Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 16th May, 1944.
IT is hereby notified that the following appointments have been made:

John Clifton Macdonnell
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Otautau, on and from the 29th day of March, 1944.

Margaret Anderson (Miss)
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Blackball, on and from the 8th day of May, 1944.

Trevor James Otway
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Mahurangi, on and from the 3rd day of May, 1944.

Cyril Davies Orsman
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Ngaruawahia, on and from the 4th day of May, 1944.

Athol George Maddison Elstob
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Christchurch at New Brighton, on and from the 8th day of May, 1944.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service
Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 16th May, 1944.
THE Public Service Commissioner has approved the following appointments in the Public Service:-

Herbert Leslie Bockett
to be Director of National Service on and from the 1st day of March, 1944.

Angus John Wattie
to be Deputy Chief Surveyor for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, for the Hawke’s Bay Land District, on and from the 11th day of April, 1944.

Donald Malcolm
to be Registrar of Marriages for the District of Gore for the purposes of the Marriage Act, 1908, and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Gore for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, on and from the 26th day of April, 1944.

Vesey Gore Grinlinton
to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Franklin for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from the 17th day of April, 1944.

Dennis Alfred Roundhill
to be Registrar of Marriages for the District of Rangitikei for the purposes of the Marriage Act, 1908, Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Rangitikei for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Marton for the purposes of the Maori Births and Deaths Registration Regulations 1935, on and from the 27th day of March, 1944.

Thomas George Hardy
to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Kaiapoi for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from the 17th day of April, 1944.

Ellison Edward Porter
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Catlin’s, on and from the 21st day of April, 1944.

Leo Vernon Fowler
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Naseby, on and from the 29th day of April, 1944.

Peter Baikie
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Gisborne at Te Karaka, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Te Karaka, on and from the 1st day of May, 1944.

Norman Eadie La Mont
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Waipawa at Otane, on and from the 4th day of May, 1944.

Cyril Davies Orsman
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Ngaruawahia, on and from the 4th day of May, 1944.

George Henry Voyce
to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waipawa, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waipawa, on and from the 5th day of May, 1944.

G. T. BOLT, Secretary.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Public Work
NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for a public work: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Waipahi and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the 23rd day of May, 1944, to the Minister of Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE
APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken :-
A. R. P. Being
0 0 7.6 Parts Section 17.
0 1 2.8
Situatied in Block X, Waipahi Survey District (Otago R.D.).
(S.O. 2352.)
In the Otago Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. l15732, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured blue.
As witness my hand at Wellington, this 12th day of May, 1944.
R. SEMPLΕ, Minister of Works.
(P.W. 28/31/4.)

The Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943.- Notice declaring Land taken for the Settlement of a Discharged Serviceman
WHEREAS an application has been made for the consent of the Land Sales Court to a transaction which relates to the land described in the Schedule hereto and to which Part III of the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, applies:
And whereas the Land Sales Committee to which the application has been referred is of opinion that the land to which the application relates is farm land suitable or adaptable for the settlement of a discharged serviceman:
And whereas the said committee, not being satisfied that the Crown had decided not to acquire or arrange for the acquisition of the land, did on the 30th day of March, 1944, make an order determining the basic value of the land and no appeal from the said order was made within the time prescribed by the said Act or within any further time allowed by the Court:
And whereas the said land is not the land of any serviceman who is for the time being serving outside New Zealand in any of His Majesty's Forces or in any British ship:
Now, therefore, I, Clarence Farrington Skinner, Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 51 of the said Act, do hereby declare that the said land is taken for the settlement of a discharged serviceman, and I hereby specify the 1st day of June, 1944, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE
ALL that parcel of land containing seventy-seven (77) acres two (2) roods, more or less, being Section Forty (40), Block XIV, Ohura Survey District, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Vol. 144, folio 141 (Taranaki Registry).
As witness my hand, this 13th day of May, 1944.
C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 36/1444/11.)

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 motor- omnibuses, 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 motor-omnibus 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 twenty-one years, to drive a motor-omnibus for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE
Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
W. R. Hazeldine, Greymouth .. S. A. Coburn, Bus proprietor, Blaketown, Greymouth.
Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of May, 1944.
JAS. O'BRIEN, Minister of Transport.
(T.T. 9/4/8.)