May 21.]

Weighted with £970, valuation for new five-roomed semi-bungalow dwellinghouse, all conveniences, five-stall stable, chaffhouse, milking-shed, power-pump, water-tank, &c.

Situat ed three miles from Wright's Bush Railway-station, School, and Dairy Factory. Good metal road. Suitable for dairying. Land will grow good crops of grain or green feed.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 11th day of May, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Declaring Road-line intersecting Land in Greenfield Settlement, Otago Land District, to be closed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the road described in the Schedule hereto is unformed and unused, and that the said road intersects land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and is not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of section eighty of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, as amended by section twenty-eight of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1920, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do by this notice hereby close the road hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the said road shall thereupon become subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of road to be closed : 2 roods 7 perches.

Adjoining or passing through Sections 30A and 39A, Greenfield Settlement, Waitahuna West Survey District.

In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 19310, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2108, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 5th day of May, 1925.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD,

For Minister of Lands.

Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces amended.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand made on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and I do hereby declare that the amendment hereby made shall have effect as from the date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES, 1913.

Section IV.

PARAGRAPH 136 is hereby revoked, and the following substituted :

"136. Officers of the Territorial Force transferred from one unit or corps to another unit or corps of the same arm of the service will retain their rank and seniority. If transferred to a different arm of the service, they will rank as junior of their rank in the new unit or corps until they have passed the prescribed examination, after which they will resume their original seniority. If transferred from the Reserve of Officers, or reappointed from the Retired List, to the Active List, they will become junior to other officers of their own rank on the Active List.'

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of May, 1925.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

DEFINING LIMITS OF THE PORT OF AUCKLAND.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested by the sixth section of the Harbours Act, 1923, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby define the limits of the Port of Auckland to be all that area of tidal waters within a straight line drawn from the northern extreme of the eastern head of Tamaki River to the southern extreme of Park Point, Waiheke Island; thence by high-water mark of ordinary spring tides to the northern extreme of the western entrance point to Owhanaki Bay ; thence by a straight line to the southern extreme of Home Bay Point, Tapu (Motutapu) Island; thence by high-water mark of ordinary spring tides to Emu Point, and onwards, following the eastern shore of Islington Bay inwards to its head at its narrowest width and its western shore outwards to Motukoreho Channel, continuing along the southern and western shore of Rangitoto Island to a position where a straight line projecting 270° passes through Rangitoto Beacon to the mainland.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 7th day of May, 1925.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

APPOINTING A MEMBER OF THE AUCKLAND HARBOUR BOARD.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by section twenty-eight of the Harbours Act, 1923, that if any constituent or combined district fails at any election to elect the required number of representatives, the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint such qualified persons, as he thinks fit, to be the representatives of that district in lieu of those who ought to have been elected, and the persons so appointed shall hold office in all respects as if they had been duly elected in conformity with the said Act:

And whereas a member of the Auckland Harbour Board should have been elected by the electors of the combined district of the Boroughs of Hamilton, Te Awamutu, Cambridge, and Ngaruawahia on the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, but no nominations for election were received up to the date duly appointed for the receipt of such nominations, and therefore the electors of the said combined district have failed to elect such member.

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 George Parr to be a member of the Auckland Harbour Board as a representative of the combined district of the Boroughs of Hamilton, Te Awamutu, Cambridge, and Ngaruawahia, to fill the vacancy caused by the aforementioned failure to elect.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 5th day of May, 1925.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

DECLARING CERTAIN AREAS IN THE BAY OF ISLANDS ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT TO BE SANCTUARIES UNDER THE ANIMALS PROTECTION AND GAME ACT, 1921–22.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke that part of the Warrant published in the New Zealand Gazette of the second day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, declaring certain areas to be sanctuaries for native and imported game in so far as it relates to the Bay of Islands Acclimatization District, and do hereby declare that the areas described in the Schedule hereto shall be sanctuaries for the purposes of the said Act, and that no imported game or native game shall be taken or killed within the said areas except pursuant to an authority granted under section thirty-one or section thirty-two of the said Act; nor shall any person, except under such conditions as may from time to time be prescribed by the Minister, take any dog or firearm into such areas, or discharge any firearm or explosive in such areas, or do anything likely to cause any imported game and native game to leave such areas.