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Setting apart Crown Land under Section 161 of the Land Act, 1924.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-one of the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto for disposal under the section of the Act mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 42, Block VI, Hohoura East Survey District : Area, 22 acres 1 rood 32 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor General, this 14th day of November, 1925.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD, for Minister of Lands.

Primary-education Endowment Land in the Town of Mangonui, North Auckland Land District, set apart as a Site for a Public School.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section five of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1911, it is enacted that the Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Land Board of the district in which are situated any reserves or endowments vested in the Crown by or in pursuance of section two of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, set apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical schools any part of such reserve or endowments :

And whereas the Land Board of the North Auckland Land District has duly passed a resolution recommending that the primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto should be set apart as a site for a public school, and it is expedient to give effect to such recommendation :

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Acts aforesaid, do hereby set apart the primary-education endowment described in the Schedule hereto as a site for a public school.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

LOT 56, Town of Mangonui, Block V, Mangonui Survey District : Area, 2 roods 5 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of November, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Amended Regulation under the Mining Act, 1908.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Mining Act, 1908, and its amendments, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby make the following additional amendment to the regulations made under the said Act on the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and the fifteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and gazetted on the fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, respectively; and doth hereby declare that the amendment hereby made shall be read as part of the principal regulations, and shall come into force of the date of the gazetting thereof.

AMENDMENT TO REGULATION.

REGULATION 198 of the said regulations is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:-

"The fee for a service permit shall be £2 2s., and such fee shall accompany each application."

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

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Mines.

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Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.- Notice No. Ag. 2533.

Department of Agriculture, Wellington, 17th November, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Augustus Henry Taylor

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, for the Waitemata County, the appointment to date as from the 14th November, 1925.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Examiner under the Coal-mines Act, 1908, appointed.

Mines Department, Wellington, 18th November, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the appointment of

Isaac Angelo James, Esq.,

to be an Examiner under the Coal-mines Act, 1908, as amended by section 22 of the Coal-mines Amendment Act, 1922, for a period of one month as from the 23rd instant.

A. D. McLEOD, for Minister of Mines.

Appointing Board of Management for the Portobello Marine Fish-hatchery.

Marine Department, Wellington, 10th November, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has, in pursuance of the power conferred upon him by subsection (3) of section 65 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed-

The Honourable George Malcolm Thomson, M.L.C. William Blaxland Benham, Esq., M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Biology at the University of Otago, Alfred Ernest Hefford, Esq., Charles Wilfred Seymour Chamberlain, Esq., and George William Howes, Esq.,

to be a Board of Management for the Marine Fish-hatchery and Biological Station at Portobello.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 12th November, 1925.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:-

Reginald George Iliffe Hamilton, Esq., to be an Officer under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, as from the 31st day of October, 1925.

Allan Walter Scott, Esq., to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Shearers' Accommodation Act, 1919, as from the 9th day of November, 1925.

George Burrows

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Ashburton (at Mayfield), as from the 30th day of October, 1925.

Harry Temple Atkinson, Esq., to be Registrar of Copyright in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1913, and Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks under section 113 (1) of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921-22, as from the 1st day of November, 1925.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 17th November, 1925.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :-

William Cavill Shaw ... Wyndham, at Edendale.* Royal John Arthur McConville Shannon. William Kenneth Howell .. Rongotea. Arthur Lionel Williams .. Kawakawa. Edward Alexander Richmond .. Hampden. William Francis Callery .. Cust.

• Births and deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.