Aug. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2341

6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of such meeting.

7. If by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise the seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself, without reasonable cause, from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor-General shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.

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 charged with the administration of the said Act 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.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 25 perches, more or less, being Tapuinikau A Block, Block IX, Cape Survey District: Bounded towards the north, east, and west by Tapuinikau B 2 Block, Block IX, Cape Survey District, 1641·1 links, and towards the south by the Teikaparua Stream. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 4/504, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured pink.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of August, 1935.

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

(L. and S. 4/504.)

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

GALWAY, 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, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

Mrs. Olive Victoria McArthur, Postmaster, Kotemaori.
Mrs. Margarette Muriel Cowan, Postmaster, Okuru.
Harold Vivian Ward, Postmaster, Oxford.
Leslie Gavin Campbell Bartrum Packard, Postmaster, Te Aro.
Miss Nora Smith, Postmaster, Waiotemarama.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 19th day of August, 1935.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Members of the Hawke’s Bay and Westland Land Boards reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd August, 1935.

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

Charles Cowper Smith

to be a member of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board for a further term of two years as from the 24th August, 1935 ; and

William Searle

to be a member of the Westland Land Board for a further term of two years as from the 25th August, 1935.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/748/2 and 7.)

Appointment of Permit Officers for Purpose of issuing Permits for Camping-sites under the Provisions of Section 14, Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1926.

PURSUANT to the provisions of Regulation 14 (2) of the Taupo Trout-fishing Regulations, 1929, I, James Alexander Young, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

J. A. Asher, Proprietor, Tokaanu Hotel, Tokaanu, and Tokaanu Fishing Lodge, Tongariro Bridge, Turangi,
W. Condon, Government Hatchery, Turangi,
P. A. Grace, Secretary, Tuwharetoa Trust Board, Tokaanu,
K. E. Francis, Ranger, Tokaanu,
A. Kean, Conservator of Fish and Game, Rotorua,
The Postmaster, Taupo,
The Postmaster, Tokaanu,
G. G. Potts, Ranger, Taupo, and
W. J. K. Taylor, Fishing Camp and Store, Turangi,

to be Permit Officers for the purpose of issuing permits for camping-sites.

All previous appointments of Permit Officers under the said regulations are hereby revoked.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 19th day of August, 1935.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1933/76/23.)

Official Visitor under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, within the County of Manukau appointed.

Mental Hospitals Department,
Wellington, 16th August, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Reverend William Charles Wood

to be an Official Visitor under the Mental Defectives Act, 1911, within the County of Manukau.

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

Consul of China at Wellington appointed.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that His Majesty’s Exequatur empowering

Mr. Feng Wang

to act as Consul of China at Wellington has been issued.

J. A. YOUNG, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 1933/60/15.)

Inspector of Sea-fishing appointed.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 16th August, 1935.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Frank Naseby Lemm, of Waitara,

Police Constable, to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of Part I of the first-mentioned Act.

JOHN BITCHENER, for Minister of Marine.

Appointment of Officers for Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 16th August, 1935.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

James Sheavers Duncan, of Oamaru, and
Albert George Fischer, of Oamaru,

to be officers for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act in respect of the Waitaki Acclimatization District.

JOHN BITCHENER, for Minister of Marine.