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8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meet-
   ing to be held in the month of April in each year a report of
   the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending
   on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement
   of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year.
   A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the
   Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister in Charge
   of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual
   meeting.

9. The Board shall control the said reserve in accordance
   with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
   made thereunder.

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SCHEDULE.

PONGAROA SCENIC RESERVE.—WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.
Sections 1 to 12, Block IV, Town of Pongaroa: Area, 5 acres
1 rood 35 perches.

Also Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, Block VII, Town of
Pongaroa: Area, 2 acres 3 roods 11 perches.

Also part of Section 5 and Sections 6 to 16 inclusive, Block
XII; parts of Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and Sections 11, 13,
and part Section 14, Block XIII, part Section 16 and Sections
14 and 18 to 24 inclusive, Block IX, Town of Pongaroa;
Section 14, Suburbs of Pongaroa; and roads within the
above area stopped by Proclamation dated 18th February,
1908, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 12, of
the 20th February, 1908, page 608: Area, 48 acres 1 rood
13 perches.

Also Section 24, Pongaroa Suburbs, Block IX, Mount
Cerberus Survey District: Area, 3 roods 30 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 17th day of January, 1934.

E. A. RANSOM,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(I. and S. 326.)

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Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

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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 Royed Jack Stratton Weeber, being an
officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Post-
master at Mataroa, 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 27th day of January, 1934.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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Judge of the Supreme Court appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st January, 1934.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint

Harold Featherston Johnston, Esquire,
Barrister, to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

JOHN G. COBBE, for the Attorney-General.

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Judge of Assessment Court for Farm-land List for Borough
of Mount Eden appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 26th January, 1934.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased,
in terms of section 9 of the Urban Farm Land Rating
Act, 1932, to appoint

Wyvern Wilson, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate, of
Auckland,

to be the Judge of the Assessment Court for the Borough of
Mount Eden.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1933/223/32.)

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Member of the Fireblight Committee of the Te Kauwhata Com-
mercial Fruitgrowing District appointed.—(Notice No.
Ag. 3162.)

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IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me
by clause 13 of Regulation 3 of the Fireblight Com-
mittee Regulations, 1928, under the Orchard-tax Act, 1927, I,
Charles Edward de la Barca Macmillan, Minister of
Agriculture, hereby appoint

Charles Close

to be a member of the Fireblight Committee of the Te
Kauwhata Commercial Fruitgrowing District, established
under the said Act, vice Robert Henry Travers, deceased.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of January, 1934.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Agriculture.

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Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

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Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 30th January, 1934.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have
been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of
Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set
respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

Name. District.
Norman Thomson .. .. Nokomai and Switzers.
Gessenox Alfred Hislop.. .. Wellington.
John Classon Harding .. .. Nelson.
James Daniel McTamney .. Porangahau.
George Clark .. .. East Taieri.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

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Appointments in the Public Service.

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Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 25th January, 1934.

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

Thomas Henry Stewart,

to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and
Deaths for the District of Ruawai, as from the 16th day of
December, 1933.

Douglas Anderson,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Manaia, as
from the 15th day of January, 1934.

Ernest James Keay,

to be Bailiff at the Magistrates’ Court at Timaru for the
purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, and Main-
tenance Officer at the Magistrates’ Court at Timaru for the
purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, as
from the 4th day of January, 1934.

Percival Roy Kennedy,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Maraenui
as from the 5th day of February, 1934.

Arthur King,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Hiruharama,
as from the 5th day of February, 1934.

Riwai Hiwinui Tawhiri,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Whangara,
as from the 5th day of February, 1934.

James Daniel McTamney,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Porangahau,
as from the 11th day of January, 1934.

Albert Frederick Rolland,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Te aha,
as from the 5th day of February, 1934.

William McBride,

to be Assistant Land Registrar at Napier pursuant to the
provisions of section 4 of the Land Transfer Act, 1915, as
from the 16th day of February, 1934.

Edward Collins,

to be District Public Trustee at Nelson, as from the 6th day of
February, 1934.

John James List,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Hastings,
as from the 22nd day of January, 1934.

Edgar Chatterton Baldock,

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Oruanui,
as from the 5th day of February, 1934.

T. MARK, Secretary.