946
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 48

Coroner appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Henry Cooper, Esquire, J.P.,

of Waihi, to be a Coroner for the Dominion of New Zealand.

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

Appointment of Honorary Child Welfare Officers under the Child Welfare Act, 1925

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th June, 1946.

IN pursuance of section 2 of the Child Welfare Act, 1925, I, Henry Greathead Rex Mason, Minister of Education, do hereby appoint the following persons as Honorary Child Welfare Officers for the purposes of the said Act for the year ending the 31st December, 1946 :—

Name. District.
Davies, Louis Roy .. .. .. .. Kaponga.
Witten-Hannah, Alexander Boyd .. .. New Plymouth.
Witten-Hannah, Doris Ethel .. .. New Plymouth.
Rogers, Reverend Rowlatt Matheson .. .. Taihape.
Jones, Major Larner Howard Owen .. .. Opotiki.
Johnsen, Leslie Malcolm .. .. .. Masterton.
Loyola, Sister Mary .. .. .. .. Upper Hutt.
Heavey, Reverend Father William .. .. Wellington.

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

Members of Plumbers Board appointed

Office of the Minister of Health,
Wellington, 25th June, 1946.

IT is hereby notified that, pursuant to the provisions of the Plumbers Registration Act, 1912, and the regulations thereunder, the undermentioned persons have been elected as members of the Plumbers Board of New Zealand by the New Zealand Federation of Master Plumbers Industrial Union of Employers and the New Zealand Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Related Trades’ Industrial Union of Workers, respectively, as from the 1st July, 1946 :—

Robert Wainwright, Wellington.
Cyril Leonard Jeffries, Wellington.

A. H. NORDMEYER, Minister of Health.

Member of Pourakino Rabbit Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4302)

Office of the Minister of Agriculture,
Wellington, 28th June, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of section 56 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, to appoint, on the 24th day of June, 1946—

Robert Vernon Keast

to be a member of the Pourakino Rabbit Board, vice Alfred Samuel Peek, resigned.

B. ROBERTS, Minister of Agriculture.

Member of the Egmont National Park Board appointed

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 26th June, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of section 5 of the Egmont National Park Act, 1924, to appoint

Michael Neville

to be a member of the Egmont National Park Board in place of Walter Crowley Weston, resigned.

R. G. MACMORRAN, Under-Secretary.

(L. and S. 4/342.)

Appointment in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1946.

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

John Alexander Hislop

to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Hurunui for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, as from the 1st day of March, 1946.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Resignation of Minister

Official Secretary’s Office,
Government House, Wellington, 27th June, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation of

The Honourable Patrick Charles Webb, of the offices of Minister of Labour and Minister of Mines.

By Command.

D. E. FOUHY, Official Secretary.

Minister appointed

Official Secretary’s Office,
Government House, Wellington, 27th June, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

The Honourable James O’Brien to be Minister of Labour and Minister of Mines.

By Command.

D. E. FOUHY, Official Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1946.

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

Gordon Scott Forsyth Connelly

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Helensville at Kaukapakapa, on and from the 18th day of June, 1946.

Jessie Gertrude Hazel Smith (Miss)

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Omaha, on and from the 4th day of June, 1946.

Bertram Charles Ryall

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Whangarei, on and from the 25th day of June, 1946.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Member of the Gisborne Land Board reappointed

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 2nd July, 1946.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 49 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to reappoint

John William Gordon

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Gisborne for a further term of three years from the 31st day of May, 1946.

D. M. GREIG, Under-Secretary.

(L. and S. 22/748/13.)

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

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 24 of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, notice was given of the intention of the Minister of Lands to take under Part II of the said Act the lands described in the First Schedule hereto, and a copy of the said notice was published in the Gazette on the 20th day of September, 1945, at page 1167 :

And whereas objections were made by two occupiers in the manner prescribed by the said Act, objecting to the taking of part of the said lands :

And whereas the Land Sales Committee to which the objections have been referred did on the 3rd day of May, 1946, make an order dismissing the objections subject to the exclusion of the areas referred to in the Second Schedule hereto from the land to be taken :

And whereas no appeal from the said order was made within the time prescribed by the 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 27 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the lands described in the Third Schedule hereto are taken for the settlement of discharged servicemen, and hereby specifies the 18th day of July, 1946, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

FIRST SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land containing two thousand and seventeen (2,017) acres one (1) rood and thirty-four decimal eight (34·8) perches, more or less, being private road and Lots 1A, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25, and parts Lots 1, 5, 6, 7, 12, and 14, on Deeds Plan 311, Goodwood Estate, Blocks I and IV, Hawksbury Survey District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 271, folio 76, limited as to parcels (Otago Registry).