Feb. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 281

Lands permanently reserved.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, 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 section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-sixtieth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

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 Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

*Survey district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 5th day of February, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

Member of Southland Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 9th February, 1931.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

William Watson

to be a member of the Southland Land Board for a term of two years from 19th February, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/748/10.)

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 11th February, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Henry Charles Collett, Esquire,

to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waipawa, vice J. J. Langridge, Esquire, resigned.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th January, 1931.

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.:

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 10th February, 1931.

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

Walter Parker

to be local Patent Officer at Christchurch for the purposes of section 115 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22, as from the 10th day of December, 1930.

T. MARK, Secretary.

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