Nov. 20]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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

Air Department,
Wellington, 11th November, 1947.

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

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH

Appointment

As Navigator/Wireless Operator-
NZ 415757 Flying Officer (temp.) John Duncan GARRETT relinquishes his temporary commission and is granted a short-service commission in his present rank and seniority. Dated Ist April, 1947.

Promotion

NZ 403602 Squadron Leader (temp.) John Milne CHECKETTS, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.D.C., to be Wing Commander (temp.), with seniority as from 10th December, 1945. Dated 1st November, 1947.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II : TECHNICAL OFFICERS

Relinquishment

Radar Duties--

NZ 1880 Flying Officer (temp.) (Acting Flight Lieutenant) Henry Benjamin BUCKLEY relinquishes his commission. Dated 26th September, 1947.

RESERVE OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS

Transfer

NZ 41106 Flight Lieutenant Robert Gordon DILLON is transferred from the Active List to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class A, Section I.*Dated 14th December, 1946.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Consul-General of Greece at Sydney for New Zealand provisionally recognized.--(Not "Consul-General of the Czechoslovak Republic appointed" as notified in New Zealand Gazette No. 66 of 13th November, 1947)

Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 10th November, 1947.

His Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that the appointment of

Emil Vrisakis, Esquire,

as Consul-General of Greece at Sydney for New Zealand has been provisionally recognized.

P. FRASER, Minister of External Affairs.

Consul-General of Turkey at London for New Zealand provisionally recognized

Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 18th November, 1947.

His Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that the appointment of

Nebil Sureyya Akcer, Esquire,

as Consul-General of Turkey at London for New Zealand and its Dependencies, and the Trust Territory of Western Samoa, has been provisionally recognized.

P. FRASER. Minister of External Affairs.

Stipendiary Magistrate appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th November, 1947.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

John Reginald Herd, Esquire,

to be a Stipendiary Magistrate to exercise criminal and civil jurisdiction within New Zealand.

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

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, 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 13th day of November, 1947.

SCHEDULE

TARANAKI ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT

James Edward Taylor.
Ronald Henry Wilson.

WAIMATE ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT

Henry Keen.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Marine.

Member of the Ettrick Rabbit Board appointed.- (Notice No. Ag. 4467)

Pursuant to section 37 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, the Minister of Agriculture doth hereby appoint

Clifford Alexander Martin,

being an Inspector appointed under Part I of the said Act, to be a member of the Ettrick Rabbit Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of November, 1947.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Members of Harbour Boards appointed

Marine Department,
Wellington, 19th November, 1947.

His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 17 of the Harbours Act, 1923, and of the provisions of section 20 of the same Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, appointed until the last Wednesday of April, 1950, the persons named in the second column of the following Schedule to be members of the Harbour Boards named in the first column of such Schedule; these appointments to take effect from the 19th day of November, 1947.

SCHEDULE

Name of Board to which appointed. Name of Member.
Auckland ... ... Edward John Phelan.
Bay of Islands ... ... Arthur Inwood Skudder.
Bluff ... ... William Kenneth Cameron.
Foxton ... ... Thomas Francis Doyle.
Gisborne ... ... William Henry Brown.
Greymouth ... ... William Rowe Clark.
Havelock ... ... Charles Mills.
Lyttelton ... ... Frederick Williams.
Napier ... ... Maxwell Blaylock.
Nelson ... ... Eric Alfred Johnson.
New Plymouth ... ... Robert Ernest Cairns.
Oamaru ... ... Edward Jasper Herrick.
Otago ... ... Andrew Patrick Sheehan.
Patea ... ... Alfred Jones.
Tauranga ... ... John Basil Carr.
Tolaga Bay ... ... John Silas Harris.
Wairau ... ... Frank Hood.
Wanganui ... ... Ernest Sydney Symon.
Wellington ... ... William Robert Clark.
Whangarei ... ... Alexander Harper Langslow.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Marine.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed

Leslie Charles Thomas Sedgwick, Esquire, of Casino, in the State of New South Wales, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, has this day been appointed by the Honourable Sir Humphrey Francis O'Leary, K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand, a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in New South Wales under the 47th section of the Judicature Act, 1908, for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Auckland, this 11th day of November, 1947.

E. RHODES, Registrar, Supreme Court.

Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1934.-Notice regarding Sales Tax on Imported Goods

Pursuant to section 38 of the Customs Acts Amendment Act, 1934, I, Walter Nash, Minister of Customs, do hereby notify that sales tax on imported goods included in items 74 and 75 of the Customs Tariff is to be computed in accordance with the provisions of the said section 38.

This notice has effect on and from the 31st day of October, 1947.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 14th day of November, 1947.

W. NASH, Minister of Customs.