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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

regulations who shall be charged with any offence for which
such person may be tried by court-martial, whether such
offence shall have been committed before or after the date
of this Warrant; and I hereby further authorize you to
confirm the proceedings of any such courts-martial and to
cause any sentence thereof to be put into execution according
to law:

Provided, however, that no sentence of death shall be
carried into effect unless the execution thereof be approved
by myself as Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand in Council:

And provided always that if by sentence of any general
court-martial a commissioned officer has been sentenced to
suffer penal servitude or imprisonment or to be cashiered
or dismissed from the Royal New Zealand Air Force or an
airman has been sentenced to suffer penal servitude you shall
in such case, and also in the case of any other general court-
martial, whether convened by you or under the delegated
authority hereinafter mentioned in which you shall think
fit so to do, transmit the proceedings to the Solicitor-General
of New Zealand in order that he may forward them to the
Minister of Defence, who will lay the same before me for
my decision thereupon:

And I do further authorize you to direct your warrant to
any officer of the Royal Air Force or of the Royal New
Zealand Air Force not below the rank of Squadron Leader
giving him a general authority to convene general courts-
martial for the trial of any persons subject to the said Act
and regulations who shall be charged with any offence for
which such person may be tried by court-martial, whether
such offence shall have been committed before or after the
date of the warrant directed by you to such officer, and also
to exercise in respect of the proceedings of such courts-
martial the power of confirming the findings or sentences
thereof according to law, or, if you should so think fit, of
directing him to reserve for your confirmation the proceedings
of all or any such courts-martial, in which case you are
hereby authorized to exercise in respect of the proceedings
so reserved all the powers of a confirming officer in accordance
with the said Act and regulations:

And for executing the several powers, matters, and things
herein expressed this shall be to you and all others whom
it may concern a sufficient Warrant and authority.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General this 20th day of October, 1941.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Warrant for Convening General Courts-martial.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

To the AIR OFFICER COMMANDING for the time being of
the Royal Air Force, Far East.

WHEREAS by the Visiting Forces Act, 1939, it is pro-
vided when a home force and another force are
acting in combination any officer of the other force duly
appointed to command the combined force, or any part
thereof, shall be treated and shall have over members of
the home force the like powers of command and punishment,
and may be invested with the like authority to convene,
and confirm the findings and sentences of, courts-martial
as if he were an officer of the home force of relative rank
and holding the same command:

And whereas by an order made on the 10th day of April,
1941, under the authority of the aforesaid Act, it was declared
that the air forces of His Majesty raised in New Zealand
which are serving outside New Zealand during or in respect
of the present war shall be deemed to be serving together
and acting in combination with the air forces of His Majesty
raised in the United Kingdom:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
conferred by the aforesaid Act and by the Air Force Act,
1937, and the regulations made thereunder (hereinafter
referred to as “the said Act and regulations”) I, Cyril
Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of
New Zealand, do hereby authorize you from time to time
as occasion may require to convene general courts-martial
for the trial of every person subject to the said Act and
regulations who shall be charged with any offence for which
such person may be tried by court-martial, whether such
offence shall have been committed before or after the date
of this Warrant; and I hereby further authorize you to
confirm the proceedings of any such courts-martial and to
cause any sentence thereof to be put into execution according
to law:

Provided, however, that no sentence of death shall be
carried into effect unless the execution thereof be approved
by myself as Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand in Council:

And provided always that if by sentence of any general
court-martial a commissioned officer has been sentenced to
suffer penal servitude or imprisonment or to be cashiered
or dismissed from the Royal New Zealand Air Force or an
airman has been sentenced to suffer penal servitude you shall
in such case, and also in the case of any other general court-
martial, whether convened by you or under the delegated
authority hereinafter mentioned in which you shall think
fit so to do, transmit the proceedings to the Solicitor-General
of New Zealand in order that he may forward them to the
Minister of Defence, who will lay the same before me for
my decision thereupon:

And I do further authorize you to direct your warrant to
any officer of the Royal Air Force or of the Royal New
Zealand Air Force not below the rank of Squadron Leader
giving him a general authority to convene general courts-
martial for the trial of any persons subject to the said Act
and regulations who shall be charged with any offence for
which such person may be tried by court-martial, whether
such offence shall have been committed before or after the
date of the warrant directed by you to such officer, and also
to exercise in respect of the proceedings of such courts-
martial the power of confirming the findings or sentences
thereof according to law, or, if you should so think fit, of
directing him to reserve for your confirmation the proceedings
of all or any such courts-martial, in which case you are
hereby authorized to exercise in respect of the proceedings
so reserved all the powers of a confirming officer in accordance
with the said Act and regulations:

And for executing the several powers, matters, and things
herein expressed this shall be to you and all others whom
it may concern a sufficient Warrant and authority.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General this 20th day of October, 1941.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the
three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the
Peace Act, 1927, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify
and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the
Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown
holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively
in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive
statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first
section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE.

John Melville Morrison, Postmaster, Mokai.
Margaret Isobel Rathbon, Postmistress and Telephonist,
Te Mawhai.
Robert Allan Wallace, Accountant, Post-office, Gisborne.
Norman Robert Spiers Wallace, Chief Clerk, Post-office,
Wanganui.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 17th day of October, 1941.

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

Additional Members appointed to the Forest Hill Scenic Board.

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the twenty-fourth day
of August, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-
eight, and published in the Gazette of the first day of Sep-
tember, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, the
control of a certain reserve in the Southland Land District,
known as the Forest Hill Scenic Reserve, was vested in
certain persons therein named, who by the said
Warrant constituted a special Board, by the name of the
Forest Hill Scenic Board, in pursuance of section thirteen
of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908:

And whereas it is desirable that the Mayor of Winton
(ex officio), Henry Charles Gimblett, and James Laurence
Lennie should be appointed as additional members of the said
Board:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the powers conferred on him by section thirteen of the
Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, doth hereby appoint the said
Mayor of Winton (ex officio), Henry Charles Gimblett, and
James Laurence Lennie to be additional members of the
Forest Hill Scenic Board constituted by the Warrant dated
the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand nine hundred
and thirty-eight, hereinbefore referred to.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 20th day of October, 1941.

J. G. BARCLAY,
For the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 4/789.)