Jan. 13] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 9

doth hereby approve of the following resolution passed by the Nelson City Council on the twenty-second day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, viz. :—

“ That the Nelson City Council, being the local authority having control of the streets in the City of Nelson, by resolution declares that the provisions of section one hundred and twenty-eight of the Public Works Act, 1928, shall not apply to the eastern side of that portion of Church Street adjoining part of Section 446, City of Nelson, being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 14, folio 20 (Nelson Registry) ” ;

subject to the condition that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected on the land fronting the eastern side of the portion of Church Street (described in the Schedule hereto) within a distance of twenty feet from the centre-line of the said portion of street.

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SCHEDULE

THE eastern side of all that portion of street situated in the Nelson Land District, City of Nelson, known as Church Street, fronting part Section 446, City of Nelson. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 126827, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

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

(P.W. 51/2391.)

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Land Temporarily Reserved in the Wellington Land District

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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 :

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 temporarily reserve the land in the Wellington Land District, described in the Schedule hereunder written, for recreation purposes.

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SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 81, Turakina District, situated in Block XV, Ikitara Survey District : Area, 6 acres 1 rood 31·7 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 22nd day of December, 1948.

EDWARD CULLEN,
For the Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 1/193 ; D.O. 8/133.)

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Notifying the Proposed Exchange of Crown Land in the Wellington Land District for Other Land

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B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

WHEREAS by section one hundred and sixty of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor-General, whenever he deems it expedient in the public interest, to grant in fee-simple any area of Crown land which is subject to the provisions of the Land Act, 1924, in exchange for the fee-simple of any other land, and on any such exchange to pay or receive any sum by way of equality of exchange :

And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor-General, it is expedient to exchange the Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto for the land described in the Second Schedule hereto, and the owner of the land described in the Second Schedule has agreed to such exchange, and has agreed to pay to the Crown a sum of money by way of equality of exchange :

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, doth hereby declare it is his intention to grant in fee-simple the area of Crown land described in the First Schedule hereto in exchange for the fee-simple of the land described in the Second Schedule upon payment by the owner thereof of the sum of money hereinbefore referred to by way of equality of exchange.

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FIRST SCHEDULE

DESCRIPTION OF LAND AUTHORIZED TO BE EXCHANGED
Wellington Land District

ALL that area in the Hutt County, containing by admeasurement 59 acres 0 roods 01·7 perches, more or less, being Section 96, Block II, Paekakariki Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/1092, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

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SECOND SCHEDULE

DESCRIPTION OF LAND TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR
Wellington Land District

ALL that area in the Hutt County, containing by admeasurement 61 acres 1 rood 34 perches, more or less, being Whareroa Nos. 3, 4A, and Part 2c, situated in Block II, Paekakariki Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/1092, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington and thereon bordered green.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 11th day of January, 1949.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 1/1092 ; D.O. 4/493.)

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Fixing Remuneration for Inspector for School of Anatomy, Dunedin

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B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

WHEREAS on the eighth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, Andrew Gilbride McHugh, Inspector of Police at Dunedin, was appointed, pursuant to section twenty-seven of the Medical Act, 1908, to be Inspector for the School of Anatomy established at Dunedin : Now, therefore, pursuant to section thirty of the said Act, I hereby direct that the said Andrew Gilbride McHugh shall receive by way of remuneration an allowance of £20 per annum for the period he held office.

Dated this 22nd day of December, 1948.

M. B. HOWARD, Minister of Health.

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American Ambassador at Wellington Appointed

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Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 31st December, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that the

Honourable Robert M. Scotten,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to New Zealand, presented his Letter of Credence at Government House on Wednesday, 22nd December, 1948.

W. NASH,
Acting Minister of External Affairs.

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Judge of the Supreme Court Appointed

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Ernest Peterson Hay, Esquire, Barrister,

to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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

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Members of Licensing Committee Appointed

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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 21st December, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Ernest Macdonald, Esquire, and
Michael Francis Maze, Esquire,

to be members of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waimate.

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

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Member of the Taieri Ridge Rabbit Board Appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4587)

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PURSUANT to section 37 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, the Minister of Agriculture doth hereby appoint

Allan Wilfred John Apps,

being an Inspector appointed under Part I of the said Act, to be a member of the Taieri Ridge Rabbit Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of December, 1948.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

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Member of the Tauranga Citrus Canker Advisory Committee Appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4588)

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PURSUANT to Regulation 6 (2) (a) of the Citrus Canker Regulations 1945, the Minister of Agriculture doth hereby appoint

Frank Leonard Bailey

to be a member of the Tauranga Citrus Canker Advisory Committee, vice John Elliot Hume.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of December, 1948.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.