2970

8. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting
   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.

SCHEDULE.

LAKE KANIERE SCENIC RESERVE.—WESTLAND LAND
DISTRICT.

RESERVE 1177, Blocks VI, VII, XI, XII, XV, and XVI,
Kaniere Survey District : Area, 18,260 acres, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of September, 1934.
E. A. RANSOM,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. 4/176.)

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
Cecil Ernest Anthony Francis,
being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office
of Postmaster at Ongarue, 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 17th day of September, 1934.
JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Exempting Crown Land in the Westland Land District from the
Operation of Part III of the Coal-mines Act, 1925.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by subsection two of section one
hundred and seventy-one of the Coal-mines Act, 1925, and of
all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf,
I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the land described in
the Schedule hereto shall be exempt from the operation of
Part III of the Coal-mines Act, 1925, and do hereby further
declare that this notice shall take effect as from the date of
the gazetting hereof.

SCHEDULE.
ALL that area in the Westland Land District, containing 668
acres, more or less, situated in Block II, Cobden Survey
District, bounded as follows: Commencing at the south-western corner of Section 187, Block II, Cobden Survey
District; thence running 271° 51' 21" to the summit of the
Rapahoe Range; thence running northerly along the summit
of the Rapahoe Range to the south-eastern boundary of
Section 3177; thence running 64° 29' 20" for 4589·5 links;
thence 138° 44' for 105·1 links; thence 150° 27' for 3808·9
links; thence 194° 55' for 1940·8 links; thence 272° 06' for
2026·1 links; thence 187° 10' for 2414·1 links; thence
185° 18' for 1841·9 links; thence 185° 17' for 2403·4 links;
thence 183° 25' for 4921 links; and thence 181° 51' 21" for
1487·1 links, to the point of commencement. As the same
is delineated on plan numbered N. 6/4/17, and deposited in
the Head Office of the Mines Department at Wellington, and
thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 7th day of September, 1934.
CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Mines.
(Mines N. 6/4/17.)

No. 71

Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1908.—Public Auditors
appointed.

Stamp Duties Department,
Wellington, 13th September, 1934.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Algernon Instone Rainbow,
William Barton Hobbs, and
Edward Nesbitt
as Public Auditors under section 19 of the Industrial and
Provident Societies Act, 1908.
J. G. COATES, Minister of Stamp Duties.

Member of Whangarei Maori Council appointed.
Native Department,
Wellington, 13th September, 1934.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Togo Pitman
to be a member of the Maori Council for the Maori Council
District of Whangarei, vice Mohi Kawe Tito, resigned.
A. T. NGATA, Native Minister.

Consul of Poland at Sydney appointed.
Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th September, 1934.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be
notified that His Majesty's Exequatur empowering
Wladyslaw Noskowski, Esquire,
to act as Consul of Poland at Sydney, for the Dominion of
New Zealand, has been issued.
J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 1933/60/27.)

Appointments, Promotions, and Transfers of Officers of the
N.Z. Military Forces.
Department of Defence,
Wellington, 13th September, 1934.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to approve of the following appointments, promotions,
and transfers of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces:

THE AUCKLAND MOUNTED RIFLES.
Captain S. C. Reid, M.C., from the Reserve of Officers, to be
Captain and Quartermaster, with seniority from 17th
February, 1928. Dated 30th August, 1934.

THE MANAWATU MOUNTED RIFLES.
Captain B. H. Pringle, from the Wellington East Coast
Mounted Rifles, to be Captain, with seniority from 2nd
October, 1931. Dated 29th August, 1934.

THE WELLINGTON EAST COAST MOUNTED RIFLES.
Captain B. H. Pringle is transferred to the Manawatu Mounted
Rifles. Dated 29th August, 1934.

REGIMENT OF N.Z. ARTILLERY.
Lieutenant H. J. Edmonds, The Waikato Regiment, is
attached, and is posted to the 13th Coast Battery. Dated
17th August, 1934.

N.Z. CORPS OF SIGNALS.
Lieutenant H. W. Robins, Central Depot, is transferred to
the Reserve of Officers, Class I (b), R.D. 5. Dated 28th
August, 1934.

THE HAURAKI REGIMENT.
2nd Lieutenant A. A. Delaney (Retired List) to be 2nd
Lieutenant, with seniority from 21st March, 1928, and is
posted to the 1st Battalion. Dated 3rd September, 1934.

THE NORTH AUCKLAND REGIMENT.
Captain C. J. Williams, 2nd Cadet Battalion, is transferred
to the Hawke’s Bay Regiment. Dated 1st February, 1934.