Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commission,
Wellington, 15th November, 1948.

THE Public Service Commission has made the following appointments in the Public Service:

Cuthbert Lionel Wood
to be Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates’ Court at Wellington for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 1st day of October, 1948.

Allen David Knight
to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Dargaville for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, on and from the 28th day of October, 1948.

Alfred Doel
to be Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Te Aroha for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928, on and from the 28th day of October, 1948.

George Xavier Kent
to be Registrar of Brands for the Waitomo Branding District for the purposes of the Stock Act, 1908, on and from the 1st day of December, 1948.

Douglas Baden Crozier
to be Inspector for the purposes of the Orchard and Garden Diseases Act, 1928, on and from the 1st day of October, 1948.

L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Notice of Intention to Take Land in the City of Dunedin for Housing Purposes

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 housing purposes: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at North-east Valley 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: 1 rood 24.5 perches.
Being Lot 56 and part Lot 57, and land shown as private street on Deposited Plan 569, being part Section 8, Block X, North Harbour and Blueskin District (City of Dunedin), and being the balance of the land comprised and described in Certificate of Title, Volume 32, folio 27 (Otago Land Registry).
In the Otago Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 127922, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon edged green.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 10th day of November, 1948.

R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 80/7.)

Special Order Made by the Hawera County Council Declaring That Sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920, Shall not Apply to That Council

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th November, 1948.

THE following special order made by the Hawera County Council is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

SPECIAL ORDER

“ That, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2 of the Counties Amendment Act, 1931, the Hawera County Council hereby resolves and declares, by way of special order, as follows:

“ That sections 121 and 131 of the Counties Act, 1920, shall not apply to the Council of the County of Hawera, such order to take effect as from and including the first day of April, 1949.”

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made.

JNO. W. HARDING, County Clerk.

Hawera, 5th November, 1948.

The New Zealand Memorial Cross

Army Department,
Wellington, 12th November, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following notice for inclusion in the Gazette dealing with the extension of the conditions governing the award of the New Zealand Memorial Cross.

THE NEW ZEALAND MEMORIAL CROSS

Army Department,
Wellington, 10th November, 1948.

The following extension of the conditions governing the award of the New Zealand Memorial Cross published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 56 of the 25th September, 1947, at page 1382, is hereby published for general information:

The conditions governing the award of the New Zealand Memorial Cross are extended to include also those servicemen who after returning to New Zealand from overseas have continued to serve in the same arm of the Service and have subsequently died on or before the 7th day of October, 1948, from causes such as accident sustained in the course of and due to their continued service.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Plant Declared to be a Noxious Weed in the County of Mangonui.

(Notice No. Ag. 4566)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 10th November, 1948.

THE following special order made by the Mangonui County Council on the 20th day of October, 1948, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

SPECIAL ORDER

“ In pursuance of the powers conferred on it by the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, the Mangonui County Council hereby resolves and declares, by way of special order, that as from the 20th day of October, 1948, the plant Hemlock (Conium maculatum) shall be a noxious weed within the County of Mangonui.”

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Plants Declared to be Noxious Weeds in the County of Whakatane.

(Notice No. Ag. 4571)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 10th November, 1948.

THE following special order made by the Whakatane County Council on the 26th day of October, 1948, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928.

SPECIAL ORDER

“ THAT, pursuant to sections 4 and 5 of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, the Whakatane County Council hereby declares, by way of special order, that the plants known as (1) Hemlock (Conium maculatum) and as (2) St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum or Hypericum humifusum), which weeds are included in the Second Schedule to the Noxious Weeds Act, 1928, are noxious weeds in the Whakatane County.”

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

The Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943.—Notice Declaring Lands Taken for the Settlement of Discharged Servicemen

WHEREAS, pursuant to section 24 of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act, 1943, notice was given of the intention of the Minister of Lands to take under Part II of the said Act the land described in the First Schedule hereto, and a copy of the said notice was published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 84 on the 28th day of November, 1946, at page 1802:

And whereas objections were made by the owners in the manner prescribed by the said Act objecting to the taking of the said lands:

And whereas the Minister of Lands did not revoke his notice of intention to take the said lands:

And whereas the Land Sales Committee to which the objections were referred did, on the 8th day of September, 1948, make an order allowing such objections subject to the lands described in the said First Schedule being varied by the inclusion of the land described in the Second Schedule hereto and the Crown being allowed to take the lands described in the Third Schedule hereto:

And whereas the owners have consented to the varying of the said First Schedule by the inclusion of the lands described in the said Second Schedule:

And whereas the Land Sales Committee did further order that the lands described in the said Third Schedule are suitable or adaptable for the settlement of a discharged serviceman or of two or more discharged servicemen and that the date of vesting of the said lands shall be the 30th day of November, 1948:

And whereas no appeal from the said Order was made within the time prescribed by the said Act or within any further time allowed by the Court:

And whereas the said lands are not the lands of any serviceman who is for the time being serving outside New Zealand in any of His Majesty’s Forces or in any British ship: