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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 40

Promotion

NZ 404399 Flight Lieutenant (temp.) James Chisholm MURRAY
to be Acting Squadron Leader (paid). Dated 10th June, 1947.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH

Relinquishment

NZ 2499 Flight Lieutenant Thomas Ness is permitted to relinquish his temporary commission. Dated 24th June, 1947.

RESERVE OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS

Transfers

The undermentioned officers are transferred from the Active List to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class A, Section I:-

Dated 1st June, 1947-

NZ 401780 Flight Lieutenant Jack Huia REGISTER.

NZ 404390 Flight Lieutenant Ivor John McLACHLAN,

D.F.M.

NZ 415536 Flight Lieutenant Ronald KRISSANSEN.

Dated 18th June, 1947 : NZ 421832 Flying Officer Gordon McConnell JENNINGS.

Dated 6th August, 1947 : NZC 4213379 Flight Lieutenant Robert Ross LAPWOOD.

Dated 21st August, 1947 : NZ 4212653 Flying Officer Ronald Norman DRUMMOND.

Dated 23rd August, 1947 : NZ 421975 Pilot Officer Henry George JACKSON.

Dated 14th September, 1947 : NZ 414652 Flight Lieutenant Donal McLACHLAN.

The undermentioned officers are transferred from the Active List to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class B, Section I:-

Dated 27th June, 1947 : NZ 2512 Flying Officer Robert Edmund BALLANTYNE, M.B., Ch.B.

Dated 7th August, 1947 : NZ 421141 Flight Lieutenant Alan Trouette KOFORD.

Relinquishments

The undermentioned officers are permitted to relinquish their commissions :-

Dated 24th June, 1947 : NZ 41310 Flying Officer Robert Walter CODDINGTON.

Dated 30th June, 1947-

NZ 429036 Flight Lieutenant Maurice William SMYTH.

NZ 417287 Flying Officer John Henry MEYER.

NZ 425238 Flying Officer Maurice Edward DARE.

Appointment, Promotion, and Reversion of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Department,

Wellington, 18th July, 1947.

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

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH

Appointment

As Navigator-

NZ 429593 Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Leonard Arnold Ross HULL relinquishes his temporary commission and is granted a short-service commission in his present rank and seniority. Dated 1st April, 1947.

Reversion

NZ 401760 Acting Squadron Leader William Hugh Joseph GRIFFITH reverts to the temporary rank of Flight Lieutenant. Dated 19th December, 1946.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION I : EQUIPMENT OFFICERS

Promotion

Equipment Duties-

NZ 37099 Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Arthur John BABER, B.Com., to be Acting Squadron Leader (paid). Dated 12th July, 1947.

RESERVE OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS

Amendment

The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 33, dated 19th June, 1947, page 752, under the heading "Reserve of Air Force Officers-Transfers," relating to "NZ 404921 Flight Lieutenant Ivan Reid MITCHELL, D.F.C.," is amended to read "Dated 16th August, 1947."

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Legislative Councillors appointed

Prime Minister's Office,

Wellington, 15th July, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in His Majesty's name, summoned-

The Honourable William Grounds,

The Honourable Josiah Alfred Hanan,

The Honourable William James Rogers, and

The Honourable John Ryall

to the Legislative Council of New Zealand by writs of summons under the Seal of the Dominion of New Zealand dated the 15th day of July, 1947.

P. FRASER, Prime Minister.

Revocation of Appointment of certain Garage-proprietors for issue of Warrants of Fitness

IN terms of Regulation 11 of the Traffic Regulations 1936, and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I, James O'Brien, Minister of Transport, do hereby revoke the approval of the person and firm described in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of the issue of warrants of fitness for motor-vehicles.

SCHEDULE

Smallbone Bros., Ltd., Ashburton. (Approval No. 137.)

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of July, 1947.

F. HACKETT,

For the Minister of Transport.

Members of the Sheep-skin Committee appointed

PURSUANT to Regulation 3 of the Sheep-skin Emergency Regulations 1947, the Minister of Marketing doth hereby appoint-

(a) As the representative of the Government-

Robert Cephas Burgess, Esquire ;

(b) On the nomination of the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board-

Joseph John Evans, Esquire; and

(c) On the nomination of the New Zealand Wool Board-

Jack Walker, Esquire,

to be members of the Sheep-skin Committee appointed for the purposes of the said regulations.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of July, 1947.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Marketing.

Deputy of Members of Canterbury Rural Land Sales Committee appointed

Department of Lands and Survey,

Wellington, 22nd July, 1947.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, acting pursuant to the provisions of subsection (3) of section 17 of the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, has appointed

Clarence Bertram Idle, of Sumner, Farmer,

to be the deputy on the Canterbury Rural Land Sales Committee of William Henry Nicholls, William Osborne Rennie, and Bob Sherburd Robertson, members of that committee.

D. M. GREIG, Under-Secretary for Lands.

(L. and S. 13/207/1.)

Member of Land Sales Committee appointed

Department of Lands and Survey,

Wellington, 22nd July, 1947.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, acting pursuant to the provisions of subsection (2) of section 17 of the Servicemen's Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, has appointed Robert Edward Downes, of Shannon, Labourer, to be a member of the Wellington Rural Land Sales Committee in place of Thomas Gaius Vincent, resigned.

D. M. GREIG, Under-Secretary for Lands.

(L. and S. 13/207/1.)