SEPT. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2725

Dated 9th August, 1941—

NZ 41520 Sergeant Evan Dall Mackie.
NZ 41634 Sergeant Richard Fuller Worsley.
NZ 405761 Sergeant Ernest Albert Holdaway.
NZ 405256 Sergeant John Alexander Grierson.
NZ 41479 Sergeant George Edmond Jameson.
NZ 41339 Sergeant Selwyn Latta.
NZ 41318 Sergeant Carlyle Gray Eyriss.
NZ 41394 Sergeant Russell Maurice Mathieson.
NZ 41526 Sergeant James Henry Robson.
NZ 405235 Sergeant Henry Gift Coldbeck.
NZ 41509 Sergeant John Ross Falls.
NZ 405290 Sergeant John Lowrie.
NZ 402494 Sergeant Gray Stenhouse.
NZ 405335 Sergeant Martin Robert Draycott Hume.
NZ 405608 Sergeant Jack Colin Parkes.
NZ 404364 Sergeant Ian Herbert Duff.
NZ 404858 Sergeant Charles Douglas Ferguson.
NZ 439003 Sergeant John Herbert Davies.
NZ 405250 Sergeant Charles John Freshney.
NZ 405236 Sergeant Francis Coeil Connolly.
NZ 405239 Sergeant Mervyn Charles De Clifford.
NZ 41477 Sergeant Basil Howard Gray.
NZ 41521 Sergeant Brian Minden Madden.
NZ 405243 Sergeant Norman Demont.
NZ 405229 Sergeant Walter Alexander Caldwell.
NZ 404564 Sergeant Allan O’Brien.
NZ 41360 Sergeant Reginald Pearson Round.
NZ 405271 Sergeant Gordon Carlton Hill.

Promotion.

Flying Officer Horace John Dowdsford Lambert (Temporary Commission) to be Acting Flight Lieutenant. Dated 25th August, 1941.

Transfer.

Flight Lieutenant Frederick Lionel Truman is posted to the Reserve of Officers, Section I, Class A. Dated 1st September, 1941.

Reductions in Seniority.

Flying Officer Jack Sandford Nelson (T.A.F.) is sentenced by General Court-Martial to take rank and precedence as if his appointment as Flying Officer bore date the 1st December, 1940.

Pilot Officer John Desmond Baw (Temporary Commission) is sentenced by General Court-Martial to take rank and precedence as if his appointment as Pilot Officer bore date the 11th August, 1941.

M. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Members of the Hop Marketing Committee appointed.

Pursuant to the powers conferred on me by the Hop Marketing Regulations 1939, made under the Marketing Act, 1936, and the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act, 1934, I, James Gillispie Barclay, do hereby appoint—

(i) In pursuance of Regulation 2 (a) of the said regulations,

Reginald George Crush Fitch, vice James Ewing Thomas, and

(ii) In pursuance of Regulation 2 (b) of the said regulations,—

Henry Conrad Beuke,
Charles Joseph Boyes,
William Hickmott,
Samuel Edward O’Hara, and
Bertie Thomas Rowling

to be members of the Hop Marketing Committee established by the said regulations.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of August, 1941.

J. G. BARCLAY, Minister of Marketing.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

Donald Mackinnon Wood, Esquire, of Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has this day been appointed by the Right Honourable Sir Michael Myers, G.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the State of Victoria under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of August, 1941.

G. S. CLARK, Registrar, Supreme Court.

Member of Otago Land Board appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to appoint

Wills Alan Scaife

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Otago for a term of two years from the 26th day of August, 1941.

THOS. POUND, Assistant Under-Secretary.

(L. and S. 22/748/9.)

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 27th August, 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, Keith Doidge Cameron Morrison, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint

Alexander George Dickson

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Whangaroa.

K. D. C. MORRISON,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 3rd September, 1941.

THE Acting Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Francis Newmarch

to be Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Waitaki for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Waitaki Licensing District for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 22nd day of August, 1941.

Martin Langridge Solva Cole

to be Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Bay of Plenty for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and Returning Officer for the Bay of Plenty Licensing District for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and from the 22nd day of August, 1941.

Alexander George Dickson

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Kaeo, on and from the 2nd day of July, 1941.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Special Order made by the Springs County Council declaring that Sections 121 and 131, Counties Act, 1920, shall not apply to that Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th August, 1941.

THE following special order made by the Springs County Council is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931.

W. F. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

SPECIAL ORDER.

Resolution passed at a special meeting of the Springs County Council held on the 17th day of April, 1941.

Moved by Councillor J. S. Simpson (Chairman),
Seconded by Councillor C. H. Watson.

“WHEREAS under and by virtue of section 121 of the Counties Act, 1920, it is provided that the Council shall make and levy the general rates separately in each riding of the county, and by section 131 of the said Act provision is also made for apportioning the estimated income among several ridings of the county in proportion to the total income estimated to be received from each riding in respect to general rates: And whereas subsection (1) of section 2 of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931, provides that the Council of any county may by special order declare that the said sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920, as aforesaid, shall not apply to the Council: And whereas the Springs County Council is desirous of adopting the provisions of the said Counties Amendment Act, 1931, relating to sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920: Now, therefore, in pursuance and in exercise of the provisions of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931, as aforesaid, the Springs County