Officers authorized to take and receive Statutory Declarations

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the three-
hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the Peace
Act, 1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the
Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding
the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said
Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations
under the three-hundred-and-first section of the Justices of the
Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE
Allan Esme Quinton, Career Officer, Rehabilitation Department,
Christchurch.
Anthony Matthew O'Connell, Senior Clerk, Rehabilitation
Department, Christchurch.
Frederick James Oliver Williams, Rehabilitation Officer,
Dannevirkie.
Kenneth Evans James, Field Administration Officer, Rehabilitation
Department, Dunedin.
Miles Patrick Grace, Assistant District Rehabilitation Officer,
Invercargill.
George Bryan Jones, Field Administration Officer, Rehabilitation
Department, Napier.
John Allfrey Tait, Senior Clerk and Career Officer, Rehabilitation
Department, Timaru.
Harold James Anderson, Chief Clerk, Rehabilitation Department, Wellington.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 22nd day of June, 1948.
H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Appointing a Non-elective Member of the Wairarapa Catchment
Board

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
WHEREAS by a Warrant dated the twentieth day of December,
one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, and published
in the New Zealand Gazette No. 3 of the fifteenth day of January,
one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, Harry Howard Barton
Allan, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.N.Z., was appointed a non-elective member
of the Wairarapa Catchment Board in terms of section forty-four
of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act, 1941:
And whereas the said Harry Howard Barton Allan has resigned
from membership of the said Board and it is considered expedient
to appoint Victor Dimitrievich Zotov, Esquire, M.Sc., a member
in lieu of the said Harry Howard Barton Allan:
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by
section forty-four of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act,
1941, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling
me in this behalf, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg,
the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby
cancel the appointment of the said Harry Howard Barton Allan
to a a non-elective member of the Wairarapa Catchment Board,
and do hereby appoint the said Victor Dimitrievich Zotov, Esquire,
M.Sc., of the Plant Research Bureau, Department of Scientific and
Industrial Research, Wellington, to be a non-elective member of
the Wairarapa Catchment Board for a term commencing on the
thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight,
and terminating on the thirtieth day of November, one thousand
nine hundred and fifty.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 28th day of June, 1948.
R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.
(P.W. 75/9.)

Appointment of State Iron and Steel Commissioner

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
PURSUANT to the authority vested in me by section three
of the Iron and Steel Industry Act, 1937, providing for the
appointment of Commissioners to exercise the powers and carry
out the duties conferred and imposed on them by the said Act, I,
Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion
of New Zealand, do hereby nominate and appoint
Reginald Victor Jackson
to be a Commissioner under the said Act, and to hold office during
my pleasure as from the date of this Warrant.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General
of the Dominion of New Zealand, this 22nd day of June,
1948.
A. H. NORDMEYER,
Minister of Industries and Commerce.

Extending Time within which Commission appointed to inquire into
Position regarding Fresh Meat Supplies shall report

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
To all to whom these presents shall come and to:-
ARCHIBALD ALBANY MCLOCHLAN, of Christchurch, Stipendiary
Magistrate,
ALEXANDER PATERSON O'SHEA, of Wellington, Secretary,
JAMES WILLIAM PERRY, of Auckland, Butcher,
WILLIAM GARDNER SIMPSON, of Wellington, Liaison Officer in
the Department of Labour and Employment,
ROBERT BROWNE TENNENT, of Wellington, Assistant Director-
General of Agriculture, and
LEICESTER CHISHOLM WEBB, of Wellington, Director of
Stabilization :
GREETING.
WHEREAS by Warrant issued on the twenty-first day of April,
one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, under the
hand of the Governor-General and the Seal of the Dominion, with
the advice and consent of the Executive Council, you were appointed
under the authority of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, to
be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the adequacy of
fresh meat supplies available for the New Zealand retail market
and kindred matters as set forth in the said Warrant :
And whereas by the said Warrant you were required to report
within thirty days of the date thereof your findings and opinions
on the matters referred to you together with such recommendations
as you might think fit to make :
And whereas by Warrant issued on the nineteenth day of May,
one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, the time within which
you were required to report was extended to the thirtieth day of
June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight :
And whereas it is expedient that the time for so reporting should
be further extended as hereinafter provided:
Now, therefore, I, Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-
General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers
conferred on me by the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and all
other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, and acting
by and with the consent of the Executive Council, do hereby extend
until the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and
forty-eight, the time within which you are so required to report :
And, in further pursuance of the said powers and authorities
and with the like advice and consent, I do hereby confirm the said
Warrant and the Commission thereby constituted save as modified
by these presents.
Given in Executive Council under the hand of His Excellency
the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
and issued under the Seal of that Dominion, this 23rd day
of June, 1948.
A. H. NORDMEYER,
Minister of Industries and Commerce.
Approved in Council--
T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Honorary Inspectors of Scenic Reserves appointed

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General
By his Deputy,
H. F. O'LEARY
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section
four of the Scenery Preservation Act, 1908, I., Lieutenant-
General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint
Dove Myer Robinson,
Richard Broadley Sibson,
Henry George Atkinson,
Katherine Mary Knight,
Evan Graham Turbott,
Marjorie Joyce Sparrow,
Thomas William Mark Ashby,
Frederick James Gwilliam,
George Paul Cobbett,
Ralph Knaeft Trimmer,
George Halsey Rigall,
Edward Joseph Vernon Dyson,
Hedda Dyson,
Valentine Jackson Chapman,
Kenneth Inglis Robertson,
Charles Fisher Gardner,
Mavis Gwendolen Kealy,
Leslie Victor Nicholls,
William Walter Cyril Cosgrove,
Francis John Edward Jollie,
Herbert Allen,
Ernest Hosking,
Lewis Stokes,
Stuart Withiel Thomas, and
Austin Withiel Thomas
to be Honorary Inspectors under the said Act.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General,
this 29th day of June, 1948.
C. F. SKINNER,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.
(L. and S. 4/448.)