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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 14

Dated 7th January, 1943: Alan Stuart WILSON.
Dated 11th January, 1943—
Thomas Desmond BREWER.
Raymond Jack Nelson ARCHIBALD.
Basil Clement HARDING.
Edgar Herbert Mervyn TREDREA.
Russell William GASH.
Henry Joseph Benedict VEINT.
Alexander MOORE.
Ronald Ivor GRAHAM.
Alexander CRUICKSHANK.
Alan Rodger WALKER.
Edward John VOSS.
Arthur Russell STEPHENSON.
William Eric BURGESS.
Allen Lester HENRY.
Francis Colin COOK.
Thomas Henry WORSP.
Graham Frank BRABIN.
Robert Henry Sherwood BUTT.
Dated 25th January, 1943: Ronald James WALTON.
Dated 31st January, 1943: Vivian Roberts EADY.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION I.
Promotion.
Flight Lieutenant Thomas Bertrand PLEDGER to be Acting Squadron Leader. Dated 1st January, 1943.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH.
Relinquishment.
Pilot Officer Charles Henry KINGSFORD relinquishes his temporary commission. Dated 1st March, 1943.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH, SECTION II (A.T.C.).
Promotion.
Pilot Officer James Smith ROBBIE to be Flying Officer. Dated 15th December, 1942.

A. G. OSBORNE,
For the Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Relinquishment, and Termination of Commission of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Department,
Wellington, 25th February, 1943.

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

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH.
Termination of Commission.
The temporary commission of Flying Officer Lionel THOMPSON is terminated and permission to wear the Flying Badge withdrawn. Dated 1st March, 1943.

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

As Pilot.
Dated 10th January, 1943—
NZ 412278 Sergeant Bernard Cyril TASKER.

As Air Gunners.
Dated 25th January, 1943—
NZ 415813 Sergeant Leslie Thomas Elding YOUNG.
Dated 8th February, 1943—
NZ 422715 Sergeant Allan Francis McCONNELL.

Promotions.
The undermentioned Flying Officers to be Flight Lieutenants (temp.) :—
Dated 18th January, 1943—
John Grigor Mackenzie GRANT.
Timothy John Wilder WILLIAMS, D.F.C.
Dated 8th February, 1943—
Edwin Lee HOUGHTON.
Francis REECE.

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—
Dated 1st November, 1942: Ernest CLOW.
Dated 2nd January, 1943: Noel Ainsley CRESSWELL.
Dated 5th January, 1943: Ronald Lavender BAKER.
Dated 7th January, 1943: Hugh Colin KIMPTON.
Dated 18th January, 1943—
John Henry Charles WAKEFIELD.
Neal Aubrey WARD.
William John DODDS.
Dated 22nd January, 1943: David Ronald STEWART, D.F.M.
Dated 24th January, 1943: Lawrence Patrick RYAN.
Dated 27th January, 1943: Harold Wright HENRY.
Dated 28th January, 1943: Donald Thornton SHAKES.
Dated 29th January, 1943: Hector Ronald LECKIE.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II.
Appointments.
RADIO OFFICERS.
The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer (on prob.) :—
Dated 26th November, 1942—
NZ 405021 L.A.C. John Edward Stephen FITZGERALD.
NZ 405059 L.A.C. Edward James PALMER.
Dated 4th February, 1943—
NZ 405609 L.A.C. Dudley Alfred SANDERS.

Promotions.
The undermentioned Pilot Officers (on prob.) are confirmed in their rank and are granted the temporary rank of Flying Officer :—
Dated 19th September, 1942: Victor Alan STANLEY.
Dated 29th January, 1943: Trevor Hamilton DANIELL.
The notice relating to Victor Alan STANLEY in the New Zealand Gazette No. 7 of 18th February, 1943, page 130, under the heading “Equipment Branch, Section II, Promotion,” is cancelled.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH.
Promotion.
Flying Officer John Maxwell WARNOCK to be Flight Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 19th February, 1943.

Transfers.
The undermentioned are transferred from the General Duties Branch to the Administrative and Special Duties Branch in their present rank and seniority :—
Dated 1st February, 1943—
Flying Officer Roger Lindsay Carr MARIA.
Flying Officer William John STEVENSON.
Dated 1st March, 1943—
Flying Officer Eric LIVERTON.
Flying Officer Leo Albert HAYDON.
Flying Officer Barclay Christopher McGuire HARRINGTON.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH, SECTION II (A.T.C.).
Relinquishment.
Pilot Officer Cyril Lloyd MALOY relinquishes his commission in the Air Training Corps. Dated 1st February, 1943.

A. G. OSBORNE,
For the Minister of Defence.

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st March, 1943.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint
James William Arbury, Esquire,
to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Thames, vice J. McCormick, deceased.

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

Retention of Title of “Honourable.”

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1943.

IT is hereby notified that His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve of the retention of the title of “Honourable” by the Honourable Sir (Henry) Hubert Ostler, Kt., lately a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

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

Appointment of Industrial Efficiency Appeal Authority under Section 10 of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1942.

Office of the Minister of Industries and Commerce,
Wellington, 3rd March, 1943.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint the Honourable Sir Francis Vernon Frazer to the office of Industrial Efficiency Appeal Authority under the authority of section 10 of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1942.

D. G. SULLIVAN,
Minister of Industries and Commerce.

Election of a Member of the Hawke’s Bay Egg Marketing Committee.

PURSUANT to the Egg Marketing Regulations 1940, notice has been received that
Arthur William Miller
has been duly elected to be a member of the Hawke’s Bay Egg Marketing Committee established by the said regulations, vice Peter Bayne McDonald, resigned.

J. G. BARCLAY, Minister of Marketing.