Dec. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3699

Also all those areas in the Canterbury Land District, being Reserves Numbers 4263 and 4264 (also known as the Maori Lakes), containing together an area of 97 acres, more or less, situated in Block XV, Heron Survey District, and Blocks III and IV, Tripp Survey District, and bounded on all sides by a one-chain road reserve. As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 23/892/1A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of November, 1930.
R. MASTERS, for Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 23/892/1.)

Land temporarily reserved in the Wellington Land District for Recreation Purposes.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, and the seventy-first section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said sections mentioned:
Now, therefore, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the land in the Wellington Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for recreation purposes.

SCHEDULE.
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—BOROUGH OF LOWER HUTT.
ALL that area in the Borough of Lower Hutt, Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 11·96 perches, more or less, being Section 2 of Block XLV of the Hutt Valley Settlement, and being portion of Section 18, Hutt Registration District, Block XIV, Belmont Survey District : As the same is delineated on plan numbered 134/59, deposited in the Wellington District Office, Department of Lands and Survey, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of October, 1930.
JOHN G. COBBE, for Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 1/754/1.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Summit Road Scenic Reserves Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), in trust, for the purposes of scenery preservation, as from the date of this notice until the second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three (unless previously altered or revoked under the said Act), in the Summit Road Scenic Reserves Board, as constituted by notification dated the second day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and published in Gazette of the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

SCHEDULE.
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.
RESERVE 4259, Block III, Halswell Survey District : Area, 63 acres 1 rood 5 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of October. 1930.
JOHN G. COBBE,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. 4/353.)

Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section three hundred and one of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of

the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Owen Wilder Bamfield, being a person holding the office of District Public Trustee at Te Aroha, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.
As witness my hand this 29th day of November, 1930.
BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

Appointment of Consul of the United States at Wellington recognized.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th November, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that he has recognized the appointment of John W. Dye, Esquire, as Consul of the United States at Wellington.

A. J. STALLWORTHY,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 13/35/11.)

Appointment of Issuing Officer for the Purpose of issuing Licenses to Fish for Trout under the Taupo Trout-fishing Regulations, 1929.

PURSUANT to the provisions of Regulation 2 (2) of the Taupo Trout-fishing Regulations, 1929, I, Philip Aldborough de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize

W. B. Orr, Taupo,
to be an Issuing Officer for the purpose of issuing licenses to fish for trout under the Taupo Trout-fishing Regulations, 1929.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 2nd day of December, 1930.
P. A. DE LA PERRELLE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 26/18/20.)

Justice of the Peace resigns.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by Hubert James Eaves, Esquire, of Otakeho, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Members of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1930.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Frederick King, Esquire,
to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Hawke’s Bay ; and

Harry Frederick Nicoll, Esquire,
to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Mid-Canterbury.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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

Marine Department,
Wellington, 25th November, 1930.

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 William Hall Wilson, of South Dunedin, to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act, in respect of the Otago Acclimatization District.

JAS. B. DONALD, Minister of Marine.