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clay, resting on clay formation; badly watered by swamps. Situated on the Matakohe-Parahi Road. Access is from Matakohe, five miles distant, by cart-road.

Waitemata County.—Pukeatua Parish.

Section N.E. 120: Area, 40 acres 0 roods 9 perches. Capital value, £40. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £1. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, 16s.

The altitude varies from 40 ft. to 200 ft. above sea-level. Easy hilly to undulating land, covered in poor light scrub; nearly all ploughable. The soil is of a brown loam, resting on clay formation; well watered by small streams. Access is from Dairy Flat, distant about one mile and a half, one mile of which is formed.

Section N.E. 121: Area, 59 acres. Capital value, £100. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £2 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £2.

The altitude is from 40 ft. to 200 ft. above sea-level. Easy hilly to undulating land, covered with light tea-tree and fern, about 2 acres raupo swamp; nearly all ploughable. The soil is of brown loam, resting on clay formation; well watered by streams. Situated one mile and a half from Dairy Flat. Access is from Silverdale, which is four miles and a half distant by good road.

Hokianga County.—Waoku Survey District.

Section 4, Block XII: Area, 203 acres 0 roods 29 perches. Capital value, £210. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly rent, £5 5s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £4 4s.

Easy sloping, undulating land of fair quality. Approximately 60 acres have been fallen and sown, but has now reverted to second growth, and carries little or no feed. The soil is of fair quality, on sandstone formation; well watered, and carries some heavy mixed bush. The section is situated on the Waoku ranges, near junction of Tutamoe and Taheke-Waimamaku roads, about twelve miles from Taheke River landing.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of June, 1923.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Lands.

Appointing a Member of the Patea Harbour Board.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by section seventeen of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, that the office of any member of a Harbour Board shall become vacant if, inter alia, he dies:

And whereas it is provided by subsection two of section eighteen of the said Act that when an elective member other than a representative of a constituent district vacates his office on the Board through the operation of the said section seventeen, the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place:

And whereas James Walker, an elective member of the Patea Harbour Board, being representative of the combined district of the Patea Borough and the Waverley Town District Subdivision of the harbour district, is deceased, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person as representative of that district in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint

Alfred Nathaniel Williams, of Waverley,

to be a member of the Patea Harbour Board as a representative of the combined district of the Patea Borough and the Waverley Town District Subdivision of the harbour district, in place of the said James Walker, deceased.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of June, 1923.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Legislative Councillors appointed.

Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 1st June, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in His Majesty’s name, summoned

James Craigie, Esq., of Timaru;
Francis Mander, Esq., of Auckland;
Dr. Alfred Kingcome Newman, of Wellington;
Edward Newman, Esq., C.M.G., of Marton; and
Wiremu Rikihana, Esq., of Hokianga,

to the Legislative Council of New Zealand, by writs of summons under the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand, dated 1st June, 1923.

W. F. MASSEY, Prime Minister.

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Public Service Commissioner appointed.

Wellington, 5th June, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Paul Desiré Nestor Verschaffelt, Esq.,

to be the Commissioner for the purposes of the Public Service Act, 1912. The appointment is for a period of seven years as from the 1st day of June, 1923.

W. F. MASSEY, Prime Minister.

Consulate-General of United States of America at Wellington to be temporarily in charge of Vice-Consul.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that, pending the arrival of a successor to David F. Wilber, Esq., Consul-General for the United States of America, the Consulate-General at Wellington will be in charge of Vice-Consul John E. Moran, Esq.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Rangers under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1923.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the undermentioned persons have been appointed Rangers under and for the purposes of that Act:—

George Kidwell Cliff, of Whangarei, for the Whangarei Acclimatization District.

James Lewis, of Arundel, for the South Canterbury Acclimatization District.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Westland Land Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 30th May, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Hill Chinn

to be a member of the Westland Land Board as from the 30th May, 1923.

W. FRASER, for Minister of Lands.

Returning Officer for the Cheltenham Rabbit District appointed.—Notice No. Ag. 2269.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 1st June, 1923.

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

William Leonard Hesseltine

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

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Appointment of Hospital Board Representative.

Department of Health,
Wellington, 25th May, 1923.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, under section 15 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1909,

Robert Smith

as representative of the combined district of Featherston Borough and Martinborough Town District on the Wairarapa Hospital Board.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Health.