SEPT. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2335

of the section comprises low hills, mostly ploughable, rising to steep and broken country at back of section. One or two clumps of mixed forest; balance manuka, fern, tutu, and koromiko. Light sandy soil, on pumice formation; watered by small spring and streams. Altitude, 200 ft. to 1,000 ft. above sea-level.

Special Conditions.—The Crown reserves the right to take a road through the area at any time without payment of compensation. The right is reserved to the Whakatane Borough Council to erect and maintain electric-power transmission-lines through the section.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Waikato County.—Taupiri Parish.

Section 511: Area, 442 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £170. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £4 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 8s.

Distant about ten miles from Ohinewai by fair road. Undulating to broken, open scrub and fern land, with small swamps in gullies. Soil poor clay, on sandstone formation; poorly watered by swampy springs. Altitude, 200 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level.

SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Waitomo County.—Kawhia South Survey District.

Section 8, Block XVI: Area, 346 acres. Capital value, £520. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £13. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £10 8s.

Situated about seventeen miles from Hangatiki Railway-station by formed road. Undulating to broken land, covered with short fern and manuka. Soil of a clayey nature, of fair quality in valleys, inferior on ridges, on sandstone formation; well watered by stream. Altitude, 500 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level.

Awakino County.—Whareorino Survey District.

Section 4, Block VIII: Area, 557 acres. Capital value, £560. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £14. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £11 4s.

Distant about twenty-six miles from Awakino, twenty miles being metalled road, balance pack-track. Very broken country, covered with very heavy mixed forest comprising rata, rimu, tawa, miro, &c., with dense undergrowth of supplejack, makomako, kiekie, &c. Soil of good quality, on slate formation; well watered by streams. Altitude, 300 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

Section 11, Block V: Area, 499 acres 2 roods. Capital value, £1,130. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £28 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £22 12s.

Distant about ten miles from Marakopa by formed dray-road. About 20 acres level and easy country, balance undulating to broken, covered with heavy mixed forest comprising tawa, towai, tawhero, &c., with heavy undergrowth of supplejack, konini, mahoe, makomako, &c. Soil of medium quality, on rubble-rock formation; well watered by small streams.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of September, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Act appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th September, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR, of Brooklyn, and CHARLES BURRIDGE, of Petone,

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

CECIL HENRY BROCK, of Craigieburn,

Ranger under the Animals Protection Act, 1908, for the North Canterbury Acclimatization District.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, licensed.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 9th September, 1921.

IN pursuance of the 10th section of the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to license

GEORGE FLEMING, of Otahuhu,

to act as a Public Auditor under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909.

R. HEATON RHODES, for Minister in Charge.

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Deputy of the Assistant Public Trustee appointed.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1921.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon the Minister of Finance in that behalf by section 8 of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1917, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, acting on behalf of the Minister of Finance, do hereby appoint

EVERETT OLIVE HALES

to be the Deputy of the Assistant Public Trustee, as from the 2nd day of September, 1921, with the powers, duties, and functions specified in the said Act.

Given under my hand this 2nd day of September, 1921.

J. G. COATES,
Minister in Charge of the Public Trust Office.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 13th September, 1921.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :

William Martin Hayes Diamond Te Aroha.
Charles William George Cooke Ohaeawai.
George William Adamson Wyndham (at Edendale).*
Edwin Gordon Palmer Raglan.
John Young Cameron Mount Grey.
Daniel Murray Waitahuna.
Harry James Lynch Matata.
Robert Martin Morrinsville.
William Wanlockhead Wilson Inglewood.
William Forrester Jarvie Whakatane.
Arthur Henry Hayman Oxford.
Harold Ingham Cambridge.
George Hugh McLean Malvern
Walter Wackrill Sutton Foxton.
Hugh Reid Scott West Taieri.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Inspectors for the Purposes of the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1921.

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

GEORGE HORATIO KENT,
ARTHUR LESLIE PICARD,
MATTHEW WILLIAM PORTER,
JOSEPH BOWER SAVERS,
WILLIAM BEUHANNAN VERNOR, and
ERNEST WALKER

to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, as from the 2nd day of September, 1921.

T. MARK, Acting-Secretary.

Inspector of Stock appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 9th September, 1921.

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

JAMES FLEMING

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, as from the 2nd day of September, 1921.

T. MARK, Acting-Secretary.

Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 9th September, 1921.

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

OTTO EIGIL LIST,
CHARLES EARNEST JONES,
MALCOLM NEILSON BURNS,
JOHN GARDNER MCGREGOR,
FREDERICK WILLIAM BARNARD,
ROBERT HENRY BOYD,
VINCENT JOSEPH DELANY,
HENRY MCNEISH WALKER, and
VINCENT BROOKS

to be Registrars of Marriages and Registrars of Births and Deaths at Piopio, Oxford, Inglewood, Awakino, Waitara, Morrinsville, Cambridge, Matata, and Whakatane respectively, as from the 5th day of September, 1921.

T. MARK, Acting-Secretary.