500 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 32

Member of Assessment Court for Farm-land List for Borough of New Plymouth appointed

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 11th May, 1945.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in terms of section 10 of the Urban Farm Land Rating Act, 1932, to appoint

William Alfred Thomas, Esquire, Farmer, New Plymouth,

to be a member of the Assessment Court for the Borough of New Plymouth, vice Lewis Harold Sampson, Esquire, deceased.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 103/2/35.)

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 8th May, 1945.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

John Clack Gerring,
Peter John McCann, and
Douglas Corbett

to be Inspectors for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, and the Meat Act, 1939, on and from the 1st day of April, 1945.

John Clack Gerring and
Peter John McCann

to be Examiners for the purposes of the Stallions Act, 1938, on and from the 1st day of April, 1945.

Samuel Budd

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Factories Act, 1921–22, on and from the 10th day of April, 1945.

James Michael Carroll

to be Registrar of Marriages for the District of Waipukurau for the purposes of the Marriage Act, 1908, and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Waipukurau for the purposes of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, on and from the 1st day of May, 1945.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 15th May, 1945.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Walter Turner Collins,
Herbert Wilson Carbury,
Douglas Corbett,
Henry Doyle,
John Clack Gerring,
Thomas Henry Hankin,
Ronald Edward Alexander,
Archie Bayly,
Charles Selwyn Elphick,
Peter Haugh,
Alan Daniel McKinley Gordon Laing,
Horace Dudley Le Souef,
David Marshall,
John Mullins,
William Donald Ross,
Alexander George Brash,
Edgar Jabez Lukey,
Peter John McCann,
Charles Victor Dayus,
George Allan Thomson,
John Armstrong,
Charles Neil Clokey Blair,
Andrew George Bain,
Robert Alfred Burnet,
David Laird Brown,
Leo Arthur Bacon,
Andrew Ness Craigie,
George Henry Calnan,
William Morgan Culling,
Edward Callaghan,
Donald Gordon Cameron,
Alfred Frederic Angus Clark,
Joseph John Crowe,
Colin William Dickie,
George Doherty,
Frederick Wayland Early,
Walter Brunton Elliot,
John William Easton,
Robert Frazer,
James Fordy,
Robinson Greer,

Maurice Earle Greville,
Wilfrid Neil Galbraith,
Ronald William Godfrey,
Herbert Ashley Grimwood,
Allan Gowan,
John Ebenezer Haworth,
Russell Hayward,
William Hamilton,
Vincent Henery,
Douglas Murie Holland,
Ivan Morton Henderson,
Edward Leslie Jewell,
Stanley William Lockhart,
Gordon Hunter Moffat,
Stanley Ainslie Messer,
John Donald McIntyre,
Douglas Gordon Moffat,
George Thomas John Martin,
John Christopher McAvinue,
Ralph Truxton Morse,
Arthur Noel Nash,
George Edmund Nicolson,
William Edward Oliver,
John Joseph O’Kane,
George Oliver Payne,
Henry Duncan Palmer,
Henry James Pilkington,
Robert William Peters,
George Lees Pacey,
Kenneth George Scott,
Ian Purvis Smith,
Alan Sheed,
Robert Samuel Harry Spinner,
Karl Maxwell Smith,
Leslie Edward Smith,
Edward Rees Shoesmith,
Alan George Steggles,
Francis Ivan Balfour Talboys,
Arthur William Trass,
John Spence Taylor,
John Connolly Moore Vance, and
Jack Charles Warner

to be Meat Graders for the purposes of the Meat Act, 1939, and the Board of Trade (Meat Grading) Regulations 1943, on and from the 1st day of March, 1945.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1945.

BY virtue of the powers conferred on me by the Maori Births and Deaths Registration Regulations 1935, I hereby appoint

Annie Elizabeth Padden (Miss)

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Jerusalem, on and from the 14th day of April, 1945.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Requisitioning of Motor-spirit in Possession of the Police at Gisborne

PURSUANT to Regulation 4 of the Supply Control Emergency Regulations 1939, Amendment No. 1,* the Minister of Supply and Munitions hereby requisitions the twenty gallons of motor-spirit, and the holder in which they are contained, at present in the possession of the Police Department, Gisborne, in connection with the recent prosecutions of Geoffrey Stewart Martin, and directs that the motor-spirit be used in motor-vehicles controlled by the Police Department.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of May, 1945.

D. G. SULLIVAN,
Minister of Supply and Munitions.

• Statutory Regulations 1940, Serial number 1940/121, page 430.

Appointing the Time and Place of the First Meeting of the Westland Catchment Board

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act, 1941, the Minister of Works doth hereby appoint Friday, the 18th day of May, 1945, at 10 o’clock a.m., as the time, and the Borough Council Chambers, Greymouth, as the place, of the first meeting of the Westland Catchment Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of May, 1945.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/4 (P).)

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to fill Extraordinary Vacancy on the Patea Fire Board

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th May, 1945.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, and the rules thereunder, the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act doth hereby appoint Wednesday, the 30th May, 1945, to be the date for holding the election of one member of the Patea Fire Board by the fire-insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. S. O. Jones.

B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 76/4/68.)

Notice respecting Proposed Constitution of Reporoa Drainage District, Counties of Rotorua and Taupo

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th May, 1945.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a drainage district, to be known as the “Reporoa Drainage District.” All persons affected are to hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed constitution of such district which they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE

PROPOSED REPOROA DRAINAGE DISTRICT, COUNTIES OF ROTORUA AND TAUPO

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, in the Rotorua and Taupo Counties, bounded by a line commencing at a point being the south-western corner of Section 19s, Reporoa Settlement, and running north-westerly generally along the eastern side of the Rotorua–Taupo Main Highway to the south-western corner of Rotomahana–Parekarangi No. 3A 3A 2 Block;’ thence south-easterly along the south-western boundary of that block, and then again generally northerly along the south-eastern and north-eastern boundaries of part Paeroa East No. 4B 2E 1B Block and the north-eastern boundary of Rotomahana–Parekarangi 3A 3A 3B 2C Block, to and along the eastern side of the said Rotorua–Taupo Main Highway to the north-eastern side of the road forming the south-western boundary of Rotomahana–Parekarangi No. 3A 3B 4B 2B and Paeroa East No. 4B 1B 3C 2 Blocks; thence easterly generally along the north-eastern side of the said road and the southern boundaries of Paeroa East Nos. 4B 1B 3C 2, 4B 1B 3B, and 4B 1B 3A Blocks and a right line, being the production of the southern boundary of the last-mentioned block, to the middle of the Waiotapu