Aug. 25] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1761

Demonetization of Stamps

I, FREDERICK HACKETT, Postmaster-General, in pursuance of the power and authority invested in me by section 10 of the Adhesive Stamps Act, 1939, hereby give notice of my determination to discontinue the use of the dies from which the stamps or stamped paper referred to in the Schedule hereto have heretofore been printed; and I hereby fix the 31st day of December, 1949, for the purposes of subsection (2) of the said section 10 to the intent that every instrument bearing date after the said 31st day of December, 1949, that is stamped with any of the said discontinued dies and every postal packet that is posted after that day and is stamped with any of those dies shall be deemed to be not duly stamped.

SCHEDULE

SECTION 1.—STAMPS

1. STAMPS of denominations ½d., 1d., 1½d., 2d., 2½d., 3d., 4d., 5d., 6d., 8d., 9d., 1s., 2s., and 3s. bearing various pictorial designs and any stamp of this series overprinted in any way. (Issued 1935.)

2. Airmail stamps of 1935 in the denominations 1d., 3d. and 6d. depicting an aeroplane over Bell Block Aerodrome, New Plymouth.

3. Health stamps—

   (a) 1d. postage plus 1d. Health, design depicting mountaineering. (Issued 1937.)

   (b) 1d. postage plus 1d. Health, design depicting two children playing. (Issued 1938.)

   (c) 1d. postage plus ½d. Health, and 2d. postage plus 1d. Health; design depicting boys playing beachball. (Issued 1939.) Postage value surcharged.

   (d) 1d. postage plus ½d. Health, and 2d. postage plus 1d. Health; similar design as (c) above, but different colours and without surcharge. (Issued 1940.)

   (e) 1d. postage plus ½d. Health, and 2d. postage plus 1d. Health; similar design and colours as (d) above, but overprinted “1941.” (Issued 1941.)

   (f) 1d. postage plus ½d. Health, and 2d. postage plus 1d. Health; design depicting two children on a swing. (Issued 1942.)

   (g) 1d. postage plus ½d. Health, and 2d. postage plus 1d. Health; triangular stamps, separate designs, depicting Their Royal Highnesses, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. (Issued 1943.)

   (h) 1d. postage plus ½d. Health, and 2d. postage plus 1d. Health; each design depicting both Their Royal Highnesses, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret in uniform. (Issued 1944.)

   (i) 1d. postage plus ½d. Health, and 2d. postage plus 1d. Health; design depicting the statue of Peter Pan. (Issued 1945.)

4. “Coronation” series, denominations 1d., 2½d., and 6d. issued in 1937 to commemorate the coronation of Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

5. “Centennial of New Zealand” series, comprising denominations ½d., 1d., 1½d., 2d., 2½d., 3d., 4d., 5d., 6d., 7d., 8d., 9d., and 1s. depicting various historical and industrial scenes and commemorating the centenary of the proclamation of New Zealand as a British Colony. (Issued 1940.) Also any stamps of this series overprinted in any way.

6. Express Delivery stamp of 6d. denomination, issued 1903, depicting a large “6” in red; also Express Delivery stamp of 6d. denomination, issued 1939, depicting a motor-car.

7. Government Life Insurance Department stamps, in the denominations ½d., 1d., 1½d., 2d., 3d., and 6d. (original 1905) small type, each bearing the uniform design of a lighthouse.

SECTION 2.—POSTAL STATIONERY

8. Registered-letter envelopes, post-cards, letter-cards, and newspaper wrappers, bearing a reproduction of any of the stamps, or overprints on the reproduced stamps, contained in Section 1 of this Schedule.

9. Airmail letter-cards especially provided for correspondence with prisoners-of-war and impressed with reproductions of stamps bearing a portrait of King George VI in the denominations 6d., 1s., and 1s. 6d., also any of these airmail letter-cards overprinted in any way.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 24th day of May, 1949.

F. HACKETT, Postmaster-General.

Approval of Testing Officer Under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

IN terms of Regulation 5 of the Motor-drivers Regulations, 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby approve of the person named in Column 2 of the Schedule hereunder being Testing Officer under the said regulations for the authority specified in Column 1 of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE

Column 1. Column 2.
Transport Department . . . . Duncan Cameron.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of August, 1949.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

Exemption Order Under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the said regulations, so far as they relate to the driving of heavy trade motors, shall not apply to the person hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply:—

A motor-driver’s licence issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor in the course of his employment on a farm or market garden of the respective employer described in column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the age of eighteen years, to drive a heavy trade motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
Carl Owen Malneek, of Wentwood, Martinborough . . Father.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of August, 1949.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

Exemption Order Under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940

PURSUANT to the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940, the Minister of Transport doth hereby order and declare that the provisions of clause (1) of Regulation 7 of the said regulations, so far as they relate to the driving of heavy trade motors, shall not apply to the person hereinafter mentioned, but in lieu thereof the following provision shall apply:—

A motor-driver’s licence issued under the Motor-drivers Regulations 1940 to the person described in Column 1 of the Schedule hereunder may authorize him to drive a heavy trade motor in the course of his employment on a farm or market garden of the respective employer described in column 2 of the said Schedule, but shall not authorize him, while he is under the age of eighteen years, to drive a heavy trade motor for any other purpose.

SCHEDULE

Column 1 (Driver). Column 2 (Employer).
Maurice Hicks, Matarawa, Carterton . . . Father.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of August, 1949.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

Revoking a Warrant Declaring Area to be a Closely Populated Locality and Declaring Area to be a Closely Populated Locality for the Purposes of the Motor-Vehicles Amendment Act, 1936, Section 3

IN terms of section 3 of the Motor-vehicles Amendment Act, 1936, the Minister of Transport doth hereby revoke the Warrant dated the 30th day of June, 1949,* relating to a closely populated locality in Hanmer County, and doth hereby declare the area described in the said Schedule to be a closely populated locality for the purposes of the said section to the intent that a person driving any motor-vehicle on any road, street, or other place to which the public have access therein shall be subject to the maximum speed limit of thirty miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE

SITUATED in Amuri County—

All that area at Hanmer consisting of—

(1) That portion of the Red Post Junction—Jollies Pass Main Highway No. 108 commencing at a point 10 chains measured along the said main highway in a southerly direction from its junction with Bath Street and terminating at the Dog Creek Bridge.

(2) Jacks Pass Road commencing at the junction of the said road with the Red Post Junction—Jollies Pass Main Highway and terminating at a point 50 chains measured along the said road generally in a north-westerly direction.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of August, 1949.

F. HACKETT, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/112.)

*Gazette, No. 41, 7th July, 1949, page 1461.

Branch of Friendly Society Registered

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 22nd August, 1949.

THE Oak of Tauranga Lodge, No. 98, with registered office at Tauranga, is registered as a branch of the Grand Lodge of the North Island of New Zealand of the United Ancient Order of Druids Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 22nd day of August, 1949.

S. BECKINGSALE, Registrar of Friendly Societies.