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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

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 John William Velvin, being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Accountant at the post-office at Palmerston North, 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 29th day of May, 1940.

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

Appointment of Officer for the Purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by section two of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Douglas Hopkins

to be an officer for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of May, 1940.

H. T. ARMSTRONG, Minister of Health.

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

GALWAY, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926, it is, inter alia, enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, exempt any Crown lands from mining, or from any specified mining purpose, or from that Act, or any specified provisions of that Act, and that the lands to which any such notice relates shall be specified therein by words of particular description:

And whereas it is desirable that the Crown land specified in the Schedule hereto shall be exempted from the provisions of section sixty-six (f) and sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and fifty-two (inclusive) of the Mining Act, 1926, and its amendments, and regulations one hundred and five and one hundred and six of the regulations thereunder:

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 on me by section twenty of the Mining Act, 1926, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in that behalf, do hereby exempt the land particularly described in the Schedule hereto from the provisions of section sixty-six (f) and sections one hundred and forty-four to one hundred and fifty-two (inclusive) of the Mining Act, 1926, and regulations one hundred and five and one hundred and six of the regulations thereunder, subject to existing registered mining privileges, and do also hereby declare that such exemption shall take effect from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, containing approximately 1,100 acres, situated in Block VI, Gap Survey District, Block VI, Wakaia Survey District, and Block X, Whitecomb Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Commencing at the confluence of Post Office Creek and the Wakaia River; thence towards the north-east by Post Office Creek; towards the south-east by a line 20 chains distant from the left bank of the Wakaia River; towards the south-west by Charcoal Stream to the edge of the bush; towards the south-east by the edge of the bush to Section 6, Block IV, Wakaia Survey District; towards the north-west by the said Section 6, and Section 1, a public road, again by Section 1, Section 4B, a public road, and Section 4, all of Block VI, Wakaia Survey District, to the northern corner of the last-mentioned section, and by the eastern side of a road for a distance of 218 links; towards the south-west by a line bearing 293° 50′ to the Wakaia River; towards the north-west by the left bank of the said river to its confluence with Charcoal Stream; towards the south-west by a line bearing 320°; towards the north-west by a line 20 chains distant from the right bank of the Wakaia River; and towards the north-east by a line bearing 140° to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. N. 6/8, deposited in the Head Office of the Mines Department at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 28th day of May, 1940.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 6/8.)

Notice under the Regulations Act, 1936.

THE PUBLIC WORKS ACT, 1928, AND THE MOTOR-VEHICLES ACT, 1924.

THE HEAVY MOTOR-VEHICLE REGULATIONS 1940, AMENDMENT NO. 1.

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the Regulations Act, 1936, of the making of the above-entitled regulations under the above-entitled Acts.

Serial number: 1940/97.

Date of enactment: 31st day of May, 1940.

Copies can be purchased at the Government Printing and Stationery Office, Lambton Quay, Wellington. Price for cash with order 1d., plus postage 1d. extra. Prices for quantities supplied on application. Copies may be ordered by quoting above serial number.

E. V. PAUL,
Government Printer.

Notice under the Regulations Act, 1936.

THE EMERGENCY REGULATIONS ACT, 1939.

THE ENLISTMENT BADGES EMERGENCY REGULATIONS 1940.

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the Regulations Act, 1936, of the making of the above-entitled regulations under the above-entitled Act.

Serial number: 1940/98.

Date of enactment: 31st day of May, 1940.

Copies can be purchased at the Government Printing and Stationery Office, Lambton Quay, Wellington. Price for cash with order 3d., plus postage 1d. extra. Prices for quantities supplied on application. Copies may be ordered by quoting above serial number.

E. V. PAUL,
Government Printer.

Notice under the Regulations Act, 1936.

THE CEMETERIES ACT, 1908.

THE BURIAL-GROUND DEDICATION REGULATIONS 1940.

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the Regulations Act, 1936, of the making of the above-entitled regulations under the above-entitled Act.

Serial number: 1940/99.

Date of enactment: 29th day of May, 1940.

Copies can be purchased at the Government Printing and Stationery Office, Lambton Quay, Wellington. Price for cash with order 3d., plus postage 1d. extra. Prices for quantities supplied on application. Copies may be ordered by quoting above serial number.

E. V. PAUL,
Government Printer.