Jan. 15] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 39

Validating the Proceedings in Connection with the Patea Borough
Council's Loan of £1,800

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
ORDER IN COUNCIL
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 14th day of
January, 1948
Present:
THE RIGHT HON. P. FRASER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

WHEREAS the Patea Borough Council is proceeding by way
of special order to raise a loan of one thousand eight hundred
pounds (£1,800), to be known as “ Water-supply Restoration Loan,
1947 ” (hereinafter called the said loan) :
And whereas the proceedings in connection with the said loan
are irregular or defective in that the public notice of the subsequent
confirming meeting and of the resolution making the special order
did not specify the place at which the subsequent confirming
meeting was to be held as required by paragraph (c) of section
sixty-two of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1933, as set out in
paragraph (a) of section five of the Municipal Corporations Amend-
ment Act, 1938 :
And whereas it appears that the ratepayers of the district have
not been misled by such irregularity or defect as aforesaid and it is
expedient to validate the same :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers
and authorities conferred on him by section one hundred and
twenty-two of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and of all other
powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, and acting by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the
said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare that the proceedings
in connection with the said loan shall be valid to all intents and
purposes as though the said public notice had been correctly given,
and that the vaildity of the proceedings in connection with the said
loan, or of the security for the said loan, shall not be called in
question by reason only of the irregularity or defect aforesaid.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

(T. 49/280/9.)

Appointing Four Non-elective Members of the Manawatu Catchment
Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and
Rivers Control Act, 1941, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard
Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint—

Samuel Arthur Clarence Darby, Esquire, Conservator of Forests
State Forest Service, Palmerston North,
Enoch Bruce Levy, Esquire, B.Sc., Director, Grasslands
Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,
Palmerston North,
Charles John Hamblyn, Esquire, B.Agr.Sc., Fields Superin-
tendent, Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North,
and
Thomas Strathallan Roe, Esquire, Chief Surveyor, Department
of Lands and Survey, Wellington,

to be non-elective members of the Manawatu Catchment Board
for a term commencing on the first day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and forty-seven, and expiring on the thirtieth day of
November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 20th day of December, 1947.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/1.)

Appointing Four Non-elective Members of the Wairarapa Catchment
Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and
Rivers Control Act, 1941, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard
Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint—

James George Brand, Esquire, Field Inspector, Lands and
Survey Department, Masterton,
Charles Orlando Bridgeman, Esquire, Forest Ranger, State
Forest Service, Masterton,
Cyril Walker, Esquire, H.D.A., Assistant Fields Superintendent,
Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North, and
Dr. Harry Howard Barton Allan, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.N.Z.,
Director, Botany Division, Department of Scientific and
Industrial Research, Wellington,

to be non-elective members of the Wairarapa Catchment Board for
a term commencing on the first day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and forty-seven, and expiring on the thirtieth day
of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 20th day of December, 1947.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/9.)

Appointing Five Non-elective Members of the Hawke’s Bay
Catchment Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and
Rivers Control Act, 1941, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard
Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint—

Gerald Hoyte Hocking, Esquire, B.Sc.(For.), Assistant Forester,
State Forest Service, Palmerston North,
Ivan Joseph Pohlen, Esquire, M.A., Pedologist, Department
of Scientific and Industrial Research, Hastings,
Frank Rupert Burnley, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Department of Lands and Survey, Napier,
Roland Phillip Hill, Esquire, Fields Instructor, Department of
Agriculture, Hastings, and
Frederick William Lindup, Esquire, A.M.I.C.E., District
Engineer, Public Works Department, Napier,

to be non-elective members of the Hawke’s Bay Catchment Board
for a term commencing on the first day of December, one thousand
nine hundred and forty-seven, and expiring on the thirtieth day of
November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 20th day of December, 1947.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/3.)

Appointing Five Non-elective Members of the South Canterbury
Catchment Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and
Rivers Control Act, 1941, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard
Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint—

William Hylton Jolliffe, Esquire, B.Sc. (N.Z.), B.Sc. (For.)
(Edin.), Assistant Forester, State Forest Service,
Christchurch,
James Dickie Raeside, Esquire, M.Sc., A.R.I.C., Pedologist,
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,
Wellington,
Thomas Scott McMillan, Esquire, Chief Surveyor, Department
of Lands and Survey, Christchurch,
William Cunningham Stafford, Esquire, Dip. Agr. (Lincoln),
Irrigation Officer, Department of Agriculture, Timaru,
and
James Oliver Riddell, Esquire, B.E., A.M.I.C.E., Irrigation
Engineer, Public Works Department, Christchurch,

to be non-elective members of the South Canterbury Catchment
Board for a term commencing on the first day of December, one
thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, and expiring on the thirtieth
day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 24th day of December, 1947.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/6.)

Appointing Five Non-elective Members of the Nelson Catchment
Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and
Rivers Control Act, 1941, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard
Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, do hereby appoint—

Courtney Biggs, Esquire, Conservator of Forests, State Forest
Service, Nelson,
Sir Theodore Rigg, K.B.E., M.Sc. (N.Z.)., M.A. (Cantab.),
F.R.I.C., F.N.Z.I.C., F.R.S.N.Z., Director, Cawthron
Institute, Nelson,
Denzil Marcus Eustace Merry, Esquire, Instructor in Agricul-
ture, Department of Agriculture, Nelson,
John Andrew Peterson, Esquire, Commissioner of Crown
Lands, Nelson, and
Leonard Lincoln Meadowcroft, Esquire, A.M.I.C.E., Resident
Engineer, Public Works Department, Nelson,

to be non-elective members of the Nelson Catchment Board for a
term commencing on the first day of December, one thousand nine
hundred and forty-seven, and expiring on the thirtieth day of
November, one thousand nine hundred and fifty.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 20th day of December, 1947.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 75/2.)