N.Z. TEMPORARY STAFF
Temp. Captain F. B. Bath is appointed Director of Army Education and Welfare Services, Army Headquarters, and is granted the temporary rank of Major whilst so employed. Dated lst June, 1947.

TERRITORIAL FORCE
THE N.Z. INFANTRY CORPS
The North Auckland Regiment
Temp. Lieutenant W. S. Bestic ceases to be seconded to the Kaitaia District High School Cadets, Area 3, and is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Lieutenant. Dated 27th May, 1947.

N.Z. ARMY DENTAL CORPS
Temp. 2nd Lieutenant and Quartermaster B. B. Wilson to be temp. Lieutenant and Quartermaster. Dated lst April, 1947.

N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE
Sister (temp. Charge Sister) L. M. Howe (née Davis) is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Charge Sister. Dated 10th April, 1947.
Sister B. S. Wylie, from the Reserve List, to be Sister, with seniority from lst August, 1944, is seconded to the Royal N.Z. Navy, and is granted the temporary rank of Charge Sister. Dated lst June, 1947.
The undermentioned to be Sister :—
Margaret Imelda O'Driscoll. Dated 31st May, 1947.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointment, Promotions, and Relinquishments of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force
Air Department,
Wellington, 7th June, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointment, promotions, and relinquishments of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force :—

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH
Appointment
As Pilot—
NZ 39916 Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Gilbert Sydney HALLEY, D.F.C., relinquishes his temporary commission, and is granted a short-service commission in his present rank and seniority. Dated lst April, 1947.

Promotions
The undermentioned Squadron Leaders (temp.) to be Acting Wing Commanders (paid) :-
Dated 13th November, 1945 : NZ 2308 Thomas Francis GILL, D.S.O.
Dated 10th June, 1947 : NZ 1060 Theodore Jasper MACLEAN de LANGE, D.F.C., A.D.C.

Relinquishments
The undermentioned officers are permitted to relinquish their temporary commissions :-
Dated 14th May, 1947 : NZ 413399 Flight Lieutenant Neal Wingmore FAGG.
Dated 27th May, 1947 : NZ 429196 Flight Lieutenant John MURPHY.
Dated 9th June, 1947 : NZC 43507 Flying Officer Foster Malcolm Neill TAPLIN.
Dated 15th June, 1947:-
NZ 2115 Squadron Leader Peter Sidley ANDERSON.
NZ 439003 Flight Lieutenant John Herbert DAVIES.
NZ 422917 Flight Lieutenant Colin GLOSSOP.
Dated 1st July, 1947 : NZ 411442 Flight Lieutenant George Alfred PATRICK, D.S.O., D.F.C.
Dated 18th July, 1947 : NZ 39941 Squadron Leader (Acting Wing Commander) Gage Darwent SISE, D.S.O., D.F.C.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of an Assistant Law Draftsman
Prime Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 6th June, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint as from 5th June, 1947—
John Graham Hamilton, Esquire, LL.M.,
to be an Assistant Law Draftsman, in terms of the Statutes Drafting and Compilation Act, 1920.

P. FRASER, Prime Minister.

Trustee of Savings-bank appointed
The Treasury,
Wellington, 5th June, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint
Mark Wallace
to be a trustee of the Hokitika Savings-bank.

A. H. NORDMEYER,
For the Minister of Finance.

Member of Assessment Court for Farm-land List for Borough of South Invercargill appointed
Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 10th June, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in terms of section 10 of the Urban Farm Land Rating Act, 1932, to appoint
Leonard Raymond Lopdell, Esquire, Valuer, of Invercargill, as a member of the Assessment Court for the Borough of South Invercargill, on the recommendation of the South Invercargill Borough Council, vice Gordon Richard William Barnes, Esquire.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(I.A. 103/2/47.)

Members of Cinematograph Film Operators’ Licensing Board appointed
Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 10th June, 1947.

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on me by the Cinematograph Films Act, 1928, as amended by section 18 of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1936, and the Cinematograph Operators Licensing Regulations 1938, I, William Edward Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, do hereby appoint-
Harold Owen Hills, Esquire, representing the New Zealand Motion Picture Exhibitors’ Association, and Francis John Sherwood, Esquire, an electrical engineer having no financial interest in the film industry, to be members of the Cinematograph Film Operators’ Licensing Board, vice William Burton, Esquire, and Findlay Forbes Gilmore, Esquire, respectively, resigned.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Honorary Fishery Officers
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 29 of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1946, I, James O’Brien, Minister of Marine, do hereby appoint the person named hereunder to be an Honorary Fishery Officer for the purposes of Part I of the Fisheries Act, 1908, to hold office until the 31st day of March, 1950:-
Robert Veitch, of Owaka.
Dated at Wellington, this 31st day of May, 1947.

JAS. O’BRIEN, Minister of Marine.

Members of the New Zealand Poultry Board appointed.- (Notice No. Ag. 4428)
Department of Agriculture, Wellington, 9th June, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 65 of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1946, to appoint, on the 2nd day of June, 1947-
(a) As a representative of the New Zealand Government-
John Wood McGlinchy, Esquire ;
(b) On the nomination of the Auckland Provincial Association of Registered Poultry-keepers (Inc.)-
Fritz Graham Jackson, Esquire;
(c) On the nomination of the Otago-Southland Provincial Association of Registered Poultry-keepers (Inc.)-
George Lorimer McLatchie, Esquire ;
to be members of the New Zealand Poultry Board established under the Poultry-runs Registration Act, 1933.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Member of Otago Land Board appointed
Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 9th June, 1947.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 47 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to appoint
John Alexander Coll
to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Otago for a term of three years from the 21st day of May, 1947.

D. M. GREIG, Under-Secretary for Lands.
(L. and S. 22/748/9.)