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And whereas the said notice was laid before Parliament pursuant to the provisions of section seven of the said Act, and no resolution has been passed by either House of Parliament that such House does not assent to such change of purpose:

And whereas it is provided by the said section seven that if no such resolution is passed by either House, then, from and after the termination of the then session of Parliament, such change of purpose, in accordance with the terms of the notice, shall be valid and effectual for all purposes whatsoever:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that no such resolution as aforesaid has been passed by either House of Parliament, and that the change of purpose as set forth in the notice aforesaid has taken effect accordingly as from the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven (being the date of the termination of the session during which the notice aforesaid was laid before Parliament).

SCHEDULE.

CANTEBURY LAND DISTRICT.

RESERVE 958; Block VI, Rangiora Survey District: Area, 20 acres, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of January, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Notice as to Change of Purpose of Portion of a Reserve in the Borough of Rangiora, Canterbury Land District.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS, by notice issued pursuant to section six of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, dated the twenty-seventh day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and published in the Gazette of the thirteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, the purpose for which the portion of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto was set apart was changed from a reserve for a lock-up and other purposes of public utility to a reserve for public buildings of the General Government:

And whereas the said notice was laid before Parliament pursuant to the provisions of section seven of the said Act, and no resolution has been passed by either House of Parliament that such House does not assent to such change of purpose:

And whereas it is provided by the said section seven that if no such resolution is passed by either House, then, from and after the termination of the then session of Parliament, such change of purpose, in accordance with the terms of the notice, shall be valid and effectual for all purposes whatsoever:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify that no such resolution as aforesaid has been passed by either House of Parliament, and that the change of purpose as set forth in the notice aforesaid has taken effect accordingly as from the fifth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven (being the date of the termination of the session during which the notice aforesaid was laid before Parliament).

SCHEDULE.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 35.9 perches, more or less, and being Reserve No. 4154 (formerly part of Rural Section No. 385), situated in the Borough of Rangiora, and bounded as follows: Towards the north by Pound Street, 168.87 links; towards the east and again towards the north by Reserve No. 4155, 100.8 and 85.87 links respectively; again towards the east by Ivory Street, 120 links; towards the south by other part of Rural Section No. 385, 255.75 links; and towards the west by Reserve No. 4169, 219.9 links; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/3/332, 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 27th day of January, 1928.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

Ernest Wright .. .. .. .. Redvale.
George Mackie .. .. .. Kaimata.
Thomas Oliver Johnson .. .. Scargill.

As witness my hand this 27th day of January, 1928.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

Members of Domain Boards appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,

Wellington, 26th January, 1928.

His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 41 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, been pleased to make the following appointments:

John Edward Dooley, and Theodore Reeves-Palmer to be members of the Te Naumai Domain Board, in place of Alexander Joseph Macpherson, resigned, and Thomas White Maxwell, left the district.

William Thomas Beynon, and Donald McKenzie Nelson to be members of the Waimangaroa Domain Board, in place of Magnos Coutts and George Henry Watson, resigned.

Thomas Claude Kincaid, Gordon Napier MacDiarmid, and Frank Woodifield Stringer to be members of the Taihape Domain Board, in place of Arthur Russell Fannin, William McLennan, and David Neagle, resigned.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, for Minister of Lands.

Judge of the Supreme Court appointed.

Department of Justice,

Wellington, 1st February, 1928.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Archibald William Blair, Esquire, Barrister, to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Stipendiary Magistrate appointed.

Department of Justice,

Wellington, 1st February, 1928.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Stanley Logan Paterson, Esquire, Barrister, to be a Stipendiary Magistrate, to exercise criminal and civil jurisdiction within New Zealand; the appointment to take effect on and from the 1st day of February, 1928.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.

Justice of Peace resigned.

Department of Justice,

Wellington, 1st February, 1928.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by Herbert William Smales, Esquire, of Cambridge, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Justice.