APRIL 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1001

Exempt from payment of rent for three years, providing improvements to the value of £18 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Situated approximately sixteen miles from Taumarunui and about five miles from the Tokirima Post-office and school. No improvements. All in light bush, with exception of about 10 acres of clearing, situated in the centre, but now covered with tall fern and tea-tree.

Waitomo County.—Aria Survey District.

Subdivision 1 of Section 10, Block VI: Area, 436 acres. Capital value, £330; half-yearly rent, £6 12s.

Exempt from payment of rent for period of five years, providing improvements to the value of £33 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £1,000 for improvements consisting of approximately 100 acres grass, five-roomed dwelling, cowshed, and about 250 chains fencing. This amount may be paid in cash or secured by first mortgage by arrangement with the Superintendent, State Advances Department.

This property is situated about thirty-one miles from Te Kuiti Railway-station, and about two miles from Kawaea School, and seven miles from Aria Dairy Factory. The back portion of section has somewhat deteriorated and is in fern and ragwort, with odd patches of grass. Soil is light clay on papa-sandstone formation. Section is mainly undulating to hilly. Well watered. Approximately 70 acres situated at the front is suitable for dairying, whilst the remaining area is good ewe country.

NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND—THIRD-CLASS LAND.

Taumarunui County.—Rangi Survey District.

Section 3, Block III: Area, 546 acres. Capital value, £410; half-yearly rent, £8 4s.

Exempt from payment of rent for two years, providing improvements to the value of £41 are effected annually during the exemption period.

Weighted with £1,275 for improvements consisting of dwelling, wool-shed, two sheds, yards and dip, 300 chains fencing (approximately), and about 271 acres pasture. This amount may be either paid in cash or approximately £1,150 taken over by way of first mortgage on arrangement with the Superintendent, State Advances, and the balance (£125) paid by a deposit of £10 and equal annual instalments extending over a period of five years, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent.

Situated about four miles and a half from Taringamutu Railway-station and school. The whole of this area has been felled and grassed. Hilly to broken country and fairly shady. Subdivided into seven paddocks. Watered by streams. In its present condition it is estimated to carry five hundred dry sheep and fifty head cattle.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 12th day of April, 1929.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Officer for the Purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908.—(H. 2/128.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by section two of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Reginald John McGee an officer for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of April, 1929.

A. J. STALLWORTHY, Minister of Health.

Trustees for the Tairua Public Cemetery appointed.—(H. 2/126.)

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by the fourth section of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Charles C. Beech, Harold A. Cory-White, and John Morrison to be trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the Tairua Public Cemetery as described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

TAIRUA Public Cemetery, Section 10s, Block L, Tairua Settlement, Auckland Land District: Area, 1 rood 16 perches, more or less.

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

A. J. STALLWORTHY, Minister of Health.

Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th April, 1929.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the undermentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Southland Acclimatization District:—

Henry Frederick Blatch, of Lynwood, Southland.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/23/13.)

Ranger under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th April, 1929.

IT is hereby notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 35 of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the undermentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Marlborough Acclimatization District:—

John Digby, of Selwyn Huts, Canterbury.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/23/25.)

Member of Taranaki Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 12th April, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

Henry Albert Foreman

to be a member of the Taranaki Land Board.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Member of Westland Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 9th April, 1929.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

Bernard Ward

to be a member of the Westland Land Board.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Stipendiary Magistrate appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 17th April, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Harold Woodward, Esquire,

Barrister at Law, to be a Stipendiary Magistrate, to exercise criminal and civil jurisdiction within New Zealand; the appointment to take effect on and from the 15th day of April, 1929.

THOMAS M. WILFORD, Minister of Justice.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 17th April, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Philip Hamilton Harper, Esquire, S.M.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Gisborne and Bay of Plenty, vice E. C. Levvey, Esquire, S.M., transferred.

Ernest Charles Levvey, Esquire, S.M.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Riccarton, vice H. A. Young, Esquire, S.M.; and of the Licensing Committee for the District of Kaiapoi, vice H. P. Lawry, Esquire, S.M.

THOMAS M. WILFORD, Minister of Justice.