Dec. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3243

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Kaitieke County.—Kaitieke Survey District.

(Exempt from rates, rent, or interest for a period of three years.)

SECTION 5, Block XV: Area, 963 acres. Capital value, £360. Deposit on deferred payments, £20; half-yearly instalments on deferred payments, £11 1s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £7 4s.

Weighted with £300, value of improvements consisting of felling, grassing, fencing, whare, and concrete dip. This amount may either be paid in cash, or secured to the State Advances Superintendent on first mortgage; term, twenty years; interest at 6 per cent. per annum.

Access is from National Park Railway-station, which is about eight miles distant by formed clay road. Approximately 70 acres easy undulating land; balance steep and broken. Four hundred acres have been felled, of which 300 acres have reverted, and 100 acres are in grass; 563 acres are in standing bush. The soil is of light quality loam resting on papa and sandstone formation. Altitude, 1,600 ft. to 2,000 ft. above sea-level.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of December, 1929.

W. A. VEITCH, for Minister of Lands.

Commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands appointed.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Peter Henry Buck

to be a Commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands, and to hold the said office during my pleasure on and from the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 4th day of December, 1929.

A. T. NGATA, Minister for the Cook Islands.

Appointment of Advisory Committee under the Cinematograph Films Act, 1928.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th December, 1929.

IT is hereby notified for general information that I have appointed the following as members of the Advisory Committee under section 41 of the Cinematograph Films Act, 1928:—

Allan Gowan McGowan .. \ To be representatives of the
Barrie Yelverton Marschel \ licensed Renters.
Edward Joseph Righton .. \ To be representatives of the
Angus John McCurdy .. \ licensed Exhibitors.

Edward Page, Stipendiary Magistrate, to be Chairman of the Committee.

The above appointments are to be effective for three years from date.

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

(I.A. 13/11/151.)

Appointing Members of the Survey Board under the Surveyors Registration Act, 1928.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 6th December, 1929.

PURSUANT to the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section 3 of the Surveyors Registration Act, 1928, I, George William Forbes, Minister of Lands for the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint, as from the 1st day of January, 1930, the undermentioned persons to be members of the Survey Board constituted by the said Act:—

George Henry Bullard,
Thomas Brook,
Samuel Thomas Seddon, M.C., and
Archibald Hugh Bogle,

the last-mentioned two persons having been recommended by the Surveyors’ Institute, as required by the said Act.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands,

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 2871.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5th December, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Harold Percy Charles McLean, Esquire,

as an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, for the Whangaroa County, the appointment to date from the 2nd day of December, 1929.

G. W. FORBES, Minister of Agriculture.

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th December, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Dr. Ernest Marsden

to be a member of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute as constituted by the New Zealand Institute Act, 1908, vice Dr. Charles Chilton, deceased.

GEO. W. FORBES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 13/41/2.)

Shorthand Reporters appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Winifred Grant Connor,
Lilian Jane Perkins,

to be Shorthand Reporters under the Shorthand Reporters Act, 1908.

THOMAS M. WILFORD, Minister of Justice.

Member of Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 5th December, 1929.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Rongo Wetere

to be a member of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Maniapoto, vice J. Anderson, resigned.

A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Appointment of Customs Examining-place at Napier.

Customs Department,
Wellington, 4th December, 1929.

I, WILLIAM BURGOYNE TAVERNER, Minister of Customs, in exercise of the powers vested in me for this purpose by the Customs Act, 1913, do by this Warrant appoint the Railway Goods-shed at Napier to be a place at the Port of Napier for the examination by the Customs of goods subject to the control of the Customs.

W. B. TAVERNER, Minister of Customs.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th December, 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.
David Robertson McCowatt .. Balclutha.
Horace Merle Bonar Henderson Hamilton.
James Guffie .. Malvern.
Colin Archibald Campbell .. Nightcaps.*

• Births and Deaths only.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General,