JAN. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 417

As SQUADRON LEADER.
Joseph Langmuir HUNTER, M.A.

As FLIGHT LIEUTENANTS.
Louis Herbert LIDGARD, M.Sc., B.For.Sc.
Lionel Allan Cromwell WARNER, M.Sc.

As FLYING OFFICERS.
George Bently BEATH, M.A.
John Irvine BECKETT, M.A.
Malcolm Palmer BYRNES, M.A.
James Roy DIXON, M.Sc.
William Harry ENTWISTLE, M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D.
William Norman HOUSE, M.A.
Ronald Sydney JONES, M.Sc.
Allen Frank PAPESCH, B.Sc.
John Herbert RIMMER.
James Francis SHARKEY, M.A.
Donald Alfred SMITH, M.A.
Harold William Boon WEBBER.

Transfer.
Flying Officer Ian Coates NEALE is transferred from the General Duties Branch to the Administrative and Special Duties Branch in his present rank and seniority. Dated 25th January, 1942.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH, SECTION II, A.T.C.
Appointments.
The undermentioned are granted Commissions in the Air Training Corps in the ranks shown. Dated 1st January, 1942:

As FLYING OFFICERS.
Gordon Alfred ELIOTT.
Eliot Millar KING.
Gordon Arthur THOMPSON.

As PILOT OFFICERS.
James Edmund Beere DICKSON.
Paul Dudley EVANS.
Reginald Francis FRANKLIN.
Charles Clarence ROBERTS.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Members of Revaluation Committee for Southland Land District.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 21st January, 1942.
PURSUANT to the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section 216 of the Land Act, 1924, I do hereby notify that
George Thomas Martin and John Joseph Keppel are appointed members of the Southland Land District Revaluation Committee for a term of one year as from 1st January, 1942.
J. G. BARCLAY, For the Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 32/1.)

Appointments in the Public Service.
Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 28th January, 1942.
THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:
Sergeant James Gracey to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates' Court at Upper Hutt for the purposes of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1928, and Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates' Court at Upper Hutt for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 20th day of December, 1941.
John Louis Wellbrock Gerken to be Local Patent Officer at Dunedin for the purposes of section 115 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22, Deputy Registrar of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and Deputy Sheriff for the District of Otago for the purposes of the Judicature Act, 1908, on and from the 19th day of January, 1942.
Albert Stephen Prisk to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Te Awamutu, on and from the 29th day of December, 1941.
G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1942.
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
Harold Ernest Tonge to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Thames.
K. D. C. MORRISON,
Deputy Registrar-General.

The Tires and Tubes Control Notice 1942.
NOTICE is hereby given that, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the Supply Control Emergency Regulations 1939, and the Munitions Emergency Regulations 1941, the Minister of Supply and Munitions doth hereby give notice and direct as follows:

1. This notice may be cited as the Tires and Tubes Control Notice 1942.
2. The Tires and Tubes Control Notice 1941, and the Tires and Tubes Control Notice 1941, No. 2, are hereby revoked, but so that such revocation shall not affect the continuing liability of any person under the Supply Control Emergency Regulations 1939 for any breach of the requirements of those notices committed during the time when those notices were in force.
3. This notice shall apply to all tires and tubes suitable for use or capable of being used on the wheels of vehicles except (a) metal tires for horse-drawn vehicles, and (b) tires and tubes suitable only for use on pedal-bicycles.
4. All tires and tubes to which this notice applies are declared to be munitions for the purposes of the Munitions Emergency Regulations 1941.
5. No person being the owner thereof shall sell, supply, dispose of, or part with the possession or control of any new or used tires or tubes to which this notice applies and which are not affixed to a vehicle as part of the normal equipment thereof except with the precedent consent of the Secretary, Ministry of Supply and Munitions (as delegate of the Munitions Controller), or of some other person appointed by the Secretary for the purpose.
6. No person who on the 14th day of December, 1941, had in his possession or control or on order by him any new or used tires or tubes to which this notice applies, not affixed to a vehicle as part of the normal equipment thereof, shall use any of those tires or tubes except with the precedent consent of the Secretary, Ministry of Supply and Munitions (as delegate of the Munitions Controller), or of some other person appointed by the Secretary for the purpose.
7. No person whose business or part of whose business is the sale of tires or tubes shall use any new tires or tubes to which this notice applies except with the precedent consent of the Secretary, Ministry of Supply (as delegate of the Munitions Controller), or of some other person appointed by the Secretary for the purpose.
   Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of January, 1942.
   D. G. SULLIVAN, Minister of Supply and Munitions.
   The Wiroa Cemetery By-law confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.
   Department of Internal Affairs,
   Wellington, 27th January, 1942.
   THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of the Wiroa Cemetery By-law, 1941, made by the Bay of Islands County Council on the 17th day of December, 1941.
   W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
   CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.
   In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the within-written by-law, and declare that the same came into force on the 1st day of January, 1942.
   Dated this 27th day of January, 1942.
   W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
   (I.A. 103/6/38.)