Dec. 8.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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declare that the said lands shall be leased under and subject
to the provisions of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN LAND.
Town of Runanga.—Borough of Runanga.

Section. Block. Area. Capital Value. Half-yearly Rental.
A. R. P.
£ £ s. d.
4 III 0 1 0 70 1 15 0
6 V 0 1 1 40 1 0 0
9 XIII 0 1 0 40 1 0 0
7 XIV 0 1 0 40 1 0 0
2 XVI 0 1 1 40 1 0 0
13* XXXVI 0 0 39 20 0 10 0

• Weighted with £5 valuation for levelling and fencing.
  38* XXXVIII | 0 1 1 | 20 | 0 10 0
• Weighted with £180 valuation for a six-roomed dwelling.
  As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of November, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Opening Settlement Land in Southland 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 Tuesday, the seventeenth day of January, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-eight, 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.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SETTLEMENT LAND.—FIRST-
CLASS LAND.
Wallace County.—Jacob's River Hundred.—Ermedale
Settlement.
SECTION 25, Block XIII : Area, 207 acres 1 rood 15 perches.
Capital value, £1,670 ; half-yearly rent, £41 15s.
Weighted with £625 valuation for improvements, consisting
of four-roomed house, cow-shed, stable and barn, implement-
shed, fencing, &c. £100 payable in cash, balance may remain
on instalment mortgage to the State Advances Office for
thirty years' term; interest 6 per cent.
The section is situated five miles from Fairfax Railway-
station and dairy factory, and half a mile from Ermedale
School, by good roads. Altitude, 200 ft. to 300 ft. above sea-
level. Suitable for mixed farming.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 30th day of November, 1927.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Appointing a Member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty-seven of the
Harbours Act, 1923 (hereinafter called “the said
Act”), that in case of the incapacity of a member of a Har-
bour Board, his office shall become vacant, and such vacancy
shall be deemed an extraordinary vacancy:
And whereas it is provided by subsection two of section
thirty-eight of the said Act that in the event of an extraordi-
nary vacancy in the office of an elective member of a Harbour
Board, other than a representative of a constituent district,
the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand,
appoint some qualified person in his place :
And whereas Charles Hayward Burgess, an elective member
of the New Plymouth Harbour Board, being a representative
of the electors of the combined district of those parts of the
counties of Egmont, Inglewood, and Taranaki included in
the harbour district, has vacated his office on the Board
through disqualification by virtue of clause (h) of subsec-
tion one of section thirty-four of the said Act:
And whereas such disqualification has now ceased:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred upon him by subsection two of
section thirty-eight of the said Act, and of all other powers
and authorities enabling him in that behalf, doth hereby
reappoint the said

Charles Hayward Burgess

to be a member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board as a
representative of the electors of the combined district here-
inbefore mentioned.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 2nd day of December, 1927.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations
under the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by sec-
tion two hundred and eighty-eight of the Justices of
the Peace Act, 1908, and section sixteen of the Justices of the
Peace Amendment Act, 1923, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson,
Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby notify and declare that Douglas Leslie McKay,
being a person holding the office of District Public Trustee
at New Plymouth, is authorized to take and receive statutory
declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section
of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.
As witness my hand this 2nd day of December, 1927.

CHARLES FERGUSSON Governor-General.

Member of Mount Roskill Fire Board appointed.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th December, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint
James J. Preston, Esquire,
as Government Representative on the Mount Roskill Fire
Board in place of H. J. Leahy, retired.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 11/5/49.)

Members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand
Institute appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th December, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been
pleased to appoint
Dr. J. Allan Thomson and
B. C. Aston, Esquire,
to be members of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand
Institute as constituted by the New Zealand Institute Act,
1908.

M. POMARE,
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 13/41/2.)

Chairman of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th November, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint
John George Lewis Hewitt, Esquire., S.M.,
to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the District
of Manukau, vice J. W. Poynton, Esquire, deceased.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office.
Wellington, 6th December, 1927.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned person has
been appointed to be the Deputy of the Registrar of
Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the district set
opposite his name:
Cyril Henry A’Court … Maungakaramaea.
W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.