May 19.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Opening Settlement Lands in Otago Land District for Selection.

JELLICOE, 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, and amendments, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, 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 Tuesday, the twenty-first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, at the rental 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.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitahuna Settlement No. 1.—Tuapeka County.—Waitahuna East and West Survey Districts.

SECTION 2A : Area, 273 acres 2 roods 35 perches ; capital value, £2,060 ; half-yearly rent, £46 7s.

Situated about two miles from the Waitahuna Railway-station. Access is by a good road. The land is undulating, with steep faces along the gullies. The soil is a very fair black loam, on a clay formation; well watered. The elevation ranges from 500 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements not included in the capital value, but which must be paid for separately, are buildings (comprising two-roomed house, barn, and stable) valued at £115, payable in cash or in fourteen years by twenty-eight half-yearly payments of £5 16s. 2d. ; total half-yearly payment on lease, £52 3s. 2d.

Fencing, pig-sty, and fowl-house, valued at £60 10s., must be paid for in cash immediately an applicant has been declared successful.

The improvements included in the capital value comprise fencing valued at £138 13s.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of May, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in the Opuawhanga Survey District, North Auckland Land District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been duly set apart for a public cemetery, being a reserve within Class I of the Second Schedule of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and such land is not vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or trustees :

And whereas it is expedient that such land should be appropriated for a public recreation-ground, being a reserve within Class III of the aforesaid Act :

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the eleventh section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, do by this notification declare that the said land shall, from and after the nineteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, be appropriated for a public recreation-ground under Class III of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908 ; and I do hereby direct that this notification shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 12, Block I, Opuawhanga Survey District : Area, 7 acres 1 rood.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, tuis 10th day of May, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, 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.

Alexander McLeod Cassells .. .. Allanton.
Francis Halliday Garth .. .. Arrowtown.
James John France .. .. Eketahuna.
Arthur Wolleston Pym Hewitt .. .. Hawera.
Samuel Frederick Wilson .. .. Matawai.
John Excell .. .. .. Owhango.
William Canning .. .. .. Pahiatua.
Alice Ross .. .. .. Papatowai.
Ellen Frances Scully .. .. .. Pukerau.
Arthur Bently .. .. .. Raglan.
Charles Edward Johnston .. .. Sumner.
Percival Crene .. .. .. Takahue.
Annie Jane Riddell .. .. .. Tokaanu.
William Drake .. .. .. Waiuku.
Francis Michael Scully .. .. .. Wellesley Street.
George Wells-Smailes .. .. .. Whangamata.

As witness my hand this 14th day of May, 1921.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Manager, Invercargill Savings-bank, appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 17th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

NORMAN AYLMER BRODRICK, Esq.,
to be Manager of the Invercargill Savings-bank.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Finance.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Act appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

FREDERICK DICKEY,
WILLIAM STEELE,
VICTOR HUTTON,
JAMES STEWART LAWRIE, and
THOMAS HOLLIS

Rangers under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the Whangarei Acclimatization District.

C. J. PARR, for Minister of Internal Affairs.

Ranger under the Animals Protection Act appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ROBERT SKIPPAGE,
of Featherston, a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the Wellington Acclimatization District.

G. JAS. ANDERSON,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Cemetery Trustees resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignations of

JOSEPH COMINS and
FREDERICK FOSTER CAPSTICK
as trustees of the Rotongaro Public Cemetery.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Members of Domain Boards appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, been pleased to make the following appointments :-

WILSON WINIATA
to be a member of the Torere Domain Board. in place of Montague Goldsbury, left the district.

GODFREY WATERS
to be a member of the Mount Nessing Domain Board, in place of Samuel James Gould.

ADAM PATERSON
to be a member of the Pounawea Domain Board, in place of Andrew Moffat, resigned.

EDWARD SAMUEL DAVIES
to be a member of the Kimbolton Domain Board, in place of Henry Kirke Hodge, resigned.