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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

C. L. N. NEWALL, 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, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, 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.

Frances Agnes Harrison, Postmistress, Mayfield.
Noel John Gormly, Postmaster, Pongaroa.
Thomas Stinson, Postmaster, Russell.
Robert Edward Sissons, Chief Postmaster, Westport.
Arthur William Head, Superintendent, Awarua Radio, Invercargill.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of October, 1942.

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

Appointing a Member of the Bluff Harbour Board.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the Harbours Act, 1923, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Thomas Francis Doyle

to be a member of the Bluff Harbour Board in place of Robert Albert Anderson (deceased), to hold office until the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of October, 1942.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Marine.

Notice of Intention to issue an Order in Council revoking the Reservation for Recreation Purposes over a Reserve in the City of Christchurch, Canterbury Land District.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by subsection one (b) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), it is provided that the Governor-General may, from time to time, by Order in Council, revoke the reservation over any public reserve or part thereof, and thereupon the land comprised therein shall, if vested in the Crown or in any local authority or trustees deriving title from the Crown, become Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924, and in any other case may, subject to the provisions of subsection five of the said section seven of the said Act, be disposed of in such manner and for such purposes as may be stated in such Order in Council :

And whereas the land described in the First Schedule hereto is a recreation reserve which on the subdivision of private property for residential purposes became vested in the body corporate called the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Christchurch :

And whereas the reserve is not required for recreation purposes, and it is expedient that the reservation over the said land be revoked :

And whereas the said body corporate has passed a resolution consenting to such revocation, and has in all respects complied with the provisions of subsections three and four of the said section seven of the said Act :

Now, therefore, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby give notice, pursuant to subsection two of section seven of the said Act, that it is my intention to issue an Order in Council under the provisions of subsection one (b) of the said section seven revoking the reservation for recreation purposes over the land described in the Schedule hereto, and declaring that the said land may be disposed of by the said body corporate by way of sale by public auction or private contract at such price and on such terms and conditions as the said body corporate shall determine, but so that the proceeds of any such sale shall be used and applied in or towards the purchase of other land for recreation purposes.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Lot 11 on the plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Christchurch as No. 8127, and being part Rural Section 16, situated in the City of Christchurch, and bounded as follows : Towards the north-west by Riverlaw Terrace, 81·1 links ; towards the north-east by Lots 12 and 18, D.P. 8127, 312·5 links ; towards the south-east by the said Lot 18, D.P. 8127, 81·1 links ; and towards the south-west by Lot 8, D.P. 12003, 312·5 links. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/1082A, 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 17th day of October, 1942.

J. G. BARCLAY,
For the Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/1082.)

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Rangitikei County Council.

C. L. N. NEWALL, 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 Rangiwaea Scenic Reserve described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act) in the Rangitikei County Council, 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 Council 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 Council shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, and of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—RANGIWAEA SCENIC RESERVE.

SECTION 22, Block II, Maungakaretu Survey District : Area, 7 acres 2 roods, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of October, 1942.

J. G. BARCLAY,
For the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/379.)

Notices under the Regulations Act, 1936.

NOTICE is hereby given in pursuance of the Regulations Act, 1936, of the making of regulations and orders as under :—

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