May 30.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

ferm. The balance of the sections (Lot 2 of Section 1, and Lots 3 and 6 of Section 3A) is still in bush, and will be made a forest or scenic reserve. Light soil on clay and slate formation. Well watered by streams. A school has been opened on a small reserve adjoining.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of May, 1929.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
For Minister of Lands.

Opening National-endowment Land in Gisborne Land District for Sale or Selection, subject to Section 20 of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment Act, 1923.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having received the report of the Under-Secretary in this behalf, as provided by section one hundred and seventy-six of the said Act, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for sale or selection, subject to the provisions of section twenty of the Discharged Soldiers Settlement Amendment Act, 1923, on Wednesday, the seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, and also that the land mentioned in the said Schedule may, at the option of the applicant, be purchased for cash or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease; and I do hereby fix the price at which the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased as that mentioned in the said Schedule hereto, and do declare that the said land shall be sold, occupied, or leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Acts.

SCHEDULE.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—NATIONAL ENDOWMENT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Wairoa County.—Tuahu Survey District.

SECTION 5, Block X: Area, 1,525 acres 3 roods. Capital value, £4,560. Deposit on deferred payments, £360; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £136 10s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £114.

The valuation for improvements, consisting of about 650 acres felling and grassing, approximately two miles and a half fencing, dwelling of four rooms, and shed is included in the capital value.

The section was formerly part of Small Grazing-run 94. It is situated about forty miles from Wairoa, twenty-five miles of which is metalled main road. Approximately 650 acres felled and grassed; remainder good bush country. Three miles fencing. Well watered by permanent streams. House of four rooms. About fourteen miles from Ruakituri School.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of May, 1929.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
For Minister of Lands.

Members of Horowhenua Lake Domain Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 24th May, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 2 of the Horowhenua Lake Act, 1905, and section 97 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916, been pleased to appoint Samuel Atkinson Broadbelt. William Grey Clark, William Jenson, William Borrett Macintosh, Frederick George Roe, Henry Walkley, Warena Kerehi, Tutaaua Hurunui, and Jack Hopa

to be the Horowhenua Lake Domain Board, as from the 27th day of November, 1928.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Honorary Child Welfare Officers under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th April, 1929.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Harry Atmore, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint the following persons as Honorary Child Welfare Officers for the district mentioned for the purposes of the said Act for a further period, ending 31st December, 1929:

Name. District.
Watt, John . . . . . Oamaru.
Fraser, Robert Nicholas Johnston . . Gore.
White, Rev. Hedley . . . . Dannevirke.
Snell, Rev. Leland John Blashford . . Wyndham.

HARRY ATMORE, Minister of Education.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th May, 1929.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz.:-

Name. District.
Henry Gershon Stainton . . . . Petone.*
Gordon Allan Steel . . . . . Greytown.

• Births and Deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th May, 1929.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:-

Henry Arthur Munn, Esquire, to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Kaipara for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, as from the 16th day of April, 1929.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Appointments in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

Navy Office,
Wellington, 28th May, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy:-

Lieutenant Commander James Douglas Prentice, Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Philomel” additional, to date 29th March, 1929, and vice Addis from date of joining.

Lieutenant Herbert Lovegrove, Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Dunedin” additional, to date 29th March, 1929, and vice Reep from date of joining.

Lieutenant (E) Audley Alltrees Hogg, Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Dunedin” additional, to date 1st April, 1929, and vice Gerard from date of joining.

Commissioned Telegraphist Herbert Pickworth, Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Dunedin” additional, to date 29th March, 1929, and vice Rawlings from date of joining.

Warrant Engineer William Fitzgerald Julian, Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Dunedin” additional, to date 29th March, 1929, and vice Hobden from date of joining.

Acting Warrant Supply Officer William James Tilsed, Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Philomel” additional, to date 29th March, 1929, and vice Cummins from date of joining.

THOMAS M. WILFORD, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Officer under Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 22nd May, 1929.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Henry Kininmont Pryor, of Otakiri,

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first mentioned Act, in respect of the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.