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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 25]

Vesting Land in the Selwyn Plantation Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of May, 1947

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection three of section one hundred and seventy-one of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies’ Empowering Act, 1924, and subsection two of section thirteen of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the land described in the Schedule hereto shall be vested in the Selwyn Plantation Board, in trust, for plantation purposes.

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SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area containing by admeasurement 20 acres, more or less, being Lot 1 on plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Christchurch as number 12897, and being part Reserve 1809, situated in Block XI, Selwyn Survey District. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 491350, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red.

W. O. HARVEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(L. and S. 49135.)

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Polling-places for the Avon Electoral District appointed

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the Electoral Act, 1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby abolish all existing polling-places, and do hereby appoint the places mentioned in the Schedule hereto to be the polling-places in the said Electoral District of Avon.

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SCHEDULE

Avon Electoral District—
Aldwin’s Road and Harrow Street Corner, Fisher’s Store, Garage.
Aranui, Breezes Road, Aranui Hall.
Avonside, Galbraith Avenue (extension), St. Francis’ Kindergarten.
Bromley, Public School.
Burwood, New Brighton Road, Public School.
Burwood Park, New Brighton Road, Tennis Club Pavilion.
Dallington, Gayhurst Road, No. 40, Garage.
Gloucester Street, No. 662, Garage.
Linwood, Buckley’s Road, St. Chad’s Sunday School.
Linwood, Cashel Street and Ollivier’s Road Corner, Methodist Church Hall.
Linwood, Matheson’s Road, Pumping-station, Garage.
Linwood Avenue, Public School, Social Hall (principal).
Linwood Avenue and Worcester Street Corner, Baptist Church Hall.
New Brighton, Collingwood Street, Masonic Hall.
New Brighton, Hawke Street, St. Faith’s Anglican Hall.
North Linwood, Woodham Road, Public School.
North New Brighton, Marriott’s Road, St. Andrew’s Anglican Hall.
North New Brighton, Peace Memorial Hall.
Retreat Road, opposite Leighton Street, Mr. H. H. Easterbrook’s Residence.
Shirley, North Parade, Rowe Memorial Hall.
South New Brighton, Bridge Street and Estuary Road Corner. Methodist Church Hall.
Wainoni Road, No. 68 (opposite store), Garage.
Woodham Road and Patten Street Corner, Rover Scout Hall.
Woolston, Aldwin’s Road, McDonald’s Hall.
Woolston, Ferry Road, Monica Park Grandstand.
Woolston, St. John’s Street, St. John’s Anglican Schoolroom.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 14th day of May, 1947.

P. FRASER,
Minister in Charge of the Electoral Department

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Land permanently reserved in the Wellington Land District for County Purposes

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section of the Land Act, 1924, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time set apart temporarily as reserves, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned :

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-sixtieth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-fifty-ninth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months, after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette :

And whereas the land described in the Schedule hereto was, by the Warrant dated the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, and published in the Gazette of the twenty-seventh day of that month, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for county purposes :

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the land described in the Schedule hereto for county purposes for which purpose the said land was so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

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SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 1, Makoura Village, Block XVI, Apiti Survey District : Area, 2 acres, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 6th day of May, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 2/198.)

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Appointments of Officers of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Japan Section)

Army Department,
Wellington, 12th May, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments of officers of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Japan Section) :—

APPOINTMENTS (TEMPORARY)

The undermentioned is seconded from the N.Z. Temporary Staff :—

Temp. Major A. Hirschhorn. Dated 10th April, 1947.

N.Z. Army Medical Corps

The undermentioned is reposted to the 2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force, and is granted the temporary rank of Colonel :—

Captain (temp. Lieutenant-Colonel) T. H. Pettit, M.B., Ch.B. Dated 2nd April, 1947.

The undermentioned to be Lieutenant, and is granted the temporary rank of Captain :—

James Allan Blackwood, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. Dated 17th March, 1947.

APPOINTMENTS (SUBSTANTIVE)

The undermentioned temporary appointments are confirmed :—

Brigade Headquarters

Temp. Major A. Hirschhorn. Dated 22nd April, 1947.

N.Z. Army Medical Corps

Captain (temp. Colonel) T. H. Pettit. Dated 10th April, 1947.
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) J. A. Blackwood. Dated 2nd April, 1947.

H.M.N.Z. Transport

The undermentioned are reposted to the 2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force, and are seconded for special duty on H.M.N.Z. Transport :—

Major (temp. Lieutenant-Colonel) V. J. Innes, O.B.E.
Major A. R. Cockerell, D.S.O. Dated 22nd April, 1947.

The undermentioned are seconded to the 2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force for special duty on H.M.N.Z. Transport :—

Captain and Quartermaster C. K. Patrick.
Captain and Quartermaster A. Taylor, D.S.M.
Dated 22nd April, 1947.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

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Promotions, Relinquishments of Temporary Rank, Relinquishment of Commission, and Retirements of Officers of the New Zealand Military Forces

Army Department,
Wellington, 9th May, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following promotions, relinquishments of temporary rank, relinquishment of commission, and retirements of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces :—

ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY

Sergeant (temp. Lieutenant and Quartermaster) J. J. Hanvey relinquishes the temporary rank of Lieutenant and Quartermaster. Dated 25th April, 1947.