As Air Bombers—

Dated 21st April, 1944—

NZ 391895 Sergeant David Sutherland GRAY.
NZ 427810 Sergeant Charlie PARKER.

Promotions

Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Kenneth Godfrey KING to be Acting Squadron Leader (paid). Dated 1st May, 1944.

The undermentioned Flying Officers (temp.) to be Acting Flight Lieutenants (paid):—

Dated 10th April, 1944 : Raymond Dudley STEEL.
Dated 5th May, 1944 : Douglas Walter COCKS.

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

Dated 25th March, 1944—
Stewart Hill PHILLIP. Donald Alexander MOORE.
Leslie Darcy IRWIN. Allan Duncan CAMBRIDGE.
D'Arcy LISTER. Alexander Kenzie MACLEAN.
Wilfred Arthur JONES. Patrick Francis O'MEARA.
Frank Victor HONEY. Douglas Pickard SCOTT.
Robert James SCOTT.

Dated 26th March, 1944 : Ian Courtney ROWE.
Dated 27th March, 1944 : Ian William JAMIESON.
Dated 1st April, 1944 : Robert Wallace GILBERT.
Dated 3rd April, 1944 : Edward John Ernest TOMPKINS.
Dated 6th April, 1944 : Gordon McConnell JENNINGS.

Transfer

Pilot Officer Douglas Earl REID is transferred from the Administrative and Special Duties Branch to the General Duties Branch (Navigator) in his present rank. Dated 21st April, 1944.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II : TECHNICAL OFFICERS

Promotions

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

Radar Duties—

Dated 25th February, 1944 : Henry Benjamin BUCKLEY.
Dated 1st May, 1944 : Leslie Robert ALLEN.

Relinquishment

The temporary commission of Wing Commander William TEMPLE is relinquished. Dated 13th May, 1944.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH

Promotions

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

Dated 20th March, 1944 : Cecil Lancelot Stewart CROSS.
Dated 6th April, 1944 : Ronald James WEENINK.

Transfer

Flying Officer Peter Daysh DAVEY is transferred from the General Duties Branch to the Administrative and Special Duties Branch in his present rank and seniority. Dated 6th April, 1944.

EDUCATIONAL SECTION

Promotion

Pilot Officer Pharic MacFARLANE to be Flying Officer (temp.). Dated 20th February, 1944.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH, SECTION II (A.T.C.)

Relinquishments

The undermentioned are permitted to relinquish their Air Training Corps commissions. Dated 1st May, 1944 :—

Flying Officer Frederick MARSHALL.
Pilot Officer Norman Alexander BRYNE.

RESERVE OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS

Transfers

The undermentioned officers are transferred from the Active List to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class B, Section I :—

Dated 23rd May, 1944 : Squadron Leader Alister Laird YOUNG.
Dated 15th May, 1944 : Flight Lieutenant Edmund Wellesley REEVES.

RETIRED LIST

Squadron Leader Alexander Cleveland McARTHUR is placed on the Retired List. Dated 16th May, 1944.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Assistant Public Service Commissioner appointed

Wellington, 16th May, 1944.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

George Thomas Bolt, Esquire,

To be Assistant Commissioner for the purposes of the Public Service Act, 1912. The appointment is for a period of seven years, as on and from the 3rd day of May, 1944.

D. G. SULLIVAN,
For the Prime Minister.

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

Education Department,
Wellington, 9th May, 1944.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Heniy 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 year ending the 31st December, 1944 :—

Name. District.
Daly, Reverend Father Gordon ... Christchurch.
Jensen, Mrs. Dorothy Joan ... Thanes.
Walters, Dick ... Ahipara.
Winiata, Nepia ... Ohau.
Rickard, William T. ... Manutuke.
Gardner, John W. ... Rere, Gisborne.

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

Appointment of Officers for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908

Marine Department,
Wellington, 16th May, 1944.

BY direction of the Hon. Minister of Marine, it is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Percival William Matchett, of Kaitangata,

To be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first- mentioned Act in respect of the Otago Acclimatization District.

Thomas Solomon Harrison, of Methven, and Leslie Lawrence Richards, of Rakaia,

To be officers for the purposes of Part II of the first- mentioned Act in respect of the Ashburton Acclimatization District.

B. W. MILLIER, Assistant Secretary.

Members of Domain Boards appointed

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th May, 1944.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 49 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, been pleased to make the following appointments :—

Percy Thomas Leeming

To be a member of the South Malvern Domain Board in place of Donald Campbell Morrison, resigned.

Hubert Menary Hammond

To be a member of the Hamilton Domain Board in place of John Robert Fow, deceased.

John Gordon Henderson, Keith Munroe Martin, and Charles Henry Robinson

To be members of the Ngongotaha Domain Board in place of Gerald Joseph Burney, Matthew Henderson, and Herbert Lyndon Marcroft.

Bruce Nalder Murray

To be a member of the Pioneer Park Domain Board in place of George Murray, deceased.

R. G. MACMORRAN, Under-Secretary for Lands.
(L. and S. 1/354.)

Member of Gisborne Land Board reappointed

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 15th May, 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

John Boyle

To be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Gisborne for a further term of two years from the 8th day of May, 1944.

R. G. MACMORRAN, Under-Secretary.
(L. and S. 22/748/13.)