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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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19. Any moneys belonging to the Corporation and available
    for investment may be invested in the manner following :—
    (a) In New Zealand Government securities ; or
    (b) On deposit in the Bank of New Zealand ; or
    (c) If the Minister of Finance so consents, and subject to any
    conditions imposed by him, in the making of advances to
    producers of milk for the purpose of enabling them to
    improve the quality of the milk ; or
    (d) In any other securities that may from time to time be
    authorized by the Minister of Finance.

20. (1) On or before the last day of October in each year the
    Corporation shall cause to be prepared and sent to the Audit Office
    a yearly balance-sheet and a profit and loss account, together with
    such other statements of accounts as may be necessary, to show
    fully the financial position of the Corporation and the financial
    results of its operations during the preceding financial year ended
    the 31st day of August then last past.
    (2) The yearly balance-sheet, account, and statements shall be
    audited by the Audit Office, which for that purpose shall have and
    may exercise all such powers as it has under the Public Revenues
    Act, 1926, in respect of public moneys and public stores and the
    audit of local authorities' accounts.
    (3) A copy of the yearly balance-sheet, profit and loss account,
    and statements shall, when duly audited, be submitted by the
    Corporation to the Minister accompanied by a report as to the
    operations of the Corporation for the year ; and a copy of the
    balance-sheet, account, statements, and report shall be laid before
    Parliament.

W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Officer authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the
three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace
Act, 1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify
and declare that Captain Charles Richard Vernon Pugh, C.B.E.,
R.N., being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office
of Naval Officer-in-Charge at Auckland, 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 Governor-General,
this 10th day of July, 1946.

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

Appointing Five Non-elective Members of the Hauraki Catchment Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by section
forty-four of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act,
1941, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
appoint—

Roderick Duncan Campbell, Esquire, Conservator of Forests,
State Forest Service, Auckland,
Edward Taylor, Esquire, N.Z.I.E., Chief Drainage Engineer,
Lands and Survey Department, Auckland,
John Emblyn Davies, Esquire, Instructor in Agriculture,
Agriculture Department, Thames,
Peter Dill Sears, Esquire, M.A., B.Com., Field Ecologist,
Grasslands Division, Scientific and Industrial Research
Department, Palmerston North, and
Roland Harry Packwood, Esquire, A.M.I.C.E., District
Engineer, Public Works Department, Auckland,

to be non-elective members of the Hauraki Catchment Board for
a term commencing on the ninth day of July, one thousand nine
hundred and forty-six, and expiring on the twenty-first day of
June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 9th day of July, 1946.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/14.)

Honorary Inspectors of Scenic Reserves appointed

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section four
of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I, Lieutenant-General
Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Joseph Hart Hicks and
Francis Robert Smith

to be Honorary Inspectors under the said Act.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 11th day of July, 1946.

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

(L. and S. 4/448.)

Increasing Number of Days on which Charges may be made for Admission to the Taihape Oval Domain

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
upon me by section twenty-three of the Public Reserves,
Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, I, Sir Bernard Cyril Frey-
berg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do
hereby increase the number of days which may be prescribed by
the Taihape Oval Domain Board as days upon which charges may
be made, pursuant to section twenty-one of the said Act, for admis-
sion to the domain described in the Schedule hereto, or to any part
thereof set apart for a particular purpose, from twenty days to
thirty days during the year ending the thirty-first day of March,
one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—TAIHAPE OVAL DOMAIN

ALL that area containing 9 acres 3 roods 24 perches, more or less,
being Block X, Township of Taihape, and formerly comprising
portion of Taihape Domain.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 10th day of July, 1946.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/357.)

Appointments in the Royal New Zealand Navy

Navy Office,
Wellington, 8th July, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept
the transfer of the following officers from the Royal New
Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve to the Royal New Zealand Navy
and appoint them to short-service commissions in the Royal New
Zealand Navy with commencing dates, rank, seniority, and periods
of service as indicated, under the provisions of the Naval Defence
Act, 1913 :—

Acting Lieutenant-Commander Charles Clinton Stevens,
R.N.Z.N.V.R., to be Lieutenant-Commander, R.N.Z.N., with
seniority of 1st May, 1946 ; seven years' short-service commission,
to date from 1st May, 1946.

Temporary Acting Lieutenant-Commander James Frederick
Allan O'Neill, D.S.C., R.N.Z.N.V.R., to be Lieutenant-Commander,
R.N.Z.N., with seniority of 15th May, 1946 ; three years' short-
service commission, to date from 15th May, 1946.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Promotions and Relinquishments of Temporary Rank of Officers of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (United Kingdom)

Army Department,
Wellington, 13th July, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
confirm the following promotions and relinquishments of
temporary rank of officers of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary
Force (United Kingdom) :—

PROMOTION

2nd Lieutenant J. A. Smith to be Lieutenant. Dated 1st
June, 1946.

GRANTS OF TEMPORARY RANK

N.Z. Infantry

The undermentioned Captains to be temp. Majors :—

H. W. Chambers. Dated 21st January, 1946.
V. A. Melville. Dated 17th May, 1946.

TEMPORARY RANK RELINQUISHED

N.Z. Artillery

Major (temp. Lieutenant-Colonel) E. G. Lewis, M.B.E., relin-
quishes the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and assumes the
acting rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 8th June, 1946.

Captain (temp. Major) E. J. Manders relinquishes the temporary
rank of Major and assumes the acting rank of Major. Dated 30th
March, 1946.

N.Z. Engineers

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) J. T. Collin relinquishes the tem-
porary rank of Captain and assumes the acting rank of Captain.
Dated 29th May, 1946.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.