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Flying Officer (Acting Flight Lieutenant) Richard James Lyall POWELL, D.F.C., to be Acting Flight Lieutenant (paid). Dated 13th February, 1943.

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

Dated 10th May, 1943 : Raymond William HENDERSON. Dated 13th May, 1943 : Laurence Bruce GORDON. Dated 29th May, 1943 : Bruce Alexander McKENZIE.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH, SECTION II Appointments

The undermentioned are granted Air Training Corps commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer :

Dated 1st August, 1943 : John Howard YOLLAND. Dated 1st September, 1943- Arthur Gordon Perham HOLLOWAY. Ernest Rowland DUNCAN.

NEW ZEALAND WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE Transfer

Assistant Section Officer Gytha Mabel Neale HOADLEY is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 1st September, 1943.

CORRIGENDUM

The notice appearing in New Zealand Gazette No. 70, dated 26th August, 1943, page 1018, announcing the promotion of Pilot Officer Edwin Roy ELLIOTT to be Acting Flying Officer, dated 1st April, 1943, is cancelled.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Members of the New Zealand Wool Council appointed.-(Notice No. Ag. 4040)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture, Wellington, 29th September, 1943.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased (i) in pursuance of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Wool Industry Promotion Act, 1936, to appoint-

Hubert Maxwell Christie, Esquire,

to be a member of and the representative of the New Zealand Government on the New Zealand Wool Council established by the said Act; and (ii) in pursuance of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the said Act, to appoint-

Leonard Thomas Daniell, Esquire, and George Charles Warren, Esquire,

to be members of and representatives of the wool-growers of the Dominion on the said Council.

J. G. BARCLAY, Minister of Agriculture.

Members of the Upper Pareora Rabbit Board elected.-(Notice No. Ag. 4041)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture, Wellington, 29th September, 1943.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer for the purposes of the first election of members of the Upper Pareora Rabbit Board established under the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, that-

George Bartrum Baker, John Alexander Darling, Arthur Stanley Elworthy, Robert James Harvey, and Robert Parry

have been duly elected to be members of the said Board.

J. G. BARCLAY, Minister of Agriculture.

Administration of Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, in Rotorua County.-(Notice No. Ag. 4043)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture, Wellington, 30th September, 1943.

THE following resolution passed by the Rotorua County Council on the 14th day of September, 1943, is published in accordance with the provisions of section 7 (2) of the Noxious Weeds Amendment Act, 1934.

RESOLUTION

"That the Council assume responsibility for the administration of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, within the Rotorua County as from the 1st day of October, 1943, and that the Minister of Agriculture be notified accordingly; also that the County Engineer, Mr. Thomas Stuart Robertson, be appointed Noxious Weeds Inspector for the County of Rotorua."

J. G. BARCLAY, Minister of Agriculture.

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph

General Post Office, Wellington, 27th September, 1943.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928 (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed transmitting and receiving officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid :-

Milton Rowley Aldridge, Chief Postmaster, Greymouth. John Francis Sullivan, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Palmerston North.

D. WILSON, For the Minister of Telegraphs.

The Overtime and Holidays Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1941, Variation No. 26

IN pursuance of the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Labour doth hereby order as follows :-

1. This Order may be cited as the Overtime and Holidays Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1941, Variation No. 26.

2. This Order shall be read together with and deemed part of the Overtime and Holidays Labour Legislation Suspension Order 1941 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order").

3. The principal Order is varied as follows-namely, the provisions of the principal Order shall not apply to a worker coming within the scope of any of the awards specified in the following Schedule in respect of any occasion when such worker having worked for twenty-four hours (inclusive of intervals for meals), or all day and night or all day and up till midnight (exclusive of intervals for meals), continues to work on.

SCHEDULE

4. This Order shall come into effect on the day of the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of October, 1943.

D. WILSON, For the Minister of Labour.

The Auckland Rubber Workers' Labour Legislation Modification Order 1943

IN pursuance of the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Labour doth hereby order as follows :-

1. This Order may be cited as the Auckland Rubber Workers' Labour Legislation Modification Order 1943.

2. This Order applies to Reid (New Zealand) Rubber Mills, Limited, Auckland.

3. The provisions of the Factories Act, 1921-22, and of the Northern Industrial District Rubber Workers' award dated the 14th day of June, 1943, are modified to enable the said company to employ part-time female workers in the manufacture of tennis-balls at an hourly rate of wages calculated on the basis of one-fortieth of the weekly rates prescribed by the said award.

4. This Order shall come into effect on the day of the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 4th day of October, 1943.

D. WILSON, For the Minister of Labour.

The Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, and its Amendments.-Fixing the Closing-hours of Fruitiers' Shops within the Borough of Hastings

WHEREAS a requisition in writing signed by a majority of the occupiers of all fruiterers' shops within the Borough of Hastings has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour desiring that all such shops in the said borough be closed in the evening of working-days as follows : On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 6.30 p.m., and on Fridays at 9 p.m., with the following exceptions :-

(1) On the working-day immediately preceding Good Friday the closing-hour shall be 10 p.m.; and

(2) During the weeks in which Christmas Day and New Year's Day occur there shall be no fixed closing-hour :