SCHEDULE
Regulations for the Government and Payment of the Royal
New Zealand Navy, 1939
ARTICLE 63, paragraphs 1, 2, and 6: Cancel and substitute:-

1. Promotion to Commissioned Rank.-Ratings of the following
   branches of the Royal New Zealand Navy are eligible to be considered
   for promotion to commissioned rank in the Royal New Zealand
   Navy:-
   Seaman Branch ... To Acting Sub-Lieutenant, Royal
   Communications Branch ... } New Zealand Navy.
   Engine-room Artificer Branch To Acting Sub-Lieutenant (E), Royal
   Stoker Branch ... New Zealand Navy.
2. The qualifications required of candidates from any of these
   branches, the system of selection, and the rules for promotion will
   be regulated by the provisions of King's Regulations and Admiralty
   Instructions, and of Admiralty Fleet Orders in force for the time
   being.
3. Subject to the provisions of clause 25, part 3, and clause 14,
   part 7, of Appendix XII of the King's Regulations and Admiralty
   Instructions, candidates who are selected by the Lords Commissioners
   of the Admiralty on behalf of the New Zealand Naval Board for
   promotion to commissioned rank will be granted permanent com-
   missions in the Royal New Zealand Navy, and will remain on loan
   to the Royal Navy generally until they have obtained appropriate
   watch-keeping certificates or for such other period as may be
   decided upon.
   Paragraphs 7 and 8: Cancel.
   C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
   Validating Irregularity in connection with Annual Meeting of
   Maniototo County Council
   C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
   ORDER IN COUNCIL
   At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of
   September, 1944
   Present:
   His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
   WHEREAS by section seventy-seven of the Counties Act, 1920
   (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), it is provided
   that the annual meeting of the various County Councils throughout
   the Dominion shall be held on a day being not later than thirty
   days after the third Saturday in May:
   And whereas the annual meeting of the Maniototo County
   Council was omitted to be held during the period provided by the
   said section seventy-seven of the said Act, but was held on the
   twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and forty-
   four, and it is expedient to validate the proceedings in connection
   therewith:
   Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power and
   authority vested in him by section two hundred and sixteen of the
   said Act, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with
   the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby
   declare that the proceedings in connection with the meeting of the
   Maniototo County Council held on the twenty-eighth day of June,
   one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, shall be valid to all
   intents and purposes as if such meeting had been held during the
   period provided by the said section seventy-seven of the said Act;
   and doth further declare that the said proceedings shall not be called
   in question by reason only of the irregularity aforesaid.
   C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
   (I.A. 105/327.)
   Variation of Order in Council prohibiting Alienations of certain
   Native Land
   C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
   ORDER IN COUNCIL
   At the Government House at Wellington, this 20th day of
   September, 1944
   Present:
   His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
   PURSUANT to section four hundred and forty-two of the Native
   Land Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General,
   acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council,
   docth hereby vary an Order in Council made on the eleventh day
   of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, and published
   in the Gazette on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand nine
   hundred and thirty-two, at page 761, and affecting Kaimanawa
   LE 2B and other blocks, by excluding therefrom the land described
   in the Schedule hereto.
   SCHEDULE
   Block. Area. Survey District.
   A. R. P.
   Waimanu 2D ... 990 0 0 ... Puketi and Pihanga.
   C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
   Amending Order in Council delegating Powers under the Cemeteries
   Act, 1908
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   C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
   ORDER IN COUNCIL
   At the Government House at Wellington, this 27th day of
   September, 1944
   Present:
   His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
   URSUANT to the Cemeteries Act, 1908, His Excellency the
   Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent
   of the Executive Council, doth hereby revoke, in so far as it relates
   to the Culverden Cemetery, the Order in Council delegating powers
   under the said Act made on the eighteenth day of September, one
   thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, and published in the
   Gazette on the twenty-first day of the same month at page 2429.
   C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
   (H.C. 44/7.)
   Trustees of Culverden Cemetery appointed
   C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
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   Pursuant to section fifty-five of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I,
   Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the
   Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the Amuri County
   Council to be the trustees of the Culverden Cemetery as described
   in the Schedule hereto, and to have the control and management of
   the said cemetery.
   SCHEDULE
   CULVERDEN CEMETERY.-CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT
   Reserve 3757, Block VI, Culverden Survey District, containing
   an area of 3 acres, more or less.
   As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
   this 20th day of September, 1944.
   A. H. NORMEYER, Minister of Health.
   (H.C. 44/8.)
   Government Railways Appeal Board.-Appointment of Chairman
   C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
   In pursuance of the power and authority conferred on me by
   subsection two of section nine of the Government Railways
   Amendment Act, 1927, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-
   General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Harry
   Evelyn Anderson, Barrister and Solicitor, of Wellington, as a member
   and as Chairman of the Government Railways Appeal Board, to
   hold office for a term of one year from and including the first day
   of August, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four.
   As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
   this 20th day of July, 1944.
   R. SAMPLE, Minister of Railways.
   Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations
   C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General
   Pursuant to the authority conferred upon me by the three-
   hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act,
   1927, I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the
   Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the
   persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being
   officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite
   their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take
   and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-
   first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.
   SCHEDULE
   Joseph Bernard Ernest Stanley, Assistant Accountant, Post-
   office, Christchurch.
   Bertha Merle Mucalo, Postmistress and Telegraphist, Herbertville.
   Walter George Nield, Chief Clerk, Post-office, Invercargill.
   George Eric Kay, Postmaster, Mayfield.
   Allan Bruce, Postmaster, Murchison.
   Henry Abiel Colvin, Chief Postmaster, Oamaru.
   John Thomas Harraway, Postmaster, Paparoa.
   Bertram Ray Rhodes, Postmaster, Raglan.
   Richard Embleton Hunter, Postmaster, Te Aroha.
   Francis David Otway, Postmaster, Waitara.
   Walter D'Arcy Prescott Norris, Chief Postmaster, Wellington.
   As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
   this 26th day of September, 1944.
   H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.
   Transfers of Officers from the Royal Navy to the Royal New Zealand
   Navy
   Naval Office,
   Wellington, 20th September, 1944.
   His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
   approve the transfer of the following New Zealand officers
   from the Royal Navy to the Royal New Zealand Navy:-
   Probationary Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A) David James
   Love, R.N.V.R., transferred to Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer
   Reserve as from date of entry, 6th September, 1943, in rank of
   Probationary Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (A), with seniority of
   6th March, 1944, and reappointed, to date 6th September, 1944.