JAN. 18] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 47

Kathleen Hilda Pollock (Mrs.)
to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Pakotai on and
from the 1st day of January, 1951.

Leonard Lawrence Lafferty
to be Acting Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Te Anga and Acting Registrar of Births and Deaths
of Maoris at Te Anga on and from the 29th day of November, 1950.

William George Weston
to be Deputy Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Matamata and Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths
of Maoris at Matamata on and from the 3rd day of January, 1951.

Arthur Wright Evans
to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of
Wyndham at Edendale on and from the 28th day of December,
1950.

Douglas Rylands Brown
to be Acting Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Feilding and Acting Registrar of Births and Deaths
of Maoris at Feilding on and from the 8th day of January, 1951.

Terence James Sharkey
to be Acting Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for
the District of Taihape and Acting Registrar of Births and Deaths
of Maoris at Taihape on and from the 15th day of January, 1951.

P. H. WYLDE, Registrar-General.

Exemption Under the Import Control Regulations, 1938

Office of the Minister of Customs,
Wellington, 11th January, 1951.

PURSUANT to clause 15 of the Import Control Regulations
1938, it is hereby notified for public information that goods
of the classes specified in the First Schedules to the exempting
notices issued under the said clause 15 and published in the New
Zealand Gazette of 3rd August, 1950, at page 1541, 9th November,
1950, at page 1959, and 21st December, 1950, at page 2196
respectively, imported after 31st December, 1950, from and being
the produce or manufacture of Switzerland, shall be exempt from
the requirement of a licence under the said regulations.

The said notices are modified accordingly by deleting from their
respective Second Schedules the word “Switzerland”.

CHAS. M. BOWDEN, Minister of Customs.

The Servicemen’s Settlement Act, 1950.—Notice Declaring Land
Taken for Settlement of Discharged Servicemen

WHEREAS an application has been made for the consent of the
Land Valuation Court to a transaction which relates to the
land described in the Schedule hereto and to which Part II of the
Servicemen’s Settlement Act, 1950, applies :

And whereas the purchaser of the said land is neither a
discharged serviceman nor a child or grandchild of the vendor :

And whereas the Land Valuation Committee to which the said
application was referred not being satisfied that the Crown had
decided not to acquire or arrange for the acquisition of the said land,
did on the 15th day of December, 1950, adjourn the said application :

Now, therefore, the Minister of Lands, acting in pursuance of
section 31 of the said Act, doth hereby declare that the said land is
taken for the settlement of discharged servicemen, and hereby
specifies the 22nd day of January, 1951, as the date on which the
said land shall be deemed to be vested in His Majesty the King.

SCHEDULE

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area containing seven hundred and sixteen (716) acres
three (3) roods twenty-two (22) perches, more or less, situated in
Blocks XI and XII, Motuotaraia Survey District, being Section 1R,
Block XI, Motuotaraia Survey District, part Block 55, Tarawera
Crown Grant District, and part of Block 71, Porangahau Crown
Grant District, shown more particularly as Lots 1 and 3, deposited
plan 2267, and also parts of Block 84, Porangahau Crown Grant
District, shown on deposited plan 1495, being all the land in
Certificate of Title, Volume 50, folio 205 (Hawke’s Bay Registry),
subject except as to Section 1R to the fencing covenant contained
in transfer No. 20536.

Also, all that area containing one thousand two hundred and
seventy-five (1,275) acres two (2) roods one (1) perch, more or less,
situated in Blocks XI and XII of the Motuotaraia Survey District,
being parts of Blocks 15 and 40, Porangahau Crown Grant District,
and part of Block 48, Tarawera Crown Grant District, being also
Lots 1 and 2 on Deeds plan 410 and being all the land in Certificate
of Title, Volume 6, folio 278 (Hawke’s Bay Registry) (limited as to
parcels). Subject to fencing covenant contained in Deed N 43572
(66/411).

Also, all that area containing sixteen (16) acres two (2) roods
twenty-eight (28) perches, more or less, situated in Block XI,
Motuotaraia Survey District, being parts of Blocks 15 and 84,
Porangahau Crown Grant District, and Sections 5R, 7R, and part of
Section 3R, Block XI, Motuotaraia Survey District, being also
Lots 1 and 3, deposited plan 5341, and being all the land in Certificate
of Title, Volume 50, folio 141 (Hawke’s Bay Registry), subject as
regards that part of Lot 1, D.P. 5341, formerly comprised in
C.T.H.B. 52/162, to the fencing covenant contained in transfer
No. 20868.

As witness my hand this 17th day of January, 1951.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 21/149/2497; D.O. 4/26/67.)

New Year Honours Conferred on Members of Royal New Zealand
Air Force

Air Department,
Wellington, 11th January, 1951.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has announced that the
King has been graciously pleased on the occasion of the
celebration of the New Year to confer the following honours and
awards :—

To be an Additional Companion of the Military Division of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath—

Air Commodore Sidney WALLINGFORD, C.B.E.

To be an Additional Officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire—

Wing Commander Alfred Morton Seafield MANHIRE.

To be an Additional Member of the Military Division of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire—

Warrant Officer William Stanley SMITH.

Warrant Officer Andrew Phillip Henry LEE.

Air Force Cross—

Flight Lieutenant James Patrick O’DONNELL.

Flight Lieutenant John Nigel TROLOVE.

Air Force Medal—

Pilot Officer Reginald Arthur Geoffrey PLANE.

British Empire Medal—

Acting Warrant Officer Donald James Tibble PRYOR.

T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.

Notice of Intention to Take Land for Road in Block XI, Mahinapua
Survey District

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions
of the Public Works Act, 1928, to execute a certain public
work—to wit, the construction of a road; and for the purposes
of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is
required to be taken : And notice is hereby further given that the
plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-
office at Ross and is there open for inspection ; and that all persons
affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking
of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections
to the execution of the said public work or 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 : 1 rood
39·7 perches.

Being part Section 1502.

Situated in Block XI, Mahinapua Survey District (Westland
R.D.). (S.O. 4483.)

In the Westland Land District; as the same is more parti-
cularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 133008, deposited
in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon
coloured sepia.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 12th day of January,
1951.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 70/12/56/0.)

Declaring Area to be a Closely Populated Locality for the Purposes
of Section 36 of the Transport Act, 1949

IN terms of section 36 of the Transport Act, 1949, the Minister
of Transport doth hereby declare the area described in the
Schedule hereto 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 30
miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE

SITUATED within the Horowhenua County—

All that area of Waitarere Beach Township and also that portion
of the Waitarere Beach Main Highway No. 551 commencing
at a point 41 chains measured along the said main highway
in a south-easterly direction from its junction with Park
Avenue and terminating at the end of the said main
highway at Waitarere Beach.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of January, 1951.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.

(TT. 9/15/10.)