MAY 29] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 651

Appointing Five Non-elective Members of the Nelson Catchment Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act, 1941, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint—

Courtney Biggs, Esquire, Conservator of Forests, State Forest Service, Nelson,

Sir Theodore Rigg, K.B.E., M.Sc. (N.Z.), M.A. (Cantab.), F.R.I.C., F.N.Z.I.C., F.R.S.N.Z., Director, Cawthron Institute, Nelson,

Edwin Percy Wakelin, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown Lands, Department of Lands and Survey, Nelson,

Denzil Marcus Eustace Merry, Esquire, Instructor in Agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Nelson, and

Leonard Lincoln Meadowcroft, Esquire, A.M.I.C.E., Resident Engineer, Public Works Department, Nelson,

to be non-elective members of the Nelson Catchment Board for a term commencing on the twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, and expiring on the thirtieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of May, 1947.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/2.)

Honorary Inspector of Scenic Reserves appointed

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Arthur Lyonel Clark

to be an Honorary Inspector under the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of May, 1947.

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

(L. and S. 4/215.)

Land temporarily reserved in the Taranaki Land District as an Addition to a Public-school site (Matau)

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 land in the Taranaki Land District described in the Schedule hereunder written as an addition to a public-school site (Matau).

SCHEDULE

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 1 rood 9·5 perches, more or less, being part Section 22, Block II, Ngatimaru Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/872, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (S.O plan 8258.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of May, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 6/6/872.)

Land permanently reserved in the Marlborough Land District

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 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 third day of April, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the tenth day of that month, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for river-protection purposes:

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 Act, do hereby permanently reserve the land described in the Schedule hereto for river-protection purposes for which purpose the said land was so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area situated in the County of Marlborough, containing 900 acres, more or less, being portion of the original bed of the Wairau and Waihopai Rivers, situated in Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District, and Blocks XII, XV, and XVI, Onamalutu Survey District, bounded as follows: Commencing at the Wairau Bridge in Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District; thence north-westerly by that bridge to the middle-line of the Wairau River; thence in a south-westerly direction by the middle-line of the Wairau River to its junction with the middle-line of the Waihopai River; thence south-easterly by the middle-line of the Waihopai River to a point opposite the south boundary of the road adjoining Section 12, Block XVI, Onamalutu Survey District; thence easterly by a right line to the said road; thence northerly and north-easterly generally by the said road and the river-bank reserve fronting the aforesaid Section 12, the river-bank road abutting Section 1, Block XVI, Onamalutu Survey District, Section 172, Omaka Registration District, Section 9A, Block XII, Onamalutu Survey District, and Sections 5 and 4, Block IX, Cloudy Bay Survey District, to the Wairau Bridge, the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/3200r, 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 21st day of May, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/3200.)

Appointments, Promotions, Relinquishment of Commission, and Retirements of Officers of the New Zealand Military Forces

Army Department,
Wellington, 28th May, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments, promotions, relinquishment of commission, and retirements of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces:—

N.Z. REGIMENT

Sergeant Robert Henry Manson to be temp. Lieutenant and Quartermaster. Dated 15th March, 1947.

N.Z. ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

Temp. Captain and Quartermaster F. L. Mason to be Captain and Quartermaster, with seniority from 1st April, 1946. Dated 16th May, 1947.

N.Z. TEMPORARY STAFF

Major H. J. G. Low, M.C., from the Reserve of Officers, Supplementary List, to be temp. Major, and is attached to Headquarters, Central Military District. Dated 5th May, 1947.

Major C. A. Newland, from the Reserve of Officers, Supplementary List, to be temp. Major, and is attached to Headquarters, Central Military District. Dated 19th May, 1947.

Kenneth George Perrin (late R.N.Z.N.V.R.) to be temp. Lieutenant, and is attached to Headquarters, Central Military District. Dated 19th May, 1947.

Temp. 2nd Lieutenant R. N. Bluett to be temp. Lieutenant. Dated 21st May, 1947.

TERRITORIAL FORCE

THE N.Z. INFANTRY CORPS

The Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment

Douglas Sidney Clay to be 2nd Lieutenant (on prob.), and is seconded to the Hokitika District High School Cadets, Area 9. Dated 1st February, 1947.

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT

The Rev. William Selwyn Dawson to be Chaplain, 4th Class (Methodist). Dated 12th May, 1947.

SCHOOL CADET UNITS

Timaru Boys' High School Cadets, Area 10

Temp. Lieutenant T. M. Penny to be temp. Captain. Dated 6th April, 1947.