Dec. 19] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1577

Approval of Testing Officers 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 persons named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being testing officers under the said regulations for the authorities specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Column 1. Column 2.
Transport Department .. .. George Hunter.
Transport Department .. .. Edwin John Jordan.
Transport Department .. .. Edmund Lawrence Fox.
Transport Department .. .. Arthur Albert Roxborough.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of December, 1945.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

Exemption Order under the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Transport Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, so far as they relate to the driving of heavy trade motors, shall not apply to the person hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply :—

A motor-driver’s license issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor for the purpose of the business of the respective employer described in Column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him while he is under the age of eighteen years to drive a heavy trade motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
Maxwell Bygate Knight, of Waipu .. T. G. Knight (father).

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1945.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

The Primary Industries Controls Revocation Order (No. 2) 1945

PURSUANT to the Primary Industries Emergency Regulations 1939,* the Minister of Agriculture hereby makes the following Order.

ORDER

1. This Order may be cited as the Primary Industries Controls Revocation Order (No. 2) 1945.
2. The Orders specified in the Schedule hereto are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of December, 1945.

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/164, page 728.

(Notice No. Ag. 4242.)

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed in the Whakatane County.—(Notice No. Ag. 4240)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 10th December, 1945.

THE following special order made by the Whakatane County Council on the 20th day of November, 1945, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928 :—

SPECIAL ORDER

That, pursuant to sections 4 and 5 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, the Whakatane County Council hereby declares by way of special order that the plant known as Thornapple or Jimson Weed (Datura stramonium), which weed is included in the Second Schedule to the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, is a noxious weed in the Whakatane County.

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Ekatahuna County.—(Notice No. Ag. 4241)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 12th December, 1945.

THE following special order made by the Ekatahuna County Council on the 9th day of November, 1945, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928 :—

SPECIAL ORDER

That the Ekatahuna County Council hereby declares by way of special order and under authority of section 4 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, that the plants contained in the Second Schedule of the said Act and known as Hemlock and St. John’s Wort be declared to be noxious weeds within the County of Ekatahuna.

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed in Rangitikei County.—(Notice No. Ag. 4243)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 17th December, 1945.

THE following special order made by the Rangitikei County Council on the 6th day of December, 1945, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928 :—

SPECIAL ORDER

That, pursuant to the provisions of sections 4 and 5 (c) of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, the Rangitikei County Council hereby, by special order, declares broom (Cytisus scoparius) to be a noxious weed within the County of Rangitikei, and that this special order shall take effect on the 20th day of December, 1945.

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

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 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 16th day of November, 1945, 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 15th day of April, 1946, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL those parcels of land situated in Block IX, Waiwera Survey District, containing by admeasurement ninety-five (95) acres one (1) rood thirty-three (33) perches, more or less, being parts of Lot 4, Waikahikatea Block No. 61N, and being the residue of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. 516, folio 29 (limited as to parcels) (Auckland Registry).

As witness my hand, this 10th day of December, 1945.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/455.)

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 14th day of November, 1945, 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 16th day of January, 1946, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.