Nov. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3441

Property is situated on the Arnold Road, about two miles from Whangamomona Railway-station and School. All hilly country, well watered; fair quality soil on papa formation. About 695 acres were originally felled and grassed, but of this about 545 acres have reverted to second growth.

Waitomo County.—Mapara Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of Rent for Three Years.)

Section 4, Block III: Area, 531 acres. Capital value, £530. Half-yearly rent, £10 12s.

Exempt from payment of rent for a period of three years providing improvements to the value of £50 are effected annually.

Weighted with £560, valuation or improvements comprising dwelling, wool-shed, and yards, 260 chains of fencing, and about 260 acres of felling and grassing. This amount is either payable in cash or may be secured by way of first mortgage to the State Advances Department.

Section is situated about eight miles from Kopaki Railway-station and two miles from Aramatai School. About 40 acres, situated at the front of section, comprise light ploughable country. About 200 acres is in bush; balance has been felled and grassed, but of this about 140 acres has reverted to fern.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 31st day of October, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved in the Canterbury Land District for Recreation Purposes.

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 set apart temporarily as reserves, 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 land in the Canterbury Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for recreation purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District containing by admeasurement 1,750 acres, more or less, being part Reserve No. 3411, situated in Blocks V and IX, Tekapo Survey District, and being the areas known as Lake Alexandrina and McGregor’s Lagoon and the waterway connecting them, and bounded on all sides except at the outlet to the east by a one chain road reserve; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 40149, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of October, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Otago Land District for Cemetery Purposes.

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 set apart temporarily as reserves, 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 Otago Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for cemetery purposes.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District containing by admeasurement 1 acre, more or less, being Section 2, Block VIII, Ohau River Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by a public road, 344·8 links; towards the south-east by Section 1, Block VIII, Ohau River Survey District, 290 links; towards the south-west by said Section 1, 344·8 links; towards the north-west by said Section 1, 290 links: Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 2/536, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

Also all that area in the Otago Land District containing by admeasurement 4 perches, more or less, being part Section 12, Block I, Benmore Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by said Section 12, 50 links; towards the south-east by said Section 12, 50 links; towards the south-west by said Section 12, 50 links; and towards the north-west by said Section 12, 50 links: Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 2/536A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of October, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Whangarei 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 scenic reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) in the Whangarei 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.

CORONATION SCENIC RESERVE.—NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

PART of Horahora No. 2 Block, part of Te Wharowharo No. 1 Block, and Kirikiri No. 5 Block, Block XII, Purua Survey District: Area, 117 acres 1 rood 39 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of October, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

Appointments to the Staff of His Excellency the Governor-General.

Government House,
Wellington, 1st November, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to make the following appointments to his staff:—

To be Military Secretary and to assume the duties of Private Secretary—
Captain Edward Patrick Ogilvie Boyle, M.V.O., Royal Scots Fusiliers.

To be Official Secretary—
Albert Cecil Day, Esquire, C.M.G., C.B.E.

To be Aide-de-Camp—
Lieutenant Edward Lindsay Orr Ewing, M.C., The Black Watch.

To be Assistant Private Secretary—
The Lord Waleran.

By Command—
A. C. DAY, Official Secretary.

(I.A. 13/87/14.)