Sept. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2425

The national-endowment rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, at the rental specified in the said Schedule, and shall be deemed to be heavy-bush land.

After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of four years shall not be demanded; provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board thinks fit.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.

Waimea County.—Waimea Survey District.

Exempt from Rent for Four Years.—Heavy-bush Land.

SECTION 1, Block XVI: Area, 675 acres; capital value, £550; half-yearly rent, £11.

Weighted with £15 15s., valuation for improvements consisting of felling and grassing 7 acres.

Situated in Aniseed Valley, on Hachett Stream branch. Access from Hope Railway-station, about twelve miles distant—by formed road for about eight miles, thence pack-track in poor repair. The section comprises broken spurs, about 400 acres being birch bush, balance manuka scrub. Soil poor, portion being in mineral belt: well watered. General quality poor. Altitude, 1,000 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of September, 1921.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

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Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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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.

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SCHEDULE.

MARGARET Cumming . . . . Arthurton.
Charles William Carmody . . . . Balfour.
William Leith Roberts . . . . Beaumont.
Frank Kingston Hyde . . . . Kaikohe.
Marion Constance Suisted . . . . Mamaku.
Albert John Daysh . . . . Nireaha.
Harold Peace White . . . . Pipiriki.
John Paisley Mahon . . . . Porangahau.
Thomas Graham Bryan . . . . Taitimu.
Walter Hugh Simons . . . . Te Aroha.
Ernest Henry Connor Sherburd . . . . Waipahi.

As witness my hand this 20th day of September, 1921.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

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Appointment in High Commissioner’s Office.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th September, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 9 of the High Commissioners Act, 1908,

H. A. WHITE

as a Clerk in the office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London, as from the 18th day of June, 1921.

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

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

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Marine Department,
Wellington, 19th September, 1921.

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

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

to be Officers for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act.

F. H. D. BELL, Minister of Marine.

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Shorthand Reporter appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

WINIFRED ELLEN KINGSTON

to be a Shorthand Reporter under the Shorthand Reporters Act, 1908.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

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Justices of the Peace resigned.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1921.

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

REGINALD FRANCIS HAYCOCK, Esq., of Hamilton, and THOMAS HENRY ROBINSON, Esq., of Dargaville,

of their appointments as Justices of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

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Inspector of Factories appointed.

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Department of Labour,
Wellington, 24th September, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable WILLIAM GERALD KENFALLY

to be an Inspector of Factories for the purposes of the Factories Act, 1908.

R. HEATON RHODES,
For Minister of Labour.

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Member of Maori Council appointed.

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Native Department,
Wellington, 27th September, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

TE WHETU HENARE

to be a member of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Tongariro, vice Te Ra Reweti, deceased.

J. G. COATES, Native Minister.

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Returning Officer for the Mount Benger Rabbit District appointed.—Notice No. 2082.

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Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 28th September, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 71 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908,

ROBERT COCKBURN

to be Returning Officer to hold the first election of trustees for the Mount Benger Rabbit District, constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

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Returning Officer for the Lochiel Rabbit District appointed.—Notice No. 2084.

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Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 28th September, 1921.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, in terms of section 71 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908,

DAVID ARNOLD GRAHAM

to be Returning Officer to hold the first election of trustees for the Lochiel Rabbit District, constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.