3 AUGUST

with the eastern side of Boundary Road, Block XVII, Town
of Mataura Bridge, and proceeding in an easterly direction
generally along that side of the Mataura-Clinton road to a
point in line with the eastern side of a public road forming
the western boundary of Section 2, Waiarikiki Settlement,
Block VIII, Waikaka Survey District; thence southerly to
and along the eastern side of the public road to the right bank
of the Waiarikiki Stream; thence in a south-easterly direction
generally along the right bank of the said Waiarikiki Stream
to the western boundary of Section 16A, Block VIII, Tuturau
Survey District; thence in a southerly direction along the
western boundaries of Section 16A, 17, and 22, Block VIII
aforesaid, to a point in line with the northern boundary of
Section 7, Block III, Slopedown Survey District; thence
easterly along a right line to the north-western corner of
the said Section 7; thence southerly along the western
boundary of Slopedown Survey District to the right bank
of the Mimihau Stream (north branch); thence westerly
generally along that right bank to a point in line with the
left bank of the Mimihau Stream (south branch); thence
southerly generally to and along that left bank to the
northern boundary of Block IX, Slopedown Survey District;
thence westerly along the northern boundaries of Block IX,
Slopedown Survey District, and Block III, Wyndham Survey
District, to the eastern boundary of part Section 28, Block
III aforesaid; thence southerly along the eastern boundaries
of the said part Section 28, Sections 43 and 52, a public road,
sections 55 and 41, a public road, again Section 41, a public
road, sections 38, 42, and 56, a public road, sections 57 and
58, a public road, and section 45, to the south-eastern corner
thereof, all in Block III, Wyndham Survey District; thence in
a south-easterly direction along the north-eastern boundaries
of Sections 27 and 28, Block VII, Wyndham Survey District,
and sections 4, 5, and 6, Block I, Mokoreta Survey District,
and easterly along the northern boundary of Section 22A,
Block I, Mokoreta Survey District, to the north-eastern
corner of the said Section 22A; thence northerly and north-
easterly generally along the western and north-western
boundaries of Lot 7, D.P. 3410, to the southern boundary of
Slopedown Survey District; thence easterly along that southern
boundary to the western boundary of Lot 2, D.P. 3410;
thence easterly generally along the western and southern
boundaries of Lot 2, D.P. 3410, and Lot 3, D.P. 3412, to
the western boundary of Rimu Survey District; thence
southerly along the western boundary of the said Rimu Survey
District to the north-eastern boundary of Lot 6, D.P. 3411;
thence north-westerly, south-westerly, and south-easterly along
the north-eastern, north-western, and south-western boundaries
of Lot 6 aforesaid to the south-eastern corner thereof;
thence south-westerly and north-westerly along the south-
eastern and south-western boundaries of Run 161A, Mokoreta
Survey District, to the northern boundary of Block X, Moko-
reta Survey District; thence westerly along the northern
boundary of Blocks X and IX, Mokoreta Survey District,
to the eastern boundary of Run 74 in Block IV, Mokoreta
Survey District; thence northerly and north-westerly along
the eastern and north-eastern boundaries of the said Run 74,
to the northernmost corner thereof; thence northerly and
westerly along the eastern and northern boundaries of
Section 17, Block XI, Wyndham Survey District, to the
eastern boundary of Section 37A, Glenham Settlement, Block
XI, Wyndham Survey District; thence northerly generally
along the eastern boundary of the said Section 37A, and the
production of that boundary to the right bank of the
Wyndham (Mokoreta) River; thence north-westerly gene-
rally along that right bank to the north-western side of the
Wyndham-Letterbox road; thence south-westerly along that
north-western side, and that line produced to the right bank
of the Wyndham (Mokoreta) River; thence south-westerly
along that right bank to the confluence of the Wydnham
(Mokoreta) and Mataura Rivers; thence due west to the right
bank of the Mataura River; thence northerly generally along
that right bank to a point in line with the southern boundary
of the Town of Mataura Bridge; thence easterly and northerly
along the southern and eastern boundaries of the Town of
Mataura Bridge and the production of the last-mentioned
boundary to the point of commencement.

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

*Gazette, 1941, Vol. III, p. 3754
†Gazette, 1951, Vol. I, p. 489

Substitution of a Commissioner on the Royal Commission to
Inquire Into and Report Upon State Services in New
Zealand

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United
Kingdom, New Zealand, and Her Other Realms and
Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender
of the Faith:

To Our Trusty and Well-beloved the Honourable THADDEUS
PEARCEY McCARTHY, a Judge of the Supreme Court of
New Zealand; MATTHEW OLIVER BARNETT, Esquire, of
Wellington, Solicitor and Company Director; CLIFFORD
ULRIC PLIMMER, Esquire, of Wellington, Company
Director; JOHN TURNBULL, Esquire, of Wellington, Retired
Secretary; and RALPH HERBERT BROOKES, Esquire, of
Wellington, University Senior Lecturer:

GREETING:

WHEREAS by Our Commission issued on the 6th day of July
1961,* We constituted and appointed you, the said the
Honourable THADDEUS PEARCEY McCARTHY, MATTHEW OLIVER

BARNETT, CLIFFORD ULRIC PLIMMER, and JOHN TURNBULL,
and also KENNETH JOHN SCOTT, Esquire of Wellington,
University Professor, to be a Commission to receive repre-
sentations upon, inquire into, investigate, and report upon
State Services in New Zealand:

And whereas the said KENNETH JOHN SCOTT died on the
19th day of July 1961, and it is desirable to appoint in his
stead a member of the Commission so constituted:

NOW, Know Ye, that We, reposing trust and confidence in
your integrity, knowledge, and ability, do hereby appoint you,
the said

RALPH HERBERT BROOKES

to be a member of the said Commission in the stead of the
said KENNETH JOHN SCOTT:

And it is hereby declared that all acts and things done
and decisions made by the said Commission or any of its
members, in the exercise of its powers, before the issuing
of these presents, shall be deemed to have been made and
done by the said Commission as reconstituted by these
presents, and as if you, the said RALPH HERBERT BROOKES, had
originally been appointed to be a member in the place and
stead of the said KENNETH JOHN SCOTT:

And We hereby confirm Our Commission issued on the
6th day of July 1961 save as modified by these presents:

And lastly, it is hereby declared that these presents are
issued under the authority of the Letters Patent of His late
Majesty King George the Fifth, dated the 11th day of May
1917, and under the authority of and subject to the provisions
of the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand.

In witness whereof We have caused this Our Commission
to be issued and the Seal of New Zealand to be hereunto
affixed at Wellington this 2nd day of August 1961.

Witness Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Cousin, Charles
John, Viscount Cobham, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint
George, upon whom has been conferred the Territorial
Decoration, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief
in and over New Zealand; acting by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand.

COBHAM, Governor-General.

By his Deputy,
H. E. BARROWCLOUGH.

By His Excellency's Command—

KEITH HOLYOAKE, Prime Minister.

Approved in Council—
[L.S.] T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.
*Gazette, 7 July 1961, No. 44, p. 977

Exempting Land in the Otago Land District from the Operation
of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925

COBHAM, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the Coal Mines Act 1925, His Excellency the
Governor-General hereby gives the following notice:

NOTICE

THE land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby exempted
from the operation of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925.

SCHEDULE

ALL that parcel of land containing 1 rood, more or less, situated
in the Borough of Kaitangata, being Section 3, Block
LXXIII, Town of Kaitangata, and being the whole of the land
in certificate of title, Volume 438, folio 44 (Dunedin Land
Registry).

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General this 25th day of July 1961.

T. P. SHAND, Minister of Mines.

(Mines 11/41/3)

Honorary Vice-Consul of Portugal in Dunedin

THE Governor-General directs it to be notified that the appoint-
ment of

Mr Reginald William Crombie

as Honorary Vice-Consul of Portugal in Dunedin has been
provisionally recognised.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of July 1961.

KEITH HOLYOAKE, Minister of External Affairs.