Hon. Major Conrad William Owen Brain (No. 471185), (National
Patriotic Fund Board Commissioner), Headquarters, New
Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific.
Senior Commander Geraldine Vida Moyle McClure (No. 814783),
New Zealand Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps.
Captain Howard Nelson Johnson (No. 478298), Headquarters, 2nd
New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific.
Captain Lewis Naylor Hudson (No. 35048), New Zealand Medical
Corps.
Captain Lionel Jack Dumbleton (No. 478798), New Zealand Malaria
Control Unit.
Lieutenant Francis Harold Preston (No. 590010), New Zealand
Army Service Corps.
No. 519101 Warrant Officer, Class I, Jack Alexander Beauchamp,
New Zealand Pay Corps.
No. 11897 Warrant Officer, Class II, James Roughan, New Zealand
Ordnance Corps.
No. 44177 Warrant Officer, Class II, Ewen Grosvenor Craig, Records
Section.
No. 67275 Staff Sergeant Clive Ackland Frater, New Zealand Dental
Corps.
No. 68249 Sergeant Howard Lionel Nelson, New Zealand Infantry.
No. 50417 Sergeant Gordon Percy Walker, New Zealand Infantry.
No 72673 Corporal Alan Duff, New Zealand Army Service Corps.
No. 816284 Corporal Doris Grace Julian, New Zealand Women’s
Army Auxiliary Corps.
No. 466403 Driver Thomas Magnus Gainey, New Zealand Army
Service Corps.
No. 72333 Private Arthur Leonard Hawke, New Zealand Medical
Corps.
No. 74120 Private Arthur Henry Norris, New Zealand Infantry.
No. 47708 Private Tuaine Utanga, New Zealand Infantry.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.
Appointment of Member of the Canteen Board
Office of the Canteen Board,
Wellington, 20th February, 1945.
T T is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General
has, in pursuance of the provision of the Defence Canteen
Emergency Regulations 1939, appointed
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Staunton John Duff, D.S.O.,
to be a member of the Canteen Board in place of Colonel C. W.
Salmon, D.C.M., retired.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.
Appointment in the United States Legation of Assistant Naval Attache
and Assistant Naval Attache for Air
Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 13th February, 1945.
T T is hereby notified for public information that Lieutenant
John M. Bowie, United States Naval Reserve, has been assigned
to the Legation of the United States of America as Assistant Naval
Attache and Assistant Naval Attache for Air to replace Lieutenant-
Commander George B. Lane.
P. FRASER, Minister of External Affairs.
Police Gaoler appointed
Prisons Department,
Wellington, 16th February, 1945.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint
Sergeant Nelson William Baylis
to be Police Gaoler at Thames, vice Sergeant William Nelson
Ferguson, deceased.
H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.
Member of the Board of Examiners under the Coal-mines Act, 1925,
reappointed
Mines Department,
Wellington, 15th February, 1945.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
reappoint
James William Glendenning, Esquire,
to be a member of the Board of Examiners under the Coal-mines
Act 1925, for a period of three years as from the lst February, 1945.
P. FRASER,
For the Minister of Mines.
(Mines N. 17/31.)
Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed
Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th February, 1945.
T T is hereby notified that the following appointments have been
made:—
Maurice John Petersen
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Akaroa, on and from the 25th day of January, 1945.
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John Louis Wellbrock Gerken
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Timaru, on and from the 3rd day of February, 1945.
Richard McKenzie
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Dargaville, on and from the 1st day of February,
1945.
Ernest James Cardno
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Popotuna, on and from the 30th day of January,
1945.
James Foster Wilcox
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Kaitaia, on and from the 10th day of January, 1945.
John Harold Cameron Halliday
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Huntly, on and from the 1st day of February, 1945.
John Sylva Macdonald
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Hamilton, on and from the 12th day of February,
1945.
John Alfrey Tait
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Timaru, on and from the 23rd day of February, 1945.
Enid Joyce Robinson (Miss)
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Hampden, on and from the 29th day of January,
1945.
P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.
Appointments in the Public Service
Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 20th February, 1945.
T HE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appoint-
ments in the Public Service:-
Sergeant John Joseph Kearns
to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Waimate for the purposes
of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, on and from the 5th day of
February, 1945.
Charles James Goldsmith and
Maurice Ernest White
to be Poultry Instructors for the purposes of the Poultry Act, 1924,
on and from the 3rd day of January, 1945.
William George Proudfoot
to be a Poultry Instructor for the purposes of the Poultry Act, 1924,
on and from the 8th day of January, 1945.
Dudley Tennant Louis Coward
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Wyndham at
Edendale, on and from the 1st day of February, 1945.
L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.
Authority from the Minister of Finance to the Commissioner of Taxes
to collect Social Security Charge and National Security Tax on
Payments in respect of Seaweed

1. PURSUANT to section 13 of the Finance Act (No. 2), 1942,
   I hereby authorize the Commissioner of Taxes to collect social
   security charge and national security tax upon all payments made
   by a purchaser to the seller of any seaweed in respect of the purchase
   thereof from such seller as if the moneys so paid, subject to the
   deduction of any amount fixed by the Commissioner under sub-
   section (4) of section 13 of the Finance Act (No. 2), 1942, as
   representing the expenditure incurred by the seller in the production
   thereof, were salary or wages of the seller.
2. This authority shall not apply to any payment made on a
   sale of seaweed by a licensed dealer or to any payment made on a
   sale of seaweed by any person subsequent to the sale or disposal
   thereof by a licensed dealer.
3. For the purposes of this authority all moneys credited to or
   applied on account of a seller shall be deemed to have been paid when
   so credited or applied.
4. In this authority the following definitions and rules of
   construction shall apply:—
   (a) “Licensed dealer” means the Internal Marketing Depart-
   ment or any branch thereof and any other person who
   is for the time being engaged in carrying on the business
   of purchasing seaweed and who has procured from the
   Commissioner of Taxes a certificate that he is a licensed
   dealer in seaweed for the purposes of this authority:
   (b) “Purchaser” includes an agent of the purchaser and
   “seller” includes an agent of the seller:
   (c) “Payments made” means the gross amount paid or
   credited by way of purchase-price before the deduction
   of any freight or other expenses incurred in connection
   with the sale:
   (d) Words importing the singular number include the plural
   number, and words importing the plural number include
   the singular number:
   (e) Words importing the masculine gender include females:
   (f) All words referring to persons include firms, companies, and
   other bodies of persons corporate or unincorporate.
   Dated this 16th day of February, 1945.
   W. NASH, Minister of Finance.