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.
Murchison County Council Martin Henry Ryan.

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of August, 1948.
F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

Declaration of Result of Election of Producers' Representatives on the Hop Marketing Committee

I, JACK DAVIS, Returning Officer for the purpose of the election of five (5) producers' representatives for appointment to the Hop Marketing Committee established by the Hop Marketing Regulations 1939, made under the Marketing Act, 1936, and the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act, 1934, do hereby declare the following five producers to have been duly nominated for election to the Hop Marketing Committee:-
Henry Conrad Beuke,
Jeffrey MacGlashen Inglis,
Samuel Edward O'Hara,
Laurie Alan Palmer, and
Bertie Thomas Rowling.

As the number of candidates nominated does not exceed the number of vacancies to be filled, I therefore declare the said Henry Conrad Beuke, Jeffrey MacGlashen Inglis, Samuel Edward O'Hara, Laurie Alan Palmer, and Bertie Thomas Rowling to be duly elected for appointment to such office.

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of August, 1948.
JACK DAVIS, Returning Officer.

Education Board of the District of Hawke's Bay

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914, it is hereby notified that the following have been elected as members of the Education Board of the District of Hawke's Bay :-
For the Gisborne Urban Area: Joseph Thomas Hill.
For the Napier Urban Area: Frank William Melhuish.
For the Hastings Urban Area: Arthur Henry Sivwright.
For the North Ward of the Rural Area: Frank Innes Faram.
For the Middle Ward of the Rural Area (ordinary vacancy): Thomas Bayne McDonald.
For the Middle Ward of the Rural Area (extraordinary vacancy): Donald McLean Campbell.
For the South Ward of the Rural Area: Carl Marius Petersen.
No poll was required for the Gisborne Urban Area or the Hastings Urban Area.

The result of the polls held on the 21st day of July, 1948, was as follows:-

Napier Urban Area Votes.
Fieldhouse, Joseph Harold .. . . 30
Melhuish, Frank William .. . . 32

Total number of valid votes recorded . . 62
Total number of votes rejected as informal . . . .

North Ward of the Rural Area
Faram, Frank Innes .. . . . . 144
Smith, William .. . . . . 89

Total number of valid votes recorded . . 233
Total number of votes rejected as informal . . 13

Middle Ward of the Rural Area (Ordinary Vacancy)
McDonald, Thomas Bayne .. . . . . 118
Williams, Frederick Edwin .. . . . . 77

Total number of valid votes recorded . . 195
Total number of votes rejected as informal . . 1

Middle Ward of the Rural Area (Extraordinary Vacancy)
Burns, Thomas Clarence Gabriel .. . . . . 32
Campbell, Donald McLean .. . . . . 100
Waite, Ernest Albert Victor .. . . . . 57

Total number of valid votes recorded . . 189
Total number of votes rejected as informal . . 7

South Ward of the Rural Area
Cuthbertson, William .. . . . . 53
Petersen, Carl Marius .. . . . . 144

Total number of valid votes recorded . . 197
Total number of votes rejected as informal . . . . 6

W. L. DUNN, Returning Officer.

Napier, 23rd August, 1948.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE [No. 47

Notice to Mariners No. 33 of 1948

Marine Department.
Wellington, N.Z., 26th August, 1948.

NEW ZEALAND.-NORTH ISLAND.-NEW PLYMOUTH Harbour Improvements

Position : Lat., 39° 04' S.; long., 174° 02' E. (approx.). Details : 1. The harbour breakwater has been extended in the direction 063° for 280 ft.
2. The flashing red light on the end of the breakwater has been moved to the end of the extension.
3. Moturoa Wharf has been reduced in length by 60 ft.
4. The beacons forming the leading marks are in transit 209° 30'.
5. Black can buoy, 135° 350 ft. from the end of Newton King Wharf, has been permanently removed.
6. The southern side of Newton King Wharf is in the process of being dredged to a least depth of 33 ft. at M.L.W.S. for a distance of 750 ft. from the outer end, and to a width of 120 ft.
7. The shoal water on the south-eastern side of the breakwater is confined to the limits as shown on Admiralty Chart 2535 by periodical dredging.
Chart affected : No. 2535 (inset).
Publications : New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables, pages 240-242; New Zealand Pilot, 1946, pages 90-92.
Authority : H.M.N.Z.S. "Bellona" Hyd. Note No. 20.
W. C. SMITH, Secretary.
(M. 6/2/55.)

Notice to Mariners No. 34 of 1948

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 27th August, 1948.

SOUTH PACIFIC.-TUAMOTU OR LOW ARCHIPELAGO.-HENDERSON ISLAND Light Established

Position : Lat., 24° 20' 16" S.; long., 128° 20' 13" W. (Chart No. 987).
Abridged Description : Fl. 3½ sec., 124 ft., 10 M. (U.). Details : A white light flashing every three and a half seconds is exhibited from a white latticework steel tower in the above position. Elevation, 124 ft.; height of tower, 22 ft.; arc of visibility, 041° through east and south to 197°.
Charts affected : Nos. 783, 987.
Publications : Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. III, pages 5 and 67.
Authority : High Commissioner, Western Pacific.
W. C. SMITH, Secretary.
(M. 3/3/286.)

Officiating Ministers for 1948.-Notice No. 23

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 31st August, 1948.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:-

The Salvation Army
Captain Kenneth John Manson.

The Associated Churches of Christ in New Zealand
Mr. Glen Stewart Brown.

Apostolic Church
Pastor John Henry Hewitt.
P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

The Standards Act, 1941.-Specification Declared to be a Standard Specification

NOTICE is hereby given that on 27th August, 1948, the under-mentioned specification was declared to be a standard specification by the Minister of Industries and Commerce pursuant to section 8 of the Standards Act, 1941 :-
N.Z.S.S. 607 : Cow Covers.

Copies may be obtained from the New Zealand Standards Institute, Hamilton Chambers, 201 Lambton Quay, Wellington C. 1, price 2s. 6d. a copy, post free.
L. J. McDONALD, Executive Officer.