JULY 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1495

James Baker, Esquire, of Wellington, Inspecting
Engineer of the Public Works Department, was appointed
to be an acting member of the Main Highways Board
in terms of subsection five of section five of the Main
Highways Act, 1922;

And whereas the said Charles John McKenzie has
tendered his resignation from the Main Highways
Board, and it is considered expedient to accept such
resignation and to cancel the appointments of Thomas
Abram Barrow as a member in terms of subsection
three, clause (a), of section five of the said Act and of
Alfred James Baker as an acting member of the said
Board and to make other appointments;

Now, therefore, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount
Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred upon me by the Main Highways
Act, 1922, and of all other powers and authorities
enabling me in this behalf, do hereby accept the
resignation of the said Charles John McKenzie as a
member and Chairman of the Main Highways Board,
and I do hereby cancel as from the date hereof the
appointments of Charles John McKenzie as a member
and Chairman of the Main Highways Board, and of
Thomas Abram Barrow as member of the said Board,
and of Alfred James Baker as an acting member of the
said Board;

And in further pursuance and exercise of the said
powers and authorities I do hereby appoint as from
the date hereof

John Wood, Esquire, of Wellington, Engineer-in-Chief
of the Public Works Department,

to be Chairman of the Main Highways Board; and

Alfred James Baker, Esquire, of Wellington, Assistant
Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department,
to be a member of the Main Highways Board in terms
of subsection three, clause (a), of section five of the
Main Highways Act, 1922; and

Thomas Abram Barrow, Esquire, of Wellington,
Accountant in the Public Works Department,
to be a member of the Main Highways Board in terms
of subsection three, clause (b), of section five of the
Main Highways Act, 1922; and

Henry Hey Sharp, Esquire, of Wellington, Inspecting
Engineer of the Public Works Department,
to be an acting member of the Main Highways Board
in terms of subsection five of section five of the Main
Highways Act, 1922, to act in the event of the absence
of any member from any meeting of the Board.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 24th day of July, 1936.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/25.)

Declaring Land in Nelson Land District to be subject to the
Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
(hereinafter referred to as “the said land”) is
Crown land not acquired under the Land for Settlements
Act, 1925, and is adjacent to certain settlement land
known as the Maruia Settlement, and can conveniently be
disposed of therewith :

Now, therefore, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount
Galway, Governor -General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, acting in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred upon me by section one
hundred and five of the said Act, as amended by section
ten of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1935, and on
the recommendation of the Dominion Land Purchase
Board, and after considering the report of the Nelson
District Land Board, do hereby declare the said land to
be subject to the first-mentioned Act to the intent that
it shall hereupon be deemed to be portion of the said
Maruia Settlement, and may be disposed of accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 10, Block VII, Rahu Survey District : Area, 23 acres
0 roods 31 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 22nd day of July, 1936.

W. LEE MARTIN,
For Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 6/1/549.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Southland
Electric-power Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery
Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as “the said
Act”), His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the scenic
reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved
under the said Act) in the Southland Electric-power Board,
subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to
say :—

1. The period for which the control of the reserve is hereby
   vested shall be five years from the date hereof, unless the
   reservation is previously altered or revoked under the said
   Act.

2. The said Board shall prepare a report each year ending
   on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of
   receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserve.
   Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister
   charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as
   possible after the close of the year.

3. The said Board shall control the said reserve in accord-
   ance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations
   made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—LAKE MONOWAI SCENIC
RESERVE.

ALL that area containing 60,100 acres, more or less, situate
in Monowai, Cloughearn, and Rauroko Survey Districts, and
bounded as follows : Towards the north-east by a right line
between Trig. D and Eldrig Peak ; again towards the north-
east by a right line to Mount Burns ; towards the north-west
by a right line to White Peak ; towards the south generally
by the summit of the Kaherekoau Mountains and through
Ardcer Peak and Knoll Peak ; towards the east and south-
cast by a State Forest (Gazette, 1934, page 2195) to the
southern boundary of Section 2, Block V, Monowai Survey
District ; towards the north by the aforesaid Section 2 and a
right line to Lake Monowai ; towards the east and north by
the edge of the aforesaid lake ; towards the south-west
generally by Lake Road and Pastoral Run No. 463. As the
same is more particularly delineated on plan marked L. and
S. 4/300, and deposited in the Head Office, Department of
Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 22nd day of July, 1936.

W. LEE MARTIN,
For Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/300.)

Lands temporarily reserved in the Canterbury and Otago Land
Districts.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section
of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-
General may from time to time set apart temporarily as
reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held
under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion
are required for any of the purposes mentioned :

Now, therefore, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve the
lands in the Canterbury and Otago Land Districts described
in the Schedule hereunder written for the purposes specified at
the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended
to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by
admeasurement 66 acres 2 roods 17 perches, more or less, and
being Reserve No. 4056, situated in Block XII, Rangiora
Survey District, and bounded as follows : Towards the north
by Reserve No. 807, 1840 links ; towards the east by a two-
chain road reserve, 3630-4 links ; towards the south by
Reserve No 4057, 1849 links ; and again towards the west by
Reserve No. 3728, 3637 links.

Also all that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing
by admeasurement 56 acres 2 roods 22 perches, more or less,
and being part of Reserve No. 4058, situated in Block XII of