APRIL 13] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 363

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph

General Post Office,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1944.

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 :—

Albert Watson Parker, Deputy Chief Postmaster, Auckland.
James Wallace Logan, Superintendent, Telegraph Branch, Auckland.
Frederick Charles Robinson, Chief Postmaster, Blenheim.
Alexander Leslie Murray Willis, Chief Postmaster, Christchurch.
Joseph Downes Burns, Superintendent, Telegraph Branch, Christchurch.
Thomas James Quayle, Postmaster, Dannevirke.
Charles Andrew Condie, Chief Postmaster, Gisborne.
Harold Vivian Ward, Postmaster, Gore.
James Patrick Joseph Hanratty, Chief Postmaster, Hamilton.
William Herbert Walker, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Invercargill.
Thomas George Hardy, Postmaster, Kaiapoi.
Victor James Bennett, Postmaster, Lower Hutt.
Ernest Ethelbert Eves, Postmaster, Marton.
Robert Edward Sissons, Chief Postmaster, Nelson.
Ernest James Smith, Chief Postmaster, Palmerston North.
Vesey Gore Grinlinton, Postmaster, Pukekohe.
Alexander Robertson, Postmaster, Rangiora.
Patrick Sarsfield Hickey, Postmaster, Taumarunui.
Norman Philip Williams, Postmaster, Te Kuiti.
Francis Patrick Cleary, Acting Chief Postmaster, Thames.
Ellis Edwin Earnshaw, Postmaster, Waimate.
Gladstone Wilson, Postmaster, Waipukurau.
Alexander Semple, Postmaster, Wairoa.
Frank Mairs, Chief Postmaster, Westport.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Telegraphs.

Approval of Testing Officer under the Motor-Drivers Regulations 1940

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the person named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officer until the 1st day of April, 1945, under the said regulations for the authority specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Column 1. Column 2.
Waikato County Council . . . . Maurice Harding Close.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of April, 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).
Thomas Raymond Ewing, Te Aroha . . E. Hines, Farmer, Te Aroha.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of April, 1944.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

Open Season for Imported Game and Native Game in Tauranga Acclimatization District

IN exercise of the powers vested in him by the Animals Protection and Game Act, 1921–22, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby declare open seasons for the taking or killing of imported game and/or native game of the kinds hereinafter specified in the Tauranga Acclimatization District, as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 17 of 12th March, 1925, at page 753, during the periods set forth in each case and subject in all cases to the conditions set out hereunder :—

1. Season for cock pheasants, Californian and Australian quail: 6th May to 16th June, 1944 (both days inclusive).
2. Season for grey duck, spoonbill duck, black swan, and pukeko: 6th May to 21st May, 1944 (both days inclusive).

CONDITIONS

1. No person shall commence shooting earlier than one hour before sunrise or continue shooting later than one hour after sunset on any day during the open season concerned.

2. (a) No person shall use live birds of any species as decoys nor shall use more than fifteen artificial decoys at any one time, and no such artificial decoys shall be spread over a greater area than thirty yards square.

(b) No person shall place any artificial decoys within 100 yards of the nearest of any other artificial decoys set out by any other person.

(c) No person shall in any place during the period in that place of the open season, hereby declared, use in connection with the taking or killing of imported and/or native game, any form of decoying game by the aid of corn, wheat, oats, barley, maize, or any other grain or any products of grain or any other food placed by any person in or near the margin of any river, stream, lagoon, pond, swamp, estuary, or other water.

3. No person shall use or cause to be used any motor-vehicle in connection with the taking or killing of imported game and/or native game: Provided that this condition shall not be so construed as to prohibit the use of any motor-vehicle for the purpose of travelling either generally or to or from a rendezvous.

4. No person shall use or cause to be used for the purpose of taking or killing any imported or native game any unmoored floating stand, pontoon, hide, mai-mai, or loo, or any boat artificially dressed or covered in any way.

5. No person engaged in shooting from any shelter, mai-mai, mudhole, boat, louvre, or other contrivance shall use more than one gun: Provided that a person so engaged may have a second gun in a condition not immediately suitable for use, and held for use only in the event of the first gun becoming damaged or otherwise unfit for use.

6. Licenses to take or kill such imported game and native game within the Tauranga Acclimatization District will be issued to any person on payment of the sum of thirty shillings (30s.) each: Provided that licenses to take or kill imported game and native game within the said district will be issued to persons receiving an age benefit or a miner’s benefit under the Social Security Act, 1938, on payment of the sum of twenty shillings (20s.) each; and the Secretary of the Tauranga Acclimatization Society, or any person authorized by such Secretary in that behalf, is hereby authorized to sign and issue the said licenses.

7. No person shall in any one day take or kill more than—
   (a) Nine head of cock pheasants;
   (b) Twenty-five head in all of grey duck, spoonbill duck, and black swan;
   (c) Fifteen head in all of grey duck and/or spoonbill duck; and
   (d) Eight head of pukeko.

8. No person shall take or kill native or imported game on the 6th, 7th, or 8th days of May, 1944, while occupying any stand, hide, loo, or position, as commonly used by duck-shooters (hereinafter referred to as “a stand”), which has been duly claimed by any other license-holder in accordance with the following provisions :—

(a) A stand may be claimed by the planting thereon at any time after noon on the 29th day of April, 1944, of a stake with a board attached having plainly marked thereon the name and address of the claimant and the number of his license:
(b) No person shall claim more than one stand:
(c) No stand shall be claimed on or within 100 yards of a stand which has already been duly claimed by any other person, except with the consent of such last-mentioned person:

Provided, however, that any stand which is not occupied by the claimant within half an hour after sunrise on any of the aforesaid days may be occupied on that day by any other license-holder: Provided further that nothing in this clause contained shall be deemed to affect in any way whatsoever the rights of owners or occupiers of any lands in respect of shooting on such lands.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of April, 1944.

F. JONES,
For the Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 46/16/26.)

Officiating Ministers for 1944.—Notice No. 9

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 4th April, 1944.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England

The Reverend John Henry Cable.

Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand

Miss Margaret Doretta Eadie.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.