Declaring Road-lines adjoining or intersecting Land in Rosebery Settlement, Otago Land District, to be closed, and the Land comprised therein to be subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS a report has been received from the Surveyor-General, from which it appears that the roads described in the Schedule hereto are unformed and unused, and that the said roads are adjacent to or intersect land acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), and are not suitable to the subdivision of such land:

Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section one hundred and six of the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anyway enabling me in this behalf, do hereby close the roads hereinafter described; and I do hereby declare that the land comprised in the said roads shall thereupon become subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of roads to be closed:

A. R. P.

2 1 4 Adjoining Sections 25, 26, 27, 99, Block I, Papakaio Survey District.

1 3 25 Adjoining Sections 190, 191, 192, 193, Block IV, Papakaio Survey District.

2 0 5 Passing through Section 209, Block IV, Papakaio Survey District.

0 0 10 Passing through Section 209, Block IV, Papakaio Survey District.

1 3 8 Passing through Sections 197, 198, Block IV, Papakaio Survey District.

3 3 36 Adjoining Sections 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, Block IV, Papakaio Survey District.

0 1 29 Passing through Sections 67, 89, Block I, Papakaio Survey District.

0 1 19 Passing through Sections 89, 90, Block I, Papakaio Survey District.

0 0 17 Passing through Section 90, Block I, Papakaio Survey District.

0 1 7 Adjoining Section 91, Block I, Papakaio Survey District, and Section 1 of Section 34, Block XIII, Oamaru Survey District.

In the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 21/149/277, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2372, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of June, 1930.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/277.)

Warrant vesting the Control of the Otorohanga Eastern and Otorohanga Western Bridges over the Waipa River in the Otorohanga County Council, and apportioning the Cost of Maintenance.

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 anyway enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby direct that the Otorohanga Eastern and Otorohanga Western Bridges over the Waipa River, 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 Otorohanga County Council; and I do hereby further direct that the cost of maintaining the said bridges shall be borne by the Otorohanga County Council and the Otorohanga Town Board in the following proportions—viz.: the Otorohanga County Council shall bear seventy (70) per centum of such cost and the Otorohanga Town Board shall bear thirty (30) per centum of such cost, respectively; and I do also further direct that any contribution hereby required to be made as aforesaid by the Otorohanga Town Board shall be paid from time to time in the proportion hereinbefore prescribed, out of the funds of the said Board, within a period of one month after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Otorohanga County Council, and that such payment shall be made from time to time to the Clerk, Otorohanga County Council, for and on behalf of the said Town Board,

SCHEDULE.

THAT bridge over the Waipa River at Otorohanga, on the boundary between the Otorohanga County and the Otorohanga Town District, known as the Eastern Bridge, and situated in the Auckland Land District, on the Auckland–Wellington via Taranaki Main Highway.

Also that bridge over the Waipa River at Otorohanga, on the boundary between the Otorohanga County and the Otorohanga Town District, known as the Western Bridge, and situated in the Auckland Land District on the Otorohanga-Honikiwi Main Highway.

As the sites of the said bridges are shown on the plan marked P.W.D. 78102, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of June, 1930.

P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,

For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/59.)

Exempting Crown Land in the Westland Land District from the Operation of Part III (State Coal-mines) of the Coal-mines Act, 1925.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by subsection two of section one hundred and seventy-one of the Coal-mines Act, 1925, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the lands described in the Schedule hereto shall be exempt from the operation of Part III of the Coal-mines Act, 1925, and do hereby further declare that this notice shall take effect as from the date of gazetting hereof.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Westland Land District, containing approximately 3 roods 3 perches, being Section 10, Block X, and Sections 1 and 6, Block XI, Town of Runanga, being land set apart by notice in New Zealand Gazette, No. 67, dated the 14th July, 1921, page 1903, for State Coal-mines purposes, situated in Blocks II and III, Cobden Survey District. As the same is delineated on the plan marked Mines N. 6/10/1, deposited in the Head Office, Mines Department, at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of June, 1930.

JOHN G. COBBE, for Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 6/10/1.)

Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, 1927, amended.—Amendments No. 23.

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 regulations for the Military Forces of the Dominion of New Zealand, published in the New Zealand Gazette dated the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven; and I do hereby declare that the amendments hereby made shall take effect as from date of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES, 1927.

1. PARAGRAPH 854 is hereby revoked and the following substituted:

Books to be kept by units, &c.

“854. The publications shown in Appendix XVI of these regulations will be issued without requisition direct by G.H.Q. Stationery Office to the headquarters, units, and areas laid down therein. Each headquarters, unit, or area will be responsible for the sub-issue of its allotment of manuals and publications to its own personnel. Replacements up to 10 per cent. per annum of the authorized issue may be demanded by requisition on the Stationery Office, General Headquarters, annually on the 1st June, accompanied by an explanation of the loss.