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Laying out and taking a Road in Blocks IV and VII,

Ahipara Survey District, Mangonui County.

[L.S.! JELLICOE, Governor-General

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section three hundred and eighty-nine of the Native Land Act, 1909, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby lay out and take as a road the land described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road laid out and taken :-

(Ahipara Block.)

1 3 38 No. 1, Block IV; coloured blue.
(Te Kohanga.)

Situated in Ahipara Survey District. (S.O. 22153.) In the North Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56278, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 28th day of February, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works

God save the King!

Setting apart Crown Lands under Section 21 of the Land Law Amendment Act, 1912

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby set apart the lands described in the Schedule hereto for disposal under the section of the Act mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.-CROWN LAND
Rangauunu Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 3rd day of March, 1923.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land 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 Thursday, the nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, 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.--FIRST-CLASS LAND.
Tuapeka County.--Waitahuna East and West Survey Districts.
--Waitahuna Settlement No. 1.
SECTION 2a: Area, 273 acres 2 roods 35 perches. Renewable lease : Half-yearly rent, £31 10s.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 3rd day of March, 1923.

D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Chairmen of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th March, 1923.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM MELDRUM, Esq., S.M.,
to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the district of Buller, vice J. G. L. Hewitt, Esq., S.M.; and

JOHN GEORGE LEWIS HEWITT, Esq., S.M.,
to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the districts of Timaru, Temuka, and Waitaki, vice E. D. Mosley, Esq., S.M.

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

Deputy Registrar Supreme Court and Deputy Sheriff, Auckland, appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th February, 1923.

THE Deputy Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:-

FRED SYDNEY ROCKS KNIGHT
to be Deputy Registrar at Auckland of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and Deputy Sheriff for the District of Auckland, for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, as from the 26th day of February, 1923.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 6th March, 1923.

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. :-

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, and Transfers of Officers of the Territorial Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 6th March, 1923.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, and transfers of the undermentioned officers of the Territorial Force.

3RD N.Z. MOUNTED RIFLES (AUCKLAND).
Lieutenant H. G. Carruth is transferred to the 9th N.Z. Mounted Rifles (North Auckland). Dated 15th February, 1923.

9TH N.Z. MOUNTED RIFLES (NORTH AUCKLAND).
Lieutenant H. G. Carruth from the 3rd N.Z. Mounted Rifles (Auckland) to be Lieutenant, with seniority as from 18th March, 1918. Dated 15th February, 1923.

THE N.Z. INFANTRY.
The Auckland Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant G. L. O'Halloran to be Lieutenant (8th C. Battalion). Dated 21st February, 1923.
George Rupert Charles Grantley to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation), (6th C. Battalion). Dated 15th February, 1923.