July 21] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1533

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

Air Department,
Wellington, 12th July, 1949.

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

REGULAR AIR FORCE
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPLY BRANCH
Appointments

Equipment Division—

The undermentioned are granted permanent commissions for the periods and in the ranks stated :—

For a period of twelve years—

70643 Warrant Officer Lewis Phillip PARRY, in the rank of Flying Officer.

For a period of ten years—

70476 Flight Sergeant William Rupert CORLISS, in the rank of Pilot Officer.

For a period of nine years—

70426 Warrant Officer Clement Sydney BOULTON, M.B.E., in the rank of Flying Officer.
70395 Warrant Officer John Hamilton DUNLOP, in the rank of Flying Officer.

Dated 1st June, 1949.

72734 Corporal William Henry HILLMAN is granted a short-service commission for a period of five years, in the rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 1st June, 1949.

AIR TRAINING CORPS
Relinquishment

Flying Officer Robert Henry FRASER relinquishes his commission. Dated 31st May, 1949.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Members of Licensing Committees Appointed

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 19th July, 1949.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Rust, Esquire,

to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Hawkes Bay, and

Mathew William Comber, Esquire,

to be a Member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Avon, vice S. E. Dwight, deceased.

F. JONES,
For the Minister of Justice.

Coroner Resigns

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th July, 1949.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation by

John Walter Snaddon, Esquire, J.P.,

of Napier, of his appointment as a Coroner for the Dominion of New Zealand.

F. JONES,
For the Minister of Justice.

Member of the Rabbit Destruction Council Appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4639)

Department of Agriculture.
Wellington, 12th July, 1949.

HIS Excellency, the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of subsection (4) of section 3 of the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1947, to appoint, on the nomination of the North Island Rabbit Board’s Association,

Edward Duncan Cattanach, Esq.,

to be a member of the Rabbit Destruction Council established under the said Act, vice Charles Athol Williams resigned.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

(Ag. 64/6/79.)

Members of the Marlborough Nassella Tussock Board Appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4690)

PURSUANT to section 25 of the Nassella Tussock Act, 1946, the Minister of Agriculture doth hereby appoint

(a) Alec Lindsay Poole, Esquire, B.For.Sc., vice Harry Howard Allan, M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S., F.N.Z.Inst., resigned; and

(b) David Reid Wilkie, Esquire, B.Agr.Sc., vice Arthur John Healy, M.Agr.Sc., resigned

to be members of the Marlborough Nassella Tussock Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of July, 1949.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

(Ag. 70/9/581.)

Members of the North Canterbury Nassella Tussock Board Appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4691)

PURSUANT to section 25 of the Nassella Tussock Act, 1946, the Minister of Agriculture doth hereby appoint

(a) Arthur John Healy, Esquire, M.Agr.Sc., vice Alec Lindsay Poole, B.For.Sc., resigned; and

(b) David Reid Wilkie, Esquire, B.Agr.Sc., vice Arthur John Healy, M.Agr.Sc., resigned

to be members of the North Canterbury Nassella Tussock Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of July, 1949.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

(Ag. 70/9/581.)

Members of the Waitaki Rabbit Board Appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4692)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 14th July, 1949.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of section 29 of the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1947, to appoint on the 13th day of July, 1949—

Alexander Hamilton Chapman,
Robert Kay Ireland,
William Robert Macaulay,
Donald Lane Matheson, and
John Trotter

to be members of the Waitaki Rabbit Board.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Member of the Waitaki Rabbit Board Appointed.—(Notice No. Ag. 4693)

PURSUANT to section 37 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1928, the Minister of Agriculture doth hereby appoint—

Alfred Riley Murdoch,

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

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of July, 1949.

EDWARD CULLEN, Minister of Agriculture.

Appointing a Board of Management for the Portobello Marine Fish Hatchery

Marine Department,
Wellington, 6th July, 1949.

HIS Excellency, the Governor-General in Council, has, in pursuance of the power conferred upon him by subsection (3) of section 65 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

Alfred Ernest Hefford (Chairman),
William Edgar Adams,
Geoffrey Thomas Sandford Baylis,
Beryl Iris Brewin,
Leslie Douglas Coombs,
John Carew Eccles,
Brian John Marples, and
James Cleland Hall Somerville

to be a Board of Management for the Marine Fish Hatchery and Biological Station at Portobello.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Marine.

Appointment of Trustees of Fraser Family Private Burial-ground

PURSUANT to the powers vested in me by the Cemeteries Amendment Act, 1912, I, Mabel Bowden Howard, Minister of Health of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Russell Furner Richardson, of Ohakea;
Edward Markwick Broughton, of Bulls;
Eric Furner Simpson, of Ohakea; and
Robert Lachlan McEwen, of Feilding,

to be Trustees of the Fraser Family Private Burial-ground, in place of John Ewing Walker, Harold H. Richardson, James A. Stevens, and R. J. Campion, now deceased.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 12th day of July, 1949.

M. B. HOWARD, Minister of Health.

(H.C. 49/11.)