SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1944
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1944
The Potatoes (Tansportation) Order 1944, No. 1
PURSUANT to powers conferred on the Primary Industries Controller by the Primary Industries Emergency Regulations 1939,* and duly delegated to me by the said Controller, pursuant to clause 5 of the said regulations, I, Ross Papprill Fraser, the Acting-Director of the Internal Marketing Division of the Marketing Department, do hereby order and direct as follows:-

1. This Order may be cited as the Potatoes (Transportation) Order 1944, No. 1, and shall come into force on the 21st day of March, 1944.
2. While this Order remains in force no person shall, except with the permission of an officer of the Internal Marketing Division of the Marketing Department, consign any potatoes for carriage by rail, or cause any potatoes to be so consigned to any station south of Linton from any station north of Linton on any of the following railway-lines :-
   (a) The Auckland-Wellington Main Trunk railway-line :
   (b) The Wellington-New Plymouth railway-line :
   (c) The Wellington-Stratford-Okahukura railway-line :
   (d) The Wellington - Palmerston North - Woodville railway-line.
3. While this Order remains in force no person shall, except with the permission of an officer of the Internal Marketing Division of the Marketing Department, consign any potatoes for carriage by sea from any port in the South Island, other than a port in the Nelson Provincial District, to any port in the North Island.
4. Unless sooner revoked or extended this Order shall continue in force until the 15th day of April, 1944, and no longer.
   Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of March, 1944.
   R. P. FRASER, Acting-Director.
   Appointments to the Distinguished Service Order and Honours and Awards approved by His Majesty the King
   Office of the Minister of Defence,
   Wellington, 13th March, 1944.
   THE King has been graciously pleased to approve the following appointments to the Distinguished Service Order and to approve the following awards:-
   Distinguished Service Order
   Commander Ralph Newman, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Lieutenant-Commander Gordon Bridson, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Distinguished Service Cross
   Lieutenant-Commander Philip George Connolly, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander (A) Arthur Bevan Napper, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Lieutenant-Commander Peter Phipps, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Lieutenant Lewis King, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Instructor Lieutenant George Lawrence Hogben, Royal New Zealand Navy.
   Temporary Lieutenant Herbert John Bull, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Lieutenant (A) Frank Athol Joseph Pennington, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A) Alexander Brunt, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A) Hugh Harold Alexander, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant George James MacDonald, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A) John Craig Morrison, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A) John Alexander Cramp, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Roger Wilson Harris, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Archie Bruce Ryan, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Lieutenant James Frederick Allan O'Neill, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Lieutenant William Alexander Laurie, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander John Ferdinand Holm, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant Leonard Elliott Newall, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A) Ernest Frank Pratt, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A) Colin Thomas White, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Sub-Lieutenant James Oakley Wilson, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Lieutenant Stanley Godfrey Jervis, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Lieutenant-Commander Roger Stannard Cameron, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Lieutenant (A) Ronald John Fisher, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Lieutenant Edward Henry Godfrey Lassen, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
   Temporary Lieutenant Isaac Kenneth Turner Chute, Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.