Opening Crown Land in Hawke's Bay Land District for Selection
on Renewable Lease, subject to Section 20 of the Discharged
Soldiers Settlement Amendment Act, 1923.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir
Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Do-
minion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the Crown
land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection
on renewable lease, subject to the provisions of section
twenty of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment
Act, 1923, on Tuesday, the twenty-first day of April, one
thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, 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 Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

Hawke's Bay Land District.—Second-class Land.
Hawke's Bay County.—Moeangiangi Survey District.
SECTION 3, Block IX: Area, 584 acres. Capital value, £3,000.
Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £75.
Situated five miles from Waikare (Putorino) Post-office and
School. The block is suitable for pastoral purposes. Watered
by good permanent streams and springs. About 230 acres
would grow green crops. Buildings comprise two-roomed
cottage and porch in good condition and a small shearing-shed
of corrugated iron. The section is ring-fenced, except where
naturally stock-proof with river and creek banks. Would
carry about four hundred wet sheep, and two hundred dry
sheep, and about fifty cattle when the land has been cleared
up and put in good condition. Considerable amount of
blackberry.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 3rd day of March, 1925.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Regulation under the Deeds Registration Act, 1908.
WHEREAS by the Deeds Registration Act, 1908, it is
enacted that the Registrar-General of Land may from
time to time make regulations as in the said Act mentioned,
and that all such regulations shall be submitted to the
Governor-General in Council for his approval, and, if approved
by him, shall be published in the Gazette, and shall have the
force of law from the date of such publication:
Now, therefore, I, Charles Edward Nalder, Registrar-
General of Land, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
authority conferred upon me as aforesaid, do hereby make
the following regulation, that is to say:

REGULATION.
Where, in any certificate under the hand of the Com-
missioner of Taxes provided for by subsection (2) of section 11
of the Land and Income Tax Amendment Act, 1924, the land
to which such certificate relates is described by reference to
its section number of the district in which it is situated, and
as being the whole of the land described in a certain registered
decl identified by its registered number, it shall not be
necessary for such certificate to have drawn in the margin
thereof, or endorsed thereon, or annexed thereto, a plan of
the land to which it relates, or for such certificate to have
endorsed thereon the date thereof, or the names of the parties
thereto, or its nature.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 9th day of March,
1925.
C. E. NALDER, Registrar-General of Land.
Approved in Council.
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
9th March, 1925.

Appointments to Hansard Staff.
Legislative Department,
Wellington, 27th February, 1925.
IT is hereby notified that
Arthur Withy and
Frederick H. Reid
have been appointed Reporters on the Hansard Staff. The
appointments to date as from ten days before the next-
ensuing session of Parliament.
W. NOSWORTHY,
Minister in Charge of the Legislative Department.

Appointment as Ranger under the Animals Protection and
Game Act, 1921-22.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals
Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, I, Richard Francis
Bollard, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint
Andrew Kean
to be a Ranger under the said Act for the Rotorua
Acclimatization District.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 7th day of March,
1925.
RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Serbs,
Croats, and Slovenes, at Auckland, recognized.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th March, 1925.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
notified that, in accordance with instructions from His
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has recognized
the appointment of
Monsieur Marks Simitch
as honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and
Slovenes, at Auckland.
RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Honorary Consul of Germany for New Zealand
recognized provisionally.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th March, 1925.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
notified that he has recognized provisionally the
appointment by the German Consul-General, Melbourne, of
Wilhelm Pensoler, Esq.,
of Wellington, as honorary German Consul for New Zealand.
RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Honorary Czecho-Slovak Consul at Wellington
recognized provisionally.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th March, 1925.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
notified that, in accordance with instructions from
His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has,
pending the receipt of the King's Exequatur, provisionally
recognized the appointment of
Elias Josef Hyams, Esq.,
as honorary Czecho-Slovak Consul at Wellington.
RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Canterbury Land Board appointed.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th March, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-
General has, in pursuance of section 49 of the Land
Act, 1924, appointed
Thomas George Gee
to be a member of the Canterbury Land Board as from the
3rd March, 1925.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Member of Westland Land Board reappointed.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th March, 1925.
NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency has, in
pursuance of section 49 of the Land Act, 1924,
reappointed
Bernard Ward
to be a member of the Westland Land Board as from the
5th March, 1925.
A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.