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Opening National-Endowment Land in Hawke's Bay Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1908, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the national-endowment land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Tuesday, the eighth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, 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 Act.

SCHEDULE.

Hawke's Bay Land District.—National Endowment.—Second-Class Land.

Waipawa County.—Wakarara Survey District.

SECTION 20, Block XIII: Area, 479 acres; capital value, £2,618; half-yearly rent, £65 9s.

Situated twenty-six miles from Onga-Onga, and five miles from post-office and school by metal road, the last four miles being in a bad state of repair. Altitude, 1,500 ft. to 2,000 ft. About 60 acres undulating, balance hilly. Property subdivided into three paddocks. Watered by permanent streams. Soil light loam on clay and shingle; 180 acres in standing bush (light birch, rimu, and matai); balance in light pasture. Improvements included in capital value consist of whare (£60), 210 chains post-and-wire fencing in fair order (£262), 305 acres bush felled (£610), and yards (£10).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 5th day of February, 1924.

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

Samuel Topliss

to be an Inspector under the said Act in respect to the scenic reserves described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Taranaki Land District.

Pukemiro Scenic Reserve.

Part Section 7, Block III, Waitara Survey District: Area, 7 acres 2 roods 18 perches.

Onairo River Scenic Reserve.

Part Section 102, Block VII, Waitara Survey District: Area, 10 acres 0 roods 30 perches.

Also part Section 101, Block VII, Waitara Survey District: Area, 3 acres 0 roods 26 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 7th day of February, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Inspector of Scenic Reserve 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 on New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Albert Rudolph Gudopp

to be an Inspector under the said Act in respect to the scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Taranaki Land District.—Ratapihipihi Scenic Reserve.

Subdivision 1 of part of Native Reserve 5, Omata District (Ratapihipihi), Block VIII, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 50 acres.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 7th day of February, 1924.

D. H. GUTHRIE,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

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Official Member of Maori Council appointed.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section eight of the Maori Councils Act, 1900, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Constable George Hamilton Fry,

of Otorohanga, to be the official member of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Maniapoto.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this eighth day of February, 1924.

J. G. COATES,

Minister of Native Affairs.

Exempting Crown Lands from the Operation of the Mining Act, 1908.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section eighteen of the Mining Act, 1908, it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, exempt any Crown lands from mining, or from any specified mining purpose, or from that Act or any specified provisions of that Act; and that the lands to which any such notice relates shall be specified therein by words of particular description:

And whereas it is desirable that the Crown land specified in the Schedule hereto shall be exempted from the Mining Act, 1908:

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 section eighteen of the Mining Act, 1908, aforementioned, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby exempt the land particularly described in the Schedule hereto from the operation of the Mining Act, 1908, and do also hereby declare that such exemption shall take effect from the date of the gazetting hereof.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of Crown land in the Westland Land District containing by admeasurement 29 acres 3 roods 33 perches, be the same a little more or less, being formerly a portion of Provisional State Forest Reserve 1645, and situated in Block XI, Waiho Survey District, and bounded as follows: Commencing at a point on the eastern side of the Main South Road, distant 205·3 links, on a bearing 80° 50', from the north-eastern corner of Section 3114, Block XI, Waiho Survey District; thence along the eastern side of said Main South Road on a bearing of 355° 43', for a distance of 589 links; thence on a bearing of 85° 43', for a distance of 1385 links; thence due south, for a distance of 2197·4 links; thence on a bearing of 261° 57', for a distance of 1285·9 links, to Main South Road; thence along the eastern side of the said Main South Road, for a distance of 1693 links, to the point of commencement; always excepting thereout Warden's License No. 604, granted at the Warden's Court, Okarito, on the 7th day of October, 1913, for a period of forty-two years, to James William Graham for a water-race. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan numbered N. 6/4/15 and deposited in the Head Office of the Mines Department at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 4th day of February, 1924.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.

(Mines, N. 6/4/15.)

Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 22nd January, 1924.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Thomas Matthews,

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district of Hyde on and from the 1st January, 1924.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,

Minister of Internal Affairs.