JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1479

Appointments and Promotions of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Department,
Wellington, 27th May, 1942.

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

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH.

Appointments.

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer :—

AS PILOT.

Dated 1st May, 1942—
NZ 41395 Sergeant Peter MERCER.

AS AIR OBSERVER.

Dated 2nd March, 1942—
NZ 40620 Sergeant Ivor Wilders Porter EVISON.

AS AIR GUNNER.

Dated 1st May, 1942—
NZ 40630 Flight Sergeant Bernard Cyril William SIMMONDS.

Promotions.

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—

Dated 24th May, 1942—
West Radcliffe ENGLAND.
Denis Bernard PAGE.
Glen Otto Albert BEU.
Leslie Oscar HUNTER.
Eric Howard PERRY.
Ormond Patrick BAYLEY.
George Munro BERTRAM.
William Moffatt MURRAY.
Alfred Noel ARNOTT.
Harold Edward Peart WILSON.
George William MARTIN.
Peter DURNING.
Archibald Robert TUCKETT.

Dated 27th May, 1942—
Wilfred Howard JENKIN.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II.

Appointments.

AS SIGNAL OFFICER.

NZ 1547 Kenneth Arthur SHEARD, B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Flying Officer. Dated 27th May, 1942.

AS RADIO OFFICER.

NZ 405644 L.A.C. Albert Leslie TURNER is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Pilot Officer (on prob.). Dated 20th May, 1942.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH.

Appointment.

NZ 1548 Kenneth Henry Stuart ALLEN, M.A. (Educational Branch), is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Flying Officer. Dated 11th May, 1942.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH, SECTION II (A.T.C.).

Appointments.

The undermentioned are granted commissions in the Air Training Corps in the rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 15th May, 1942 :—
Kenneth Gunn BLAIR.
John Charles BONHAM.
Alexander CALDER.
Cecil Lancelot Stewart CROSS.
Roland Oswald JOHNSON.
Harry Leonard Le BAS.
Keith Alfred MUFF.
George SULLIVAN.
Leslie ROWNTREE.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Honorary Child Welfare Officers under the Child Welfare Act, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 29th May, 1942.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Henry Greathead Rex Mason, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint the following persons as Honorary Child Welfare Officers for the purposes of the said Act for the period ending the 31st December, 1942 :—

Name. District.
Blakiston, Reverend Peter H. .. .. Hastings.
Thorburn, Mrs. Olive W. .. .. Waipukurau.
Robertson, Mrs. Ethel E. M. .. .. Waipawa.
Cochran, John M. .. .. Ruatahuna.

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

Appointments to and Retirements from the High Commissioner’s Staff, London.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1942.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been pleased to appoint and/or retire, as the case may be, in terms of section 9 of the High Commissioner’s Act, 1908, the following persons as officers in the office of the High Commissioner in London as on and from the date or dates specified opposite the name of each respectively :—

• Deceased.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 141/2.)

Member of the Lemon Advisory Committee appointed.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on me by the Lemon Marketing Regulations 1940, made under the Marketing Act, 1936, and the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act, 1934, I, James Gillispie Barclay, Minister of Marketing, do hereby, in pursuance of Regulation 7 of the said Regulations, appoint—

Harry Stuart Benner

to be a member of the Lemon Marketing Advisory Committee established by the said regulations, vice Alfred Rae Emanuel, resigned.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of May, 1942.

J. G. BARCLAY, Minister of Marketing.

Savings-bank Officer appointed.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1942.

PURSUANT to the powers delegated to me in terms of section 3 of the Savings-bank Act, 1908, I hereby approve the appointment of the undermentioned Officer of the Auckland Savings-bank :—

Name of Officer. Appointment. From
Mockett, June Nola (Miss) Junior Typiste 11th May, 1942.

B. C. ASHWIN,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 27th May, 1942.

BY virtue of the powers conferred on me by the Maori Births and Deaths Registration Regulations 1935, I hereby appoint

Mary Melchior McCormack (Miss)

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Ranana.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.