JAN. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 153

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

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th January, 1932.

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 Nelson Acclimatization District :—

Fergus Noble Adams, of Nelson,
Harold Stanley Silcock, of Nelson,
Henry John Byrne, of Nelson, and
Ralph Bernard Newport, of Nelson,

ADAM HAMILTON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 25/23/12.)

Consul of France at Auckland appointed.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th January, 1932.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that His Majesty’s Exequatur empowering Monsieur Edouard Marie Victorien Marcel Joubert to act as Consul of France, at Auckland, for New Zealand, the Cook, Suwarrow, Penrhyn, and Palmerston Islands, and Western Samoa, has been issued.

ADAM HAMILTON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 13/35/23.)

Appointment of Honorary Vice-Consul of Spain, at Wellington, for New Zealand, and the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa, recognized.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th January, 1932.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that the appointment of Alexander Kenneth Scobie Mackenzie, Esquire, as honorary Vice-Consul of Spain at Wellington for New Zealand and the Mandated Territory of Western Samoa has been recognized.

ADAM HAMILTON,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 13/35/10.)

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st January, 1932.

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

Henry Moody Hopper,
William Slaughter,
George Francis Grieve,
Frederick Wilson,
John Jackson,
Ernest Allan Wood,
John Roland Hanlon,
Cecil Porter Smith,
Ernest William Frederick Gohns,
Joseph Lowden,
Walter James Wakelin,
Percy Henry Kinsman,
Murdoch Ross,
Frederick George Davies,
Rowland Thomas Bailey,
Noel Harry Graham,
George McKessar,
Stanley Earle McGregor,
George Henry Lightfoot,
Archibald Thomas Grandison, and
Peter Carl Weenink,

to be District Registrars of Apprentices for the purposes of the Apprentices Act, 1923, as from the 1st day of January, 1932.

Constable William John Irwin,

to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Kaitangata for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, as from the 6th day of January, 1932.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Notifying Land in the Otago Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 6th January, 1932.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, I hereby notify that the undermentioned land, being the land known as Arthurton Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Act, is subject to the said Act as from the 30th March, 1931.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—ARTHURTON SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 4,502 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Sections 25, 27, 28, 29, part 22, part 23, part 24, part 26, Block VII, 13, 14, 15, 16, part 11, part 12, part 17, part 18, Block XVI, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, Block XVII, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Block XVIII, Waipahi Survey District, and bounded as follows : Commencing at the north-west corner of Section 4, Block XVIII ; thence towards the north and north-east by Sections 3 and 4, Block XIII, a public road, and a closed road, 18701·6 links ; towards the west by the crossing of a closed road and Section 68, Block VII, 629·5 links ; towards the north-west by a public road, 5171·5 links ; towards the north by Section 37, Block VII, 6547·1 links ; towards the east by Section 8, Block VII, 2494 links ; towards the south-east generally by other part of Sections 22, 23, 24, Block VII, 5249·7 links, by a public road, 128 links ; towards the south-east, south-west, and south-east by other part of Sections 26, Block VII, 6, 7, 8, and 9, Block XVII, 15336·9 links ; towards the south-west by other part of Sections 5, 6, Block XVII, 17 and 18, Block XVI, 11974·2 links, by a public road, 515·1 links ; towards the south-east by other part of Sections 11 and 12, Block XVI, 7514·6 links ; towards the west generally by the road along the bank of the Waipahi River, 40230 links, to the point of commencement : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less : and excepting from the above-described parcel of land four intersecting closed roads, a deduction for which has been made from the area. As the same is more particularly shown on the plan marked L. and S. 21/149/817, deposited under No. 2530 in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/817.)

Waitaki County Council.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan Authority.

In the matter of Section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Waitaki County Council has been duly authorized to borrow by way of special loan the sum of three thousand two hundred and ninety pounds (£3,290) in respect of sealing the Christchurch–Dunedin Main Highway between Waitaki River and Shag Point, and the consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loan was given by Order in Council made on the fourteenth day of October, 1929, and published in the Gazette on the 17th day of the same month, at page 2664 :

And whereas in respect of the said sum of three thousand two hundred and ninety pounds (£3,290) there has been raised and borrowed for the purpose aforesaid the sum of two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds nine shillings and twopence (£2,999 9s. 2d.), and it has not been found necessary to borrow the whole of the amount so authorized :

And whereas the Minister of Finance has duly notified the Waitaki County Council in writing of his intention to cancel the loan authority in so far as it has not been exercised :

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, I, George William Forbes, Acting Minister of Finance, do hereby cancel the authority of the Waitaki County Council to borrow, under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to, the sum of two hundred and ninety pounds ten shillings and tenpence (£290 10s. 10d.), being the amount in respect of which the said loan authority has not been exercised : Provided always that this cancellation is without prejudice to the validity in all respects of the loan of two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds nine shillings and two pence (£2,999 9s. 2d.) already borrowed pursuant to the said loan authority.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of January, 1932.

GEO. W. FORBES,
Acting Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/481.)