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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 51

171·4 links; again by the aforesaid public road by a line bearing 293° 05′ distance 60·5 links; by Allotment 210, Waikiekie Parish, by lines bearing 308° 43′ distance 160·9 links, bearing 243° 49′ distance 338·2 links; towards the south-west by Allotment M. 49, Waikiekie Parish, by a line bearing 327° 48′ distance 1,984·3 links; towards the north-west by Allotment 50, Waikiekie Parish, by a line bearing 29° 45′ distance 1,973·0 links; thence towards the north-east by Allotment 48, Waikiekie Parish, by a line bearing 119° 45′ distance 2,412·5 links, to the point of commencement: be all the aforesaid measurements more or less. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/87A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan 26121, blue.)

Also all that area containing by admeasurement 1 acre 1 rood 12 perches, more or less, being Allotments 210, 211, 212 and 213, Waikiekie Parish. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/87, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (North Auckland plan 26121, blue.)

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(L. and S. H.O. 1/87 ; D.O. 8/1362.)

Regulations Under the Naval Defence Act, 1913, Amended

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 19th day of July, 1950

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section 25 of the Naval Defence Act, 1913, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby make the following regulations.

REGULATIONS

THE New Zealand Naval Regulations 1929* are hereby amended by inserting, after regulation 20,† the following regulation :—

“ 21. Deserters and Absentees.—A deserter or absentee from one of H.M.N.Z. ships who surrenders or is apprehended at any place outside New Zealand (other than Australia) is, until further orders to serve in a ship or establishment of the Royal Navy, if so directed by an order given by the Naval Board or by the senior New Zealand Naval Officer present, specifically naming him and the appropriate base ship of the Royal Navy in which he is to serve. A warrant under section 50 of the Naval Discipline Act is to be issued by one of the persons specified in that section before the issue of the order directing a deserter or absentee to serve in the appropriate base ship of the Royal Navy and is to be handed to the Royal Naval authorities together with extracts from the Ship’s Books, certified in accordance with King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions Article 461, recording that the offender had been serving in the ship at the material date, his absence, and his discharge.

“ 2. On apprehension or surrender at any place outside New Zealand a deserter or absentee who has been directed to serve in an appropriate base ship of the Royal Navy shall serve in that ship, or any other ship of the Royal Navy to which the Royal Navy authorities shall appoint him, and shall continue to do so until discharged therefrom by those authorities ”.

T. J. SHERRARD.
Clerk of the Executive Council.

• Gazette, 6th December, 1929, Vol. III, page 3133.
  † Gazette, 1st February, 1940, Vol. I, page 137.

Variation of Order in Council Prohibiting Alienation of Certain Maori Lands or Lands Owned by Maoris

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of July, 1950

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section 167 of the Maori Land Act, 1931, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby vary an Order in Council made on the 4th day of April, 1932, and published in the Gazette on the 7th day of April, 1932, at page 735, and affecting Hauturu East B 2 Section 2A 1A and other blocks by excluding therefrom the lands described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(M.A. 29/3/1.)

Trustee for the Raurimu Public Cemetery Appointed

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 4 of the Cemeteries Act, 1908, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

James Errol Gray

to be a trustee to have the maintenance and care of the cemetery under the said Act, known as the Raurimu Public Cemetery, in conjunction with such of the other persons heretofore so appointed as are still in office and in the place of Herbert Blackith Hill whose seat has become vacant by resignation.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 26th day of July, 1950.

JACK T. WATTS, Minister of Health.

(H.C. 50/7.)

Appointments in the Royal New Zealand Navy

Navy Office,
Wellington, 25th July, 1950.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointments in the Royal New Zealand Navy :—

Captain Arthur Edward Tolfrey Christie, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N., lent Royal New Zealand Navy and appointed H.M.N.Z.S. “Maori”, additional, to date 15th August, 1950, H.M.N.Z.S. “Philomel”, additional, for passage to New Zealand (date to be reported), and H.M.N.Z.S. “Philomel” in command and as Naval Officer-in-Charge, Auckland, vice Duckworth (date to be reported).

Commander Leo Patrick Burke, O.B.E., D.S.C. and Bar, R.D., promoted to the rank of Captain, to date 30th June, 1950, and reappointed.

Douglas Brian Domett and Murray Charles Verran, entered as Naval Cadets (Executive) and appointed H.M.N.Z.S. “Maori”, additional, for passage to the United Kingdom, to date 7th July, 1950, and H.M.S. “Britannia”, additional, for training to date 1st September, 1950. (Pay accounts to be carried in H.M.N.Z.S. “Maori”.)

Surgeon Lieutenant (Acting Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander) John William Doupe, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., promoted to the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander, to date 11th July, 1950.

Campbell Munro Herbertson, entered as a Naval Cadet (Supply and Secretariat) and appointed H.M.N.Z.S. “Maori”, additional, for passage to the United Kingdom, and H.M.S. “Britannia”, additional, for training, to date 1st September, 1950. (Pay accounts to be carried in H.M.N.Z.S. “Maori”.)

Mr. Joseph Ivan Quinn, Temporary Acting Commissioned Boatswain, transferred to the permanent rank of Acting Commissioned Boatswain with seniority of 4th February, 1950.

ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE.

Lieutenant David Sugden Thorp, D.S.C., promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, to date 1st March, 1950.

Lieutenant David Lennox Miller, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, to date 4th March, 1950.

Lieutenant Wilfred Harold Heath, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, to date 30th May, 1950.

Lieutenant-Commander (S) Robert Lindsay Laurensen, A.P.A.N.Z., promoted to the rank of Commander (S), to date 30th June, 1950.

Lieutenant (S) Guy Wallace Varnham Knight, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander (S), to date 16th May, 1950.

Mr. William Gillies entered in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve in the rank of Probationary Lieutenant (E), with seniority of 24th May, 1950, and appointed to the Otago Division as Engineer Officer, to date 20th June, 1950.

T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Resignations, and Retirements of Officers of the New Zealand Military Forces

Army Department,
Wellington, 26th July, 1950.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments, promotions, transfers, resignations, and retirements of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces :—

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY

Regular Force—

Major (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) (temp. Lieutenant-Colonel) G. P. Cade, D.S.O., A.D.C., to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 4th July, 1950.

Territorial Force—

Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Mitchell, D.S.O., E.D., 5th Anti-tank Regiment, R.N.Z.A., is transferred to the 14th Composite Anti-aircraft Regiment, R.N.Z.A., with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, with seniority from 8th December, 1941, and is appointed C.O. 14th Composite Anti-aircraft Regiment, R.N.Z.A. Dated 9th May, 1950.