658 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 30

Members of the Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4282)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 6th May, 1946.

H IS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased, in pursuance of section 56 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, to appoint, on the 26th day of April, 1946—

George Gunn,
Thomas William Harper, and
Ralph Arden Yule

to be members of the Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board, vice Edward Averill, Arthur Francis Harris, and Dugald John Riggir respectively.

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

Appointment of Officers for the Purposes of the Fisheries Act, 1908

Marine Department,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1946.

B Y direction of the Hon. Minister of Marine, it is hereby notified that His Excellency the Administrator of the Government has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed—

Edward Barling, of Himatangi,

to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of Part I of the first-mentioned Act.

John James Miller, of Inglewood,

to be an Inspector of Sea-fishing for the purposes of Part I of the first-mentioned Act and an officer for the purposes of Part II of the same Act in respect of the Hawera Acclimatization District.

W. C. SMITH, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1946.

I T is hereby notified that the following appointments have been made :—

Colin Roto Houghton

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waiwera, on and from the 8th day of April, 1946.

Donald James Wade

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Blackstone, on and from the 10th day of April, 1946.

Alexander Patrick Horgan

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Cheviot, on and from the 16th day of April, 1946.

Albert Errol Crimp

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Invercargill, on and from the 23rd day of April, 1946.

John Louis Wellbrock Gerken

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Timaru, on and from the 13th day of May, 1946.

David Higgins

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Balfour, on and from the 29th day of April, 1946.

John Mellerick Lodge

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Wellington at Kilbirnie, on and from the 12th day of March, 1946.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

The Woollen-mills Labour Legislation Suspension and Modification Order 1946

P URSUANT to the Labour Legislation Emergency Regulations 1940, the Minister of Labour doth hereby order as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Woollen-mills Labour Legislation Suspension and Modification Order 1946.

2. This Order applies to all industries carried on in woollen-mills (including woollen-hosiery mills) of the Timaru Worsted and Woollen Company, Limited, and of the Bruce Woollen Manufacturing Company, Limited, where the manufacture of woven or machine or hand-knitted fabrics or hosiery is carried on.

3. The provisions of all Acts and of all regulations thereunder, and of all awards and industrial agreements under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, and of all agreements under the Labour Disputes Investigation Act, 1913, and of all other voluntary agreements affecting conditions of employment are hereby (1) suspended so far as any such provisions operate to prevent the employment of women and boys on shift work, or on Sundays or holidays in any industry to which clause 2 hereof applies; and (2) modified in respect of the employment of all workers on shift work in any industry to which clause 2 hereof applies, to the extent necessary to give effect to the terms and conditions hereinafter provided.

4. Subject as hereafter set out, each male adult worker employed on shift work shall receive, in addition to his ordinary wages, the sum of 3s. per shift, and each female worker and each youth employed on shift work shall receive, in addition to his or her ordinary wages, the sum of 1s. 6d. per shift: Provided that in addition to the foregoing payments each female worker on night shift (irrespective of age) shall receive a bonus of 1s. 6d. per shift, which payment shall not be included as part of the total sum to be distributed to day workers under the provisions of clause 5 hereof.

5. (a) Where a shift (hereinafter referred to as the first shift) is worked within the ordinary daily clock-hours prescribed by the Woollen-mills Employees’ award in force for the time being, the shift rates prescribed by clause 4 hereof shall not be payable to the workers employed on such first shift, but an amount equivalent to the total amount of the additional shift rates payable to the workers employed on the second shift, or if more than two shifts are worked an amount equivalent to the total amount of the additional shift rates payable to the workers employed on the second shift, or to the total amount of the additional shift rates payable to the workers employed on the third shift (whichever of such total amounts is the greater) shall be distributed amongst all workers who work on the first shift, and for this purpose such first shift workers shall be classified as under, viz. :—

   (i) Senior male workers :
   (ii) Senior female workers :
   (iii) Junior workers whether male or female.

The distribution shall be equal between members of each class, but a class (i) worker shall receive twice the amount that a class (ii) worker receives, and a class (ii) worker shall receive twice the amount that a class (iii) worker receives.

(b) Where no shift is worked completely within the ordinary daily clock-hours hereinbefore mentioned, the workers on all shifts shall be paid the additional shift rates prescribed by clause 4 hereof.

6. For all work done on Sundays or whole holidays double time shall be paid. All extended hours beyond the daily or weekly limits prescribed in any Act, award, or agreement applicable, shall be paid for at the rate of time and a half.

7. Satisfactory arrangements shall be made for conveying female workers employed on the late or night shifts to their homes. Where female workers are employed on the third shift provision shall also be made for their conveyance to work if necessary.

8. The employer shall provide each night-shift worker with tea at the usual meal interval, and also at one other time (as may be mutually arranged) during the course of the shift.

9. Where regular shifts are worked they shall, wherever practicable, rotate so that workers are employed alternately in four-weekly periods on day or night shifts respectively.

10. This Order shall come into effect on the day of the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of May, 1946.

JAS. O’BRIEN,
For the Minister of Labour.

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

W HEREAS 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 has decided not to acquire or arrange for the acquisition of the land, did on the 2nd day of April, 1946, 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 4th day of June, 1946, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

NELSON LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area containing seventy-six (76) acres one (1) rood nine (9) perches, more or less, being part of Sections 75 and 76, Deposited Plan No. 3154, District of Waimea East, situated in Block VII, Waimea Survey District, together with water and incidental rights reserved by Deed No. 35685 over part Lot 2, D.P. 2553, created by Transfer No. 32903, and being all the land shown on certificate of title, Vol. 89, folio 82 (Nelson Registry).

As witness my hand, this 7th day of May, 1946.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/589.)