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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 37

Member of the Woodlands Rabbit Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4293)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 27th May, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased, in pursuance of section 56 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, to appoint, on the 22nd day of May, 1946—

Charles James Adams

to be a member of the Woodlands Rabbit Board, vice Arthur Cumming Gormack, resigned.

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

Appointment of Officer for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908

Marine Department,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1946.

BY direction of the Hon. Minister of Marine, it is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1908, and of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, appointed

Frederick Martin Antrim, of Tauranga,

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act in respect of the Tauranga Acclimatization District.

W. C. SMITH, Secretary.

Deputy of Chairman of Wellington Urban Land Sales Committee appointed

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington 23rd May, 1946.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Administrator of the Government in Council, acting pursuant to the provisions of subsection three of section seventeen of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, has appointed

James Jackson Garbett, of Wellington, Solicitor

to be the deputy on the Wellington Urban Land Sales Committee of Clifford Oswald Bell, the Chairman of that Committee.

R. G. MACMORRAN, Under-Secretary for Lands.

(L. & S. 13/207/1.)

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed

ARTHUR CHARLES KENNEDY, Esquire, of Sydney, in New South Wales, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, has this day been appointed by the Right Honourable Sir Michael Myers, G.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in New South Wales under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of May, 1946.

A. E. REYNOLDS, Registrar, Supreme Court.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th May, 1946.

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

Adam Stewart Leitch

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Tokomaru Bay, on and from the 11th day of May, 1946.

Albert Richard Joseph Kenny

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

Burnard Arthur Simonsen Reade

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waimea South, on and from the 20th day of May, 1946.

Vernon John Lee

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

Leonard George Strange

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Greytown, on and from the 27th day of May, 1946.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 28th May, 1946.

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

Harold Boyack

to be a Surveyor of Ships and Inspector of Ships’ Compasses for the purposes of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, on and from the 3rd day of January, 1946.

James Patrick Joyce

to be District Public Trustee for the District of Tauranga for the purposes of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, on and from the 1st day of May, 1946.

Donald Graham Davis

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Stewart Island, on and from the 22nd day of March, 1946, and Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Half-moon Bay, on and from the 22nd day of March, 1946.

Ian MacIntosh Milne

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Gore, on and from the 4th day of April, 1946.

George Robert Bruce Bohem Burney

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Richmond, on and from the 11th day of April, 1946.

Malcolm Ellis Eagle

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Cust, on and from the 18th day of April, 1946.

Norman Athol Soppet

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waimea South, on and from the 1st day of May, 1946.

Jack Lionel Wright

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Rotorua, on and from the 13th day of May, 1946.

Lennox Fisher Thomson

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Wharekahika, on and from the 27th day of May, 1946.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Declaring Area to be a Closely Populated Locality for the Purposes of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936, Section 3

IN terms of section 3 of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936, the Minister of Transport doth hereby declare the area described in the Schedule hereto to be a closely populated locality for the purposes of the said section to the intent that a person driving any motor-vehicle on any road, street, or other place to which the public have access therein shall be subject to the maximum speed limit of thirty miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE

SITUATED within Ohura County—

All that area at Matiere consisting of—

(1) Mangatupoto–Ohura Main Highway No. 350, commencing at a point 3 chains measured in a south-westerly direction along the said main highway from its junction with the Ohura–Mokau Road, and terminating at a point 5 chains measured in a south-easterly direction along the said main highway from its junction with Phillips Street, a distance of approximately 50 chains; and

(2) Ohura–Mokau Road, commencing at a point 15 chains measured in a north-westerly direction along the said road from its junction with the Mangatupoto–Ohura Main Highway, and terminating at the said junction, the whole area being indicated in green on the plan marked TT. 1686, deposited in the office of the Transport Department at Wellington.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of May, 1946.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/216.)

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

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area of ten (10) acres, being part Ngakauoro No. 2F, being Lots 17 and 18, Deposited Plan No. 2576, Kaitawa Survey District, and being all the land contained in certificate of title, Vol. 227, folio 77 (Wellington Registry).

As witness my hand, this 23rd day of May, 1946.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/537.)