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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

[No. 56

THE ROYAL N.Z. CORPS OF SIGNALS

2nd Lieutenant W. J. Wray to be Lieutenant. Dated 9 June 1952.

N.Z. ARMY PAY CORPS

2nd Lieutenant (temp. Lieutenant) D. A. Caldow to be Lieutenant. Dated 19 July 1952.

TEMPORARY RANK RELINQUISHED

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS

2nd Lieutenant (temp. Lieutenant) A. S. Fotheringham relinquishes the temporary rank of Lieutenant. Dated 17 August 1952.

THE ROYAL N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT

The Rev. P. W. D. Parr, Chaplain, 4th Class (temp. Chaplain, 3rd Class) relinquishes the temporary rank of Chaplain, 3rd Class. Dated 19 August 1952.

T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.

Member of the New Zealand Wool Board Re-appointed (Notice No. Ag. 5299)

PURSUANT to paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 3 of the Wool Industry Act 1944, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to re-appoint, on the 11th day of August 1952,

David Charles Aubrey, Esquire,

to be a member of and one of the representatives of the New Zealand Government on the New Zealand Wool Board established under the said Act.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of August 1952.

T. L. MACDONALD,
For the Minister of Agriculture.

(Ag. 67/8/2)

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph

General Post Office,
Wellington, 4 August 1952.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act 1928 (hereinafter termed the said Act), and by the regulations made on 12 May 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of 21 May 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed transmitting and receiving officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid :—

• Herbert Charles Eaves, Deputy Chief Postmaster, Auckland.
• David Cyril Wright, Chief Postmaster, Hamilton.
• Ross Stuart St. John, Chief Postmaster, Invercargill.
• Walter Joseph Donovan, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Invercargill.
• Andrew Saba, Chief Postmaster, Oamaru.
• Gabriel Alfred Wilkes, Chief Postmaster, Timaru.

W. J. BROADFOOT, Minister of Telegraphs.

Post Office Savings Bank—Fixing Rates of Interest on Deposits

The Treasury,
Wellington, 12 August 1952.

PURSUANT to section 82 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1928, I, Sidney George Holland, Minister of Finance, do hereby fix the rates of interest to be payable on and after 1 September 1952 in respect of moneys deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank in the case of each depositor as follows :—

(a) On so much of his deposit as does not exceed five hundred pounds, a rate of two pounds ten shillings per centum per annum.

(b) On so much thereof as exceeds five hundred pounds and does not exceed two thousand pounds, a rate of two pounds per centum per annum.

(c) On so much thereof as exceeds two thousand pounds and does not exceed five thousand pounds, a rate of one pound ten shillings per centum per annum.

The rates of interest fixed by the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette of 21 May 1942 are hereby cancelled on and from 1 September 1952.

S. G. HOLLAND, Minister of Finance.

Notice Under the Shops and Offices Act 1921–22 and its Amendments Prohibiting the Sale Within the City of Dunedin of Certain Goods Comprised in the Trade of a Florist

WHEREAS a petition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the florists’ shops within the City of Dunedin, has been forwarded to the Minister of Labour, desiring that the sale of certain goods comprised in the trade of a florist—namely, flowers (whether fresh-cut or made up), artificial flowers, pot-plants, raffia, and florists’ requisites—be prohibited during such time as the said shops are required to be closed in pursuance of the Shops and Offices Act 1921–22 or of any award :

And whereas he is satisfied that the sale of the said goods is comprised in the said trade within the said city, and that the signatures to such petition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the said shops within the said city :

Now, therefore, in pursuance of section 33 of the said Act, the Minister of Labour doth hereby direct that on and after the 21st day of August 1952, the sale of the said goods within the said city shall be and is hereby prohibited all day on Saturdays and after 9 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of August 1952.

W. SULLIVAN, Minister of Labour.

Result of Election by Fire-insurance Companies to Fill an Extraordinary Vacancy on the Fire Committee for the Bluff Urban Fire District

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Fire Services Act 1949, the Minister of Internal Affairs hereby gives notice of the following result of the election held on 12 August 1952 by the insurance companies carrying on business in New Zealand to fill an extraordinary vacancy on the Fire Committee for the Bluff Urban Fire District :—

Fire Committee, Bluff .. J. Hutchison.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of August 1952.

W. A. BODKIN, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 76/4/149)

Results of Elections by Fire-insurance Companies to Fill Extraordinary Vacancies on the Fire Boards for the Dunedin and Port Chalmers Urban Fire Districts

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Fire Services Act 1949, the Minister of Internal Affairs hereby gives notice of the following results of the elections held on 12 August 1952, by the insurance companies carrying on business in New Zealand to fill an extraordinary vacancy on each of the Fire Boards for the Dunedin and Port Chalmers Urban Fire Districts :—

Dunedin .. .. G. P. McElwee.
Port Chalmers .. .. J. S. Leach.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of August 1952.

W. A. BODKIN, Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 76/4/8 ; 76/4/35)

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 14th day of July 1952 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 20th day of August 1952, as the date on which the said land shall be deemed to be vested in Her Majesty the Queen.

SCHEDULE

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT

ALL those areas containing together acres 2 roods 26 perches, more or less, being Sections 45, 49, parts of Sections 29, 43, and 44, Block IV, Warepa Survey District, and being more particularly described in conveyance registered in the Deeds Register Office at Dunedin as No. 115607, the said parts of Section 29, being also part of Farm No. 12 on the plan of the Warepa Estate deposited in the Land Registry Office at Dunedin as No. 298, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 239, folio 34, limited as to parcels, Otago Registry.

As witness my hand, this 18th day of August 1952.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 36/1444/3271 ; D.O. 1/26/487)