Member of Licensing Committee Appointed

PURSUANT to section 42 of the Licensing Act 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Lindsay Merritt Inglis, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate,

to be a member of the Licensing Committees for the Licensing Districts of Palmerston North, Rangitikei, Manawatu, Otaki, and Pahiatua, vice Robert McIntosh Grant, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate.

Dated this 30th day of September 1953.

J. R. MARSHALL,
For the Minister of Justice.

Member of Licensing Committee Appointed

PURSUANT to section 49 of the Licensing Act 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Henry David Morgan, Esquire, of Johnsonville,

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the Licensing District of Onslow, vice R. G. Stephen, Esquire, resigned.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of September 1953.

J. R. MARSHALL,
For the Minister of Justice.

Member and Chairman and Deputy of Member and Deputy Chairman of Land Valuation Committee Appointed

PURSUANT to section 19 of the Land Valuation Court Act 1948, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Lindsay Merritt Inglis, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate,

to be a member of the Palmerston North Land Valuation Committee and to be the Chairman thereof, vice Robert McIntosh Grant, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate; and Selwyn Stanley Preston, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate,

to be the deputy of the said Lindsay Merritt Inglis, Esquire, in his capacity as such member, and to be the deputy Chairman.

Dated this 30th day of September 1953.

J. R. MARSHALL,
For the Minister of Justice.

Deputy of Member of Land Valuation Committee and Deputy Chairman Appointed

PURSUANT to section 19 of the Land Valuation Court Act 1948, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Frank Felix Reid, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate,

to be the deputy of Henry James Thompson, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate, in his capacity as a member of the Westland Land Valuation Committee, and to be the deputy Chairman.

Dated this 29th day of September 1953.

J. R. MARSHALL,
For the Minister of Justice.

Justice of the Peace Resigns

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation of

Percy George Riches, Esquire, of Akaroa,

of his appointment to the Commission of the Peace.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of September 1953.

J. R. MARSHALL,
For the Minister of Justice.

Coroner Resigns

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation of

Percy George Riches, Esquire, of Akaroa,

of his appointment as a Coroner for New Zealand.

Dated at Wellington, this 28th day of September 1953.

J. R. MARSHALL,
For the Minister of Justice.

High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand Appointed

NOTICE is hereby given for public information that General Sir Geoffry Scoones, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.S.I., D.S.O., M.C., arrived in Wellington on 9 September 1953 and assumed office as High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand in succession to Sir Roy Price, K.C.M.G.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of September 1953.

R. M. ALGIE,
For the Minister of External Affairs.

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

Derick Arvis.
Thomas A. Cotter.
Albert Cotton.
Basil Andre Lambert-Desgranges.
Thomas Gordon.
Walter J. Green.
John Alfred Halkett.
Andrew Douglas Hogg.
Jack H. Jenkin.
William Kingscott.
Richard James Lomas.
Frederick Hugh McFarlane.
Leonard James Penniall.
Samuel Frederick Wilson.
Arnold Yorks.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of October 1953.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Marine.

Appointment and Relinquishment of Members of the Air Board

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointment and relinquishment of members of the Air Board with effect from 1 September 1953:

Appointment

Bruce Robert Rae, M.B.E., B.Com., is appointed Air Secretary and Member of the Air Board.

Relinquishment

Thomas Abram Barrow, J.P., A.R.A.N.Z., A.I.A.N.Z., relinquishes his appointment as Air Secretary and Member of the Air Board.

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of September 1953.

T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.

Member of Medical Research Council Appointed

PURSUANT to the Medical Research Council Act 1950, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the recommendation of the Minister of Health, has been pleased to appoint

Norman Lowther Edson, Ph.D. (Cantab.); B.Med.Sc., M.B., Ch.B. (N.Z.); F.R.S.N.Z.; F.N.Z.I.C., being a person nominated by the Senate of the University of New Zealand on the recommendation of the Academic Board of that University as being distinguished in medical research, to be a member of the Medical Research Council under the Medical Research Council Act 1950.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of September 1953.

J. R. MARSHALL, Minister of Health.

Appointment of a Member of Police Appeal Board

PURSUANT to the Police Appeal Board Election Regulations 1942, it is hereby notified that Senior Sergeant Martin Lawrence John Thyne has been appointed a member of the Board of Appeal constituted by section 24 of the Police Force Act 1947 for a period ending on 7 May 1954, he having been duly elected in accordance with the provisions of section 25 of the said Act.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of October 1953.

W. H. FORTUNE,
Minister in Charge of Police.