SEPT. 13] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1375

Member of the Island Council of Niue Appointed

Pursuant to section 65 of the Cook Islands Act 1915, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Tagaloahetaue

to be a member of the Island Council of Niue, to hold office as from the 1st day of July 1951, vice Taole, resigned.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of September 1951.

CHAS. M. BOWDEN, Minister of Island Territories.

Members of Domain Boards Appointed

Pursuant to section 49 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Edward Henry Leigh

to be a member of the Cambridge Domain Board in place of Walter Moore, deceased.

Leslie Arthur Bland and James Marlon Pattillo

to be members of the Mapiu Domain Board in place of William Adam Paul and George William Higgins, left the district.

Roy Woolford Simpkin

to be a member of the Retaruke Domain Board in place of David Arthur Perry, left the district.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of September 1951.

D. M. GREIG, Director-General of Lands.

(L. and S. 1/418)

Registrar of Marriages, &c., Appointed

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th September, 1951.

It is hereby notified that the following appointments have been made:—

Allan Thomas Condon

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Motiti Island on and from the 3rd day of September 1951.

Thomas Thompson

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Omanaia on and from the 3rd day of September 1951.

John Walter Barnard Price

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Oruanui on and from the 3rd day of September 1951.

Frederick Baynton Forge

to be Acting Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Wairoa and Acting Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Wairoa on and from the 3rd day of September 1951.

Harold Innes Dowrick

to be Acting Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Te Araroa on and from the 8th day of August 1951.

Michael Arthur O’Leary

to be Acting Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Waihi and Acting Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Waihi on and from the 11th day of September 1951.

P. H. WYLDE, Registrar-General.

Plants Declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Borough of Kaikohe
(Notice No. Ag. 5120)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5 September 1951.

The following special order, made by the Kaikohe Borough Council on the 3rd day of August 1951, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Noxious Weeds Act 1950

SPECIAL ORDER

The Kaikohe Borough Council, acting in pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on it by the Noxious Weeds Act 1950 and of all other powers and authorities enabling it in that behalf, doth hereby by way of special order resolve to declare the following plants as noxious weeds:—

Blackberry.
Common broom.
Gorse.
Milk thistle or variegated thistle.
Sweetbrier.
Woolly nightshade.
Californian thistle.
Fennel.
Hemlock.
Ragwort.
Saffron thistle.
Water hyacinth.

K. J. HOLYOAKE, Minister of Agriculture.

(Ag. 70/10/231)

Members of the Tuturau Rabbit Board Elected
(Notice No. Ag. 5123)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 5 September 1951.

Advice has been received, under the hand of the Returning Officer for the first election of members of the Tuturau Rabbit Board, that—

John Stanley Chambers,
John Francis Clark,
William Alexander Christie,
Mervyn Lloyd Duthie, and
Ian Haggitt

have been duly elected as members of the said Board.

K. J. HOLYOAKE, Minister of Agriculture.

(Ag. 64/1/237)

The Hospital Outpatients Hearing Aids Notice 1951

Pursuant to regulation 4 of the Social Security (Hospital Benefits to Outpatients) Regulations 1947, the Minister of Health hereby gives the following notice.

NOTICE

1. (1) This notice may be cited as the Hospital Outpatients Hearing Aids Notice 1951.

(2) This notice shall come into force on the 3rd day of September 1951.

2. The supply of individual valve-type hearing aids to outpatients of public hospitals is hereby approved, subject to the following conditions:—

(a) The supply of the aid is recommended by an otologist employed or engaged by the Hospital Board; and

(b) The patient possesses a hearing loss of at least 35 decibels in the better ear, over the significant frequencies of speech, or such other loss of a lesser degree as in the opinion of the otologist renders the use of an aid necessary; and

(c) The patient’s hearing loss is such that in the opinion of the otologist it is capable of correction or marked improvement by the use of the type of hearing aid supplied or approved for the purpose of the benefits; and

(d) The patient has not previously obtained a benefit in respect of an individual valve-type hearing aid under the above mentioned regulations during the five years immediately preceding the date of his application.

3. Where an outpatient of a public hospital is entitled to a hearing aid under clause 2 of this notice but does not wish to avail himself of the hearing aid issued free of charge by the Board, the Board may pay on behalf of the patient a sum not exceeding thirteen pounds towards the purchase of any approved hearing aid.

4. Where an outpatient of a public hospital has received a benefit in respect of a hearing aid during the immediately preceding period of five years, the Hospital Board may pay on behalf of the patient towards the cost of replacing the hearing aid a sum that equals half the cost of the replacement hearing aid but does not in any case exceed six pounds ten shillings. No benefit may be granted under this clause unless—

(a) In the opinion of an otologist employed or engaged by the Board the replacement hearing aid will benefit the hearing of the patient to an extent that the aid already issued does not; and

(b) The patient is otherwise eligible to receive a hearing aid.

5. The types of hearing aids specified in the First Schedule to this notice are hereby approved for the purposes of this notice.

6. (1) The notices issued under regulation 4 of the above mentioned regulations and specified in the Second Schedule to this notice are hereby revoked.

(2) All benefits, payments, certificates, approvals, and other acts of authority that originated under the notices hereby revoked and are subsisting or in force at the commencement of this notice shall enure for the purposes of this notice and of regulation 4 of the Social Security (Hospital Benefits to Outpatients) Regulations 1947 as if they had originated under the corresponding provisions of this notice, and shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

TYPES OF APPROVED INDIVIDUAL VALVE-TYPE HEARING AIDS

Acousticon hearing aids.
Amplivox hearing aids—
Omnipac Series I model.
Omnipac Series II model.
Antone hearing aids.
Belclere hearing aids—
Senior model.
Monopac model.