Justice of the Peace Authorized to Exercise Jurisdiction in
the Children's Court

PURSUANT to section 27 of the Child Welfare Act 1925, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to authorize
Lawrence Campbell Mackie, Esquire, J.P., to exercise jurisdiction in the Children's Court established at Te Aroha.
Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of August 1953.
T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph

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:

Edward James Burke, Superintendent, Telegraph Branch, Auckland.
Reginald Edward Melvin, Postmaster, Bluff.
Albert Henry Morgan, Postmaster, Dannevirke.
Leo Vernon Fowler, Postmaster, Gore.
John Thomas Adams, Chief Postmaster, Hamilton.
Louis John Walsh, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Hamilton.
Frank Brough, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Invercargill.
William Dolan, Postmaster, Lawrence.
Cecil Joseph Williams, Postmaster, Levin.
Ronald Collingwood Satherley, Postmaster, Lower Hutt.
Vernon Arthur Fred Matthews, Chief Postmaster, Nelson.
Leonard Harry John Power, Chief Postmaster, Oamaru.
Charles Baden Purcell, Postmaster, Paeroa.
George Ernest Canham, Superintendent, Telegraph Branch, Wellington.
Rupert Joseph Winter Blick, Chief Postmaster, Whangarei.
Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of August 1953.
W. J. BROADFOOT, Minister of Telegraphs.

Appointment of Honorary Officers

PURSUANT to section 29 of the Statutes Amendment Act 1946, the Minister of Marine hereby appoints the persons named in the Schedule to this warrant to be Honorary Officers for the acclimatization districts shown in such Schedule for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act 1908, such persons to hold office until the 31st day of March 1956.

SCHEDULE
Auckland Acclimatization District

Charles Henry Haggie.
Lester Sydney McIsaac.
Henry Victor Ormond.
James Henry Reason.
Russell White.

Rotorua Acclimatization District

Robert David Andrews.
Edward Daniel Costello.
George Shand Earp.
Puatautu Alfred Grace.
Ernest Arthur McGoughan.
Wiremu Rangitaureere.
George Edward Watson.
Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of August 1953.
W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Marine.

The Pukekohe Licensing Trust Constitution Notice 1953

PURSUANT to the Local Licensing Trust Regulations 1949,* the Minister of Justice hereby gives the following notice.
NOTICE

1. This notice may be cited as the Pukekohe Licensing Trust Constitution Notice 1953.

2. There is hereby constituted a local licensing Trust, to be called the Pukekohe Licensing Trust.

3. (1) The first election of members of the Trust shall be held on Saturday, the 31st day of October 1953.
   (2) The Returning Officer for the first election of members of the Trust shall be William Hudson, Town Clerk of the Pukekohe Borough Council.

4. The area within which polls shall be taken for elections of members of the Trust shall be the whole of the area within the boundaries of the Borough of Pukekohe as from time to time constituted.

5. The area within which the Trust may expend or distribute profits pursuant to subsection (1) of section 44 of the Licensing Trusts Act 1949 shall be the whole of the area within the boundaries of the Borough of Pukekohe as from time to time constituted.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of August 1953.
T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

*Statutory Regulations 1949, Serial number 1949/189, page 768. Amendment No. 1: Statutory Regulations 1952, Serial number 1952/129, page 563.

Scheme of Control of Upper Hutt High School

PURSUANT to section 92 of the Education Act 1914, the Minister of Education hereby approves of Upper Hutt High School being controlled in accordance with the provisions of the Standard Scheme of Control for Secondary Schools published at page 3451 of Volume III of the New Zealand Gazette of the year 1928:

Provided that—
(a) The Standard Scheme shall be read as if the following clause were inserted therein after clause 9;
'9A. In the case of the member to be appointed by the Hutt County Council the appointment shall be made in accordance with the provisions of clauses 7 and 8 hereof as if the Council were the Council of a borough to which those clauses apply.'
(b) Clause 11 of the Standard Scheme shall be read as if the reference to the year 1929 were a reference to the year 1954.
(c) The Standard Scheme shall be read as if the following additional clause were inserted therein after clause 13:
'13A. In the case of members to be elected by the members of the school committees of schools in accordance with paragraph (f) of clause 2 of the Upper Hutt High School Board of Governors Order 1953, the election shall, subject to the necessary modifications, be conducted in the same manner as an election of a member by the parents of the pupils attending the school.'
(d) Clause 16 of the Standard Scheme shall be read as if there were inserted after the words 'Borough Council' the words 'or County Council'.
(e) Clause 19 of the Standard Scheme shall be read as if every reference to the year 1929 were a reference to the year 1956.
(f) Clause 43 of the Standard Scheme shall be read as if the words 'The Secretary shall be insured under a fidelity bond for a sum of not less than five hundred pounds' were omitted.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of August 1953.
R. M. ALGIE, Minister of Education.

Poukawa Drainage Area—Notice of Making and Levying General Rates

PURSUANT to the Swamp Drainage Act 1915 and its amendments, the Minister of Lands does hereby make and levy on the unimproved value of all land within the Poukawa Drainage Area constituted under the said Act the general rates described in the Schedule hereto, such respective rates being for the purpose of meeting maintenance costs for the period 1 April 1953 to 31 March 1954.
The amount of such rates, together with the amount of the annually recurring special rates already made and levied, will be payable in one sum on 31 August 1953 to the Collector of Rates, Room 8, First Floor, Government Buildings, Customs Street West, Auckland, at which office the rate book will be open for inspection. A copy of the rate book will be available for inspection at the office of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Post Office Buildings, Napier, at all times at which those offices are open for the transaction of public business.

SCHEDULE

CLASS A: On the unimproved value of all lands classified as Class A by the persons appointed to classify lands under section 3 of the Swamp Drainage Amendment Act 1928, eightpence and thirty-four one-hundredths of a penny (8.34d.) in the pound.
CLASS B: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class B, one penny and thirty-nine one-hundredths of a penny (1.39d.) in the pound.
CLASS C: On the unimproved value of all lands so classified as Class C, twenty-eight one-hundredths of a penny (0.28d.) in the pound.

Dated at Wellington, this 18th day of August 1953.
W. A. BODKIN,
For the Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. 15/86/1)