May 30] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 739

Warrant for Convening General Courts-martial

MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government of New Zealand

To the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF for the time being of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Air Force Act, 1937, and the regulations thereunder, I, Sir Michael Myers, the Administrator of the Government of New Zealand, do hereby authorize you from time to time as occasion may require to convene general courts-martial for the trial of every person for the time being under or within the territorial limits of your command who is subject to the said Act and regulations who is tried for any offence for which such person may be tried by court-martial, whether such offence shall have been committed before or after the date of this Warrant; and I hereby further authorize you to confirm the proceedings of any such courts-martial and to cause any sentence thereof to be put into execution according to law:

Provided always that if by sentence of any general court-martial a commissioned officer has been sentenced to suffer death, penal servitude, or imprisonment, or to be cashiered or dismissed from the Air Force, or an airman has been sentenced to suffer death, or penal servitude, you shall in such case, and also in the case of any other general court-martial, whether convened by you or under the delegated authority hereinafter mentioned in which you shall think fit so to do, transmit the proceedings to the Solicitor-General of New Zealand in order that he may forward them to the Minister of Defence, who will lay the same before me for my decision thereupon:

And I do further authorize you to direct your Warrant to any officer under your command not below the rank of Squadron Leader giving him a general authority to convene general courts-martial for the trial of any person subject to the said Act and regulations who shall be charged with any offence for which person may be tried by court-martial, whether such offence shall have been committed before or after the date of the Warrant directed by you to such officer, and also to exercise in respect of the proceedings of any courts-martial the power of confirming the findings or sentences thereof according to law, or, if you should so think fit, of directing him to reserve for your confirmation the proceedings of all or any courts-martial, in which case you are hereby authorized to exercise in respect of the proceedings so reserved all the powers of a confirming officer, but limited as aforesaid in accordance with the said Act and regulations:

And that there may not in any case be a failure of justice from the want of a proper person authorized to act as Judge-Advocate, I do further empower you to nominate and appoint, and to delegate to any officer duly authorized to convene a general court-martial the power of appointing, a fit person from time to time for executing the office of Judge-Advocate at any court-martial for the more orderly proceedings of the same:

And for executing the general powers, matters, and things herein expressed, this shall be to you, and all others whom it may concern, a sufficient Warrant and authority.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of New Zealand, this 20th day of May, 1946.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Vesting the Control of a Scenic Reserve in the Whangaroa County Council

MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by section thirteen of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand doth hereby vest the control of the Ranfurly Bay Scenic Reserve, described in the Schedule hereto (being land reserved under the said Act), in the Whangaroa County Council, subject to the conditions hereinafter contained, that is to say:—

1. The period for which the control of the reserve is hereby vested shall be five years from the date hereof, unless the reservation is previously altered or revoked under the said Act.

2. The said Council shall prepare a report each year ending on the thirty-first day of March, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure in connection with the said reserve.

Such report and statement shall be sent to the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act as soon as possible after the close of the year.

3. The said Council may, with the approval of the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation, make such rules as it deems necessary for the good conduct of the public frequenting the reserve and for the protection of the said reserve; and may, with the like approval, set apart areas for camping-grounds or other purposes, and may fix reasonable charges for the use thereof in accordance with a scale to be approved from time to time by the Minister.

4. The said Council shall control the said reserve in accordance with the provisions of the said Act of the regulations made thereunder.

SCHEDULE
RANFURLY BAY SCENIC RESERVE

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 706 acres, more or less, and being Section 1, Block III, Whangaroa Survey District, described in the Proclamation published in New Zealand Gazette No. 71, dated 12th June, 1919, page 1787, as portion of Taupo No. 24 Block. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 244, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (Auckland plan No. 20335, blue.)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 27th day of May, 1946.

C. F. SKINNER,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. 244.)

Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations

MICHAEL MYERS
Administrator of the Government

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Sir Michael Myers, the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that Horace George Minett Priestley,

being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Chief Clerk, Housing Division, Public Works Department, Wellington, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 22nd day of May, 1946.

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

Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations

MICHAEL MYERS,
Administrator of the Government

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Sir Michael Myers, the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE

Leonard Frederick Round, Postmaster, Otautau.
George Robert Bruce Bohem Berney, Postmaster, Richmond.
Rebe Edna Russek, Postmistress and Telephonist, Tapu.
Walter Francis Smith, Postmaster and Telephonist, Te Anau.
Margaret Jane Robina Osborne, Postmistress, Waipahi.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government this 27th day of May, 1946.

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

Extending Period within which the Commission appointed to Inquire into and Report upon Licensing Matters in New Zealand shall report

GEORGE THE SIXTH by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith:

To Our Trusty and Well-beloved the Honourable Mr. DAVID STANLEY SMITH, a Judge of the Supreme Court, PERCY TAYLOR COYLE, GEORGE WILLIAM HUTCHISON, EDMUND COLIN NIGEL ROBINSON, JAMES PATRICK RUTH, PERCY MALTHUS, the HONOURABLE MR. FREDERICK GEORGE YOUNG, and BELLA FERNIE LOGIE: GREETING.

WHEREAS by Our Warrant dated the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, you, the said

David Stanley Smith,
Percy Taylor Coyle,
George William Hutchison,
Edmund Colin Nigel Robinson,
James Patrick Ruth,
Percy Malthus, and
Frederick George Young,

together with Thomas Jordan and John Thomson Macky, now deceased, were appointed under the authority of the Letters Patent of His late Majesty dated the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and under the authority of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, to be a Commission of Inquiry for the purposes in the said Warrant duly set out: