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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 8

Setting Apart Maori Land as a Maori Reservation

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of February, 1951

Present:

THE HON. K. J. HOLYOAKE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to section 5 of the Maori Purposes Act, 1937, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth hereby set apart and reserve the Maori freehold land described in the Schedule hereto as a Maori reservation for the common use of the Iritekura Tribe as a marae.

SCHEDULE

The following lands situated in Block XII of the Mata Survey District :—

Land. Area.
A. R. P.
Waipiro Maori Township, Section 7, Block II .. 0 0 29·5
Waipiro Maori Township, Section 8, Block II .. 0 0 32
Waipiro Maori Township, Section 9, Block II .. 0 1 7
Waipiro Maori Township, part Section 10, Block II .. 2 2 11

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

(M.A. 21/3/225.)

Officers Authorized to Take and Receive Statutory Declarations

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto, being officers in the service of the Crown holding the offices stated opposite their names respectively in the said Schedule, are authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

SCHEDULE

William Hugh Tebbs, Secretary, Government Life Insurance Department, Wellington.

Charles Milton Shadbolt, District Manager, Government Life Insurance Department, Christchurch.

William Ellis Evans, District Manager, Government Life Insurance Department, Hamilton.

John Farquharson Alexander, District Manager, Government Life Insurance Department, Dunedin.

Edward Kelvin Fox, District Manager, Government Life Insurance Department, Palmerston North.

Douglas Robert Jewiss, District Manager, Government Life Insurance Department, Napier.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 8th day of February, 1951.

T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

Officer Authorized to Take and Receive Statutory Declarations

B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby notify and declare that

James McGill Webb,

being an officer in the service of the Crown holding the office of Administrative Officer, Dominion Laboratory, at Wellington, is authorized to take and receive statutory declarations under section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 10th day of February, 1951.

T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

Royal Commission to Inquire Into and Report Upon Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances

GEORGE THE SIXTH by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith.

To Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir ARTHUR TELFORD DONNELLY, Knight Commander of Our Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Companion of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; JOHN HENRY BOYES, Esquire, Companion of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; and WILLIAM EDWARD BARNARD, Esquire: GREETING:

WHEREAS by section 27 of the Civil List Act, 1950, it is provided that the Governor-General, on the recommendation of a Royal Commission appointed in that behalf, may from time to time, by Order in Council, fix the salaries and allowances to be paid to the Prime Minister and other Ministers of the Crown or Members of the Executive Council, to Parliamentary Under-Secretaries, and to the Speaker and Chairman of Committees, and other Members of the House of Representatives:

And whereas We have deemed it expedient that a Commission should issue to inquire into, to report upon, and to make recommendations as to the above-mentioned salaries and allowances:

Now know ye that We, reposing trust and confidence in your impartiality, integrity and ability, do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint you, the said

Sir Arthur Telford Donnelly,
John Henry Boyes, and
William Edward Barnard

to be a Commission to inquire into and report upon the salaries and allowances paid to Our Prime Minister and other Ministers or Members of the Executive Council, to Parliamentary Under-Secretaries, to the Speaker and Chairman of Committees, and to the Leader of Our Official Opposition and other Members of the House of Representatives; and if it be reported that it is necessary or desirable to alter those salaries and allowances or any of them, then to recommend to His Excellency the Governor-General the nature and extent of the alterations that should be made:

And generally to inquire into and report upon any other matters arising out of or affecting the premises which may come to your notice in the course of your inquiries and which you may consider should be investigated in connection therewith:

And We do hereby appoint you, the said

Sir Arthur Telford Donnelly,

to be Chairman of the said Commission:

And for the better enabling you to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorized and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents at such time and place as you deem expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and place to place as you think fit, and so that these presents shall continue in force, and the inquiry may at any time and place be resumed although not regularly adjourned from time to time or from place to place:

And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose save to His Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance of these presents or by His Excellency’s direction, the contents of any report so made or to be made by you or any evidence or information obtained by you in the exercise of the powers hereby conferred upon you except such evidence or information as is received in the course of a sitting open to the public:

And We do further ordain that you have liberty to report your proceedings and findings under this Our Commission from time to time if you shall judge it expedient so to do:

And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to His Excellency the Governor-General in writing under your hands and seals not later than the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof:

And, lastly, it is hereby declared that these presents are issued under the authority of the Letters Patent of His late Majesty dated the eleventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, pursuant to section 27 of the Civil List Act, 1950, and under the authority of and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1908, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand.

In witness whereof We have caused this Our Commission to be issued and the Seal of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed at Wellington, this fourteenth day of February, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one, and in the fifteenth year of Our Reign.

Witness Our Trusty and Well-beloved Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, on whom has been conferred the Victoria Cross, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of Our Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Companion of Our Distinguished Service Order, Lieutenant-General in Our Army, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over New Zealand and its Dependencies, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand.

[l.s.] B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command—

K. J. HOLYOAKE,

For the Prime Minister.

Approved in Council—

T. J. SHERRARD,

Clerk of the Executive Council.