1552
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 70

Appointment of Deputy for the Licensing Authority of the No. 3 and No. 4 Transport Districts in Terms of the Transport Licensing Act, 1931

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section 12 of the Transport Licensing Act, 1931, the Minister of Transport does hereby appoint John Philip Oscar Skoglund, District Licensing Authority for the No. 2 and No. 5 Transport Districts, as the Deputy of Stanley Victor Raines, District Licensing Authority for the No. 3 and No. 4 Transport Districts, Christchurch, during the absence of the said Stanley Victor Raines.

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of September, 1946.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Transport.

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

Marine Department,
Wellington, 30th September, 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—

Sydney Augustus McNamara, of Rotorua,

to be an officer for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act.

Harry Alexander Drummond, of Riwaka,
Lionel Stephen Gibbs, of Motupiko,
Alex Moffit, of Tadmor, and
Roy Maudros Shirtliff, of Redwoods Valley,

to be officers for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act in respect of the Nelson Acclimatization District.

Reginald Seymour Naylor, of Patumahoe, and
William Allen Webster, of Pukekura, Cambridge,

to be officers for the purposes of Part II of the first-mentioned Act in respect of the Auckland Acclimatization District.

W. C. SMITH, Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 1946.

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

William Patrick Condon

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Arrow, on and from the 3rd day of September, 1946.

David Forbes Johnson

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Porangahau, on and from the 14th day of September, 1946.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Tauranga Electric-power Board.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan Authority

Wellington, 11th September, 1946.

In the matter of section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Tauranga Electric-power Board has been duly authorized to borrow by way of loan the sum of fifty thousand pounds (£50,000), by a loan known as the Electrical Extension Loan, 1944:

And whereas in respect of the said sum of fifty thousand pounds (£50,000) there has been raised and borrowed the sum of thirty thousand pounds (£30,000), and it has not been found necessary to borrow the whole of the amount so authorized:

And whereas the Tauranga Electric-power Board has been duly notified in writing by me that it is intended to cancel the loan authority to the extent of the twenty thousand pounds (£20,000) not exercised:

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, as amended by section 46 of the Finance Act, 1931 (No. 4), and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, I, Walter Nash, Minister of Finance, do hereby cancel the authority of the Tauranga Electric-power Board to borrow under the loan authority hereinbefore referred to the sum of twenty thousand pounds (£20,000), being the amount in respect of which the said loan has not been exercised:

Provided always that this cancellation is without prejudice to the validity in all respects of the loan of thirty thousand pounds (£30,000) already borrowed pursuant to the said loan authority.

W. NASH, Minister of Finance.

(T. 49/249/6.)

Stipendiary Magistrate authorized to exercise Jurisdiction in Children’s Court

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 30th September, 1946.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize

Jack Duddington Willis, Esquire, S.M.,

to exercise jurisdiction in the Children’s Court established at Dunedin, from 6th September, 1946.

F. JONES,
For the Minister of Justice.

Result of Election of a Member of the Dunedin and Oamaru Fire Boards by Fire-insurance Companies

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th September, 1946.

THE following results of the election of members of the Dunedin and Oamaru Fire Boards have been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and are notified in accordance with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1926:—

Dunedin Fire Board . . . . C. H. Hartley.
Oamaru Fire Board . . . . F. A. Craig.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 76/4/45, 76/4/27.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in the Parish of Pakuranga for a Post-office

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a post-office—and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Buckland’s Beach and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 33 perches.

Being Lot 1, D.P. 16356, being portion of Allotment 57, Parish of Pakuranga.

(Auckland R.D.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 124139, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 26th day of September, 1946.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 20/1180.)

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 2nd day of September, 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 31st day of October, 1946, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land situated in Block XV, Pakiri Survey District, containing by admeasurement one hundred and forty (140) acres three (3) roods eight (8) perches, more or less, being parts of Allotments 31 and 32, Matakana Parish, and being all of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. 762, folio 61 (Auckland Registry), limited as to parcels, together with a right-of-way created by Conveyance No. 9284 over part of Allotment 31, Matakana Parish, being all of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. 762, folio 59 (Auckland Registry).

Also all that parcel of land situated in Blocks III and IV, Mahurangi Survey District, containing by admeasurement one hundred and two (102) acres three (3) roods eighteen (18) perches, more or less, being parts of Allotments 55 and 56, Matakana Parish, and being all of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. 762, folio 62 (Auckland Registry), limited as to parcels.

Also all that parcel of land situated in Block III, Mahurangi Survey District, containing by admeasurement two (2) acres one (1) rood thirty-four (34) perches, more or less, being Allotments 55A, 56A, and 56B, Matakana Parish, and being all of the land described in certificate of title, Vol. 50, folio 246 (Auckland Registry).

As witness my hand, this 24th day of September, 1946.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/736.)