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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 145

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 section eighty of
the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in
anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice
hereby close the road hereinafter described; and I do
hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon become
subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
MANGAOTAMA SETTLEMENT.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road to be closed: 2 acres
1 rood 30 perches.
Adjoining or passing through part Sections 196, 199, 250,
and 344, and Sections 198A and 250A, Tuhikaramea Parish,
Block XII, Alexandra Survey District.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/178,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and
Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green. (Auck-
land plan No. 20660.)

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

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

Declaring Road-lines through Land in Puahue Settlement,
Auckland Land District, to be closed.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Sur-
veyor-General, from which it appears that the road
described in the Schedule hereto is unformed and unused,
and that the said road intersects land acquired under the
Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and is not suitable to the
subdivision of such land :

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 section eighty of
the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in
anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice
hereby close the road hereinafter described; and I do
hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon become
subject to the said Act.

SCHEDULE.
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—PUAHUE SETTLEMENT.
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road to be closed: 1 rood
25 perches.
Passing through Puahue No. 2 No. 12 and Puahue No. 2
No. 13 Blocks, situated in Block VIII, Puniu Survey Dis-
trict.

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/165,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and
Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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

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

Removing Protection from certain Imported Birds.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection 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 imported birds
mentioned in the Schedule hereto, not being game of any
kind under the said Act, may be taken or killed within the
Hawke’s Bay Acclimatization District.

SCHEDULE.
Rooks.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this ninth day of December, one thou-
sand nine hundred and nineteen.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Internal Affairs

Officers authorized to convene Courts-martial and to confirm
Findings and Sentences thereof.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by
section thirteen of the Defence Amendment Act, 1912,
I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do
hereby authorize the undermentioned officers to convene
general or district courts-martial for the trial under that
Act of such persons subject to military law as are for the
time being under or within the territorial limits of their
command; and empower such officers to confirm the findings
and sentences of general or district courts-martial, whether
passed before or after the issue of this Warrant :—

Colonel CHARLES WILLIAM MELVILL, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.,
N.Z. Staff Corps, while commanding a military dis-
trict. Dated 1st November, 1919.
Colonel ROBERT YOUNG, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., N.Z.
Staff Corps, while commanding a military district.
Dated 1st November, 1919.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this second day of December, one thou-
sand nine hundred and nineteen.

W. FRASER,
For Minister of Defence.

Postmasters 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 the persons
set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the
office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,
at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule,
are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations
under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the
Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.
MICHAEL DWAN .. .. .. Owen Junction.
ERNEST GRANT .. .. .. Te Pohue.
FRANCIS HALLIDAY GARTH .. .. Cheviot.

As witness my hand this ninth day of December, one
thousand nine hundred and nineteen

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

Judge of Tairawhiti Native Land Court District appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 8th December, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

JAMES WAKELIN BROWNE, Esq.,
a Judge of the Native Land Court, to be the Judge of the
Tairawhiti Native Land Court District, on and from the
15th day of December, 1919.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 27th November, 1919.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-
General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries
Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents
Act, 1919, appointed

ERNEST COOK,
of Wadestown, Wellington, to be an officer for the purposes
of Part II of the first-mentioned Act.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Marine.