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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 23

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

Education Department,
Wellington, 17th March, 1944.

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, 1944 :—

Name. District.
Thompson, Mrs. Mary Louisa Masterton.
Sutcliffe, Captain Harry Masterton.
Church, Trevor Raupunga-Mohaka.
Ormond, George Opoutama and Mahia Peninsula.
Blakiston, Reverend Peter H. Te Karaka.

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

Member of Nelson Land Board appointed

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th March, 1944.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to appoint

James Ward

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Nelson for a term of two years from the 13th day of March, 1944.

R. G. MACMORRAN, Under-Secretary for Lands.
(L. and S. 22/748/6.)

Member of Southland Land Board reappointed

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th March, 1944.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 49 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to reappoint

Donald Faulkner

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Southland, for a further term of two years from the 6th day of December, 1943.

R. G. MACMORRAN, Under-Secretary for Lands.
(L. and S. 22/748/10.)

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1944.

IT is hereby notified that the following appointments have been made :—

Thomas Samuel Craythorne
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Akaroa, on and from the 22nd day of February, 1944.

Norman Lindsay Anderson
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Tokaanu, on and from the 1st day of March, 1944.

Dorothea Hedwig Downard (Miss)
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Te Anga, on and from the 6th day of March, 1944.

Lawrence Leonard Lafferty
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Ngaruawahia at Taupiri, on and from the 6th day of March, 1944.

Miriam Joyce Wilkin (Miss)
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Ashhurst, on and from the 6th day of March, 1944.

Robert Angus Johnstone
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Blackball, on and from the 6th day of March, 1944.

Sylvia Agnes Chamberlain (Miss)
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Orepuki, on and from the 22nd day of February, 1944.

Lionel Frederick Hickman
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Seddon, on and from the 7th day of March, 1944.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 21st March, 1944.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service :—

Constable Thomas William Round
to be Clerk and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Fairlie for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, and Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates’ Court at Fairlie, for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 1st day of March, 1944.

Alexander Gordon Hogg
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Pahiatua, on and from the 31st day of January, 1944.

Ethelbert Frank Codyre
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Mangaweka, on and from the 26th day of February, 1944.

Gerald Collins Gallen
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Tokomaru Bay, on and from the 29th day of February, 1944.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Consenting to the Sale by the Otago Electric-power Board of certain Land in accordance with the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section 92 of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1925, and of every other power in anywise enabling me in this behalf, I, Robert Semple, Minister of Works, do hereby consent to the sale by the Otago Electric-power Board of the land described in the Schedule hereto, such land being no longer required for the electric works for which it was acquired.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land authorized to be sold : 36 perches.

Being Allotment 83, Block IV, D.P. 59, being part Section 131.

Situated in Block XVI, Tokomairiro Survey District.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 12th day of August, 1943.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 26/554.)

The Shops and Offices Act, 1921-22, and its Amendments.—Fixing the Closing-hours of Tobacconists’ Shops within the Borough of Kaiapoi

WHEREAS a requisition in writing has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour from the occupiers of tobacconists’ shops within the Borough of Kaiapoi pursuant to section 32 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22 :

And whereas he is satisfied that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops within the said borough :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said section 32, the Minister of Labour doth hereby direct that on and after the 3rd day of April, 1944, all the said shops within the said borough shall be closed in the evening of working-days as follows : On Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at 6 p.m., on Fridays at 8.30 p.m., and on Saturdays at 9 p.m., with the following exception : Should the occupier of any shop affected by this notice observe, pursuant to section 14 (2) of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, Saturday as the statutory closing-day, then and in such case the closing-hour on Thursday for such shop shall be 9 p.m.

The notice gazetted on the 1st October, 1942,* fixing the closing-hours of tobacconists’ shops within the Borough of Kaiapoi is hereby cancelled as from the date of the coming into operation of this notice.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of March, 1944.

W. E. PARRY,
For the Minister of Labour.

• Gazette, 1st October, 1942, page 2450.

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 provisions 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).
Trevor Douglas Stodart, Tuatapere Father.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of March, 1944.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.