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20. No failure on the part of any local authority to hold any meeting as hereby prescribed, or to carry at such a meeting a resolution allocating its votes, or to lodge a sealed copy of such resolution with the Returning Officer within the time hereby prescribed, or otherwise to exercise its power of voting shall affect the validity of any election.

21. Every city member shall be deemed to be elected when the notice of his election given by the Town Clerk is received by the Returning Officer, and every local authority member shall be deemed to be elected when public notice of the result of the election is given by the Returning Officer.

T. J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council
(I.A. 76/4/65)

Extending the Time Within Which the Commission of Inquiry into the Police Force May Report

C.W.M. NORRIE, Governor-General

To all to whom these presents shall come and to:
The Honourable SIR ROBERT KENNEDY, of Dunedin, lately a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand;

GREETING:
WHEREAS by Warrant issued on the 23rd day of October 1953 under the hand of the Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, you were appointed a Commission to inquire into and report upon certain matters relating to the conduct of the Police Force of New Zealand:
And whereas by the said Warrant you were required to report not later than the 18th day of December 1953 your findings and opinions on the matters thereby referred to you, together with such recommendations as you should think fit to make in respect thereof:
And whereas it is expedient that the time for so reporting should be extended as hereinafter provided, but without prejudice to the power conferred upon you by the said Warrant to submit an interim report if and so often as you shall deem it expedient or desirable so to do:
Now, therefore, I, Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, the Governor-General of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908 and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, do hereby extend until the 30th day of April 1954 the time within which you are so required to report; provided always that the extension of time granted to you by these presents shall be without prejudice to the power conferred upon you by the said Warrant to furnish to me an interim report or interim reports on any matter or matters arising in the course of your inquiry together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof:
And in further pursuance of the said powers and authorities and with the like advice and consent I do hereby confirm the said Warrant and the Commission thereby constituted save as modified by these presents.

Given in Executive Council under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 15th day of December 1953.

T.J. SHERRARD,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Officers Authorized to Take and Receive Statutory Declarations

C.W.M. NORRIE, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1927, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby authorize the persons named in the Schedule hereto, being the holders of the offices specified after their names, to take and receive statutory declarations under that section.

SCHEDULE
Leonard Frederick Round, Relieving Postmaster, Any office.
Norman Wesley Boyle, Relieving Postmaster, Any office.
Arthur Gordon Harris, Accountant, Chief Post Office, Auckland.
Robert James Morgan, Chief Postmaster, Auckland.
Mervyn Winston Albert Lea, Postmaster, Clinton.
Louis Frederick Spencer, Postmaster, Clyde.
Grant Raglan Milne, Deputy Chief Engineer, General Post Office.
Clarence Walker Baillie, Accountant, Hastings.
Robert John Telfer, Accountant, Chief Post Office, Invercargill.
Neil William Arthur Gordon, Postmaster, Kaiwaka.
Ian Gordon Bayly, Postmaster and Telephonist, Kakatahi.
John David King, Chief Postmaster, Napier.
Sydney Foster Taylor, Accountant, Chief Post Office, Timaru.
Patrick Joseph Columb, Postmaster, Waitangi, Chatham Islands.
Kenneth Noel Smith, Accountant, Chief Post Office, Wanganui.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of December 1953.

T.CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

Authorizing Erection of a Public Hall on Mairangi Bay Services' Memorial Domain, North Auckland Land District

C.W.M. NORRIE, Governor-General

PURSUANT to subsection (1) (d) of section 52 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1928, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby authorize the Mairangi Bay Services' Memorial Domain Board to erect a public hall on that portion of the Mairangi Bay Services' Memorial Domain under its control described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE
NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—PORTION OF MAIRANGI BAY SERVICES' MEMORIAL DOMAIN
LOT 94, Deposited Plan No. 18893, being part Allotment N.W. 194, Takapuna Parish, situated in Block IV, Waitemata Survey District: Area, 1 acre 1 rood 25.3 perches, more or less.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of December 1953.

E.B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S.H.O. 1/957; D.O. 8/981)

Authorizing Erection of a Public Hall on Onekaka Domain, Nelson Land District

C.W.M. NORRIE, Governor-General

PURSUANT to subsection (1) (d) of section 52 of the Public Reserves and Domains Act 1928, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby authorize the Onekaka Domain Board to erect a public hall on that portion of the Onekaka Domain under its control described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE
NELSON LAND DISTRICT—PORTION OF ONEKAKA DOMAIN
PART Sections 92 and 95, District of Takaka, and part Section 22, Block II, Waitapu Survey District, being part of the land on Deposited Plan No. 1368: Area, 1 rood 7.8 perches, more or less. As shown on the plan marked L. and S. 1/1332A, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red. Subject to the reservations and conditions imposed by section 59 of the Land Act 1948.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 16th day of December 1953.

E.B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S.H.O. 1/1332; D.O. 8/290)

Judge of the Maori Land Court Appointed

C.W.M. NORRIE, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 5 of the Maori Land Act 1931, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby appoint Geoffrey John Jeune, Esquire, to be a Judge of the Maori Land Court on and from the 25th day of January 1954.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand, this 16th day of December 1953.

E.B. CORBETT, Minister of Maori Affairs.

Judge of the Ikaroa and South Island Maori Land Court Districts Appointed

C.W.M. NORRIE, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Maori Land Act 1931, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby appoint Geoffrey John Jeune, Esquire, a Judge of the Maori Land Court, to be the Judge of the Ikaroa and South Island Maori Land Court Districts on and from the 25th day of January 1954.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General of New Zealand, this 16th day of December 1953.

E.B. CORBETT, Minister of Maori Affairs.