Feb. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 565

Section 5, Block XVI, Muriwhenua Survey District : Area, 61 acres 2 roods 24 perches. Capital value, £60. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £1 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £1 4s.
Altitude, 50 ft. to 100 ft. above sea-level. About half raupo swamp, balance level and undulating scrub land Soil swamp loam, and o' a light sandy nature on dry ground; well watered by stream. Distant twelve miles from Waihopo Landing by rough cart-road.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.
Opening Settlement Lands in Wellington Land District for Selection.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Wednesday, the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule ; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.
SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.-BOROUGH OF PETONE. WILFORD SETTLEMENT. First-class Land.
Section. Block. Area. Capital Value. Half-yearly Rental.
A.R.P. £ s.d. £ s.d.
15 VI 0 0 14.69 60 0 0 1 7 0
17 ,, 0 0 14.69 60 0 0 1 7 0
19 ,, 0 0 14.69 60 0 0 1 7 0
21 ,, 0 0 14.69 55 0 0 1 4 9
23 ,, 0 0 14.69 60 0 0 1 7 0
25 ,, 0 0 14.69 60 0 0 1 7 0
27 ,, 0 0 14.69 60 0 0 1 7 0
1 X 0 0 18.61 75 0 0 1 13 9
2 ,, 0 0 17.98 75 0 0 1 13 9
3 ,, 0 0 14.68 50 0 0 1 2 6
4 ,, 0 0 14.68 60 0 0 1 7 0
5 ,, 0 0 14.68 65 0 0 1 9 3
1 XV 0 0 19.73 60 0 0 1 7 0
3 ,, 0 0 14.69 60 0 0 1 7 0
5 ,, 0 0 14.69 45 0 0 1 0 3
7 ,, 0 0 14.69 55 0 0 1 4 9
9 ,, 0 0 14.69 60 0 0 1 7 0
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this thirteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.
Opening National Endowment Lands in Auckland Land District for Selection.
LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the national-endowment land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.
SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—BAY OF ISLANDS COUNTY. HUKERENUI SURVEY DISTRICT. Second-class Land.
SECTION 9, Block I : Area, 388 acres O roods 27 perches. Capital value, £390. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £7 16s.
Altitude, 300 ft. to 900 ft. above sea-level. Broken country, with a few burnt-forest clearings; balance mixed forest comprising rata, rimu, kahikatea, totara, about twenty kauri-trees, taraire, rewarewa, towai, and kohekohe. Clay soil, stony in places; well watered by permanent stream. Distant about four miles from Towai Railway-station by formed cart-road.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.
Authorizing Captain Percival Henry Hall-Thompson to take Possession of all Apparatus for Wireless Telegraphy on Board Merchant Ships.
WHEREAS an emergency has arisen in which it is expedient in the public interest that His Majesty's Government shall have control over the transmission of messages by wireless telegraphy: Now, therefore, I, Joseph George Ward, the Minister of Telegraphs of New Zealand, in pursuance of clause 5 of the regulations for the control of ships carrying wireless telegraph apparatus while within territorial waters or harbours of New Zealand, made on the 30th day of January, 1918, and gazetted on the 31st day of January, 1918, do hereby authorize Captain Percival Henry Hall-Thompson, C.M.G., R.N., to take possession of or to cause all apparatus for wireless telegraphy on board any merchant ship (being a foreign merchant ship or a British merchant ship not registered in New Zealand), while in the territorial waters of New Zealand, or any part of such apparatus, to be taken possession of in the name and on behalf of His Majesty for His Majesty's service, and, subject thereto, for such ordinary services as to the said Captain Percival Henry Hall-Thompson may seem fit.
As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 21st day of February, 1918.
J. G. WARD,
Minister of Telegraphs.
Member of Executive Council appointed.
Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 16th February, 1918.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint
DAVID HENRY GUTHRIE, Esquire,
to be a member of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Member of Legislative Council appointed.
Prime Minister's Office,
Wellington, 15th February, 1918.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in His Majesty's name, summoned
BENJAMIN HARRIS, Esquire, of Auckland,
to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by writ of summons under the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand, dated 15th February, 1918.
W. F. MASSEY,
Prime Minister.
Members of Board of Science and Art appointed.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th February, 1918.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been pleased to appoint
Professor ALGERNON PHILLIPS WITHEIEL THOMAS, of Auckland,
HEINRICH FERDINAND VON HAAST, Esquire, of Wellington,
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON, Esquire, of Dunedin,
CHARLES ALFRED EWEN, Esquire, of Wellington, and PERCY GATES MORGAN, Esquire, Director of Geological Surveys, Wellington,
to be members of the Board of Science and Art as constituted by the Science and Art Act, 1913.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
Registrar of Births, &c., appointed.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th February, 1918.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint
SYDNEY HENRY JAMES
to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages and Vaccination Inspector for the District of Stratford, on and from the 18th February, 1918.
G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.