Dec. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3605

Officer 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

James Rathbon,

being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Postmaster at Te Mawhai, 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 28th day of November, 1935.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Justice.

Exempting Crown Land from certain Provisions of the Mining Act, 1926.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, do hereby exempt the Crown land particularly described in the Second Schedule hereto from the provisions of those sections of the Mining Act, 1926, mentioned in the First Schedule hereto, and do also hereby declare that such exemption shall take effect from the date of the publication of this notice in the New Zealand Gazette.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

THE MINING ACT, 1926.

SECTIONS 144 to 152 (both inclusive).

SECOND SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, containing by admeasurement 114 acres 0 roods 25 perches, more or less, being Section 8, Block II, Waitapu Survey District. As the same is more particularly shown on plan marked N. 6/4/47, deposited in the office of the Mines Department at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of December, 1935.

CHAS. E. MACMILLAN, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 6/4/47.)

Unalienated Crown Land in the Westland Mining District open for Sale.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to section forty-one of the Mining Act, 1926, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the unalienated Crown lands within the Westland Mining District, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be open for sale by public auction at the District Lands and Survey Office, Hokitika, at half past two o’clock p.m. on the eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, in the areas, at the upset prices, and on the terms set forth in the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

WESTLAND MINING DISTRICT. — WESTLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Block IX, Bruce Bay Survey District.—Town of Weld.

Description of Sections.

These are residential sections situated in the Town of Weld at Bruce Bay. The land is flat, inclined to be swampy, with light bush but has ample fall for drainage.

Terms of Sale.

Cash: One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, with certificate-of-title fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter.

Deferred Payments: The deposit of five per centum of the purchase-price, together with £1 1s. (license fee), to be paid on the fall of the hammer. The balance of the purchase-money, with interest thereon at the rate of five and one-half per centum per annum, to be paid by half-yearly instalments extending over a period of 34½ years.

The licensee shall have the right at any time during the currency of the license to pay off either the whole of the purchase-money or any half-yearly instalment or instalments thereof then remaining unpaid.

Upon receipt of the final instalment the certificate of title in respect of the land purchased shall issue upon payment of the prescribed certificate-of-title fee.

General: If the purchaser fails to make any of the prescribed payments by the due date the amount already paid shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale shall be null and void.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of November, 1935.

R. MASTERS, for Minister of Mines.

(L. and S. 25/1189.)

Advisory Counsellor for Arapawa Maori District appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 28th November, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Taniora Love

to be Advisory Counsellor for the Arapawa Maori District.

R. MASTERS, for Native Minister.

Members of the Bledisloe Park Board appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 28th November, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Samuel Honey MacDougall,
Duncan Stanley Burgoyne Heather,
Kathleen Cruickshank,
Horace Albon Ringer,
William Edward Singleton,
Hemana Pokiha,
Heemi te Uara, and
Kiri Tapihana

to be members of the Bledisloe Park Board.

R. MASTERS, for Native Minister.

Members of the Arapawa Maori Council appointed.

Native Department,
Wellington, 28th November, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Makore Love,
Tinirau Piripi,
John Arthur,
Temuera Ruka,
Ngatau Hemi,
Ivor te Puni,
Hoani MacDonald, and
Arthur Frederick Bent (official member),

to be members of the Maori Council for the Arapawa Maori District.

R. MASTERS, for Native Minister.

Additional Members of Domain Boards appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1935.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of section 46 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, to increase the total number of members of—

(1) The Seddonville Soldiers’ Memorial Park Domain Board from seven to eight, and to appoint Leonard Graham as the additional member thereby rendered necessary.

(2) The Pahi Domain Board from five to seven, and to appoint Augustus Tilby and John Wade as the additional members thereby rendered necessary.

E. A. RANSOM, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/706.)