MAY 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1633

Opening Lands in Otago Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Land Act, 1924, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be open for selection on renewable lease on Monday, the seventh day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at the rental mentioned in the said Schedule; and I do also declare that the said land shall be leased under and subject to the provisions of the said Act.

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SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.—NATIONAL-ENDOWMENT LAND.

Waitaki County.—Benmore Survey District.

SECTION 13, Block I: Area, 11 acres 2 roods 29 perches. Capital value, £15. Half-yearly rental, 6s.

Weighted with £6, for improvements comprising 7½ chains road-line fencing.

Situated forty-six miles from Kurow Railway-station; eight miles from Benmore School. All in native state. No water. Suitable for grazing, but rather poor land.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of May, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2400.)

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Revoking a Warrant notifying Land in North Auckland Land District for disposal under Section 161 of the Land Act, 1924.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section three of the Land Act, 1924, and of every other power enabling me in that behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant dated the twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and published in Gazette, No. 7, of the fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, page 354, notifying Section 37, Block V, Hohoura East Survey District, as set apart for disposal under section one hundred and sixty-one of the Land Act, 1924.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of May, 1930.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/978/20.)

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Amalgamating Regimental Districts.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto, the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 51, of the 29th July, 1926, as amended by the New Zealand Gazette, No. 61, dated 9th September, 1926, relative to the constitution of military commands and regimental districts, and do hereby declare that the amendment hereby made shall have effect as from the fourteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty.

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SCHEDULE.

NORTHERN COMMAND.

THE paragraphs relating to Nos. 2 and 4 Regimental Districts are hereby revoked, and such regimental districts are hereby amalgamated into one regimental district as follows:—

NO. 4 REGIMENTAL DISTRICT.

(Headquarters, Hamilton.)

All that area comprising the counties of Manakau, Franklin, Raglan, Waikato, Waipa, Kawhia, Otorohanga, Waitomo, Ohura, Coromandel, Thames, Ohinemuri, Piako, Hauraki Plains, Matamata, Tauranga, Rotorua, Whakatane, Opotiki and those portions of the counties of Taupo, Tau-marunui, and Kaitieke, lying north of the southern boundary of the command; together with all boroughs and town districts situated within or contiguous to the boundaries of those counties or portions of counties.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of May, 1930.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

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Warrant resting the Control of the Hikutaia Stream Bridge, on the Hikutaia-Whangamata Road, in the Thames County Council.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the bridge described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of the gazetting hereof, be under the exclusive care, control, and management of the Thames County Council.

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SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge in the Auckland Land District on the Hikutaia-Whangamata Road, known as the Hikutaia Stream Bridge, situated on the boundary between the Counties of Thames and Ohinemuri, and adjoining part McGaskill’s Grant, Block V, Ohinemuri Survey District. As the site of the said bridge is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 78281, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of May, 1930.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 34/2781.)

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

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th May, 1930.

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 under-mentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Whangarei Acclimatization District:—

George Muldrock, of Maunu.

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

(I.A. 25/23/22.)

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Crown Solicitor appointed.

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Crown Law Office,
Wellington, 10th May, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has this day been pleased to appoint

Jack Hunter Main

to be Crown Solicitor at Oamaru, vice Arthur Gethin Creagh, resigned.

T. K. SIDEY, Attorney-General.

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Members of Domain Boards appointed.

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Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 49 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, been pleased to make the following appointments:—

Lawrence Johnsen

to be a member of the Luggate Domain Board, in place of James Smith, resigned.

Alfred Lennox Jones

to be a member of the Mangere Domain Board, in place of Ernest Kirk, resigned.

William Henry Wackrow

to be a member of the Arawa Park Domain Board, in place of John Neil McLean, resigned.

Edward George Knight

to be a member of the Patumahoe Domain Board, in place of Edwin St. Clair Syme, resigned.

Ernest John Nash

to be a member of the Frasertown Domain Board, in place of Sidney Ralph Standing, left the district.

Job Hughes,
Archibald Morrison Laing, and
Charles Hogg

to be members of the Blackball Domain Board, in place of William Parsonage, Thomas Sneddon, and William Stirling, resigned.

T. K. SIDEY, for Minister of Lands.