Nov. 14] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1745

Declaring Crown Land in the Otago Land District to be subject to
the Land for Settlements Act, 1925

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto
(hereinafter referred to as the said land) is Crown
land not acquired under the Land for Settlements Act, 1925, but
is adjacent to certain land acquired under the said Act, and known
as the Manuherikia Settlement and can conveniently be disposed
of therewith :

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril
Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
acting in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by section one hundred and five of the said Act,
and on the recommendation of the Land Settlement Board, and
after considering the report of the Otago District Land Board, do
hereby declare the said land to be subject to the said Act, to the
intent that it shall hereupon be deemed to be portion of the said
Manuherikia Settlement and may be disposed of accordingly.

SCHEDULE
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 15s, Manuherikia Settlement: Area, 21 acres 0 roods
20 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 5th day of November, 1946.

B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 8/9/103.)

Lands permanently 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, notwith-
standing 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 described in the Schedule hereto were
by the Warrant dated the sixth day of August, one thousand
nine hundred and forty-six, and published in the Gazette of the
eighth day of that month, temporarily reserved under the authority
of the said Acts for the purposes in the Schedule of the said Warrant
specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so
intended to be temporarily reserved :

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 permanently reserve the lands
described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes in the said
Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the
lands so intended to be permanently reserved for which purposes
the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE
AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

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 Govern-
ment.)
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 9th day of November, 1946.

B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister of Lands.

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

Land permanently reserved in the Canterbury Land District for County
Buildings

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, notwith-
standing 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 the land described in the Schedule hereto was, by
the Warrant dated the ninth day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and forty-six, and published in the Gazette of the fifteenth
day of that month, temporarily reserved under the authority of
the said Act for county buildings :

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Frey-
berg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in
pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the land
described in the Schedule hereto for county buildings for which
purpose the said land was so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE
CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT

RESERVE 4504 (formerly closed road), Block I, Rangiora Survey
District: Area, 2 acres 1 rood 24 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 9th day of November, 1946.

B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 16/2975.)

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

William James Forsyth, District Public Trustee, Hamilton.
Colin Alexander Hendry, District Public Trustee, Wanganui.
John Stockman, District Public Trustee, Ashburton.
Owen Graham Robinson, District Manager, Public Trust,
Pukekohe.
Geoffrey Oswald Wake, District Manager, Public Trust, Hokitika.
Lacey Cyril Kerr, Trust Officer, Palmerston North.
Samuel Baldwin Earles, Trust Officer, Napier.
Lindsay Marquis Graham, Trust Officer, Whangarei.
Kenneth Hector Readman, Trust Officer, Wanganui.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 12th day of November, 1946.

F. JONES,
For the Minister of Justice.

Appointment in the Royal New Zealand Navy

Navy Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept
the transfer of Temporary Lieutenant (S) William Norman
Waite from the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve to the
Royal New Zealand Navy, to date 11th November, 1946, and to
appoint him to a permanent commission with the rank of Lieutenant
(S) Royal New Zealand Navy, with seniority of 1st July, 1941, under
the provisions of the Naval Defence Act, 1913.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.