JULY 24]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

911

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1947.

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

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Castlepoint, on and from the 2nd day of July, 1947.
Gordon Alexander Thompson

SCHEDULE

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken :—
A. R. P.
Being
0 0 11 Section 194c, Block 26, Greymouth Native Reserve.
0 0 11 Section 194D, Block 26, Greymouth Native Reserve.
0 0 37 Section 194E, Block 26, Greymouth Native Reserve.

Situated in the Borough of Greymouth (Westland R.D.).

In the Westland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 125472, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 19th day of July, 1947.

R. SEMPLe, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 25/32/1.)

Exemption Order under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940,* the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the said regulations, so far as they relate to the driving of heavy trade motors, shall not apply to the person hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply :—

A motor-driver’s licence issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor in the course of his employment on a farm or market-garden of the respective employer described in Column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the age of eighteen years, to drive a heavy trade motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver).
Richard Ericson Smith, Te Aroha West ..

Column 2 (Employer).
Father.

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

F. HACKETT,
For the Minister of Transport.

• Statutory Regulations 1940, Serial number 1940/73, page 211. Amendment No. 1: Statutory Regulations 1943, Serial number 1943/101, page 199. Amendment No. 2: Statutory Regulations 1945, Serial number 1945/199, page 527.

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Kahukura, on and from the 26th day of June, 1947.
George Bruce Tennant

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Wellington, on and from the 10th day of July, 1947.
John Crosby

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Ariā, on and from the 8th day of July, 1947.
Maureen Nola Morrisey (Miss)

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Brunner, on and from the 8th day of July, 1947.
Walter James Hudson

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Middlemarch, on and from the 27th day of June, 1947.
John Cameron Pirrit Leathem

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Mangonui, on and from the 7th day of July, 1947.
Leonard Lawrence Lafferty

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Tokaanu, on and from the 12th day of July, 1947.
Lancelot George Pascoe

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waiwera, on and from the 30th day of June, 1947.
Maurice Sylvester King

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Wellington, on and from the 14th day of July, 1947.
P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commission,
Wellington, 2lst July, 1947.

THE Public Service Commission has made the following appointments in the Public Service :—

James Adamson

to be an Inspector of Explosives for the Explosive and Dangerous Goods Act, 1908, for the purposes of the inspection of explosives at mines and quarries, on and from the lst day of July, 1947.
Leonard Cyril Cook

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 23rd day of June, 1947, 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 28th day of August, 1947, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT

ALL that parcel of land containing by admeasurement thirty (30) acres, more or less, situated in Block II, Taylor Pass Survey District, being Lot 2 on Deeds Plan No. 79, being also part of Section 39, District of Omaka, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Vol. 35, folio 293, limited as to parcels and title (Marlborough Registry).

As witness my hand, this 22nd day of July, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/1250.)

to be an Inspector of Explosives for the Explosive and Dangerous Goods Act, 1908, for the purposes of the inspection of explosives at mines and quarries, on and from the lst day of July, 1947.
Henry Bell Reid

to be Official Assignee for the Hamilton Supreme Court District for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Act, 1908, on and from the 15th day of July, 1947.
Edward Hugh Patton

to be Registrar of Electors for the Electoral District of Onehunga for the purposes of the Electoral Act, 1927, and its amendments, on and from the 16th day of June, 1947.
Ernest Blair Smythe

to be Registrar of Brands, Gisborne and Waiapu Branding Districts, for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, on and from the lst day of July, 1947.
Donald Ronald Thomson

to be Registrar of Brands, Wairoa Branding District, for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, on and from the lst day of July, 1947.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Notice of Intention to take Land in the Borough of Greymouth for a Police-station

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 police-station—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 Greymouth 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.

The Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943.—Notice of Intention to take Land

THE Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of section 24 of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, hereby gives notice of his intention to take the lands described in the Schedule hereto under Part II of the said Act, and specifies the Ist day of July, 1948, as the date on which possession of the land is required, and the lst day of September, 1947, as the date on or before which objections may be made under section 25 of the said Act.