Appointment and Transfer of Officers of the Royal New
Zealand Air Force.

Air Department,
Wellington, 28th March, 1941.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointment and transfer of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force:-

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II.

Appointment.

Warrant Officer Walter Starforth Maxey is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Flying Officer. Dated 1st January, 1941.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH.

Transfer.

Flying Officer (Honorary Flight Lieutenant) Frederick Stanley Gordon, D.F.C., is posted to the Reserve of Officers, Section I, Class B. Dated 24th March, 1941.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Members of Marlborough Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 1st April, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor- General has, pursuant to section 49 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to reappoint Lewis Stanley Jellyman, and Francis Smith to be members of the Land Board of the Land District of Marlborough for further terms of two years from the 6th day of March, 1941, and 20th day of March, 1941, respectively.

THOS. POUND, Assistant Under-Secretary.

(L. and S. 22/748/5.)

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1941.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Gilbert Graham Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint Thomas Henry Sadlier to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Little River.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 26th March, 1941.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:- Frances Agnes Harrison (Mrs.) to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Springburn, on and from the 10th day of March, 1941. Stanley John Williams to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Nuhaka, on and from the 5th day of March, 1941. Bernard Stanley Mills to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Manutahi, on and from the 1st day of March, 1941. Thomas Leslie Earnshaw to be Registrar of Marriages and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Awhitu, on and from the 18th day of March, 1941, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waiuku, on and from the 18th day of March, 1941.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

The Infants Act, 1908.--Direction for the Transfer of Adoption Records.

PURSUANT to a rule made by His Excellency the Governor-General on the 18th day of October, 1940 (Serial No. 1940/270), I hereby direct that all adoption records (exclusive of registers) in all Courts throughout New Zealand, in respect of which applications were filed at any time prior to the 1st day of January, 1916, shall be transferred for safe custody to the Office of the Registrar-General at Wellington.

Dated this 21st day of March, 1941.

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

The Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act, 1921.--Reciprocity with Sarawak.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 31st March, 1941.

THE following extract from the Sarawak Government Gazette of the 16th January, 1941, applying Sarawak Order No. M-11 (Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement)), 1938, to New Zealand, with effect from the 1st January, 1941, is published for general information.

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

No. 76, Order No. M-11 (Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement)), 1938.

IN exercise of the powers conferred upon the Chief Secretary by section 10 of Order No. M-11 (Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement)), 1938, I hereby add the following territories to the Schedule of the said Order, with effect from 1st January, 1941:- British India. Union of South Africa. New Zealand. Queensland. South Australia. Western Australia. Tasmania.

J. B. ARCHER, Chief Secretary.

Kuching, 2nd January, 1941.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XI, Opotiki Survey District, for Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work--to wit, the construction of road-- and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Opotiki and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:-

A. R. P. Being
0 1 0.24 Part Allotment 337B, No. 3, Waioeka Parish; coloured orange.
0 0 35.91 Part Allotment 337B, No. 4, Waioeka Parish; coloured sepia.
0 0 31.02 Part Allotment 337C, Section 1, Waioeka Parish; coloured blue.
0 0 9.67 Part Allotment 337C, Section 2, Waioeka Parish; coloured sepia.

Situated in Block XI, Opotiki Survey District (Gisborne R.D.). (S.O. 4109, blue.)

In the Gisborne Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 107932, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 2nd day of April, 1941.

D. WILSON, For the Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 70/3/20/0.)