SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Bay of Islands County.—Ruapekapeka Parish.

Section 106: Area, 308 acres. Capital value, £310. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £7 15s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £6 4s.
Undulating to hilly and broken land in fern and manuka, with bush in gullies. The soil is of poor quality clay, on sandstone. Light forest, comprising some rimu, towai, taraire, and totara. Well watered by Tirohanga Stream. The access is from Taumarere Railway-station, which is about six miles by formed clay road. The section is situated midway between Tapuhi and Taumarere on Gorge Road. Altitude, from 100 ft. to 700 ft. above sea-level.

Rodney County.—Te Arai Parish.

Sections 31 and 32: Area, 260 acres. Capital value, £160. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £4. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3 4s. About 25 acres rush, flax, raupo, and manuka swamp, drainable; balance fern and manuka scrub; generally undulating, with small portion broken. Soil peaty in swamp, clay on balance of section; fairly watered by swampy gullies. Distant about four miles from Te Arai Post-office by cart-road. Altitude, 50 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-level.

Hokianga County.—Waoku Survey District.

Section 2, Block V: Area, 233 acres. Capital value, £500. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £12 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £10. Weighted with £480, valuation for improvements consisting of shanty, bush felled and grassed, draining and grassing, and fencing.
Broken country, with poor spurs. About 180 acres mixed forest, comprising puriri, rimu, taraire, kohokoho, &c., with medium undergrowth of nikau, shrubs, and bush ferns; balance fern and manuka. Soil of fair second-class quality, on sandstone formation; fairly well watered by streams. Situated about four miles and a half from Opononi by formed road. Altitude, 50 ft. to 350 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of July, 1922.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Pediculosis declared to be an Infectious Disease.—(H. 70.)

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Health Act, 1920, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare the disease called or known as PEDICULOSIS to be an infectious disease within the meaning of the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of July, 1922.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Health.

Postmaster 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 ERNEST EDWARD HIRST, being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Kaeo, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand this 26th day of July, 1922.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Members of Domain Boards appointed.

Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 31st July, 1922.

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:—

GORDON HEWITT

To be a member of the Waimana Domain Board, in place of Edward Hodges, resigned.

ERNEST WILSON

To be a member of the Pirongia Domain Board, in place of Frederick Collier Cuff, resigned.

WILLIAM ALBERT SMITH FENNER

To be a member of the Spreydon Domain Board, in place of Henry Ernest Gott, resigned.

ARNOLD CECIL WALLACE

To be a member of the Kohukohu Domain Board, in place of Timothy Benjamin Hurley, resigned.

HENRY ATHOL BENNETT

To be a member of the Ohoka and Eyreton Domain Board, in place of Richard Evans, deceased.

JOSEPH DAVIDSON

To be a member of the Waikaia Domain Board, in place of Edward Dennis, left the district.

WILLIAM WILKINSON and FRANK HERMAN BAUCKE

To be members of the Marima Domain Board, in place of Robert Elliott and Percy Webb Matthews, left the district.

CHARLES ERNEST HOWDEN, ERIC HAY, and CHARLES JOSEPH ELMSLY

To be members of the Waiuku Domain Board, in place of William Joseph King, Samuel Thomas Rossiter, and Maxwell Aldred, resigned.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Justice of the Peace resigns.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 29th July, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by HERBERT SWAINSON ATKINSON, Esq., of Wharepuhunga, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Chairman of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint ROBERT MACKENZIE WATSON, Esq., S.M., to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the district of Rangitikei, vice P. L. Hollings, Esq., S.M.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint LESLIE WILLIAM LOUISSON

To be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the district of Tauranga, vice H. Munro, transferred; and CHARLES VERNON ROBERTS

To be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the district of Kaiapoi, vice W. Harte, transferred.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Visiting Justice appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 28th July, 1922.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint JAMES PORTEUS THOMSON, Esq.

To be a Visiting Justice to His Majesty's Prison at Napier.

E. P. LEE, Minister of Justice.

Returning Officer for the Umutoi Rabbit District appointed. Notice No. 2193.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1922.

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

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

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.