Mar. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 763

Declaring Portions of Road in Blocks X and XIV, Pohangina Survey District, to be Government Roads.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 29th day of March, 1939.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the Public Works Act, 1928, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order in Council, become Government roads.

SCHEDULE.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 97968, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured green.

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

(P.W. 62/9/439/0.)

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.

Albert Watson Parker, Chief Postmaster, Blenheim.

Charles Warden Browne, Chief Postmaster, Greymouth.

Otto Eigil List, Postmaster, Hawera.

Clifford George Spencer, Postmaster and Telephonist, Opapa.

James Hugh Gosset, Postmaster and Telephonist, Te Kaha.

Bruce McFarlane, Any Office, Relieving Officer.

Reginald Sheen, Any Office, Relieving Officer.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 22nd day of March, 1939.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Notice bringing Part of Railway Reserve within the operation of the Mining Act, 1926.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by section twenty-five of the Mining Act, 1926, and of every other power and authority enabling me in this behalf, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare that the part of the railway reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall be brought within the operation of the Mining Act, 1926; and do hereby further declare that this notice shall take effect as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area of land in the Westland Land District containing an area of six acres three roods thirty-two perches (6 acres 3 roods 32 perches), more or less, being a portion of railway reserve near Ngahere on the Ngahere to Blackball Branch Railway and being bounded as follows: On the south-west generally by the boundary of the railway land distances of 1216 links, 318 links, 242·4 links, and 309·5 links; on the north-west by the boundary of the railway land a distance of 370 links; on the north-east by a line parallel to and one hundred feet (100 ft.) distant from the centre-line of the said railway a distance of 1880 links; and on the south-east by a line at right angles to the said south-western boundary a distance of 358·48 links. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked N.10/13/1883, deposited in the office of the Mines Department at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, this 22nd day of March, 1939.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 10/13/1883.)

Appointing Additional Members to Ohakune Lakes Scenic Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-second day of that month, the control of a certain reserve in the Wellington Land District, known as the Ohakune Lakes Scenic Reserve, was vested in certain persons therein named, who were by the said Warrant constituted a special Board by the name of the Ohakune Lakes Scenic Board, in pursuance of section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908:

And whereas it is considered desirable that the membership of the said Board should be increased:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, doth hereby appoint

Lewis Edmund Jordan, and

Laurence Watty Nation

to be additional members of the Ohakune Lakes Scenic Board constituted by the Warrant dated the twentieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four, hereinbefore referred to.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of March, 1939.

FRANK LANGSTONE,

Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/341.)