Nov. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2773

8. The form of nomination shall be in the form No. 1 in the Schedule hereto, or to the effect thereof.

9. The last day and hour for receiving nominations shall be the 22nd day of November, 1923, at noon.

10. If no more persons are so nominated as producers' representatives than are required to fill the vacant positions on the Board, such persons shall be deemed to have been duly elected.

11. If more persons are so nominated than are required to fill the vacant positions on the Board, the Returning Officer shall cause voting-papers to be printed, in the form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto.

12. At such ballot no voting-paper shall be valid unless votes are recorded for the full number of persons required to be elected.

13. Where there is an equality of votes between any candidates and the addition of a vote would entitle one of such candidates to be declared elected, the Returning Officer shall give a casting vote.

14. Subject to the foregoing provisions, the candidates required to be elected who have received the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected by the Returning Officer by notice in the Gazette.

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SCHEDULE.

Form No. 1.

NOMINATION OF PRODUCERS' REPRESENTATIVE ON NEW ZEALAND DAIRY-PRODUCE CONTROL BOARD.

To the Returning Officer, Box 25, Government Buildings, Wellington.

WE, the undersigned persons carrying on business as suppliers of milk or cream to factories manufacturing dairy-produce for export, do hereby nominate A.B. [Full name] of [Residence and occupation], with his consent, as a candidate at the election of members of the New Zealand Dairy-produce Control Board.

Dated at , this day of , 1923.

[Full names, residence, and occupation of two or more producers.]

I, A. B. [Full name], do hereby consent to the above nomination.

A.B., Residence and occupation.

[Form No. 2.

(VOTING-PAPER).

NEW ZEALAND DAIRY-PRODUCE CONTROL BOARD.

Election of Producers' Representatives to Board, 1923.

MARBLE, Roland Top.

APPLE, James Ross.

Directions.

The voter must vote for the full number of candidates (six for the North Island or three for the South Island); he shall leave uncancelled the names of the candidates for whom he desires to vote, and must strike out the names of all the candidates not voted for.

Should a voter leave uncancelled the names of more or fewer persons than there are producers to be elected, then his voting paper shall be invalid.

A voter is only entitled to one vote.

After indicating the vote in manner aforesaid this voting-paper is to be transmitted to the Returning Officer, Box 25, Government Buildings, Wellington, so as to be delivered at his office on or before noon on the 13th December, 1923.

An addressed envelope is enclosed for use in transmitting the voting-paper.

C. A. JEFFERY,

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Lands permanently reserved.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas by the sixty-ninth section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, it is further provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of lands acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE.

• Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 31st day of October, 1923.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD, for Minister of Lands.