Feb. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 443

Lands temporarily reserved in the North Auckland, Auckland, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland Land Districts.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section three hundred and fifty-nine of the Land Act, 1924, and section seventy-one of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the North Auckland, Auckland, Nelson, Westland, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland Land Districts described in the Schedule hereunder written for the purposes specified in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of February, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, 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, that the office of any member of a Harbour Board shall become vacant if, inter alia, he dies:

And whereas it is provided by subsection two of section thirty-eight of the said Act that when an elective member, other than a representative of a constituent district, vacates his office on the Board through the operation of the said section thirty-seven, the Governor-General may, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place:

And whereas Joseph McCluggage, an elective member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board, being the representative of the electors of the combined district of those parts of the counties of Stratford and Whangamomona included in the harbour district, recently died; and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person as a representative of the electors of the said combined district in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint Harold Chapman Taylor to be a member of the New Plymouth Harbour Board as a representative of the electors of the said combined district, in place of Joseph McCluggage, deceased.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 11th day of February, 1929.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

Member appointed to Ruapekapeka Pa Scenic Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the thirteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and gazetted on the sixteenth day of that month, the control of certain land in the North Auckland Land District known as the Ruapekapeka Pa Scenic Reserve was vested in certain persons who were by the said Warrant constituted a special Board by the name of the Ruapekapeka Pa Scenic Board, in pursuance of section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908: And whereas it is desirable that Riri Maihi Kawiti, should be appointed a member of the said Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby appoint the said Riri Maihi Kawiti to be a member of the Ruapekapeka Pa Scenic Board constituted by the Warrant hereinbefore referred to.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 20th day of February, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.