SEPT. 2] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1099

Constitution of Rural Fire District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 1st day of September, 1948

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to the Forest and Rural Fires Act, 1947, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby constitute and declare the area described in the Schedule hereto to be a rural fire district, to be known as the “Dusky Rural Fire District,” as from the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight; and doth hereby specify the trees and other plants in the State forests in the said area as the property for the protection of which the district is constituted; and doth hereby specify the period between the first day of August in any one year and the thirtieth day of April in the following year (both days inclusive) as a closed fire season in the said district; and doth hereby prescribe that the said Dusky Rural Fire District shall be administered by the Commissioner of State Forests for the purposes of the said Act.

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SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—SOUTHLAND CONSERVANCY

Dusky Rural Fire District

ALL that area in the Otago Land District, Tuapeka and Clutha Counties, containing approximately 12,850 acres, situated in Blocks V, VII, VIII, IX, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, and XVII, Greenvale Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Towards the north by Sections 7, 6, 8, 9, and 12, Block XIV aforesaid, Sections 2, 3, 4, and 6, Block XV aforesaid; towards the north-east by Section 7, Block XV aforesaid, and Section 5, Block XVII aforesaid; towards the north-west by Section 5 aforesaid, and Section 10, Block X, Greenvale Survey District; towards the south-east generally by Sections 5, 8, 11, and 12, Block IX aforesaid, Sections 8, 11, 28, 23, 22, 14, and 17, Block V aforesaid, and Sections 25 and 21, Block II, Greenvale Survey District; towards the south generally by Section 1, Block XIII aforesaid, by a right line across the Pomahaka River, and by Sections 11 and 12, Block VIII aforesaid to the westernmost corner of the last-mentioned section, and thence by a right line to Trig. Station A, Block VII aforesaid; towards south-west and west generally by a line 40 chains distant from the right bank of the Pomahaka River to its junction with a public road forming the northern boundary of Run 202A; thence towards the north and east by the northern and eastern sides of the aforementioned public road to a bridge across the Pomahaka River; and towards the north-west by the left bank of the Pomahaka River. As the same is more particularly delineated on plan No. 204/56, deposited in the Head Office of the State Forest Service at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(F.S. 12/9/7/3.)

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Revoking an Order in Council Prohibiting Alienation of Maori Land

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of August, 1948

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section four hundred and forty-two of the Maori Land Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council made on the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, and published in the Gazette on the fourth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, at page 1222, prohibiting all alienation of the land known as Parish of Matata, Lot 39A, Section 1, and other blocks, other than alienation in favour of the Crown.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(N.D. 1/3/26.)

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Conferring Special Jurisdiction on the Maori Land Court

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of August, 1948

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section thirty-four of the Maori Land Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby confer upon the Maori Land Court jurisdiction to hear and determine, as between Maoris, any claims to the ownership or possession of the greenstone mere called or known as Kaoreore, deposited in the Auckland Museum collection as No. 19432, and to make such order or orders in the premises as the Court thinks necessary or expedient.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(N.D. 19/1/78.)

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Setting Apart Maori Land as a Maori Reservation

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 25th day of August, 1948

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section five of the Maori Purposes Act, 1937, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby set apart and reserve the Maori freehold land described in the Schedule hereto as a Maori reservation for the common use of the members of the Ngatiruamahue, Ngaitupango, Ngatimiru, and Ngatikura tribes resident in the Matauri, Wainui, Te Ngaere, Mahinepua, and Matangirau areas, as places for the taking of mutton-birds, and for their common use in any other manner.

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SCHEDULE

The following islands in the Cavalli group:—

Horonui. Keokeo.
Motutapere. Motumuka.
Hamaruru. Tarawera.
Tuturuowai. Whatupuke.
Nukutaunga. Whatupukeiti.
Motutakapu Motuhuia.
Haraweka. Kahangaro.
Te Toi. Kahangaroiti.
Te Anaputa. Motukahakaha
Motuharakeke. Piraunui.
Moturahurahu. Te Karo.
Te Anaputaiti. Motumahanga.
Motukarora.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

(N.D. 21/3/168.)

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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

Daniel Lynch, Postmaster, Cheviot.
David John McCorkindale, Postmaster, Devonport.
Hugh Brownlie, Postmaster, Fairlie.
Edwin Arthur Munden, Deputy Director-General, General Post Office, Wellington.
Henry William Curtis, Second Deputy Director-General, General Post Office, Wellington.
Charles Archibald McFarlane, Divisional Director, General Post Office, Wellington.
Daniel James Foley, Chief Postmaster, Gisborne.
Norman Eadie La Mont, Postmaster, Huntly.
Lewis Edward Norriss, Postmaster, Kilbirnie.
George Dick, Postmaster, Lower Hutt.
George Henry Bush, Postmaster, Mangakino.
Ernest Russell, Postmaster, Tapanui.
James Victor Sherborne, Postmaster, Wellesley Street.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 24th day of August, 1948.

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

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Appointing the Registration Office for the Ashburton Branding Registration District.—(Notice No. Ag. 4542)

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

WHEREAS it is expedient that the place appointed to be the registration office for the Ashburton Branding District, as defined by Warrant under the hand of the Governor dated the eighteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, be changed from the City of Christchurch as set out in the said Warrant to the Borough of Ashburton:

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 conferred upon me by the Stock Act, 1908, do hereby appoint the Borough of Ashburton to be the registration office for the Ashburton Branding Registration District, as defined in the said Warrant, in lieu of the City of Christchurch, being the place hitherto appointed as the registration office for the said district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of August, 1948.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.