Oct. 15.]

(b.) A knowledge of the apparatus on which he will be required to keep watch, to know by means of the buzzer or other simple test that the apparatus is in a proper condition to receive signals.

A fee of 5s. shall be paid by each candidate for examination. Applications for examination from persons under sixteen years of age shall not be accepted.

(5.) Before a first- or a second-class certificate of proficiency, a wireless-signaller certificate, or a wireless-watcher certificate shall be granted, a declaration that he will preserve the secrecy of correspondence shall be signed by the candidate.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Changing the Purpose of Part of a Reserve in Aroha Survey District, Auckland Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto forms part of a reserve duly set apart for police purposes, being a purpose within Class II of the Second Schedule of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, and such land is not vested in trust in any society, body corporate, or trustee:

And whereas it is expedient that such land should be appropriated for a site for a public-school, being a purpose within Class III of the said Second Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the eleventh section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, do by this notification declare that the said land shall, from and after the fifth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, be appropriated for a site for a public-school under Class III of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908; and I do hereby direct that this notification shall be published in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres 0 roods 9 perches, more or less, being Section 127, Block IX, Aroha Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by a public road, 100 links wide, 722·7 links; towards the north-east by Section 112 of Block IX, Aroha Survey District, 700 links; towards the south-east and south-west by Section 91 of Block IX of the said Survey District, 722·7, 700·0 links; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/345, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered purple. (Herriesville).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of October, 1925.

F. H. D. BELL, for Minister of Lands.

Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the N.Z. Military Forces amended.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers 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 Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces; and I do hereby declare that the amendment hereby made shall take effect as from date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

AFTER note (3) to paragraph 47 add the following:-

“(4.) Qualification pay at the rate of 2s. per diem will be paid to not more than eight selected airman of the N.Z. Permanent Air Force who have passed the prescribed tests and graduated as pilots, provided they remain efficient and pass requalifying tests as and when required. The names of such men will be published in General Orders when they qualify, and thereafter in the General Orders for January.”

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

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

2905

Lands temporarily reserved in the Auckland Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, 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:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, being part of Section 9, Block VI, Marakopa Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 2 roods 35 perches, more or less. Bounded towards the north by the Marakopa Valley Road, 218·63 links; towards the east by part of the aforesaid Section 9, 708·7 and 103·95 links; towards the south by part of Section 7, Block VI, Marakopa Survey District, 174·1 links; towards the west by Ruaparaha Street, 790·51 links; be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/242, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink. Auckland plan 22900 (blue). For a public-school site (Marakopa).

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing 7 acres 3 roods 22 perches, more or less, being Lot 1, D.P. 17814, part Section 23, Block IX, Whakatane Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 411, folio 29, Auckland Registry. For police-purposes.

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

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Lands.

Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Auckland Land District for other Land.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange:

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare that it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre 0 roods 30 perches, more or less, being Section 46, Block XIII, Ohinemuri Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east generally by Sections 3, 2, 1, 65, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, and part 35, of Block II, Town of Paeroa, 408·2, 250, and 298·63 links; towards the south-east by Section 45, Block XIII, Ohinemuri Survey District, 143·66 links; towards the south-west and north by Johnson Street, 1090 and 86·5 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same are more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and S. 6/8/29A deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. Survey Office plan No. 23614 (blue).