MAR. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 427

Revoking a Sanctuary under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22, and declaring a certain Area to be a Sanctuary, Rotorua Acclimatization District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by section six of the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22 (hereinafter referred to as the “said Act”), I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant made under the said section on the fourteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and published in the Gazette on the seventeenth day of the same month, at page 2817, declaring certain areas in the Rotorua Acclimatization District to be sanctuaries under the said Act in so far as that Warrant relates to the area described under the heading “Certain Areas in the Rotorua Acclimatization District” and numbered “5” in the Schedule to the said Warrant.

And in further pursuance of the said powers do hereby notify and declare the area described in the Schedule hereto to be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

KOHIIKA LAGOON AND CERTAIN OTHER LAND AND WATER ADJOINING.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, being part of Section 108A, Matata Parish, in Block III, Awa-o-te-ata Survey District, containing by admeasurement 570 acres, more or less, including the waters of the Awaiti Stream, all drains and dredge cuts, and the Kohika and all other lagoons thereon, as bounded by the Tarawera River on the western side, by the northern boundary of Section 109 on the southern side, and by the north-eastern bank of the Awati Stream from its junction with the Tarawera River to its intersection with the aforesaid boundary-line of Section 109 at its eastern corner.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of March, 1933.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(L.A. 1933/37/7.)

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Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

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 Edwin Peck, being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Chief Clerk, District Office, Lands and Survey Department, at Blenheim, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 3rd day of March, 1933.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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Chairman and Members of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research appointed.

Wellington, 13th February, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance and by virtue of the powers conferred upon him by section 6 of the Scientific and Industrial Research Act, 1926, and by section 2 of the Scientific and Industrial Research Amendment Act, 1931, has been pleased to appoint—

George Shirtliffe, Esq., O.B.E. to be a member and to be Chairman of the Advisory Council of Scientific and Industrial Research:

Prof. Henry George Denham, M.A., D.Sc., Ph.D.,
Alfred Hyde Cockayne, Esq.,
Prof. John Malcolm, M.D., Ch.B.,
Hugh Vickerman, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.Sc., M.Inst. C.E.,
Theodore Rigg, Esq., M.Sc.,
Archibald Morris Seaman, Esq.,
George Augustus Pascoe, Esq.,

to be the other members of the said Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the appointments to take effect as on and from the 1st day of January, 1933, until the 31st December, 1935.

GEO. W. TORFBS,
Minister in Charge, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

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Member of Marlborough Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey.
Wellington, 7th March, 1933.

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

James Boyd

to be a member of the Marlborough Land Board as from the 10th March, 1933.

E. A. BANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/748/5.)

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Official Visitor, Hokitika Mental Hospital, appointed.

Mental Hospitals Department,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Elizabeth Hudson

to be an Official Visitor under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, within the Provincial District of Westland.

J. A. YOUNG,
Minister in Charge of Mental Hospitals.

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Appointment of Vice-Consul of the United States of America in Wellington recognized.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that the appointment of

Walter W. Hofman, Esquire,

as Vice-Consul of the United States of America in Wellington has been recognized.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(L.A. 1933/60/14.)

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Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 8th March, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Hugh Wright, Esq.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Parnell, vice E. J. Phelan, Esq., resigned.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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Justice of the Peace resigns.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 6th March, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by

Alfred Valentine Allport, Esq.,

of Stoke, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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Appointments and Promotions in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Navy Office,
Wellington, 1st March, 1933.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to confirm the appointment of the undermentioned officer of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division):—

Probationary Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant Kenneth Reid Buck as Paymaster Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 8th February, 1932.

The New Zealand Naval Board have approved the following promotions in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division):—

Petty Officer Howard Leon Mallitte, Official Number 3337, promoted to the rank of Probationary Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 21st February, 1933.

Wybrants Olphert, Leading Seaman, Official Number 3182, promoted to the rank of Probationary Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.), to date 21st February, 1933.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.