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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 5

SCHEDULE

(4) It shall not be necessary to establish a separate sinking fund for the conversion loan of seventy-seven thousand six hundred pounds (£77,600), and the proviso to subsection three of section thirty-two of the Finance Act, 1938 (as set out in subsection two of section twenty-nine of the Finance Act, 1941), shall apply, and accordingly the provisions of subclause two of clause twenty-one of the Waitomo Electric-power Board Loans Conversion Order, 1934, shall be construed as if the debentures amounting to seventy-seven thousand six hundred pounds (£77,600) redeemed on the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, had not been redeemed as at that date but had been redeemed on the several dates specified in clause three hereof.

(5) The payment of interest and instalments of principal in respect of the said loan shall be made in New Zealand, and no amount payable as interest or principal shall be paid out of loan-moneys.

(6) The amount payable for brokerage, underwriting, and procurement fees in respect of the raising of the said loan or any part thereof shall not in the aggregate exceed one-quarter per centum of any amount raised.

(7) No moneys shall be borrowed under this consent after the expiration of two years from the date hereof.

C. A. JEFFERY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(T. 49/176/1.)

Stipendiary Magistrate appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1945.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

John Reginald Herd, Esquire,

to be a temporary Stipendiary Magistrate to exercise criminal and civil jurisdiction within New Zealand for the period from the 1st day of February, 1945, to the 28th day of February, 1945.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1945.

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

Alexander David Macartney

to be a Deputy Registrar at Gisborne for the purposes of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, on and from the 10th day of January, 1945.

George Ivan Martin

to be Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Wellington Land District for the purposes of the Land Act, 1924, on and from the 24th day of February, 1945.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

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 21st day of December, 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, the Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 51 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the said land is taken for the settlement of a discharged serviceman, and hereby specifies the 12th day of February, 1945, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT

ALL those pieces or parcels of land containing together twenty-five (25) acres two (2) roods, being Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, and part of Lot 6, Deeds Plan 43, being also parts of Sections 47 and 48, District of Opawa, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 32, folios 58, 63, and 64, and Vol. 37, folio 296 (Marlborough Registry) (all limited as to parcels).

As witness my hand, this 24th day of January, 1945.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/213.)

The Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943.—Notice declaring Land taken for the Settlement of Discharged Servicemen

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 discharged servicemen :

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 20th day of December, 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, the Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 51 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the said land is taken for the settlement of discharged servicemen, and hereby specifies the 1st day of February, 1945, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL those pieces or parcels of land containing seven hundred and thirty-four (734) acres two (2) roods and twenty-five (25) perches, more or less, being Lots 1, 2, and 3 on D.P. 14194, Lot 1 on D.P. 30158, Lots 3, 4, 14, and part 8 on D.P. 12716, being Allotments 99, 100, 101, 102, 522, and part Allotments 98, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, and 108 of the Parish of Taupiri, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 743, folio 113 (Auckland Registry).

As witness my hand, this 17th day of January, 1945.

B. ROBERTS,
For the Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/193.)

Land Surveyors’ Examination, March, 1945.—Australia and New Zealand

The Survey Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 23rd January, 1945.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the Survey Board, in conjunction with the Australian Surveyors’ Boards, will conduct an examination of candidates for registration as surveyors, commencing at 10 a.m. on Monday, 12th March, 1945, at Wellington.

Candidates are notified that their applications, on the proper form, must reach the Secretary of the Board not later than Monday, 26th February, 1945, and that the examination fee must be paid at the same time to the Secretary, from whom application forms and other particulars may be obtained.

Candidates may present themselves for examination in the following written subjects :—

After one year’s service—
(1) Physics, geology, and forestry.
(2) Plotting and plan drawing.
(3) Computations A.

After two years’ service—
(4) Computations B.
(5) Engineering surveying.
(6) Town-planning.

After three years’ service—
(7) Laws and regulations.
(8) Astronomy and geodesy.
(9) Land-surveying design.
(10) Preparation of field notes.
(11) Land classification and valuation.

During the war period candidates who have completed at least two years’ service under articles of indenture will be accepted for examination in any or all of the above written subjects, and, with candidates presenting themselves for examination in any written subject or subjects, may present themselves for examination at any Chief Surveyor’s Office.

The oral and practical portion of the examination cannot be taken until the candidates’ term or indentureship has been completed.

Candidates for the oral and practical portion of the examination must sit in Wellington. Plans for this portion of the examination, the certificate, and other evidence required by Regulation No. 31 of the Survey Examination Regulations 1943, must be forwarded with the application to sit.

The fees for examination are as follows :—

R. C. AIREY, Secretary, Survey Board.
Government Buildings, Wellington.