Feb. 8] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 145

Williams, George Leslie, Martin Street, Upper Hutt.
Williams, Harry Ernest, Parua Bay, Co. Whangarei.
Williams, William Henry Laughton, 13 Nelson Street, Waipukurau.
Williams, William Paul, 11 Guyton Street, Wanganui.
Williamson, Mrs. Zilla Evelyn, 2 Woodford Road, Mt. Eden, Auckland.
Wilmshurst, Bertram Matthew, 1 Wood Street, Upper Hutt.
Wilson, Alfred Samuel, 24 Pentland Avenue, Mt. Eden, Auckland.
Wilson, James, Oteramiko, Dacre, Co. Southland.
Wilson, Mark Shaw, South Hillend, Co. Southland.
Winter, Bertram Graham, 1 Mansfield Street, Wairoa.
Witten-Hannah, Alexander Boyd, 100 Hine Street, New Plymouth.
Wood, Leonard, 9 Kowhai Avenue, Palmerston North.
Woodhead, James, Milford, Co. Geraldine.
Worrall, Clyde Owen, Great South Road, Mercer, Co. Franklin.
Wright, Charles Johnson, Fairy Springs Road, Rotorua.
Wright, Mrs. Mary, 3 Batkin Road, Avondale, Auckland.
Wright, Robert Taylor, 36 Victoria Street, Lower Hutt.
Wyatt, Frederick William, Harihari, Co. Westland.
Young, Harold Egmont, 14 Princess Street, Dannevirke.

T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

Crown Solicitor Appointed

The Crown Law Office,
Wellington, 5th February, 1951.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

John Raymond Mills, Esquire,

to be Crown Solicitor at Invercargill, in the place of Horace James Macalister, resigned.

T. CLIFTON WEBB, Attorney-General.

Appointment to Price Tribunal

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased, in pursuance of the Control of Prices Act, 1947, to make the following appointment :—

Ian Duff Reid, Esquire, Public Accountant, of Wellington,

to be an ordinary member of the Price Tribunal.

Dated at Wellington, this 3rd day of February, 1951.

CHAS. M. BOWDEN,

For the Minister of Industries and Commerce.

Appointments in the Public Service

Office of the Public Service Commission,
Wellington, 5th February, 1951

THE Public Service Commission has made the following appointments in the Public Service :—

Leonard George Gower

to be Deputy Registrar of the Magistrates’ Courts at Kaiapoi and Rangiora for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1947, and Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates’ Courts at Kaiapoi and Rangiora for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 24th day of January, 1951.

Alban Whitaker

to be Registrar of the Magistrates’ Courts at Kaiapoi and Rangiora for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1947, on and from the 28th day of April, 1950.

William Cook

to be Bailiff of the Wardens’ Court at Thames for the purposes of the Mining Act, 1926, and Bailiff of the Magistrates’ Court at Thames for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1947, on and from the 1st day of November, 1950.

John Sylva MacDonald

to be Maintenance Officer at the Magistrate’s Court at Hamilton for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 1st day of February, 1951.

Robert Desmond Inglis Malcolm

to be Maintenance Officer of the Magistrates’ Courts at Huntly and Cambridge for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 22nd day of January, 1951.

Thomas Alexander Jacobson

to be Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates’ Court at Palmerston North for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, on and from the 3rd day of January, 1951.

V. W. THOMAS, Secretary.

Poukawa Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 1st February, 1951.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, the rate-payers within the Poukawa Drainage Rating Area are hereby notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 31st March, 1951, unpaid on 14th March, 1951.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office, or to the Collector of Rates, Lands and Survey Department, P.O. Box 2205, Auckland C. 1.

W. SULLIVAN,

For the Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 15/86/1.)

Waiki Swamp Drainage Area.—Penalty on Overdue Rates

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 1st February, 1951.

IN pursuance of section 76 of the Rating Act, 1925, and the Swamp Drainage Act, 1915, and its amendments, the rate-payers within the Waihi Drainage Area are hereby notified that 10 per cent. additional will be added to all rates for the year ending 31st March, 1951, unpaid on 14th March, 1951.

Rates may be paid at any money-order office, or to the Collector of Rates, Lands and Survey Department, P.O. Box 2205, Auckland C. 1.

W. SULLIVAN,

For the Minister of Lands.

(L. and S 15/24/1.)

Retention of Title of “Honourable”

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th February, 1951.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, is published for general information.

W. A. BODKIN, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Commonwealth Relations Office,
Downing Street.

NEW ZEALAND

HONOURS No. 4. 16 January, 1951.

SIR,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s despatch No. 73 of the 8th December, and to state that The King has been pleased to approve of the retention of the title of “Honourable” by the undermentioned gentlemen, who have served for a continuous period of not less than ten years as Members of the Legislative Council of New Zealand :—

Mr. Thomas Bloodworth,
Mr. Archibald Campbell,
Mr. Eliot Rypinski Davis,
Mr. John Edward Duncan,
Mr. William Grounds,
Mr. Thomas Francis O’Byrne,
Mr. John Thomas Paul,
Sir William Perry,
Mr. William James Rogers,
Mr. John Ryall, and
Mr. Fred Waite, C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., V.D.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your Excellency’s most obedient humble servant,

P. C. GORDON-WALKER

Governor-General

His Excellency

Lieut. General

Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., etc., etc., etc.

Revoking a Warrant Declaring Area to be a Closely Populated Locality, and 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 revoke the Warrant dated the 19th day of November, 1937*, which relates to an area at Fairlie, and 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 therein shall be subject to the maximum speed limit of thirty miles an hour fixed by the said section.

SCHEDULE

SITUATED within Mackenzie County—

All that area at Fairlie, bounded to the north by a right line due east and west through a point 7½ chains measured in a north-westerly direction along the Timaru-Cromwell via Lindis State Highway No. 60 from its junction with Nixon’s Road ; bounded to the east by a right line due north and south through a point 36 chains measured in a south-easterly direction along Talbot Street from its junction with the Timaru-Cromwell via Lindis State Highway ; bounded to the south by a right line due east and west through a point 30 chains measured in a southerly direction along the Timaru-Cromwell via Lindis State Highway from its junction with Hamilton Street ; bounded to the west by a right line due north and south through a point 19 chains measured in a westerly direction along School Road from its junction with Gillingham Street ; the boundaries of the whole area being indicated by a red line on plan T.T. 1100 deposited in the office of the Transport Department at Wellington.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of January, 1951.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.

• Gazette, No. 77, 25th November, 1937, page 2565.

(TT. 9/15/257.)