Nov. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3139

bathroom unlined), valued at £300, repayable in cash or in fifteen years by thirty half-yearly instalments of £14 9s. Total half-yearly payment on lease, £21 16s. 6d.

Situated on the Tauranga – Ohauiti Road, about ten miles from Tauranga and three miles from Ohauiti School. The nearest dairy-factory is at Tauranga. The section comprises about 60 acres level to undulating fern land, the balance being hilly to broken country difficult to work. The soil is of a light sandy nature resting on pumice formation, poorly watered by spring and creek.

Improvements.—The following improvements are included in the capital value: 50 acres grassing, 135 chains fencing, and shed, valued at £177 10s.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of November, 1926.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Nelson City Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) in the Nelson City Council, subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:—

1. The period for which the control of the reserve is hereby vested shall be five years from the date hereof, unless the reservation is previously altered or revoked under the said Act.

2. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserve. Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible after the close of the year.

3. The said Council shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

URURAKAU SCENIC RESERVE.—NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 1 and 2, Block I, and 3 and 7, Block IV, Maungatapu Survey District: Area, 2,000 acres.

Also Section 58, Square 18, Block I, Maungatapu Survey District: Area, 291 acres.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of November, 1926.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Altering Rules of the Court of Appeal.

WE, the undersigned Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power conferred by the 71st section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the making of rules touching the practice and procedure of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, do hereby alter Rules 13, 15, and 16 of the Court of Appeal rules as set forth in the Schedule hereto.

Dated this 9th day of October, 1926.

SCHEDULE.

I. RULE 13 of the Court of Appeal rules is hereby revoked, and the following rule is substituted therefor:—

“13. (a.) All cases on appeal shall be printed.

“(b.) Where there is a statement in writing of the reasons for the judgment or order appealed from a copy of such statement shall be printed as part of the case.

“(c.) Where such reasons have been stated orally a proper report to be approved of by the Judge of the statement made by him of such reasons shall be printed as part of the case.”

II. Rule 15 of the Court of Appeal rules is hereby amended by adding at the end of clause 4 thereof these words: “and every fifth line shall be numbered in the margin.”

III. Clause (a) of Rule 16 of the Court of Appeal rules is hereby revoked, and the following clause is substituted therefor:—

“(a.) The appellant on or before the last week-day before the day appointed for the sittings of the Court of Appeal at which the appeal is to be heard shall set down the appeal with the Registrar of the Court of Appeal, and at the same time file with the Registrar a duplicate of the notice of motion on appeal and one copy of the case and evidence printed as aforesaid, and shall leave with him a duplicate or office copy of the judgment or order from which the appeal is brought and fifteen copies of the case and evidence for the use of the Judges of the Court of Appeal. The Registrar shall thereupon set down the appeal by entering the same in the list of appeals; and it shall come on to be heard according to its order in such list, unless the Court of Appeal shall otherwise order.”

C. P. SKERRETT, C.J:
W. A. SIM, J.
T. W. STRINGER, J.
J. R. REED, J.
W. C. MacGREGOR, J.
H. H. OSTLER, J.

Approved in Council.

CHARLES FERGUSSON.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Ross Dependency Whaling Regulations.

WHEREAS by His Majesty’s Order in Council made under the British Settlements Act, 1887 (Imperial), on the thirtieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at page 2211 (hereinafter called the said Order) the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand for the time being (thereinafter and hereinafter called “the Governor”) was appointed to be the Governor of the Ross Dependency, and all the powers and authorities which by the said Order were given and granted to the Governor for the time being of the Ross Dependency were thereby vested in him:

And whereas the said Governor was thereby further authorized and empowered to make all such rules and regulations as might lawfully be made by His Majesty’s authority for the peace, order, and good government of the said Dependency:

And whereas by regulations made by the Governor on the fourteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the fifteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, at page 2815, it was enacted that the laws and usages in force in the Dominion of New Zealand at the date of the said regulations should be from that date in force in the Ross Dependency:

And whereas it is expedient to make the further provisions hereinafter appearing:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand for the time being, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the said Order and of all other powers and authorities me in any wise thereto enabling, do make the regulations hereinafter set out.

REGULATIONS.

1. PRELIMINARY.

(1.) THESE regulations may be cited as “The Ross Dependency Whaling Regulations, 1926.”

(2.) In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the context,—

“‘The Dependency’” means the Ross Dependency:

“‘Officer’” means any person appointed as an officer of the Government in pursuance of the powers conferred by the said Order and having conferred upon him the powers and authorities which may be exercised by a Justice of the Peace in New Zealand:

“‘The said Act’” means the Fisheries Amendment Act, 1912.

(3.) These regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

(4.) These regulations shall be read together with and so as (in the said Dependency) to form part of the said Act.

(5.) Any instrument issued by His Majesty prior to the said Order whereby any right was conferred on any person to engage in whaling in the Dependency shall enure for all purposes as a license issued under the said Act, but shall, notwithstanding the said Act, continue in force according to the tenor thereof.