tract. Bounded towards the north-west by Section 34076, 305·2 links; towards the north-west by a public road, 4049 links; towards the south-east by Reserve 1610, 559·5 links; towards the south-west by a plantation reserve, 1692·1 links again towards the north-west by Section 23921, 401·6 links; and again towards the south-west by the said Section 23921, 1565 and 766·5 links. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. X/88, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For plantation purposes.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 200 acres, more or less, and being Reserve 4023, situated in Block VIII, Campbell Survey District. Bounded towards the north by a public road, 2913·9 links; towards the east by Crown land, 6836·5 links; towards the south by a road reserve one chain in width along the Ohau River; and towards the west by a road reserve two chains in width along the shore of Lake Ohau. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 8/8/49, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For General Government purposes.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

All that parcel of land in the Southland Land District, containing 17 acres 3 roods 5 perches, more or less, being Section 20R, Block III, Wairio District, and bounded on the south-west by a public road at a bearing of 139° 21' for a distance of 274·6 links; thence at a bearing of 6° 6' for a distance of 1826·7 links, thence at a bearing of 277° 44' for a distance of 398 links, thence at a bearing of 357° 49' for a distance of 866·9 links, thence at a bearing of 0° 2′ 30″ for a distance of 925·1 links, thence at a bearing of 300° 17' for a distance of 571·2 links, thence at a bearing of 333° for a distance of 946·5 links, thence at a bearing of 317° 33' for a distance of 1215·8 links, thence at a bearing of 321° 46' for a distance of 845·7 links; thence on the north by the Ohai River, thence at a bearing of 141° 46' for a distance of 865·7 links, thence at a bearing of 137° 33' for a distance of 1205·7 links, thence at a bearing of 153° for a distance of 962 links, thence at a bearing of 120° 17’ for a distance of 543 links, thence at a bearing of 180° 2′ 30″ for a distance of 869·5 links, thence at a bearing of 177° 49' for a distance of 851 links, thence at a bearing of 277° 44' for a distance of 1821·8 links, thence at a bearing of 313° 47' for a distance of 1822·6 links, thence at a bearing of 231° 19' for a distance of 467·8 links, thence at a bearing of 202° 55' for a distance of 420·4 links, thence at a bearing of 51° 19' for a distance of 662·4 links, thence at a bearing of 133° 47' for a distance of 1712·4 links, thence at a bearing of 97° 44' for a distance of 2192·4 links, thence at a bearing of 186° 6' for a distance of 1444·3 links to the point of commencement : be all the aforesaid distances a little more or less.

As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 16/688, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red. As an endowment for primary education.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this thirty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

D. H. GUTHRIE,
Minister of Lands.

Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces amended.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend a certain regulation made under that Act and shown in the Schedule hereto; and I do hereby declare that such amendment shall take effect as from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

SCHEDULE.

FINANCIAL INSTRUCTIONS AND ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES.

REGULATION 79 (4) is amended by adding after the words “service pay” the following : “except in the case of warrant officers, non-commissioned officers and men of, or other Government servants subsequently transferring to, the New Zealand Permanent Forces.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, in the presence of

J. G. COATES,
Minister of Defence.

Appointing Members of the New Plymouth Harbour Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by the eleventh section of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, that if any constituent district or combined district fails at any election to elect the required number of representatives the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint such qualified persons as he thinks fit to be the representatives of that district in lieu of those who ought to have been elected; and the persons so appointed shall hold office in all respects as if they had been duly elected in conformity with the said Act:

And whereas two members of the New Plymouth Harbour Board should have been elected by the electors of those parts of the Counties of Taranaki, Egmont, and Inglewood within the New Plymouth Harbour District, and one member by the electors of the County of Waimate West :

And whereas those parts of the Counties of Taranaki, Egmont, and Inglewood within the New Plymouth Harbour District, and the County of Waimate West have failed to elect the said members:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

NEWTON KING and EBENEZER MAXWELL

as the representatives of the electors of those parts of the Counties of Taranaki, Egmont, and Inglewood within the New Plymouth Harbour District, and

DAVID JOHN HUGHES

as the representative of the electors of the County of Waimate West, to be members of the New Plymouth Harbour Board to fill the vacancies caused by the before-mentioned failures to elect.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

W. H. HERRIES, Minister of Marine.

Warrant vesting Control of the Roadway (up to the Side Channel on the Riccarton Side) of Portion of Lincoln Road in the Christchurch City Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance of the Same.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section twelve of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909 (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), as amended by section thirteen of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1910, it is provided that where a road or street lies along the boundary of two or more districts, whether that road or street is wholly within one or is partly within one and is partly within another of those districts, or is within none of these districts, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Warrant under his hand and gazetted, direct which of the local authorities of those districts shall have control of the road or street or of any part thereof; and may in like manner determine from time to time whether any other of those local authorities shall contribute to the cost of the construction, or maintenance, or lighting, or widening, or reconstructing of that road or street, and, if so, in what proportions:

And whereas portion of Lincoln Road described in the Schedule hereto, and hereinafter termed “the said portion of road,” forms part of the boundary between the Borough of Riccarton and the City of Christchurch :

And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made under the said Act for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter set forth :

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 authority vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that, from and after the date of this Warrant, the said portion of road shall be under the control of the Christchurch City Council; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of construction, or maintenance, or lighting, or widening, or reconstructing the said portion of road shall be borne in the following proportions—viz., the Christchurch City Council to bear half of such cost, and the Riccarton Borough Council to bear half of such cost, respectively.

And I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Riccarton Borough Council shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said Council, within a period of thirty days after demand in writing made