Transfer and Extension of Engagement
Pilot Officer Arthur Graeme Gordon (130819) is transferred from the Regular Air Force to the Territorial Air Force with his present rank and seniority, and his engagement is extended for a period of two years to expire on l December 1957. Dated 28 July 1953.
AIR TRAINING CORPS
Appointments
George Edward HAMMER, M.A., is granted a commission with the rank of Pilot Officer (on prob.). Dated 22 July 1953.
Gordon Victor LORIMER, B.A., is granted a commission with the rank of Pilot Officer (on prob.). Dated 23 July 1953.
AIR FORCE RESERVE
Terminations of Commissions
The commissions of the undermentioned officers are terminated with effect from the date shown against each name.
Flight Lieutenant Ernest Cecil Domney (41437). 29 October 1946.
Flying Officer Philip Bridson ALDRIDGE, M.Sc. (4210508). 19 November 1945.
AMENDMENTS
The notices published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 30, dated 3 May 1945, page 457; No. 60, dated 29 August 1946, page 1199; No. 87, dated 12 December 1946, page 1870; No. 35, dated 15 May 1952, page 870, in so far as they relate to 'James Herbert Moore (415351)' are hereby amended to read 'A.F.C.' in lieu of 'D.F.C.'.
The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 32, dated 4 June 1953, page 874, in so far as it relates to 'George Stewart PURVIS, M.B., Ch.B. (133842)' is hereby amended to read 'is granted a commission in the Medical Branch of the Air Force Reserve' in lieu of 'is granted a commission in the Medical Branch of the General Reserve'.
Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of October 1953.
T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.
Stipendiary Magistrate Appointed to Exercise Jurisdiction in a Children's Court
PURSUANT to section 27 of the Child Welfare Act 1925, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint William Hector Carson, Esquire, Stipendiary Magistrate, to exercise jurisdiction in the Children's Court established at Wellington.
Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of October 1953.
J. R. MARSHALL,
For the Minister of Justice.
Controlling Authority Under Section 63 of the Licensing Act 1908 for Westland Licensing District Appointed
PURSUANT to section 63 of the Licensing Act 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint The Greymouth Borough Council to be the controlling authority for the purposes of the said Act throughout the Licensing District of Westland and to make all necessary appointments and to do all things required for the conduct of elections of the Westland Licensing Committee and for the general administration of the said Act within such Licensing District.
Dated this 6th day of October 1953.
J. R. MARSHALL,
For the Minister of Justice.
Appointment of Customs Examining Place at Napier
PURSUANT to section 20 of the Customs Act 1913 and to powers delegated to him by the Minister of Customs under section 11 of that Act, the Comptroller of Customs hereby appoints the premises described in the Schedule hereto to be a place for the examination by the Customs of goods subject to the control of the Customs.
SCHEDULE
THE concrete building in Station Street, Napier, known as the depot of the Napier-Wellington Daily Transport Company, Ltd. (Occupiers), on property registered as Lot 6-7, Deeds Plan 299 of Town Section 357, Station Street, C.T. 81/217.
Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of October 1953.
D. G. SAWERS, Comptroller of Customs.
Appointment of Members of the Timber Production Advisory Committee
PURSUANT to the Timber Production Advisory Committee Regulations 1949,* the Minister of Forests hereby appoints to the Committee under regulation 5 (1) (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), and (i) of the said regulations for a period of twelve months expiring on 1 July 1954 the persons named in the Schedule hereto.
SCHEDULE
Kenneth Clifford Alwyn Carter, to represent the Dominion Sawmillers' Federation (Incorporated).
Andrew Lindsay McKay, to represent the West Coast Sawmillers' Association.
Frederick Craig and James Freeman, to represent the New Zealand Timber Workers' Industrial Union of Workers.
Frederick Lovell Turley, to represent the Nelson, Westland, and Marlborough Timber Industry Employees' Industrial Union of Workers.
D'Arcy Garnett O'Toole, to represent the New Zealand Timber Merchants' Federation.
David Henry, to represent the Dominion Forest Owners' Federation (Incorporated).
Pateriki Joseph Hura, to represent the Maori forest-owners.
Dated at Wellington, this 23rd day of September 1953.
E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Forests.

• Statutory Regulations 1949, Serial number 1949/46.
  (T.C. 1/41)
  Member of the New Zealand Wool Commission Appointed
  (PURSUANT to subsection (3) of section 5 of the Wool Commission Act 1951, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint on the 7th day of October 1953 on the nomination of the New Zealand Wool Board Arthur Briscoe Moore as a representative of the said Board on the New Zealand Wool Commission under the said Act.
  Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of October 1953.
  E. J. FAWCETT, Director-General of Agriculture.
  (Ag. 67/8/66)
  Supply, Acquisition, and Use of Organic Fertilizer for Topdressing Authorized (Notice No. Ag. 5513)
  PURSUANT to regulation 5A of the Organic Fertilizer Supply Regulations 1952 as inserted by regulation 2 of the Organic Fertilizer Supply Regulations 1952, Amendment No. 1, the Minister of Agriculture hereby authorizes the supply, acquisition, and use of organic fertilizer for top-dressing from the 16th day of October 1953 to the 30th day of April 1954 (both days inclusive).
  Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of October 1953.
  K. J. HOLYOAKE, Minister of Agriculture.
  (Ag. 93/7/3)
  Land Vested in the New Plymouth City Council Declared to be a Public Reserve
  NOTICE is hereby given that the following resolution was passed by the New Plymouth City Council pursuant to section 5 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1928 on the 17th day of August 1953, due notice of intention to pass such resolution having been given in terms of the said section, and no objections thereto received:
  'The New Plymouth City Council pursuant to the powers conferred upon it by section 5 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1928 hereby declares all that piece of land now vested in it for the purposes of a public abattoir, situate in the City of New Plymouth, containing 15 acres 2 roods 15.06 perches, more or less, being firstly part Section 159, Hua District, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 50, folio 210, Taranaki Registry, and secondly Lot 2 on Deposited Plan 5985, part Section 167, Hua District, and being all the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 148, folio 156, Taranaki Registry (the said piece of land being more particularly shown on a plan deposited in the Survey Office at New Plymouth as No. S.S. 8607), to be a public reserve within the meaning of the above-mentioned Act for the purposes of a recreation ground.'
  The land to which the foregoing resolution relates is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 48206A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.
  Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of October 1953.
  E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
  (L. and S. H.O. 48206; D.O. 3/31)