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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

Opening Settlement Land in Canterbury Land District for Selection.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, and the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the settlement land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Friday, the twenty-third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, 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 said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waimate County.—Waimate Survey District.—Lansdown Settlement.

SECTION 7, Block X: Area, 215 acres. Capital value, £3,310; half-yearly rent, £82 15s.

Weighted with £375 valuation for improvements, consisting of dwellinghouse, other buildings, fencing, trees and shelter; payable by £150 in cash and by successful applicant giving a first mortgage over the lease to the State Advances Superintendent for the balance of £225.

Situated four miles and a half from Waimate Railway-station; three miles and a half from Waituna School. Cream van calls. Land is watered by water-race and water-holes, and is suitable for mixed farming. Sixty acres in good pasture, balance stubble and rough feed and river-bed; 170 acres suitable for growing turnips and green feed and fair wheat and oat crops.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 9th day of August, 1927.

O. HAWKEN, for Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of an Historic Reserve in the Upper Hutt Borough 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 historic reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) in the Upper Hutt Borough 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.

UPPER HUTT BLOCKHOUSE.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being part of Section No. 94, Block I, Rimutaka Survey District. Commencing at a point at the southern end and on the north-western side of Fortune Lane, the said point being distant 1200 links measured along the western side of the said lane from its intersection with the Hutt Main Road, and being bounded thence towards the north-east by a line parallel to the north-east boundary-line of other part of Section No. 94, Block I, Rimutaka Survey District, a distance of 316 links and five-tenths of a link; thence towards the south-east by a line at right angles to the last-mentioned boundary-line, running in a south-westerly direction a distance of 316 links and five-tenths of a link; thence towards the south-west by a line at right angles to the last-mentioned boundary-line, running in a north-westerly direction a distance of 316 links and five-tenths of a link; and thence towards the north-west by a line at right angles to the last-mentioned boundary-line,

running in a north-easterly direction a distance of 316 links and five-tenths of a link to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 744, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered pink.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of August, 1927.

O. HAWKEN,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Appointment of Member of an Island Council of the Cook Islands.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by section sixty-five of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, and by an Order in Council of the twenty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, establishing (inter alia) an Island Council for the Island of Manihiki, in the Cook Islands, and determining the constitution thereof, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby nominate and appoint

John Dean,

of Manihiki, to be a member of the said Island Council of Manihiki, in lieu of Ioapa (deceased), to hold office during my pleasure, as from the date hereof.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of August, 1927.

M. POMARE,
Minister of the Cook Islands.

Honorary Consul for Mexico appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th August, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that, in accordance with advice received from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, he has recognized the appointment of

Senor José Gras y Fort

as Honorary Consul of Mexico at Melbourne, with jurisdiction over New Zealand.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Clerk of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th August, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Richard Tierney McLean

to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Otaki, vice A. G. Smith.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Chairman of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th August, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Robert Mackenzie Watson, Esquire, S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waimarino, vice J. G. L. Hewitt, Esquire, S.M.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Appointment in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 10th August, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointment in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy:—

Mr. Albert Alan Hodges, Schoolmaster, R.N., to H.M.S. “Dunedin” vice Baillie, to date 1st June, 1927.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.