Nov. 1.

Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the fourth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at the rentals mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Awatere County.—Cliff rd Bay Survey District.—Town of Seddon.—Starborough Settlement.

These sections are practically all flat, suitable for residential sites, handy to railway-station, post-office, school, and sale-yards.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of October, 1923.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

Inspector of Scenic Reserves appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint James Fletcher to be an Inspector under the said Act in respect to the scenic reserves described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—STOCKTON SCENIC RESERVES.

Ngakawau Survey District.

SECTION 3, Block VII . . . . . Area, 11 3 24
" 4 " . . . . . 17 3 0
" 6 " . . . . . 5 1 35

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of October, 1923.

W. NOSWORTHY,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Warrant vesting the Control of the Whatiwhatihoe Bridge over the Waipa River, on the Boundary between the Otorohanga and Waipa Counties, in the Otorohanga County Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in anyway enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the bridge over the Waipa River on the boundary between the Otorohanga and Waipa Counties described in the Schedule hereto, shall on and after the date of the gazetting hereof be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Otorohanga County Council ; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be borne by the Otorohanga County Council, the Waipa County Council, and the Kawhia County Council in the following proportions, viz.: The Otorohanga County Council shall bear fifty per centum, the Waipa County Council shall bear twenty-five per centum, and the Kawhia County Council shall bear twenty-five per

centum of such cost ; and I do further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Waipa and Kawhia County Councils shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said Councils, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Otorohanga County Council, and that such payment shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Otorohanga County Council for and on behalf of the said Waipa and Kawhia County Councils.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Waipa River on the Kawhia-Pirongia Road, known as Whatiwhatihoe Bridge, on the boundary between the Otorohanga and Waipa Counties, in the Auckland Land District. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 58209, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

As witness the hand of his Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of October, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Warrant vesting the Control of the Rangaroa Stream Bridge (or Cemetery Bridge), on the Boundary of the Taumarunui County and the Taumarunui Borough, in the Taumarunui County Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance.

JELLICOE. Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities in anyway enabling me in this behalf, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the Rangaroa Stream Bridge, on the boundary between the Borough of Taumarunui and the Taumarunui County, and described in the Schedule hereto—shall, on and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Taumarunui County Council : And in further pursuance and exercise of the powers aforesaid I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of maintaining, repairing, improving, or reconstructing the said bridge shall be borne by the Taumarunui Borough Council and the Taumarunui County Council in the following proportions, viz.: The Taumarunui Borough Council shall bear fifty per centum of such cost and the Taumarunui County Council shall bear fifty per centum of such cost respectively ; and I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Taumarunui Borough Council shall be paid from time to time, in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed out of the funds of the said Borough Council within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Taumarunui County Council, and that such payment shall be made from time to time to the Clerk of the Taumarunui County Council for and on behalf of the Taumarunui Borough Council.

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge in the Auckland Land District over the Rangaroa Stream on the Te Kuiti-Taumarunui Road known as Rangaroa Stream Bridge (or Cemetery Bridge) on the boundary between the Taumarunui County and the Taumarunui Borough. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 58113, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 25th day of October, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works.

Postmasters 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, the 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.