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SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken : 4 acres 0 roods 4 perches.
Being part Sections 7 and 8.

Situated in Block I, Waihola Survey District (Otago R.D.).

In the Otago Land District ; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 118911, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon hatched blue.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 1st day of March, 1944.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 32/3877.)

Exemption Order under the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, so far as they relate to the driving of heavy trade motors, shall not apply to the persons hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply :-

A motor-driver’s license issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to any one of the persons described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor for the purpose of the business of the respective employer described in Column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the age of eighteen years, to drive a heavy trade-motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
Vivian Dudley Walker, Manutahi .. .. Father.
Mervyn Benson Steel, Otahuhu .. .. Father.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1944.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

Exemption Order under the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, so far as they relate to the driving of heavy trade motors, shall not apply to the person hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply :-

A motor-driver’s license issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor for the purpose of the business of the respective employer described in Column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the age of eighteen years, to drive a heavy trade motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
Reginald T. Askew, Upper Hutt .. .. Father.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of February, 1944.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

Members of the Upper Rakaia Rabbit Board elected.—(Notice No. Ag. 4079)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1944.

NOTICE has been received, under the hand of the Returning Officer for the purposes of the first election of members of the Upper Rakaia Rabbit Board, that—

Charles George Cran,
Ian Roderick Coleridge Murchison,
Maurice Heaton O’Rorke,
Bernard Hampton Pridie, and
Thomas Hartnell Stone

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

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

The Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943.—Notice declaring Land taken for the Settlement of Discharged Servicemen

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 24 of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, notice was given of the intention of the Minister of Lands to take under Part II of the said Act the lands described in the Schedule hereto, and a copy of the said notice was published in the Gazette on the 27th day of January, 1944, at page 60 :

And whereas no objection was made in manner prescribed by the said Act to the taking of the lands specified in the said notice :

Now, therefore, I, Clarence Farrington Skinner, Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 27 of the said Act, do hereby declare that the said lands are taken for the settlement of discharged servicemen, and I hereby specify the 30th day of March, 1944, as the date on which the said lands shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

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SCHEDULE

ALL those parcels of land containing together one thousand one hundred and ninety-five (1,195) acres three (3) roods and five and five-tenths (5·5) perches, more or less, being Section Twelve (12) and parts of Section Thirteen (13), Block V, and part of Section Seventy-eight (78), District of Awatere, part of Section Eighty-nine (89), District of Flaxbourne, and parts of Section Two Hundred and Sixty-two (262), Flaxbourne Run, District of Flaxbourne, being the land contained in Certificate of Title, Volume 37, folio 59 (Marlborough Registry) : several of the boundaries of the said land are more particularly shown on plan a copy of which is deposited in the Land Registry Office at Blenheim with copy Proclamation No. 57 ; and all those parcels of land containing together one (1) acre one (1) rood and thirty-two and eight-tenths (32·8) perches, more or less, being Section Twelve (12), Block XIII, and Sections Thirty-two (32) and Thirty-three (33), Block XIV, Clifford Bay Survey District, being the land contained in Certificate of Title, Volume 40, folio 188 (Marlborough Registry).

As witness my hand, this 1st day of March, 1944.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 21/149/2322.)

Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1944.—Delegation of Powers

THE Minister of Industrial Man-power doth hereby give notice that he has delegated to every District Man-power Officer the powers conferred upon him by Regulation 28 and Regulation 29 of the Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1944.

Dated this 24th day of February, 1944.

A. McLAGAN, Minister of Industrial Man-power.

Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1944.—Revocation of Declaration of Essential Industry No. 94

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon him by Regulation 11 of the Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1944, the Minister of Industrial Man-power doth hereby revoke Declaration of Essential Industry No. 94 as published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 70 on the 23rd July, 1942.

Dated this 22nd day of February, 1944.

A. McLAGAN, Minister of Industrial Man-power.

Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1944.—Amendments to Declarations of Essential Undertakings

National Service Department,
Wellington, 29th February, 1944.

THE Controller of Man-power doth hereby give notice that the Minister of Industrial Man-power has made the following amendments to declarations of essential undertakings as enumerated hereunder from the dates indicated :—

Declaration (No. 51), 22nd February, 1944

Addition—
Whittome, Stevenson, and Co., Ltd., at Auckland.

Declaration (No. 97), 22nd February, 1944

Addition—
Singer Sewing Machine Company, at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, except in respect of retail selling staff.

Declaration (No. 102), 22nd February, 1944

Addition—
Eide and Co., Ltd., at Wanganui.

Declaration (No. 134), 22nd February, 1944

Addition—
Construction work on the Waiototo River Bridge, Jackson’s Bay – Haast Road.

H. L. BOCKETT, Controller of Man-power.

Immediate Operational Awards approved by His Majesty the King

Office of the Minister of Defence,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1944.

HIS Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the following Immediate Operational Awards in recognition of gallantry displayed in flying operations against the enemy in the Solomon Islands :—

Distinguished Flying Cross

Pilot Officer Donald Fraser Ayson (NZ 402538), Royal New Zealand Air Force, No. 1 Squadron.

On 24th December, 1943, Pilot Officer Ayson was the Captain and Pilot of a Ventura aircraft returning from a patrol in the vicinity of Bougainville Island and New Britain. The aircraft was suddenly attacked by nine Zero fighters. In spite of skilful evasive action taken by Pilot Officer Ayson, the fire controller was wounded and the intercommunication system was wrecked. Pilot Officer Ayson continued to take such evasive action as he could until another member of the crew took over fire control and was able to give him intermittent reports of the enemy attacks. During one attack his rudder