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Opening Land in Wellington Land District for Sale or Selection.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Land Act, 1924, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare and provide as follows, that is to say:

1. The rural land enumerated in the Schedule hereto is hereby set apart for disposal by way of sale or selection on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, on the terms specified in the said Schedule, and for the purposes of section one hundred and thirty-three of the Land Act, 1924, the said land shall be deemed to be “scrub” land.

2. The said land may be purchased for cash, or on deferred payments, or be selected on renewable lease.

3. After the first half-year’s rent (or the deposit on deferred payments, as the case may be) has been paid by the selector, the further instalments of rent (or such parts of the instalments on deferred payments as consist of interest), payable by him for the period specified in the Schedule hereto, shall not be demanded: Provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the land the rent or interest so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent or interest payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WAIMARINO COUNTY.— WHIRINAKI SURVEY DISTRICT.

THIRD-CLASS LAND.

(Exempt from the payment of rent or interest for two years.)

SECTION 10, Block VIII: Area, 1,343 acres. Capital value, £500. Deposit on deferred payments, £25; half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £15 8s. 9d. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £10.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of August, 1934.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. XI/4/490.)

Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, 1927, amended.

AMENDMENTS No. 39.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General, do hereby amend in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto the regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces published in the Gazette dated the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, and I do hereby declare that the amendments hereby made shall take effect as from the date of publication in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES, 1927.

1. AFTER paragraph 104B add:—

“104C. In the absence of any provision for a first-appointment examination for a commission in the N.Z. Dental Corps Certificates ‘A’ (Medical) and ‘B’ (Medical) will be recognized as provided for in paragraph 114A.”

2. Paragraph 114A: (i) Before the word “Holders” in line 1, insert “Subject to the provisions of paragraph 114.” (ii) After the word “Corps” in line 6, insert “or in the N.Z. Dental Corps if no special examination for first appointment to that Corps is otherwise provided for.”

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3. Paragraphs 443 and 446 are hereby revoked, and the following substituted :—

“443. (a) All persons subject to military law are forbidden to publish in any form whatever, or to communicate, either directly or indirectly, to the press, any military information or their views on any military subject without special authority.

“(b) Any information of a professional nature which an officer or soldier may acquire while travelling or employed on duty is to be regarded as the property of the Defence Department, and is not to be published in any form without the permission of the General Officer Commanding.

“(c) When application is made for permission to publish any article or deliver any public lecture or wireless address, the document will be typewritten and will be submitted in duplicate direct to General Headquarters. A statement will be enclosed from the authority under whom the applicant is immediately serving that such authority has no objection to permission being applied for. Permission to publish will apply only to the article as submitted. It will not convey official endorsement of its contents, and no statement tending to imply official approval or endorsement is to be included in any part of the publication, nor is permission to be referred to in any way.

“446. Any communication affecting the N.Z. Military Forces generally, or any arm or branch of the Service, which it may be considered desirable to make to the press will be made by the Minister of Defence.

“In Commands, communications to the press may be made only when they affect solely the Command concerned, and in this case they will be made by Command Headquarters, or by an officer authorized by Command Headquarters to do so.”

4. Paragraph 795: Add at end of table:—

Under “Flag Station” “G.H.Q. Training Depot, Trentham Military Camp Under “N.Z. Ensign” 6 ft. by 3 ft. 1*++”

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

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

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 Patrick James Burke, being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Postmaster at Frankton Junction, 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 18th day of August, 1934.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Revoking the Warrant apportioning the Cost of Maintaining Ronaldsay Street between the Palmerston Borough Council and the Waikouaiti County Council.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers and authorities in anyway enabling me in this behalf, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant dated the twelfth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and published in Gazette No. 24 of the fourteenth day of the same month, apportioning the cost of maintaining Ronaldsay Street between the Palmerston Borough Council and the Waikouaiti County Council.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, this 14th day of August, 1934.

JOHN BITCHENER, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/16/101/4.)