Mar. 1] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 239

SECOND SCHEDULE

DESCRIPTION OF LANDS TO BE OBTAINED IN EXCHANGE THEREFOR

Auckland Land District

ALL that area in the Whakatane County containing by admeasurement 16 perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 108A, Matata Parish, and being part of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 631, folio 60 (Auckland Registry).

Also all that area in the Whakatane County containing by admeasurement 21 perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 108A, Matata Parish, and being part of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 631, folio 60 (Auckland Registry).

Also all that area in the Whakatane County containing by admeasurement 36 acres 1 rood 30 perches, more or less, being part of Allotment 108A, Matata Parish, and being part of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 631, folio 60 (Auckland Registry).

Also all that area in the Whakatane County containing by admeasurement 4 acres 2 roods, more or less, being Lot 1, D.P. 31966, and being part of Allotment 108A, Matata Parish, and being part of the land comprised in Certificate of Title, Volume 631, folio 60 (Auckland Registry).

Also all that area in the Whakatane County containing by admeasurement 1 acre and 20 perches, more or less, being Lot 3, D.P. 31966, and being parts of Allotments 108A and 109, Matata Parish, and being parts of the land comprised in Certificates of Title, Volume 631, folio 60, and Volume 250, folio 94, respectively (Auckland Registry). (Plans S.O. 32590 and D.P. 31966.)

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/2106G, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured yellow.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of February, 1945.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 22/2106.)

Warrant for Convening General Courts-martial

C. L. N. NEWALL, Governor-General

To the Air or other Officer for the time being Commanding the Royal Air Force Fighter Command.

WHEREAS by the Visiting Forces Act, 1939, it is provided when a home force and another force are acting in combination any officer of the other force duly appointed to command the combined force, or any part thereof, shall be treated and shall have over members of the home force the like powers of command and punishment, and may be invested with the like authority to convene and confirm the findings and sentences of courts-martial as if he were an officer of the home force of relative rank and holding the same command:

And whereas by an order made on the tenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one, under the authority of the aforesaid Act, it was declared that the air forces of His Majesty raised in New Zealand which are serving outside New Zealand during or in respect of the present war shall be deemed to be serving together and acting in combination with the air forces of His Majesty raised in the United Kingdom:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the aforesaid Act and by the Air Force Act, 1937, and the regulations made thereunder (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act and regulations”), I, Cyril Louis Norton Newall, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby authorize you from time to time as occasion may require to convene general courts-martial for the trial of every person subject to the said Act and regulations who shall be charged with any offence for which such person may be tried by court-martial, whether such offence shall have been committed before or after the date of this Warrant; and I hereby further authorize you to confirm the proceedings of any such courts-martial and to cause any sentence thereof to be put into execution according to law:

Provided, however, that no sentence of death shall be carried into effect unless the execution thereof be approved by myself as Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand in Council:

And I do further authorize you to direct your Warrant to any officer of the Royal Air Force or of the Royal New Zealand Air Force not below the rank of Squadron Leader giving him a general authority to convene general courts-martial for the trial of any persons subject to the said Act and regulations who shall be charged with any offence for which such person may be tried by court-martial, whether such offence shall have been committed before or after the date of the Warrant directed by you to such officer, and also to exercise in respect of the proceedings of such courts-martial the power of confirming the findings or sentences thereof according to law, or, if you should so think fit, of directing him to reserve for your confirmation the proceedings of all or any such courts-martial, in which case you are hereby authorized to exercise in respect of the proceedings so reserved all the powers of a confirming officer in accordance with the said Act and regulations:

And that there may not in any case be a failure of justice from the want of a proper person authorized to act as judge-advocate, I do hereby further empower you, in default of a person appointed by me or deputed by the Solicitor-General, or during the illness or occasional absence of the person so appointed or deputed, to nominate and appoint, and to delegate to any officer duly authorized to convene a general court-martial the power of appointing, a fit person from time to time for executing the office of judge-advocate at any court-martial for the more orderly proceedings of the same:

And for executing the several powers, matters, and things herein expressed this shall be to you, and all others whom it may concern, a sufficient Warrant and authority.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 14th day of February, 1945.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Promotions of Officers of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force

Army Department,
Wellington, 26th February, 1945.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following promotions of officers of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force:—

2ND N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN PACIFIC

PROMOTION

N.Z. Army Service Corps

2nd Lieutenant G. H. Sands to be Lieutenant. Dated 23rd February, 1945.

2ND N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (TONGA)

PROMOTION

N.Z. Medical Corps

2nd Lieutenant W. M. Herd to be Lieutenant. Dated 27th January, 1944.

2ND N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (MIDDLE EAST)

PROMOTION

N.Z. Infantry

2nd Lieutenant T. T. Mackie to be Lieutenant. Dated 15th May, 1944.

HOSPITAL SHIP “ORANJE”

PROMOTION

N.Z. Army Pay Corps

Lieutenant R. H. Whitaker to be temp. Captain. Dated 10th September, 1944.

2ND N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (MIDDLE EAST)

CORRIGENDUM

TEMPORARY RANK RELINQUISHED

N.Z. Artillery

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 11, dated 15th February, 1945, relative to Lieutenant-Colonel (temp. Colonel) L. W. Thornton, is hereby cancelled and the following substituted:—

“Lieutenant-Colonel (temp. Colonel) L. W. Thornton relinquishes the temporary rank of Colonel and assumes the acting rank of Colonel. Dated 26th December, 1944.”

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Relinquishments of Temporary Rank, Relinquishments of Commissions, Resignations, and Retirements of Officers of the New Zealand Military Forces

Army Department,
Wellington, 27th February, 1945.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments, promotions, transfers, relinquishments of temporary rank, relinquishments of commissions, resignations, and retirements of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces:—

REGIMENT OF ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY

Major B. Wicksteed relinquishes his commission. Dated 23rd February, 1945.

N.Z. TEMPORARY STAFF

Temp. Lieutenant M. Morrison, A.I.A.N.Z., A.P.A.N.Z., from the Reserve of Officers, Supplementary List, to be temp. Major. Dated 19th February, 1945.

Cyril Elsmere Dowden to be temp. 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 6th February, 1945.

TERRITORIAL FORCE

N.Z. ARMOURED CORPS

3rd N.Z. Armoured Regiment

Captain (temp. Major) L. A. Joseph, E.D., is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Major. Dated 10th February, 1945.

Temp. Lieutenant J. G. Furness is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Captain. Dated 14th February, 1945.

N.Z. ARTILLERY

Lieutenant (temp. Major) G. M. Shortt is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Major. Dated 5th January, 1945.

Temp. 2nd Lieutenant H. W. McKellow to be temp. Lieutenant. Dated 1st July, 1943.