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Coroner Resigns
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 25th November, 1948.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by James Stanley Tingey, Esquire, of Feilding, of his appointment as a Coroner for the Dominion of New Zealand.
H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

Appointment of Licensing Authority in Terms of the Transport Licensing Amendment Act, 1946
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Transport Licensing Amendment Act, 1936, the Minister of Transport doth hereby appoint Clifford Lyle Bishop, of Eastbourne, as District Licensing Authority for No. 3 Transport District and District Licensing Authority for the No. 4 Transport District respectively, for a term commencing in each case on the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, and ending in each case on the thirty-first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine.
Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of November, 1948.
F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

Inspector for School of Anatomy Appointed
Department of Health,
Wellington, 24th November, 1948.
PURSUANT to section 2 of the Official Appointments and Documents Act, 1919, it is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been pleased, under Part II of the Medical Act, 1908, to appoint Charles Harley Superintendent of Police at Dunedin, to be Inspector for the School of Anatomy established at Dunedin under the Medical Act, 1908, in succession to Andrew Gilbride McHugh, Inspector of Police.
M. B. HOWARD, Minister of Health.

Members of the Opticians Board Appointed under the Opticians Act, 1928
Department of Health,
Wellington, 24th November, 1948.
IT is notified for general information that His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint Thomas Gray Young, Esq., F.S.M.C., F.B.O.A., and Roydon Brooke-Taylor, Esq., to be members of the Opticians Board in terms of the Opticians Act, 1928, the appointments to date from the 1st July, 1948.
M. B. HOWARD, Minister of Health.

Members of Domain Boards Appointed
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1948.
HIS Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 49 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, been pleased to make the following appointments:- William James McLay to be a member of the Ruapuna Domain Board in place of Robert Aitken McLay, deceased.
Albert George Hurst,
Stanley Arthur Hodges,
Thomas Lawrie Hargreaves, and
Percy Wallace John Coxhead to be members of the Punehu Domain Board in place of Edgar Watson, Herbert Edward Huwiler, John Joseph Horgan, and Burton Spray Coupe, resigned.
John Leonard Bassett and William Colin Leabourn to be members of the Kopuru Town Domain Board in place of Arthur Hugh Towgood and Duncan Hampton, left the district.
Hugh Hamilton Wilson to be a member of the Leithfield Domain Board in place of Maurice Kitchener Wright, resigned.
Douglas Alexander Peebles and John Thomas Horne to be members of the Woodville Domain Board in place of George Peebles and Henry Palmer Horne, deceased.
George Young to be a member of the Putorino Domain Board in place of John Henry Winter, left the district.
Alexander Ingram Gilchrist and Wildon Acton-Adams to be members of the Hunter Domain Board in place of James William Armstrong and Neils Martin Hansen, resigned.
Kenneth Oscar Law and George Llewellyn Hall to be members of the Te Miro Domain Board in place of Alan Abbott and Harold Howard Keyte, resigned.
Donald McNicol Kennard to be a member of the St. Andrew’s Domain Board in place of Richard Lewis Pugh, deceased.
D. M. GREIG, Under-Secretary.
(L. and S. 1/15.)

Registrars of Marriages, &c., Appointed
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1948.
IT is hereby notified that the following appointments have been made:- Noble Jones to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Malvern, on and from the 15th day of November, 1948.
Hector Gordon McKenzie McLaggan to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Inglewood, on and from the 1st day of November, 1948.
Wesley Gordon Jenks to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Petone and Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Petone, on and from the 15th day of November, 1948.
Allan Stuart Gunn to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Glenavy, on and from the 18th day of June, 1948.
William Nelson Calder to be Acting Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waipukurau, on and from the 29th day of November, 1948.
P. H. WYLDE, Deputy Registrar-General.

Notice of Intention to Take Land in the City of Invercargill 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 Invercargill 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 : 2 acres 0 roods 26 perches.
Being Lots 4 and 5, Block VIII, and Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 18, Block IX, Deposited Plan 1645, being part Section 34, Block I, Invercargill Hundred (City of Invercargill), and being the whole of the land comprised and described in Certificate of Title, Volume 128, folio 20 (Southland Land Registry).
In the Southland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 127961, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon edged green.
As witness my hand at Wellington, this 30th day of November, 1948.
R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.
(H.C. 4/26/40.)

Notice of Intention to Take Land for Better Utilization in Block II, Paekakariki Survey District
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 Paekakariki 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 37 1 38 Wainui B 3B'2 Block; coloured blue. 18 3 20 Whareroa Pa Block; coloured sepia.
Situated in Block II, Paekakariki Survey District. (S.O. 21711.)
In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 127962, deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.
As witness my hand at Wellington, this 30th day of November, 1948.
R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.
(P.W. 50/895.)