Trustees of Sandon Public Park appointed
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 19th June, 1948.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of
section 2 of the Sandon Public Park Management Act, 1875,
and subsection (2) of section 29 of the Acts Interpretation Act,
1924, been pleased to appoint
Ernest Nelson Butler and
Lewis Walter Staite
to be trustees of the Sandon Public Park in place of Wilfred Henry
Henson, retired, and Henry John Fagan, deceased, to act in conjunction with Boyne Stanley Lawrence, Jack Cameron Fagan,
and Cautley Ernest James Eglinton, previously appointed.
D. M. GREIG, Under-Secretary of Lands.
(L. and S. 1/410.)

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed
CLARENCE HARTEL PAYNE, Esquire, of Melbourne, in the
State of Victoria, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria,
has this day been appointed by the Right 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 Victoria 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 Wellington, this 22nd day of June, 1948.
A. E. REYNOLDS, Registrar, Supreme Court.

Appointments in the Public Service
Office of the Public Service Commission,
Wellington, 28th June, 1948.
THE Public Service Commission has made the following
appointments in the Public Service:
George Smith
to be Inspector of Explosives for the Explosive and Dangerous
Goods Act, 1908, for the purposes of the inspection of Explosives
at Mines and Quarries, on and from the 1st day of July, 1948.
Edward Bellamy Taylor
.to be an Assistant Secretary of Labour, on and from the 22nd day
of June, 1948.
L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IX, Belmont Survey District,
for Better Utilization
NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions
of the Public Works Act, 1928, and section 30 of the Finance
Act (No. 2), 1945, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto
for better utilization: And notice is hereby further given that the
plan of the land required to be taken is deposited in the post-office
at Lower Hutt and is there open for inspection; and that all persons
affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any
well-grounded objections to the taking of such land, set forth the
same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from
the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Works at
Wellington.
SCHEDULE
APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken :
3 acres 3 roods 24•36 perches.
Being parts of Subdivisions 13, 14, and 14A of Section 58 of the
Hutt District, and being the whole of the land comprised
and described in Certificate of Title, Volume 437, folio 244
(Wellington Land Registry).
Situated in Block IX, Belmont Survey District.
In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 127190, deposited
in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon
coloured red.
As witness my hand at Wellington, this 28th day of June, 1948.
R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.
(P.W. 19/530/1.)

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block III, Moutere Survey
District, for Sand-dune Reclamation
NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions
of the Public Works Act, 1928, to take the land described
in the Schedule hereto for sand-dune reclamation: And notice is
hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be
taken is deposited in the post-office at Levin and is there open for
inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said
land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking
of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing,
within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the
Minister of Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE
APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:-
A. R. P. Being
20 0 0 Part Whirokino No. 2 Block.
15 2 0 Part Manawatu-Kukutauaki No. 7H Block.
Situated in Block III, Moutere Survey District.
In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 127302, deposited in
the office of the Minister of Works. at Wellington, and thereon
coloured blue.
As witness my hand at Wellington, this 29th day of June, 1948.
B. SIMPLE, Minister of Works.
(P.W. 54/598.)

Individual Valve-type Hearing Aids.—Notice of Approval of Additional
Hearing Aids under the Provisions of the Social Security
(Hospital Benefits for Outpatients) Regulations 1947
Wellington, 24th June, 1948.
PURSUANT to the provisions of Regulation 4 of the Social
Security (Hospital Benefits for Outpatients) Regulations
1947, I, Mabel Bowden Howard, Minister of Health, give notice
that I have approved of the following valve-type hearing aids for
the purpose of these regulations:-
Antone Hearing Aids.
M. B. HOWARD, Minister of Health.

Exemption Order under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940
PURSUANT to the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940,* the Minister
of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the said regulations, so far
as they relate to the driving of heavy trade motors, shall not apply
to the persons hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following
provision shall apply:-
A motor-driver's licence issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to any one of the persons described in Column 1
of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy
trade motor in the course of his employment on a farm or market-
garden of the respective employer described in Column 2 of the
said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the
age of eighteen years, to drive a heavy trade motor for any other
purpose.
SCHEDULE
Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
Owen N. Norton, Greymouth ... Mother.
Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of June, 1948.
F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

• Statutory Regulations 1940, Serial number 1940/73, page 211.
  Amendment No.1 : Statutory Regulations 1943, Serial number 1943/101,
  page 199.
  Amendment No. 2 : Statutory Regulations 1945, Serial number 1945/199,
  page 527.
  Amendment No. 3 : Statutory Regulations 1947, Serial number 1947/112,
  page 440.
  Amendment No. 4 : Statutory Regulations 1947, Serial number 1947/182,
  page 619.

Approval of Testing Officers under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940
IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940,
the Minister of Transport does hereby approve of the persons
named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officers
under the said regulations for the authorities specified in Column 1
of the said Schedule.
SCHEDULE
Column 1. Column 2.
Waimairi County Council . . Ronald Hamilton Gee.
Franklin County Council . . John Leach Littlewood.
Uawa County Council . . Robert Tregurtha.
Waipa County Council . . Charles Arthur Reeves.
Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1948.
F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

Approval of Testing Officer under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940
IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940,
the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the person
named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being a Testing Officer
under the said regulations for the authority specified in Column 1
of the said Schedule.
SCHEDULE
Column 1. Column 2.
Kaitieke County Council . . Lionel Cecil Valentine.
Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of June, 1948.
F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.