1424
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 60

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby give notice, pursuant to subsection two of section seven of the said Act, that it is my intention to issue an Order in Council under the provisions of section forty-one of the said Act declaring that the part of the Featherston Domain described in the Schedule hereto shall cease to be subject to Part II of the said Act, and shall be deemed to be Crown land available for disposal by way of sale for cash under the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PART OF FEATHERSTON DOMAIN

All that area containing by admeasurement 1 rood 15·36 perches, more or less, being Lots 1 and 2 as shown on the plan numbered 18591, lodged in the office of the Chief Surveyor at Wellington, and being part Section 152, Town of Featherston, and being all the land comprised and described in Certificate of Title, Volume 388, folio 10 (Wellington Registry). As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/752c, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 18th day of November, 1948.

C. F. SKINNER, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 1/752; D.O. 8/538.)

Appointments and Promotion of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Department,
Wellington, 19th November, 1948.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointments and promotion of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force :—

REGULAR AIR FORCE

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH

Appointments

As Pilots—

The undermentioned officers relinquish their temporary commissions and are granted short-service commissions in their present rank and seniority :—

2309 Squadron Leader (temp.) Michael Arnold POULTON.
403471 Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Sidney Stewart OBERY.
412771 Flight Lieutenant (temp.) John Richard WESDON.
425563 Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Hector Leslie DOYLE.
4311364 Flying Officer (temp.) James Desmond WASHINGTON.
Dated 1st April, 1947.

The undermentioned officers, on relinquishing their commissions in the Reserve of Air Force Officers, are granted short-service commissions in the rank and seniority stated :—

With seniority as from 18th July, 1946—

414263 Flying Officer (temp.) Herbert James DALZELL, D.F.M. Dated 5th December, 1947.

With seniority as from 27th August, 1946—

413878 Flying Officer (temp.) Clifford Ralph MILLER. Dated 3rd February, 1947.

With seniority as from 24th September, 1946—

422432 Flying Officer (temp.) Utiku Albert POTAKA. Dated 19th September, 1947.

(The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 57, dated 4th November, 1948, page 1351, under the heading “General Duties Branch—Appointments—As Pilots,” in respect of the officers referred to above, is hereby cancelled.)

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPLY BRANCH

Promotion

Equipment Division—

1049 Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Gerald Sinclair EVATT, A.R.Ae.S., A.A.E.I., to be Squadron Leader (temp.). Dated 15th November, 1948.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Vice-Consul of the United States of America at Wellington Appointed

Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 15th November, 1948.

It is hereby notified for public information that the appointment of

Arthur S. Abbott, Esquire,

as Vice-Consul of the United States of America at Wellington has been recognized.

W. NASH,
Acting Minister of External Affairs.

American Consular Agent at Dunedin Appointed

Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 11th November, 1948.

It is hereby notified for public information that

Richard H. Reeves, Esquire,

has been appointed American Consular Agent at Dunedin in place of Harman Reeves, Esquire, deceased.

W. NASH,
Acting Minister of External Affairs.

Coroner Appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th November, 1948.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Arthur Calwell, Esquire,

of Otaki, to be a Coroner for the Dominion of New Zealand.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Members of Licensing Committees Appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1948.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Arthur Morice Goulding, Esquire, S.M.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Wellington and Otaki from 15th November, 1948; and

Archibald Albany McLachlan, Esquire, S.M.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Hutt and Petone from 15th November, 1948; and

James Sugden Hanna, Esquire, S.M.,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Onslow from 15th November, 1948.

H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Appointment of Members of Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th November, 1948.

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been pleased to appoint the following persons to be members of the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum pursuant to section 2 (1) (f) of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum Amendment Act, 1936—

Professor William Percival Evans, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S.N.Z., and

Patrick Marshall, Esquire, M.A., D.Sc., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.R.S.N.Z.,

as representing the Royal Society of New Zealand, for a term of four years from the 4th day of September, 1948.

W. E. PARRY, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 114/12.)

Member of the East Road - Makarewa Rabbit Board Appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4572)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 18th November, 1948.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of section 56 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, to appoint, on the 12th day of November, 1948—

Ivan Robert James Ewan

to be a member of the East Road - Makarewa Rabbit Board, vice Thomas Bell, resigned.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Member of the Linnburn-Puketoi Rabbit Board Appointed.—(Notice Ag. 4573)

Pursuant to section 87 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, the Minister of Agriculture doth hereby appoint

John Alexander Miller,

being an Inspector appointed under Part I of the said Act, to be a member of the Linnburn-Puketoi Rabbit Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of November, 1948.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.