APRIL 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 967

Administrator of Western Samoa appointed.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

I, CHARLES, BARON BLEDISLOE, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby in pursuance of the Samoa Act, 1921, appoint you,

Herbert Ernest Hart,

to be Administrator of Western Samoa and to hold that office during my pleasure, and I declare that this appointment shall take effect on and from the eighteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 23rd day of February, 1931.

G. W. FORBES, Minister of External Affairs.

To Brigadier-General Herbert Ernest Hart,
C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D.

Declaring Road-lines adjoining or intersecting Land in Apanui Settlement, Gisborne 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, 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 Land for Settlements Act, 1925, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise 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.

GISBORNE LAND DISTRICT.—OPOTIKI COUNTY.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road to be closed :—

A. B. P.

0 3 0 Adjoining Section 12s, Hukutai Settlement, and passing through Waioeka River-bed.

3 3 10 Adjoining Section 16s, Hukutai Settlement, and passing through Waioeka River-bed.

1 3 5 Passing through accretion, Waiotahi Parish.

7 3 20 Adjoining accretion, Waiotahi Parish, and Allotments 25, 26, 27, 35, 37, Waiotahi Parish.

In Gisborne Land District ; as the same are more particularly delineated on a plan marked L. and S. 16/1886, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, under No. 2476, and thereon coloured green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of April, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 16/1886.)

Officers 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 the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding office in the service of the Crown as stated opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under section three hundred and one of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

St. Julius James Dunne, Accountant, Chief Post Office, Wellington.

Frederick William Mathews, Accountant, Chief Post Office, Christchurch.

As witness my hand, this 31st day of March, 1931.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

Postmasters appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons set out in the Schedule hereto, being persons holding the office of Postmaster under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, at the places set opposite their names in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

Stanley Mark Harrison, Auckland.

John Peter Porteous Clouston, Dunedin.

Albert Irving Flott, Greymouth.

Joseph Hardy Fletcher, Hawera.

Oliver Joseph Wright, Invercargill.

David Pollock Porteous, Marton.

Ivan Innes McGregor, Masterton.

Duncan Malcolm McIntosh, Napier.

George Clark, Oamaru.

Frederick Westland Furby, Palmerston North.

David McCready, Stratford.

Edward Nicholas Pascoe, Te Awamutu.

William Peachey Aldridge, Timaru.

As witness my hand, this 31st day of March, 1931.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

Members of Local Government Loans Board appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 31st March, 1931.

IN pursuance of section 4 (1) (b) of the Local Government Loans Board Act, 1926, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be members of the Local Government Loans Board for a further period of one year from 1st April, 1931 :—

R. A. Anderson, Esquire, C.M.G., of Invercargill.

G. C. Godfrey, Esquire, of Wellington.

W. J. Holdsworth, Esquire, of Auckland.

G. A. Lewin, Esquire, of Dunedin.

S. A. R. Mair, Esquire, of Hunterville.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Finance.

(T. 40/416/2.)

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

Department of Internal Affairs.
Wellington, 30th March, 1931.

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 undermentioned person has been appointed a Ranger under and for the purposes of that Act for the Whangarei Acclimatization District.

David Lang, of Waipu.

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

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

Rangers under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th March, 1931.

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 undermentioned persons have been appointed Rangers under and for the purposes of that Act for the Auckland Acclimatization District.

James Phillips, of Moumoukai, Hunua.

Stephen William Duder, of Clevedon, and

Jack Clow, of Ness Valley, via Clevedon.

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

(I.A. 25/23/4.)