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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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west generally by Sections 16 and 17, Block VII, Blackstone
Survey District, 7100 links : and excepting from the above-
described parcel of land an intersecting strip of Crown land
100 links wide, marked Sludge Channel, a deduction for
which has been made from the area.

Be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same
are more particularly shown on the plan marked L. and S.
21/149/323, deposited, under No. 2517, in the Head Office
of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and
thereon bordered blue.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 26th day of May, 1932.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/323.)

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Setting apart Crown Land under Section 161 of the Land Act, 1924.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by section one hundred and sixty-
one of the Land Act, 1924, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto for disposal
under the section of the Act mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 41 and 42, Block XI, Ruakaka Survey District:
Area, 1 rood 7 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 26th day of May, 1932.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/2170.)

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Appointing a Member of the Wellington Harbour Board.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by section thirty-seven of the
Harbours Act, 1923, that in the case of resignation
of office of a member of a Harbour Board his office shall
become vacant and such vacancy shall be deemed an extra-
ordinary vacancy :

And whereas it is provided by subsection two of section
thirty-eight of the said Act that when an elective member
other than a representative of a constituent district vacates
his office on the Board through the operation of the said
section thirty-seven the Governor-General may, by Warrant
under his hand, appoint some qualified person in his place :

And whereas, Charles McArthur, an elective member of
the Wellington Harbour Board, being a representative of the
payers of dues on ships, has resigned his office, and it is
desirable to appoint a qualified person as a representative
of such payers of harbour dues 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

William Henry Price

to be a member of the Wellington Harbour Board as a repre-
sentative of the payers of dues on ships in the place of the said
Charles McArthur, resigned.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 27th day of May, 1932.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

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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.

Thomas McIntyre Miller . . . . Ohaeawai.
Timothy Joseph Aloysius Morrison Tokomaru Bay.

As witness my hand, this 26th day of May, 1932.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

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Officer appointed 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 Commander Richard Francis Durman, R.N.,
being a person holding the office of Naval Secretary, is author-
ized 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 27th day of May, 1932.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

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Appointing a Trustee of the Ashburton Racecourse Reserve.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th May, 1932.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance
of section 6 of the Ashburton Racecourse Reserve
Act, 1882, been pleased to appoint

John Findlay

to be a member of the Board of Trustees constituted under
the said Act, in place of Thomas Everard Upton, deceased.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 54810.)

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

Marine Department,
Wellington, 25th May, 1932.

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

Percy Butler, of Rotorua,
Keith Richards, of Rotorua,
Alley Clarke, of Rotorua,
Allen Eric Carruthers, of Rotorua,
Herbert Waiwera Hitchon, of Rotorua,
Joseph Henry Higgins, of Rotorua,
Charles Pepper, of Rotorua,
Robert Howard Jones, of Rotorua, and
Alfred Ernest Meredith, of Rotorua,

to be Officers for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned
Act, in respect of the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Marine.

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Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th May, 1932.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointments in the Public Service :—

George Smeaton Clark

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of
Hamilton for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and
Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Hamilton, as from the 19th day of May, 1932.

John Nelson Nalder

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of
Gisborne for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and
Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths, for
the District of Gisborne, as from the 17th day of May,
1932.

Henry Bell Reid

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of
Palmerston for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and
Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the
district of Palmerston North, as from the 16th day of May,
1932.

William Shattock Jones

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of
Wanganui for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and
Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the
district of Wanganui, as from the 26th day of May, 1932.

William Harte

to be the Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of
Timaru, for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and
Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the
District of Timaru, as from the 24th day of May, 1932.

T. MARK, Secretary.