Oct. 4] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1233

Alexander Speakman Louison

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Invercargill, on and from the 19th day of September,
1945.

John Cameron Pirrit Leatham

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of
Kohukohu at Broadwood, on and from the 12th day of September,
1945.

Sydney Herbert Fitchett

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Palmerston North, on and from the 12th day of
July, 1945.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1945.

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

Reuben Alexander Bell

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Cambridge for the purposes
of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, and Maintenance Officer of
the Magistrates’ Court at Cambridge for the purposes of the
Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 1st
day of October, 1945.

Jack Tasman Arthur Beaumont

to be Registrar at Blenheim of the Supreme Court of New Zealand
and Sheriff for the District of Marlborough for the purposes of the
Judicature Act, 1908, Registrar and Marshal at Blenheim of the
Supreme Court of New Zealand in respect of its jurisdiction as a
Colonial Court of Admiralty under the Colonial Courts of Admiralty
Act, 1890, Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Blenheim for the
purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, Clerk of the Warden’s
Court, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and Mining Registrar at Blenheim
for the Mining District of Marlborough constituted under the Mining
Act, 1926, Official Assignee at Blenheim for the Supreme Court
District of Nelson for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Act, 1908,
Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Marlborough
for the purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, Registrar of Electors
and Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Marlborough for
the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, and
Returning Officer for the Marlborough Licensing District for the
purposes of the Licensing Act, 1908, and its amendments, on and
from the 16th day of July, 1945.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Portions of Hokianga Consolidation Scheme confirmed

In the matter of section 161 of the Native Land Act, 1931, and
in the matter of an application to the Native Land Court
to prepare a scheme in respect of Te Ahikawariki and other
blocks.

NOTICE is hereby given that partial schemes of consolidation
dealing with the subdivisions of Rangiawhia and other blocks
within the Tokerau Native Land Court District, being the second
and final instalment of the Taheke Sub-series or Series AA of the
Hokianga Consolidation Scheme and the final instalment of the
Otata Sub-series or Series D of the said consolidation scheme,
having been prepared by the Native Land Court in accordance
with the above Act and submitted under the seal of the said Court
to the Native Minister for his approval, I, Henry Greathead Rex
Mason, Native Minister, being satisfied that the partial schemes so
submitted are just and equitable and are in the public interest,
do hereby confirm the said partial schemes of consolidation so
submitted.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of October, 1945.

H. G. R. MASON, Native Minister.

Date of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to fill Extraordinary
Vacancies on the Te Aroha, Waihi, and Morrinsville Fire
Boards

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd October, 1945.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1926, and the rules
thereunder, the Minister charged with the administration
of the said Act doth appoint Wednesday, the 17th October, 1945,
to be the date for holding the election of one member of each of
the Te Aroha, Waihi, and Morrinsville Fire Boards by the fire-
insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the
extraordinary vacancies caused by the resignation of Mr. H. V.
Tregear.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 76/4/34, 76/4/37, 76/4/66.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in the City of Lower Hutt for
Technical School

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions
of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public
work—to wit, the construction of a technical school—and for the
purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule
hereto is required to be taken : And notice is hereby further given
that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in
in the post-office at Lower Hutt and is there open for inspection ;
and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public
work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any
well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work
or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and
send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of
this notice, to the Minister of Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken :
34 acres 1 rood 2·8 perches.
Being part Section 62, Hutt District (City of Lower Hutt).
Situated in Block X, Belmont Survey District. (S.O. 21346.)
In the Wellington Land District ; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 122379, deposited
in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon
edged orange.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 3rd day of October, 1945.
C. F. SKINNER,
For the Minister of Works.

(P.W. 31/1141.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block I, Otahuhu Survey District,
for Road

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions
of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public
work—to wit, the construction of a road—and for the purposes of
such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required
to be taken : And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the
land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Ellerslie
and is there open for inspection ; and that all persons affected by the
execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land
should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution
of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the
same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the
first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Works at
Wellington.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken :
2 perches.
Being part Section 2, Carroll Settlement.
Situated in Block I, Otahuhu Survey District (Auckland R.D.).
(S.O. 32645.)
In the North Auckland Land District ; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 122160, deposited
in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon
coloured yellow.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 3rd day of October, 1945.
F. JONES,
For the Minister of Works.

(P.W. 70/2/7/0.)

Approval of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940,
the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the person
named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being a Testing Officer
under the said regulations for the authority specified in Column 1
of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Column 1. Column 2.
Tauranga Borough Council . . . . . Gordon Arthur Bennett.

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of September, 1945.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1944.—Amendment to
Declaration of Essential Undertakings No. 154

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon him by Regulation 11
of the Industrial Man-power Emergency Regulations 1944,
the Minister of Industrial Man-power doth hereby amend the
Declaration of Essential Undertakings No. 154 by including therein
the undertaking set forth hereunder :—

The construction of a new factory, seed store, and cleaning-
shed for the Linseed Products Division of Dominion
Industries, Ltd., at Dunedin.

Dated this 28th day of September, 1945.

A. MCLAGAN, Minister of Industrial Man-power.