JUNE 26] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 787

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.

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SCHEDULE

Douglas Sydney Alexander Comrie, Accountant, Post-office, Dunedin.

Alexander James Murdock Leslie, Postmaster, Mamaku.

William Cavill Shaw, Postmaster, Methven.

Edward James Elliott, Accountant, Post-office, Napier.

William Ransom Stuckey, Chief Postmaster, Wanganui.

Arthur Reginald Gardner, Accountant, Post-office, Wanganui.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of June, 1947.

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

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Extending Time for holding Election of Members of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section seventy-five of the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Act, 1944, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby extend until a day in the month of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, to be fixed in that behalf by the Auckland Metropolitan Drainage Board, the time for holding the next election of members of the said Board.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of June, 1947.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 58/12.)

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Revoking the Appointment of the Transport Appeal Authority under the Transport Licensing Act, 1931, and appointing a New Transport Appeal Authority

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Transport Licensing Act, 1931, and section eighty-two of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1941, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby—

(1) Revoke the appointment of the Honourable Sir Francis Vernon Frazer, of Wellington, as Transport Appeal Authority, pursuant to his wish to be discharged from the said office;

(2) Appoint His Honour Judge Kendrick Gee Archer, of Wellington, as Transport Appeal Authority for a term expiring on the thirtieth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven;

(3) Declare that the said revocation and the said appointment shall respectively take effect on the twenty-second day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of June, 1947.

JAS. O'BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 19/12/1.)

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Increasing Number of Days on which Charges may be made for Admission to the Taihape Oval Domain

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty-three of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby increase the number of days which may be prescribed by the Taihape Oval Domain Board as days upon which charges may be made, pursuant to section twenty-one of the said Act, for admission to the domain described in the Schedule hereto, or to any part thereof set apart for a particular purpose, from twenty days to thirty days during the year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.

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SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—TAIHAPE OVAL DOMAIN

ALL that area containing 9 acres 3 roods 24 perches, more or less, being Block X, Township of Taihape, and formerly comprising portion of Taihape Domain.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of June, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/357.)

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Increasing Number of Days on which Charges may be made for Admission to the Taumarunui and Rangaroa Domain

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section twenty-three of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby increase the number of days which may be prescribed by the Taumarunui and Rangaroa Domain Board as days upon which charges may be made, pursuant to section twenty-one of the said Act, for admission to the domain described in the Schedule hereto, or to any part thereof set apart for a particular purpose, from twenty days to thirty days during the year ending the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight.

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SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TAUMARUNUI AND RANGAROA DOMAIN

ALL those areas in the Taumarunui Borough and the Taumarunui County, situated in Block I, Piopiotea Survey District, and Block XIII, Tuhua Survey District, containing by admeasurement a total of 179 acres 3 roods 33·6 perches, more or less, being Sections 3, 16, and 58, Block XIII, Tuhua Survey District; Section 1, Block X, Taumarunui Native Township; Section 11 and part Section 9, Block V, Village of Rangaroa; and Section 12, Block VI, Village of Rangaroa.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of June, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/185.)

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Land permanently reserved in the Wellington 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 licence, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of that month, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for buildings of the General Government:

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 buildings of the General Government for which purpose the said land was so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 13, Block XXII, Town of Ohakune: Area, 1 rood 12·26 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of June, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 6/3/355.)

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Land permanently reserved in the North Auckland 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 licence, 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 twentieth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the second day of April of that year, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for recreation purposes: