Dec. 18] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1923

Appointing Five Non-elective Members of the North Canterbury
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—

David Darcy Dun, Esquire, Conservator of Forests, State
Forest Service, Christchurch,
Charles Sherwood Harris, Esquire, B.Agr. Sc., Senior Pedologist,
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Christ-
church,
Thomas William Preston, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown
Lands, Christchurch,
Richard Patrick Connell, Esquire, M.A., Fields Superintendent,
Department of Agriculture, Christchurch, and
Elwyn Frank Evans, Esquire, A.M.I.C.E., District Engineer,
Public Works Department, Christchurch,

to be non-elective members of the North Canterbury Catchment
Board for a term commencing on the first day of December, one
thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, and expiring on the
thirtieth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 11th day of December, 1947.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/5.)

Appointing Six Non-elective Members of the Westland 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—

Archibald Bryce Bremner, Esquire, A.M.I.C.E., Senior Engineer,
Public Works Department, Greymouth,
John Roger Shepherd, Esquire, Fields Instructor, Department
of Agriculture, Greymouth,
Robert Barrie Collett, Esquire, Conservator of Forests, State
Forest Service, Hokitika,
George Wall Lowes, Esquire, M.I.M.M., Senior Inspector of
Mines, Mines Department, Greymouth,
Alan Copland Beck, Esquire, M.Sc., Geological Survey Branch,
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,
Greymouth, and
Herbert Millett Lawrey, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown
Lands, Hokitika,

to be non-elective members of the Westland Catchment Board for a
term commencing on the first day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and forty-seven, and expiring on the thirtieth day of
November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 16th day of December, 1947.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/4.)

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 declara-
tions under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of
the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE

John Robert Corskie, Accountant, Post-office, Blenheim.
James Francis Paton, Postmaster, Dargaville.
Ross Stuart St. John, Deputy Chief Postmaster, Dunedin.
John Leonard Anderson, Postmaster, Mangonui.
George Maitland Gwynne, Chief Postmaster, Masterton.
William Gillies Clarke, Chief Postmaster, Napier.
Henry Roberts Pool, Deputy Chief Postmaster, Napier.
Adelaide Yakas, Postmistress, Opononi.
Peter Baikie, Postmaster, Te Aroha.
Jane Ruth Mann, Postmistress, Waikino.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 12th day of December, 1947.

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

Appointing Additional Member to Manginangina Scenic Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the twelfth day of February,
one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, and published
in the Gazette of the seventeenth day of that month, the control of
certain reserves in the North Auckland Land District, known as the
Manginangina Scenic Reserves, was vested in certain persons therein
named, who were by the said Warrant constituted a special Board
by the name of Manginangina Scenic Board, in pursuance of section
thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 :
And whereas it is considered desirable that the membership of
the said Board should be increased :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred upon 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

Joseph Harold Doar (junior)

to be an additional member of the Manginangina Scenic Board here-
inbefore referred to as from the fifteenth day of December, one
thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 12th day of December, 1947.

H. G. R. MASON,
For the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/750.)

Members appointed to Ohakune Lakes Scenic Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the thirtieth day of March,
one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, and published in
the Gazette of the fourth day of April of that year, the control of certain
reserves in the Wellington Land District, known as the Ohakune Lakes
Scenic Reserve, was vested in certain persons therein named, who
were by the said Warrant constituted a special Board by the name
of the Ohakune Lakes Scenic Board, in pursuance of section thirteen
of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 : And whereas it is desirable
that Tom Beasley and William Leslie Brown should be appointed
members of the said Board in place of Ernest Owen Lightband and
Edward Bannerman Lothian, 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

Tom Beasley and
William Leslie Brown

to be members of the Ohakune Lakes Scenic Board constituted by
the Warrant dated the thirtieth day of March, one thousand nine
hundred and forty-six, hereinbefore referred to, in place of the said
Ernest Owen Lightband and Edward Bannerman Lothian.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 16th day of December, 1947.

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

(L. and S. 4/341.)

Vesting the Control of Scenic Reserves in the Punakaiki Scenic Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act,
1908, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the reserves described in
the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), for
the period of five years from the date hereof (unless previously
altered or revoked under the said Act) in the undermentioned
persons, namely :—

The Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hokitika, ex officio,
Frederick Arthur Kitchingham,
Charles Henry Morison,
John Henry Powell,
Andrew Robert Thompson, and
William Frederick Harley,

who are hereby constituted for that purpose a special Board by
the name of the Punakaiki Scenic Board (herein referred to as
the Board), in trust, for the preservation of scenery, and with
the powers and subject to the conditions hereinafter contained,
that is to say :—

1. The first meeting of the Board shall be held on Wednesday,
   the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-
   eight, at eleven o'clock a.m., in the residence of Mrs. D. C. Kitch-
   ingham at Punakaiki, and thereafter the Board shall meet for the
   transaction of business on the fourth Wednesday in each quarter
   at the time and place aforesaid, or at such other time or place as
   may from time to time be fixed by the Board.