3498
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 144

Setting apart Native Land as a Native Reservation.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of December, 1939.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

PURSUANT to section five of the Native Purposes Act, 1937, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby set apart and reserve the Native freehold land described in the Schedule hereto as a Native reservation for the common use of the Ngati-Iti and Ngati-Pukeko hapus as a meeting-place.

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SCHEDULE.

Block. Area: Survey
A. R. P. District.
Kai Iwi 1A .. 1 0 20 .. XI, Nukumaru.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Recreation Reserve in Canterbury Land District brought under Part II of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 7th day of December, 1939.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the thirty-fourth section of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, do hereby order and declare that the reserve for recreation in the Canterbury Land District described in the Schedule hereto shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of Part II of the said Act, and such reserve shall hereafter form part of the Little River Domain, and be managed, administered, and dealt with as a public domain by the Little River Domain Board.

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SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

RESERVE No. 4280 (formerly part Rural Section 2485), Block II, Akaroa Survey District: Area, 8·2 perches, more or less.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. 1/204.)

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Honorary Inspectors of Scenic Reserves appointed.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

George Edward Lewis Bufton,
Robert Black,
Eric Francis Brown,
Ronald King,
Albert Hugh Blackmore, and
Selwyn Moananui Hovell

to be Honorary Inspectors under the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of December, 1939.

H. G. R. MASON,
For the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/448.)

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Royal Commission to Inquire into and Report upon Colliery Accident at Glen Afton.

GEORGE THE SIXTH by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India:

To our Trusty and Loving Subjects STANLEY LOGAN PATERSON, Esquire, of Hamilton, Stipendiary Magistrate; JOHN CONNELL BROWN, M.B.E., of Westport, retired Mine-manager; JOHN DOWGRAY, Esquire, of Granity, retired Colliery Official; THOMAS OTTO BISHOP, Esquire, of Wellington, Secretary; ANGUS MCLAGAN, Esquire, of Greymouth, Secretary: GREETINGS.

WHEREAS on the 24th day of September, 1939, at the coal-mine at Glen Afton known as the Glen Afton Mine, the property of Glen Afton Collieries, Limited, there occurred an accident as a result of which eleven persons lost their lives: And whereas it is expedient that a Commission should be issued for the purpose of inquiring into the cause of the said accident and into the working of the existing law in respect to the prevention of such accidents and for the other purposes hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, we, reposing trust and confidence in your knowledge, integrity, and ability do hereby constitute and appoint you the said

Stanley Logan Paterson,
John Connell Brown,
John Dowgray,
Thomas Otto Bishop, and
Angus McLagan

to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the matters hereinbefore referred to and into the several other matters mentioned in these presents, that is to say,—

1. To inquire into the cause of the underground fire which was found to have occurred in the said mine on the 24th day of September, 1939.