MAY 9.]

And whereas the said Alfred James Baker has tendered his resignation from the Main Highways Board, and it is considered expedient to accept such resignation and to appoint another member in his stead:

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 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 Alfred James Baker as a member of the Main Highways Board and I do hereby cancel as from the date hereof the appointment of Alfred James Baker as a 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

William Langston Newnham, Esquire, of Wellington, Second 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.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of May, 1940.

R. SIMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/25.)

Cancelling the Appointment of the Deputy Chairman of the Main Highways Board and appointing a Deputy Chairman of the said Board.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

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 in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby cancel as from the date hereof the appointment of Alfred James Baker, Esquire, of Wellington, as the Deputy Chairman of the Main Highways Board, and do hereby appoint as from the date hereof, William Langston Newnham, Esquire, of Wellington, Second Assistant Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, to be the Deputy Chairman of the said Board in terms of section seven of the Main Highways Amendment Act, 1936.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 1st day of May, 1940.

R. SIMPLE, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 62/25.)

Lands permanently reserved.

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 in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-sixtieth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas by the seventy-first section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, it is further provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of lands acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrant, the date of which is specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notification of which was published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

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 said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

First Column.

DESCRIPTION OF RESERVES.

Second Column.
Purposes for which Land reserved.

Third Fourth Column.
Column. Date of Gazette.
Land District Locality Section. Block. Area. Warrant.

Auckland Teasdale Settlement 124 .. A. R. P. 1940. 1940.
" " " 125 .. 0 1 2 Drainage.. 1 Feb. No. 11, 8 Feb.
" " " 126 .. 0 0 28.6 " " "
Wellington Pahiatua Village 77 and 78 .. } 0 0 20.1 " " "
Settlement
Mangahao S.D.* .. .. XVIII 9 3 31 Cemetery " "
Nelson Mawheraiti S.D. .. 17 III 2 1 34 Recreation " "
Westland Bruce Bay S.D. .. Reserve 1232 IX 5 0 0 General Government " "
Otago Waihola S.D. .. 11 XXIV 15 3 20 Recreation " "

• Survey District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of April, 1940.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 19345.)