Aug. 8] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1079

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Matiere Domain

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of July, 1946

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty-four of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, 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 appoint

Albert James Adam,
Keith Wallace Baker,
Robert William Dench,
John Wagner Hannan,
Keith McAllum,
Clarence Thomas McGovern, and
Jack Rowland Turner

to be the Matiere Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby appoint Tuesday, the third day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, at eight o'clock p.m. as the time when, and the Matiere Hall as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.—MATIERE DOMAIN

SECTION 32, Block XV, Aria Survey District: Area, 6 acres 0 roods 12 perches, more or less.

W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. 1/441.)

Revoking the Reservation over Portion of a Reserve in the Borough of Opunake, Taranaki Land District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 31st day of July, 1946

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (b) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, 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 revoke the reservation for railway and town belt purposes over the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that the said land, being vested in the Crown, is Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT

All that area in the Borough of Opunake, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 13·52 perches, more or less, being part of Section 11, Opunake Town Belt. (S.O. plan 8185.)

W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. 22/1881.)

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations

B. C. FREYBERG, 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, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 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

Wallace Placke Lange, Accountant, Gisborne.
Kenneth Noel Smith, Accountant, Greymouth.
Alfred George Kemp, Postmaster, Mamaku.
Edgar James Burton, Accountant, Masterton.
Edward Oswald Daines, Accountant, New Plymouth.
Ackroyd Edwin Matthew Howell, Postmaster, Pukerau.
Norman Eadie La Mont, Postmaster, Raetihi.
Robert Angus Berrett, Postmaster, Rawene.
Walter Francis Swift, Postmaster and Telephonist, Te Anau.
John Agar, Accountant, Thames.
Stanley Walter Hills, Postmaster, Waihi.
George William Fisher Price, Deputy Chief Postmaster, Whangarei.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 31st day of July, 1946.

F. JONES,
For the Minister of Justice.

Lands temporarily reserved in the Auckland, Wellington, and Canterbury Land Districts

B. C. FREYBERG, 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 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:

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the 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 temporarily reserve the lands in the Auckland, Wellington, and Canterbury Land Districts, described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 11A, Block X, Waitoa Survey District: Area, 2 acres, more or less. (Gravel.)

Section 1A, Block XI, Waitoa Survey District: Area, 2 acres, more or less. (Gravel.)

Section 6, Block VI, Lichfield Village, Block XVI, Patetere North Survey District: Area, 2 roods, more or less. (Recreation.)

Allotment 9, Block XXII, Te Kuiti Native Township, Block III, Otanake Survey District: Area, 1 rood and 26·7 perches, more or less. (S.O. plan 32904.) (Buildings of the General Government.)

Allotment 11, Block IX, Te Kuiti Native Township, Block IV, Otanake Survey District: Area, 1 rood and 16·8 perches, more or less. (S.O. plan 32904.) (Buildings of the General Government.)

Section 5, Mangateparu Township, Block XIII, Waitoa Survey District: Area, 1 rood and 27·5 perches, more or less. (S.O. plan 22282.) (Addition to a public-school site, Mangateparu.)

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

Section 15, Block XXI, Town of Ohakune: Area, 1 rood, more or less. (Buildings of the General Government.)

Section 16, Block XXI, Town of Ohakune: Area, 1 rood, more or less. (Buildings of the General Government.)

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT

Reserve 4494 (formerly part Rural Section 37006), Block II, Selwyn Survey District: Area, 2 roods 36 perches, more or less. (Gravel-pit.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 6th day of August, 1946.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/627, 1/260, 7/581/146, 6/6/247, 6/1/420, 36/1469.)

Member appointed to Tuatapere Scenic Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of that month, the control of certain reserves in the Southland Land District, known as the Tuatapere Scenic Reserve, was vested in certain persons therein named, who were by the said Warrant constituted a special Board by the name of the Tuatapere Scenic Board, in pursuance of section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908: And whereas it is desirable that Colin Sutton Atkinson should be appointed a member of the said Board in place of John Ebenezer Chaplin, resigned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on 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 the said

Colin Sutton Atkinson

to be a member of the Tuatapere Scenic Board constituted by the Warrant dated the twenty-third day of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, hereinbefore referred to, in place of the said John Ebenezer Chaplin.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 31st day of July, 1946.

C. F. SKINNER,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 650.)