Additional Member of Domain Board Appointed

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 15th December, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in
pursuance of section 46 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and
National Parks Act, 1928, to increase the total number of members
of the Punehu Domain Board from seven to eight, and to appoint
Bernard Donald Rogers
as the additional member thereby rendered necessary.
D. M. GREIG, Under-Secretary.
(L. and S. H.O. 1/237 ; D.O. 8/1/30.)

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commission,
Wellington, 20th December, 1948.

THE Public Service Commission has made the following appointments
in the Public Service:
Thomas Alexander Lovie
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Auckland, on and from
the 1st day of January, 1949.
Ian Fraser Macdonald
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Auckland, on and from
the 1st day of January, 1949.
Clifford Ernest Nigel Watkins
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Hamilton, on and from
the 1st day of January, 1949.
Colin Gibson Meiklejohn
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Gisborne, on and from
the 1st day of January, 1949.
Montagu Robert McGregor-Turnbull
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Napier, on and from the
1st day of January, 1949.
Walter Sinclair Barclay
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at New Plymouth, on and
from the 1st day of January, 1949.
William Francis O'Shaughnessy
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Wellington, on and from
the 1st day of January, 1949.
Charles William Roland Watson
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Wellington, on and
from the 1st day of January, 1949.
Byron Wilbur Mann
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Nelson, on and from the
1st day of January, 1949.
Donald Lennox Dewar
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Blenheim, on and from
the 1st day of January, 1949.
Grace Winning King
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Hokitika, on and from
the 1st day of January, 1949.
James O'Carroll
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Christchurch, on and from
the 1st day of January, 1949.
Robert Auld Guy
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Dunedin, on and from
the 1st day of January, 1949.
Wilfred Maurice Groombridge
to be Deputy Registrar of the Land Valuation Court for the purposes
of the Land Valuation Court Act, 1948, at Invercargill, on and
from the 1st day of January, 1949.
Frank Hurst
to be an Analyst for the purposes of the Food and Drugs Act, 1947,
on and from the 10th day of December, 1948.
Henry Loeb
to be an Analyst for the purposes of the Food and Drugs Act, 1947,
on and from the 10th day of December, 1948.
Raymond Colin Weaver
to be a Fishery Officer for the purposes of the Fisheries Act, 1908,
on and from the 9th day of December, 1948.
L. A. ATKINSON, Secretary.

Elevation of Status of New Zealand Legation, Washington

Ministry of External Affairs,
Wellington, 20th December, 1948.

IT is hereby notified for public information that on 1st December,
1948, Sir Carl Berendsen, K.C.M.G., presented to the President
of the United States of America the letter accrediting him as
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of New Zealand to
the United States of America, and that the New Zealand Legation
at Washington has now been elevated to the status of an Embassy.
W. NASH,
Acting Minister of External Affairs.

The Magistrates' Courts Act, 1947.—Transfer of Records of Abolished
Courts

WHEREAS, in pursuance of a direction by His Excellency
the Governor-General, the sittings of the Magistrates' Courts
at the places named in the first column of the Schedule hereto are
to be discontinued as from the 31st day of December, 1948:

Now, therefore, pursuant to the provisions of subsection (1)
of section 70 of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1947, I do hereby
direct that the records of the said Courts be delivered on the 1st
day of January, 1949, or as soon thereafter as may be practicable,
to the Registrars of the Magistrates' Courts at the places respectively
named in the second column of the Schedule opposite the name
of each such Court where sittings are to be discontinued.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of December, 1948.
H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.

SCHEDULE

Courts Where Sittings are
Cheviot
Collingwood
Darfield
Greytown
Hunterville
Kawhia
Mangonui
Methven
Middlemarch
Omakau
Owaka
Petone
Raglan
Te Araroa
Tolaga Bay
Waverley
to be Discontinued.

Courts to Which Records are
to be Transferred.
Christchurch.
Nelson.
Christchurch.
Masterton.
Marton.
Te Awamutu.
Kaitaia.
Christchurch.
Dunedin.
Cromwell.
Balclutha.
Lower Hutt.
Hamilton.
Gisborne.
Gisborne.
Wanganui.

Notice of Intention to Take Land in the City of Auckland 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 so required to be taken is
deposited in the Post-office at Auckland 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:
36·5 perches.
Being Lot 183, D.P. 14665, being part Allotment 17, District of
Tamaki, and being the whole of the land comprised and
described in certificate of title, Vol. 730, folio 165 (Auckland
Land Registry).
Situated in Block X, Rangitoto Survey District (City of
Auckland) (Auckland R.D.).
In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 128233, deposited
in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon
edged red.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 22nd day of December,
1948.
R. SEMPLE, Minister of Works.
(H.C. 4/219/257.)

Formation of Defence Rifle Club

Army Department,
Wellington, 21st December, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the
formation of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club:
Aorere Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Collingwood,
Nelson. Dated 3rd December, 1948.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.