inserting after the word “lease” where it first occurs the words “or within such extended time as the Land Board, with the consent of the Minister, having due regard to conditions arising from a state of war, may from time to time allow.”

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Changing the Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in Block III, Waimea Survey District, Nelson Land District.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
WHEREAS a notice of the intention to change the purpose of the portion of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from quarantine purposes to a reserve for a rifle range has been duly gazetted for four consecutive weeks, and also laid before Parliament, in accordance with the provisions of section seven of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908:
And whereas no resolution of either House of Parliament has been passed that such House does not assent to such change of purpose:
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 Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, do hereby change the specific purpose of the portion of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto from quarantine purposes to a reserve for a rifle range.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 48 acres, more or less, and being part of Section 34, Square 1, Block III, Waimea Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by high-water mark along the shore of Tasman Bay; towards the north-east generally by a road forming the north-west boundary of the Public Hospital Reserve (being part of Section 34), by the said reserve, and by a proposed road leading thereto through the said Section 34; towards the south-east by a road forming the north-west boundary of Section 86; and towards the south generally by high-water mark along the shore of an inlet from the estuary of the Waimea River. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/11/3, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red and bordered green.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.

Member appointed to Pongaroa Scenic Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the twenty-second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of that month, the control of a certain reserve in the Wellington Land District known as the Pongaroa Scenic Reserve was vested in certain persons therein named, who were by the said Warrant constituted a special Board by the name of the Pongaroa Scenic Board, in pursuance of section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908:
And whereas it is desirable that John McIntyre, Esquire, of Pongaroa, should be appointed a member of the said Board, in place of Arthur Herbert Ridd, deceased:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby appoint the said JOHN McINTYRE to be a member of the Pongaroa Scenic Board constituted by the Warrant dated the twenty-second day of November hereinbefore referred to, in place of the said Arthur Henry Ridd, deceased.

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

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Auckland and Nelson Land Districts.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:
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 temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Auckland and