Revoking the Reservation Over a Reserve in Block X, Christchurch
Survey District, Canterbury Land District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of
January, 1949
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon him by subsection one $(b)$ of section seven of the Public
Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, His Excellency
the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the reservation for public
purposes over the land described in the Schedule hereto; and
doth hereby declare that the said land, being vested in the Crown,
is Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE
CANTEPBURY LAND DISTRICT
ALL that area situated in Block X, Christchurch Survey District,
containing by admeasurement 1 acre 3 roods, more or less, being
Reserve 4093, and being also described as Lot 35 on a plan deposited
in the Land Registry Office at Christchurch under No. 5841, and
being part of Rural Sections 840 and 2214. As the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 25/832,
deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey,
at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 25/832; D.O. O.L. 3177.)

Changing the Purpose of Reserves in Block X, Town of Ohakune,
Wellington Land District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 2nd day of
February, 1949
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
WHEREAS a notice of intention to issue an Order in Council
declaring that the reservation over the lands described in
the Schedule hereto shall be changed from reserves for public
recreation purposes to a reserve for municipal buildings was published
in the Gazette of the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand
nine hundred and forty-eight :
And whereas such notice of intention was duly laid before both
Houses of Parliament in accordance with the provisions of sub-
section two of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and
National Parks Act, 1928:
And whereas the Legislative Council and the House of Repre-
sentatives, by resolutions dated respectively the first and the second
days of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight,
approved the proposed change of purpose as aforesaid:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred by subsection one $(a)$ of section seven of
the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, and
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth hereby change the purpose of the
reservation over the lands described in the Schedule hereto from
reserves for public recreation purposes to a reserve for municipal
buildings.

SCHEDULE
WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT
SECTIONS 1 to 10 (inclusive), Block X, Town of Ohakune : Area :
2 acres 2 roods, more or less.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 30/228/70 ; D.O. 8/17.)

Changing the Purpose of a Reserve in Block XV, Kawakawa Survey
District, North Auckland Land District

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government House at Wellington, this 2nd day of
February, 1949
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
WHEREAS a notice of intention to issue an Order in Council
declaring that the reservation over the land described in
the Schedule hereto shall be changed from a reserve for recreation
purposes to a reserve for a site for a public hall was published in
the Gazette of the ninth day of December, one thousand nine hundred
and forty-eight:
And whereas such notice of intention was duly laid before both
Houses of Parliament in accordance with the provisions of sub-
section two of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and
National Parks Act, 1928:
And whereas the Legislative Council and the House of Repre-
sentatives, by resolutions dated respectively the first and the second
days of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight,
approved the proposed change of purpose as aforesaid:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred by subsection one $(a)$ of section seven of
the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, and
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of the said Dominion, doth hereby change the purpose of the
reservation over the land described in the Schedule hereto from a
reserve for recreation purposes to a reserve for a site for a public
hall.

SCHEDULE
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT
ALL that area in the County of Bay of Islands, situated in Block XV,
Kawakawa Survey District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood
10.8 perches, more or less, being Lot 10, on the plan numbered
28604, deposited in the office of the District Land Registrar at
Auckland, and being part of Allotment 140, Parish of Kawakawa,
and being part of the land comprised and described in Certificate
of Title, Volume 188, folio 206 (Auckland Land Registry). As the
same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S.
1/904A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and
Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. H.O. 1/904 D.O. 3/1823.)

Land Permanently Reserved in the Hawke's Bay 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, notwith-
standing 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 September, one thousand
nine hundred and forty-eight, and published in the Gazette of the
twenty-third day of that month, temporarily reserved under the
authority of the said Act for an addition to a public-school site
(Porangahau):
Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Frey-
berg, 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 an addition to a public-school
site (Porangahau), for which purpose the said land was so temporarily
reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE
HAWKE'S BAY LAND DISTRICT
SECTION 5, Block XII, Porangahau Survey District: Area, 2 roods,
more or less. (S.O. 2261.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 1st day of February, 1949.

H. G. R. MASON,
For the Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. H.O. 6/6/150; D.O. 9/12.)

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

Army Department,
Wellington, 1st February, 1949.

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

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY
Regular Force—
Lieutenant R. J. Moor to be Captain. Dated 14th December,
1948.

THE ROYAL N.Z. INFANTRY CORPS
Regular Force—
N.Z. Regiment—
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) E. R. Firth, B.E.M., to be Captain.
Dated 14th December, 1948.
Lieutenant and Quartermaster J. B. Wilson to be Captain and
Quartermaster. Dated 27th January, 1949.