TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT

SECTION 914, Grey District, situated in Block IV, Paritutu Survey District: Area, 1 rood 19-9 perches, more or less. (S.O. plan 8518.) (Recreation.)

(L. and S. H.O. 1/693; D.O. 8/68)

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area situated in Block IX, Huangarua Survey District, containing by admeasurement 32 perches, more or less, being Lot 273 as shown on a plan deposited in the Land Registry Office at Wellington under No. 248, being part Wharekaka Block, and being all the land comprised and described in certificate of title, Volume 209, folio 280. Subject to the right of way over part of the said land coloured blue on the aforesaid certificate of title as reserved by Memorandum of Transfer No. 85400. (Municipal buildings.)

(L. and S. H.O. 6/7/267; D.O. 8/1111)

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT

ALL that area situated in Block II, Leeston Survey District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 3 perches, more or less, being Reserve 4654 (formerly part Rural Section 13523 and part Reserve 1160), and being part of the land comprised and described in certificates of title, Volume 424, folio 184, and Volume 519, folio 103, limited as to parcels (Canterbury Registry). Subject to a pipeline easement 6 ft. wide appurtenant to the balance of the land in the above certificate of title, Volume 424, folio 184. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/6/1007, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. (S.O. plan 8371.) (General education.)

(L. and S. H.O. 6/6/1007; D.O. 8/104)

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 14th day of October 1952.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.

Warrant for Convening General Courts-Martial

H. F. O'LEARY,
Administrator of the Government
To: The Air or other Officer for the time being Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Air Force, Royal Air Force.
WHEREAS by the Visiting Forces Act 1939, it is provided when a home force and another force are acting in combination any officer of the other force duly appointed to command the combined force, or any part thereof, shall be treated and shall have over members of the home force the like powers of command and punishment, and may be invested with the like authority to convene and confirm the findings and sentences of courts-martial as if he were an officer of the home force of relative rank and holding the same command:
And whereas by the Royal New Zealand Air Force (Visiting Forces) Order 1952, made under authority of the aforesaid Act, it is declared that the portion of the Royal New Zealand Air Force that is for the time being serving as part of the Middle East Air Force, Royal Air Force, is serving together and acting in combination with the air forces of Her Majesty to which section 6 of the Visiting Forces Act 1939 applies and with which the said portion of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is for the time being serving as part of the said Middle East Air Force:
And whereas by the aforementioned order it is further declared that the aforesaid portion of the Royal New Zealand Air Force is serving under your command and that of any officer of the rank of group captain or above to whom you may delegate powers of command:
Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the aforesaid Act and by the Royal New Zealand Air Force Act 1950 (hereinafter referred to as the said Act), I, Sir Humphrey Francis O'Leary, the Administrator of the Government, hereby authorize you from time to time as occasion may require to convene general courts-martial for the trial of every person subject to the said Act who shall be charged with any offence for which such person may be tried by court-martial, whether such offence shall have been committed before or after the date of this Warrant: and I hereby further authorize you to confirm the proceedings of any such courts-martial and to cause any sentence thereof to be put into execution according to law:
And I do further authorize you to direct your Warrant to any officer of the rank of group captain or above to whom you have delegated powers of command, giving him a general authority to convene courts-martial for the trial of any person subject to the said Act who shall be charged with any offence for which such person may be tried by court-martial whether such offence shall have been committed before or after the date of the Warrant directed by you to such officer, and also to exercise in respect of the proceedings of such courts-martial the power of confirming the findings and sentences thereof according to law, or, if you should think fit, of directing him to reserve for your confirmation the proceedings of all or any such courts-martial, in which case you are hereby authorized to exercise in respect of the proceedings so reserved all the powers of a confirming officer in accordance with the said Act:
And for so doing, this shall be to you, as to all others whom it may concern, a sufficient Warrant.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, this 2nd day of October 1952.

T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Resignations, and Retirements of Officers of the New Zealand Army

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the following appointments, promotions, transfers, resignations, and retirements of officers of the New Zealand Army:

GENERALS' LIST

Regular Force

The notice published in the N.Z. Gazette No. 63, dated 25 September 1952, relative to Major-General K. L. Stewart, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., is hereby cancelled and the following substituted:-
"Major-General K. L. Stewart, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, General List, with the rank of Major-General. Dated 30 August 1952."

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY

Regular Force

Lieutenant M. J. Black is granted the acting unpaid rank of Captain whilst holding the appointment of Battery Commander, 62 Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, R.N.Z.A. Dated 11 August 1952.

Territorial Force

3rd Field Regiment, R.N.Z.A.

Major E. R. Smythe, M.C., is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, General List, The Royal N.Z. Artillery, with the rank of Major. Dated 11 September 1952.

10th Coast Regiment, R.N.Z.A.

Lieutenant E. V. R. Wyllie to be Captain. Dated 11 September 1952.
Lieutenant R. P. Janes to be Captain. Dated 25 September 1952.

14th Composite Anti-Aircraft Regiment, R.N.Z.A.

Lieutenant H. D. Leyden to be Captain. Dated 1 September 1952.
Lieutenant L. M. Boot to be Captain. Dated 1 September 1952.
Lieutenant B. G. Baker to be Captain. Dated 2 September 1952.
Lieutenant I. L. Kendrick to be Captain. Dated 3 September 1952.

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARMOURED CORPS

Territorial Force

1st Armoured Car Regiment (New Zealand Scottish), R.N.Z.A.C.

Peter James Duncan, LL.B., to be 2nd Lieutenant (on prob.). Dated 26 September 1952.

THE ROYAL N.Z. INFANTRY CORPS

Regular Force

N.Z. Regiment

With reference to the notice published in the N.Z. Gazette No. 54, dated 14 August 1952, relative to the appointment of a short-service commission, for "John Charles Elmsley, B.A." substitute "John Charles Elmsly, B.A."
30562 Private Joseph Patrick Brosnahan to be 2nd Lieutenant (on prob.). Dated 11 September 1952.

Territorial Force

The Northland Regiment

Captain (temp. Major) S. E. Weston, 1st Battalion, relinquishes the temporary rank of Major and is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Regimental List, The Northland Regiment, with the rank of Captain, with seniority from 1 January 1950. Dated 29 July 1952.

The Wellington West Coast and Taranaki Regiment

John Baldwin Duncan, late temp. Lieutenant, Royal Marines Emergency Reserve, to be Lieutenant (on prob.), with seniority from 1 April 1950, and is posted to the 1st Battalion. Dated 23 September 1952.

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARMY MEDICAL CORPS

Territorial Force

3rd Field Ambulance, R.N.Z.A.M.C.

Captain J. F. Moodie, M.C., M.B., Ch.B., from the Reserve of Officers, Regimental List, 3rd General Hospital, R.N.Z.A.M.C., to be Captain, with seniority from 12 September 1950. Dated 18 September 1952.
Lieutenant (on prob.) F. T. Shannon, M.B., Ch.B., from the Reserve of Officers, Regimental List, 3rd General Hospital, R.N.Z.A.M.C., to be Lieutenant (on prob.), with seniority from 12 December 1951. Dated 18 September 1952.
Lieutenant (on prob.) G. C. Staniland, M.B., Ch.B., from the Reserve of Officers, Regimental List, 3rd General Hospital, R.N.Z.A.M.C., to be Lieutenant (on prob.), with seniority from 1 March 1952. Dated 18 September 1952.
Lieutenant (on prob.) J. L. Hunt, M.B., Ch.B., from the Reserve of Officers, Regimental List, 3rd General Hospital, R.N.Z.A.M.C., to be Lieutenant (on prob.), with seniority from 18 March 1952. Dated 18 September 1952.