JUNE 15]

SCHEDULE

THE north-western side of all that portion of street situated in the Wellington Land District, Borough of Otaki, known as Matene Street, and fronting Section 52A, Township of Otaki, and the section named by the Native Land Court on Subdivision as Otaki Section 51.

Also the south-western side of all that portion of street situated in the Wellington Land District, Borough of Otaki, known as Mill Road, and fronting Section 52A, Township of Otaki.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 119193, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(P.W. 51/761.)

Revocation of Order in Council exempting certain Native Lands from Payment of Rates

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of June, 1944
Present:
THE HON. D. G. SULLIVAN PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

Pursuant to section one hundred and four of the Rating Act, 1925, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council made on the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-seventh day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, at page 856, exempting all Native lands situated within the County of Kawhia, save so far as such Native lands were then subject to subsisting leases to Europeans, from all rates made or levied by the Kawhia County Council under the provisions of the said Act, and doth cancel the exemption granted by the Order in Council aforesaid.

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

Officers authorized to attest Signatures of Natives to Instruments of Alienation

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

Pursuant to section two hundred and sixty-eight of the Native Land Act, 1931, 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 set out after their respective names, are authorized to attest, in accordance with the provisions of the said section two hundred and sixty-eight, the signatures of Natives to instruments of alienation of Native land.

SCHEDULE
Kenneth George Runciman, Field Supervisor, Whakatane.
Rodney Charles Burnett, Field Supervisor, Opotiki.
James Merritt, Field Supervisor, Ruatoki.
Cyrus Henry Tidswell, Field Supervisor, Ruatahuna.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of June, 1944.

H. G. R. MASON, Native Minister.

Officers authorized to attest Signatures of Natives to Instruments under Chattels Transfer Act, 1924

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

Pursuant to section five hundred and forty-seven of the Native Land Act, 1931, 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 set out after their respective names, are authorized to attest, in accordance with the provisions of the said section five hundred and forty-seven, the signatures of Natives to instruments by way of security within the meaning of the Chattels Transfer Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE
Kenneth George Runciman, Field Supervisor, Whakatane.
Rodney Charles Burnett, Field Supervisor, Opotiki.
James Merritt, Field Supervisor, Ruatoki.
Cyrus Henry Tidswell, Field Supervisor, Ruatahuna.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 2nd day of June, 1944.

H. G. R. MASON, Native Minister.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Notifying the proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Auckland Land District for other Land
C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange :
And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land of equal value described in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land described in the Second Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE
DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED
Auckland Land District
Allotment 261, Matata Parish : Area, 2 perches, more or less.
Allotment 262, Matata Parish : Area, 27 perches, more or less.
Allotment 263, Matata Parish : Area, 5 perches, more or less.

SECOND SCHEDULE
DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR
Auckland Land District
All that area in the Whakatane County, containing by admeasurement 27 perches, more or less, being part of Lot 1, D.P. 16781, being part of Allotment 136A, Matata Parish, and being part of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 653, folio 265 (Auckland Registry).
Also all that area in the Whakatane County, containing by admeasurement 9 perches, more or less, being part of Lot 1, D.P. 16781, being part of Allotment 136A, Matata Parish, and being part of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 653, folio 265 (Auckland Registry).
Also all that area in the Whakatane County, containing by admeasurement 1 perch, more or less, being part of Lot 1, D.P. 16781, being part of Allotment 136A, Matata Parish, and being part of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 653, folio 265 (Auckland Registry).
Also all that area in the Whakatane County, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 29 perches, more or less, being part of Lot 1, D.P. 16781, being part of Allotment 136A, Matata Parish, and being part of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 653, folio 265 (Auckland Registry).
As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/2106E, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow. (S.O. plan 30460.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 9th day of June, 1944.
B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 22/2106.)

Appointments in the Royal New Zealand Navy
Navy Office,
Wellington, 9th June, 1944.
His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments, terminations of appointments, and promotions in the Royal New Zealand Navy:-
Captain Francis John Butler, M.B.E., R.N., lent Royal New Zealand Navy and appointed H.M.N.Z. ship as directed, to date 15th March, 1944.
Mr. Roy Ernest Ansley, Acting-Gunner (T), confirmed in rank with original seniority of 12th December, 1941.
Chief Petty Officer John George Ward Draper, N.Z. 819, promoted to the rank of Temporary Acting-Gunner and appointed H.M. ship as directed, to date 12th March, 1944.
Mechanician Thomas Alexander Simpson, N.Z. 1182, promoted to the rank of Acting Warrant Mechanician and appointed H.M.N.Z. ship as directed, to date 1st March, 1944.
Mechanician Leslie Francis Price, N.Z. 574, promoted to the rank of Temporary Acting Warrant Mechanician and appointed H.M.N.Z. ship as directed, to date 13th March, 1944.
Chief Engine Room Artificer Ben Gordon Moody, N.Z. 1991, promoted to the rank of Temporary Acting Warrant Engineer and appointed H.M.N.Z. ship as directed, to date 24th February, 1944.

ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVAL RESERVE
Temporary Lieutenant-Commander Richard Percy Nisbet, D.S.C., V.D., granted the acting rank of Temporary Commander whilst holding present appointment, to date 1st February, 1944.
Temporary Lieutenant Richard Blampied, granted the acting rank of Temporary Lieutenant-Commander whilst holding present appointment, to date 1st February, 1944.