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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 56

The New Zealand Memorial Cross

Army Department,
Wellington, 12th September, 1947.

THE following conditions relating to the institution and issue of the New Zealand Memorial Cross are hereby published for general information.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

THE NEW ZEALAND MEMORIAL CROSS

1. His Majesty the King has approved the institution of a Memorial Cross to be known as “The New Zealand Memorial Cross.”

2. The New Zealand Memorial Cross shall consist of a Cross patonce in silver, suspended by a purple ribbon and at the end of the upright a crown; at the foot and at the end of either arm a fern leaf; in the centre within a wreath a laurel with the royal cipher “G.R.I.”, and bear the name, rank, and (if one had been allocated) the number of the person in respect of whom the Cross is issued.

3. (1) The persons eligible for the Cross shall be those relatives, determined in accordance with the undermentioned rules, who survive New Zealand servicemen who lost their lives while on active service during the period commencing on the 3rd day of September, 1939, and ended on the 2nd day of September, 1945, or who have died or subsequently die from causes attributable to that active service.

(2) New Zealand servicemen shall include:—

(a) All those persons, male or female, who served during the war in any branch of His Majesty’s Forces established in New Zealand or who, having been ordinarily resident in New Zealand at any time during the period of sixteen years prior to the 3rd day of September, 1945, served during the war in any of the armed forces of His Majesty or of any of His allies:

(b) All those persons, male or female, born in New Zealand or domiciled in New Zealand during any part of the period from the 3rd day of September, 1939, to the 2nd day of September, 1945, who served during the war in any capacity outside New Zealand territorial waters in a British ship or in any ship of the mercantile marine of any of His Majesty’s allies.

(3) The term “active service” means service as a New Zealand serviceman outside New Zealand territorial waters or in a naval sea-going vessel engaged in duties inside New Zealand territorial waters.

4. (1) The Cross shall be issued to those relatives of the deceased serviceman, determined in accordance with the undermentioned rules, who survive him at the date of the issue of the Cross, viz.:—

(a) If he is survived by his mother and his widow it shall be issued to both those persons;

(b) If he is survived by his mother and not by his widow it shall be issued to his mother and his eldest daughter, or if he has no daughter to his eldest son;

(c) If he is survived by his widow and not by his mother it shall be issued to his widow and his father, or if his father is deceased to his eldest sister, or if he has no sister to his eldest brother;

(d) If he is not survived by either his mother or a widow it shall be issued to his father, if living, and his eldest daughter, or if he has no daughter to his eldest son. If his father is deceased it shall be issued to his eldest sister, or if he has no sister to his eldest brother.

(2) For the purposes of the above rules if a serviceman is a legally adopted child his mother shall be deemed to be his adopting mother.

5. The Cross may be withheld from any applicant who in the opinion of the Minister of Defence is of bad character or, in the discretion of the Minister, from a widow who was separated from the serviceman by agreement or legal process at the time of his death.

6. If any question arises as to the issue of or eligibility for the Cross it shall be decided by the Minister of Defence, whose decision shall be final.

Coroner appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th September, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Henry James Hayward, Esquire,

of Kaikoura, to be a Coroner for the Dominion of New Zealand.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Coroner appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Lawrence Harold Hartley, Esquire, J.P.,

of Pahiatua, to be a Coroner for the Dominion of New Zealand vice S. G. H. Hogg, Esquire, resigned.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Judge of the Supreme Court appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Kenneth Macfarlane Gresson, Esquire, Barrister,

to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.

H. G. R. MASON, Attorney-General.

Appointment of Deputy Member of the Pharmacy Plan Industrial Committee under the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936

PURSUANT to section 10 of the Industrial Efficiency Act, 1936, I, Arnold Henry Nordmeyer, Minister of Industries and Commerce, do hereby appoint Robert Leslie Stothart, Pharmacist, 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington, to be deputy for James Alexander Race, as a member of the Pharmacy Plan Industrial Committee appointed on the 11th day of January, 1939.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 16th day of September, 1947.

A. H. NORDMEYER,
Minister of Industries and Commerce.

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, Frederick Hackett, acting for the Minister of Marine, do hereby appoint the persons named hereunder to be Honorary Fishery Officers for the purposes of Part I of the Fisheries Act, 1908, to hold office until the 31st day of March, 1950.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of September, 1947.

Henry Pateman, of Belfast, Canterbury.
Noel Louvain Worth, of Wellington.

F. HACKETT,
For the Minister of Marine.

Appointment of Honorary Officers

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 29 of the Statutes Amendment Act, 1946, I, Frederick Hackett, acting for the Minister of Marine, do hereby appoint the persons named in the following Schedule to be Honorary Officers for the acclimatization districts shown in such Schedule for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, such persons to hold office until the 31st March, 1950.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of September, 1947.

SCHEDULE

WAITAKI ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT
Walter Keith Sumpter.

OTAGO ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT
William Manson.

SOUTHLAND ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT
William Manson.

F. HACKETT,
For the Minister of Marine.

Members of the New Zealand Wool Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4449)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 17th September, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Wool Industry Act, 1944, to appoint, on the 5th day of September, 1947—

Hugh John Dyke Acland, Esquire,
Noel Rutherford Jameson, Esquire, and
Arthur Briscoe Moore, Esquire,

to be members of and representatives of the wool-growers of New Zealand on the New Zealand Wool Board established under the said Act.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Producers’ Representatives on the New Zealand Meat-producers Board appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4450)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 18th September, 1947.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 2 of the Meat-export Control Act, 1921–22, to appoint—

Gilbert Hutton Grigg, Esquire,
Frederick Campbell Johnstone, Esquire, and
William Walter Mulholland, Esquire,

to be members of and representatives of the producers of meat for export on the New Zealand Meat-producers’ Board established under the said Act.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.