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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

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 land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, 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 Acts.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Poplar Grove Settlement.—Taieri County.—Strath-Taieri and Sutton Survey Districts.

IMPROVEMENTS.

The improvements included in the capital values of the sections consist of boundary and subdivisional fencing valued as follows: Section 6s, £2 10s.; Section 7s, £2 10s.; Section 8s, £7 14s.; Section 10s, £46 4s.; Section 12s, £2 5s.; Section 13s, £37; Section 16s, £5 5s.; Section 22s, £60 9s.

DESCRIPTION.

Poplar Grove Settlement is situated on the Strath-Taieri Plain in Central Otago, Middlemarch Town, with school, railway-station, and post-office lying immediately opposite the northern part, while the southern part is about three miles distant. Access is provided by good roads. The land is all practically level, and consists of a good friable loam on generally an open subsoil. Oats, wheat, and root crops are successfully grown, and the climate is looked upon as being very healthy.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of May, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Savings-bank Accountant appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the appointment of

ALFRED THOMAS, Esq.,

as Accountant to the Dunedin Savings-bank.

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

Ranger under the Animals Protection Act appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

CORNELIUS MCPIKE, of Thames,

a Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the Auckland Acclimatization District.

E. P. LEE,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Consul-General of the Argentine at Wellington appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that he has been informed by His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies that the King’s Exequatur empowering

HORACIO BOSSI CACERES

to act as Consul-General of the Argentine at Wellington has received His Majesty’s signature.

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

Registrar of Supreme Court, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES RUTHERFORD ORR WALKER, Esq., S.M.,

to be Registrar of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth, and Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Stratford, Egmont, Taranaki, Patea, and Waitomo, on and from the 14th day of May, 1921, vice T. A. B. Bailey, Esq., S.M., transferred.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Clerks of Magistrates’ Courts, &c., appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable JOHN WILLIAM KENNEDY

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Ross, as from the 20th day of April, 1921, vice Constable A. E. J. Stark, transferred; and

Constable ROBERT CRAWFORD DRUMMOND

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Okarito, as from the 25th day of April, 1921, vice Constable J. W. Kennedy, transferred.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Police-gaoler appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 20th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable ROBERT CRAWFORD DRUMMOND

to be Police-gaoler at Okarito, on and from the 25th day of April, 1921, vice Constable Kennedy, transferred.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Official Visitor appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 20th May, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

PHEBE YEATES

to be an Official Visitor to the Point Halswell Prison, Wellington.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, Rabbit Nuisance Act, and Dairy Industry Act, 1908, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st May, 1921.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

JAMES DARLING ANDERSON

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, and Dairy Industry Act, 1908, as from the 14th day of May, 1921.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Inspector of Weights and Measures appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1921.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

GEORGE FREDERICK PARSONS

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under the Weights and Measures Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of June, 1921.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Bailiff of Magistrate’s Court appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 24th May, 1921.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

JOSEPH ERNEST THOMPSON

to be Bailiff of the Magistrate’s Court at Rotorua, for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1908, as from the 2nd day of May, 1921.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.