Feb. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 367

Declaring a certain Area to be a Sanctuary under the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921-22.—Taranaki Acclimatization District.

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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 notify and declare the area described in the Schedule hereto to be a sanctuary for the purposes of the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

AREA AT LAKE MANGAMAHOE.

All that parcel of land owned by the New Plymouth Borough Council and situate in the Taranaki Land District, containing 177 acres 2 roods 2-4 perches, more or less, being Section 166 and parts of Sections 12, 13, 25, 53, 54, 55, 161, and 166 on the public maps of Hua and Waiwakaiho Hundred (situated in Block X, Paritutu Survey District, and Block III, Egmont Survey District), and being the whole of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 108, folio 174 (Taranaki Registry).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 13th day of February, 1935.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(H.A. 1934/37/14.)

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Appointment of Officer for the Purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908.

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BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section two of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, I, Charles, Baron Bledisloe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Alfred William Brabbing Watkinson

an officer for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of February, 1935.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Health.

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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

Archibald James Roy Flott,

being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Postmaster at Maclennan, 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 19th day of February, 1935.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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Appointing Members of the Survey Board under the Surveyors Registration Act, 1928.

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Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 15th February, 1935.

PURSUANT to the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section 3 of the Surveyors Registration Act, 1928, I, Ethelbert Alfred Ransom, Minister of Lands for the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint, as from the first day of January, 1935, the undermentioned persons to be members of the Survey Board constituted by the said Act:—

George Henry Bullard,
William Stewart,
Archibald Hugh Bogle, and
Charles Kirkpatrick Grierson,

the last-mentioned two persons having been recommended by the Surveyors’ Institute as required by the said Act.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 7199.)

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Official Member of Tongariro Maori Council appointed.

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Native Department,
Wellington, 12th February, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Edward Christmas

to be the Official Member of the Maori Council for the Maori Council District of Tongariro, vice William Butler, transferred.

GEO. W. FORBES, Native Minister.

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Honorary Consul of Uruguay at Wellington appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th February, 1935.

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

David Allan, Esquire,

to act as Honorary Consul of Uruguay at Wellington has been recognized.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1935/60/1.)

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Consul of Finland at Sydney appointed.

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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th February, 1935.

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

Paavo Simelius, Esquire,

as Consul of Finland at Sydney has been recognized.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1933/60/18.)

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Coroners appointed.

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 20th February, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Edgar Wilmshurst Bernard, Esquire,

of Raglan, and

Wallace Edwin Yates, Esquire,

of Waipawa, to be Coroners for the Dominion of New Zealand.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

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Appointments in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

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Navy Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointments in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy:—

Captain The Honourable Edmund Rupert Drummond, M.V.O., Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Dunedin,” additional, to date 9th March, 1935, and in command as Commodore 2nd Class, Commodore Commanding New Zealand Station and Naval Forces, and First Naval Member of the New Zealand Naval Board, vice Rear Admiral Burges Watson, from date of hoisting broad pendant.

Paymaster Commander Humphrey Kenrick Totton, Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Dunedin,” additional, to date 24th January, 1935, and vice Fenton, and as Squadron Accountant Officer from date of joining.

Captain Maurice Marchant, Royal Marines, to H.M.S. “Dunedin,” additional, to date 21st February, 1935, and vice Priestly, and as Squadron Royal Marine Officer from date of joining.

Sub-Lieutenant Denis Roy Newton Murdoch, Royal Navy, to H.M.S. “Diomede,” to date 27th December, 1934.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.