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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 27th day of January, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/754/1.)

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 containing by admeasurement 1 rood 5·32 perches, more or less, being Section 1 of Block XXXII of the Hutt Valley Settlement, and being portion of Section 26, Hutt Registration District, Block XIV, Belmont Survey District. As the same is delineated on plan numbered 169/29, 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 27th day of January, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/754/1.)

Lands temporarily reserved in the Auckland Land District for a Site for an Aerodrome.

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:

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 temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Auckland Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written, for a site for an aerodrome.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 79 acres 0 roods 12·86 perches, more or less, being Section 80, Suburbs of Rotorua: Bounded towards the north by Te Mapu Street; towards the east by Cemetery Road; towards the south by Sala Street; and towards the west by Fenton Street. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3455c, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 5 acres 2 roods 6·03 perches, more or less, being Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; 11, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41 of Section 82, Suburbs of Rotorua: Bounded towards the north by Maida Vale Street, 1582·2 links; towards the east by Hilda Street, 350 links; towards the south by Te Mapu Street, 1582·2 links; and towards the west by Fenton Street, 350 links. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3455D, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods 24·6 perches, more or less, being Lots 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29 of Section 82, Suburbs of Rotorua: Bounded towards the north by Maida Vale Street, 1354·2 links; towards the east by a public street, 350 links; towards the south by Te Mapu Street, 1354·2 links; and towards the west by Hilda Street, 350 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3455D, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (Auckland plans S.O. 21358 and S.O. 22866.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of January, 1931.

A. E. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/3455.)

Inspectors of Scenic Reserves appointed.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

William Reynolds Carey,

John Fuller Esson, and

Arthur Gooch

to be Inspectors under the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of January, 1931.

E. A. RANSOM,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/448.)

Appointing a Member of the Auckland Harbour Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection three of section thirty-eight of the Harbours Act, 1923, that in the event of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of a non-elective member of a Harbour Board, the Governor-General shall, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place:

And whereas Ernest Aldridge, a non-elective member of the Auckland Harbour Board, has resigned his office, and an extraordinary vacancy in the membership of the Board has been created, and it is desirable to appoint a qualified person in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby appoint Arthur James Parker to be a member of the Auckland Harbour Board in the place of the said Ernest Aldridge, resigned.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 27th day of January, 1931.

JAS. B. DONALD, Minister of Marine.

Trustee of the Hokitika Racecourse Reserve appointed.

Lands and Survey Office,

Wellington, 27th January, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 6 of the Hokitika Racecourse Reserve Act, 1884, been pleased to appoint

Francis McGregor

to be a trustee of the Hokitika Racecourse Reserve in the place of Gerald Dee, who has been absent from the Dominion for the space of twelve consecutive calendar months.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 28866.)

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, appointed.—Notice No. Ag. 2948.

Department of Agriculture,

Wellington, 31st January, 1931.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

George William Curnow

as an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, for the Maioro Rabbit Board’s district, the appointment to date from the 27th day of January, 1931.

A. J. MURDOCH, Minister of Agriculture.