SEPT. 25] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1383

Appointment of Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, revoked.—(Notice No. Ag. 4451)

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

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to revoke, on the 15th day of September, 1947, the appointment of—

Ronald Carson Wilson

as an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, for the district under the control of the Apiti-Pohangina Rabbit Board.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4452)

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

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint, on the 15th day of September, 1947—

Richard John Sullivan

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, for the district under the control of the Apiti-Pohangina Rabbit Board.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Member of Wellington Land Board reappointed

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1947.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 49 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to reappoint

James Sarsfield Lacy

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Wellington for a further term of three years as from the 21st day of August, 1947.

D. M. GREIG, Under-Secretary.

(L. and S. 22/748/4.)

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1947.

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

George John Robertshaw

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Helensville, on and from the 3rd day of September, 1947.

John Joseph King

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Nelson, on and from the 15th day of September, 1947.

Raymond Earle Glenn

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Denniston, on and from the 9th day of September, 1947.

Jack Prescott

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Auckland at Takapuna, on and from the 9th day of September, 1947.

Colin Roto Houghton

to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Mahurangi, on and from the 10th day of September, 1947.

P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commission,
Wellington, 22nd September, 1947.

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

Arthur Roger Carre Claridge

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Court at Marton for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, and Maintenance Officer at Marton for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 15th day of September, 1947.

Henry Carmichael McCormick

to be an Inspector of Machinery for the purposes of the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1928, and a Surveyor of Ships for the purposes of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, on and from the 14th day of July, 1947.

Graeme Bernard Trolove

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, and the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, on and from the 1st day of August, 1947.

James Frederick Munting

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, and the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, on and from the 1st day of August, 1947.

Arnold Garry

to be District Public Trustee at Stratford for the purposes of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, on and from the 8th day of September, 1947.

George Hart

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, on and from the 1st day of August, 1947.

Melville Thomas Richmond Goodman

to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, on and from the 28th day of July, 1947.

Robert Stewart Gillies

to be District Public Trustee at Dannevirke for the purposes of the Public Trust Office Amendment Act, 1921–22, on and from the 27th day of August, 1947.

Donald Lindsay Gordon

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Te Karaka, on and from the 11th day of August, 1947.

Douglas George Hayter

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at New Plymouth, on and from the 15th day of August, 1947.

George Clement Carter

to be Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Pelorus, on and from the 19th day of August, 1947.

Ernest Wilkes Pearce

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Tuatapere, on and from the 25th day of August, 1947.

Marjorie Louise Goodwillie (Miss)

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Colac Bay, on and from the 27th day of August, 1947.

Hector McKechnie

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Nelson, on and from the 28th day of August, 1947.

Geoffrey Charles Gordon

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at New Plymouth, on and from the 28th day of August, 1947.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

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 12th day of August, 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 7th day of October, 1947, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT

ALL those parcels of land containing together by admeasurement fifty-three (53) acres three (3) roods and thirty-two (32) perches, or thereabouts, situated in Block V of the Corwar Survey District, being part of Rural Sections 23631, 25318, and 26852, part of the said land being more particularly described as Lots 8 and 9 on plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Christchurch as No. 144, Lots 4 and 5 on plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 1140, and Lot 9 on plan deposited as aforesaid as No. 3996, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Vol. 468, folio 1 (Canterbury Registry).

Also all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement fifty-five (55) acres, or thereabouts, situated in Block V of the Corwar Survey District, being Sections 11 and 12, Marawiti Settlement, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Vol. 467, folio 82 (Canterbury Registry).

Also all that parcel of land containing by admeasurement twenty-five (25) acres, or thereabouts, situated in Block V of the Corway Survey District, being Section 13, Marawiti Settlement, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Vol. 482, folio 271 (Canterbury Registry).

As witness my hand, this 23rd day of September, 1947.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 36/1444/1334.)