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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 23

Major and Quartermaster H. C. F. Petersen, M.B.E., is posted to the Retired List. Dated 29th March, 1948.

Major R. J. Eyre relinquishes the appointment of Camp Commandant, Burnham Military Camp. Dated 31st March, 1948.

Major A. R. Cockerell, D.S.O., is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 17th April, 1948.

TERRITORIAL FORCE

THE ROYAL N.Z. INFANTRY CORPS

The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own)

Peter Gillard Morris to be 2nd Lieutenant (on prob.), and is seconded to the Rongotai College Cadets, Area 5. Dated 2nd March, 1948.

The Canterbury Regiment

John Gerald Mullins to be 2nd Lieutenant (on prob.), and is seconded to the Christchurch Boys’ High School Cadets, Area 10. Dated 24th February, 1948.

SCHOOL CADET UNITS

Northcote District High School Cadets, Area 1

Temp. Lieutenant (Acting-Captain) A. R. Gough to be temp. Captain. Dated 1st January, 1948.

Sacred Heart College Cadets, Area 1

The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on prob.) P. J. Scott is confirmed.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS

The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own)

2nd Lieutenant W. N. Isaac is posted to the Retired List. Dated 31st March, 1948.

Supplementary List

Temp. Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. G. Bassett, V.C., is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 5th April, 1948.

OFFICER CEASING TO BE SECONDED TO THE 2ND NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Brigadier C. E. Weir, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., and is reported to the N.Z. Regular Force with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, with seniority from 30th July, 1941. Dated 31st March, 1948.

OFFICERS STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH OF THE 2ND NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Captain C. B. Dawson, and is posted to the Reserve of Officers, Supplementary List. Dated 19th February, 1948.

Captain B. Gordon, and is posted to the Reserve of Officers, Supplementary List. Dated 6th March, 1948.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointments and Relinquishment of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Department,
Wellington, 21st April, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointments and relinquishment of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force :—

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH

Relinquishment

NZ 424415 Flying Officer (temp.) Noel Harold Boyd relinquishes his commission. Dated 23rd March, 1948.

Officer on Interchange from the Royal Air Force

45714 Squadron Leader Reginald Yates Powell, D.F.C., p.s.a., R.A.F., arrived from the United Kingdom on interchange for a period of two years. Dated 13th February, 1948.

TECHNICAL BRANCH

Appointment

Engineer Division—

NZ 34151 Flying Officer (temp.) Thomas Richard Read relinquishes his temporary commission and is granted a permanent commission for a period of twelve years in his present rank and seniority. Dated 1st June, 1947.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPLY BRANCH

Appointment

Secretarial Division—

NZ 40143 Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Raymond Blair Somerville relinquishes his temporary commission and is granted a short-service commission in his present rank and seniority. Dated 1st October, 1947.

RESERVE OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS

Amendment

The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 9, dated 20th February, 1947, page 231, under the heading “Reserve of Air Force Officers—Transfer,” is amended, so far as it relates to “NZ 1439 Flight Lieutenant Edwin Henry Howell,” to read “Dated 21st March, 1947.”

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

American Minister at Wellington appointed

Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 9th April, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that the

Honourable Robert M. Scotten,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to New Zealand, presented his Letter of Credence at Government House on Wednesday, 7th April, 1948.

P. FRASER, Minister of External Affairs.

Consul of the Argentine Republic at Wellington appointed

Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington 24th April, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that His Majesty’s Exequatur empowering

Guillermo Temistocles Conti, Esquire,
to act as Consul of the Argentine Republic at Wellington has been issued.

P. FRASER, Minister of External Affairs.

Coroner appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 26th April, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Arthur Earle Lawlor Dodd, Esquire,
of Thames, to be a Coroner for the Dominion of New Zealand.

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

Members of Licensing Committees appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 27th April, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Leonard George Herston Sinclair, Esquire, S.M.,
to be a member of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Napier, Hastings, and Hawke’s Bay, on and from 12th April, 1948, vice H. J. Wily, Esquire, S.M., and

Henry James Thompson, Esquire, S.M.,
to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Otaki, on and from 1st May, 1948, vice A. M. Goulding, Esquire, S.M.

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

Member of Board of Examiners under the Coal-mines Act, 1925, appointed

Mines Department,
Wellington, 21st April, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the appointment of

Percy Moston Outhwaite, Esquire,
to be a member of the Board of Examiners under the Coal-mines Act, 1925, for a period of three years as from the 1st April, 1948.

A. McLAGAN, Minister of Mines.

(Mines 17/31.)

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 district shown in such Schedule for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, such persons to hold office from the 1st May, 1948, to the 31st October, 1948.

Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of April, 1948.

SCHEDULE

ROTORUA ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT

Norman Neil Coburn.
Ernest Edward Cornwall.
Barrie Ian Currie.
Michael Bentley Davison.
Alfred Francis Douglas.
Raymond Clarence Gibson.
Stanley Lionel Irwin.
Peter Charles Logan.
James Ian McLean.
Colin Maxwell.
Harold Godfrey Newsham.
Albert George Porteous.
Hilton James Smythe.
Owen Arthur Start.
John Hughes Thompson.
Ewart Clifford Winchcombe.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Marine.