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6. If at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman for such meeting.

7. If by resignation, death, incapacity, or otherwise, the seat of any member shall be or become vacant, or if any member absents himself without reasonable cause from three consecutive meetings of the Board, the Governor-General shall have power to appoint any other person to be a member of the Board in his stead.

8. The Board may, with the approval of the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation, make such rules as it deems necessary for the good conduct of the public frequenting the reserves, and may set apart areas for camping grounds or other purposes, and may fix reasonable charges for the use thereof in accordance with a scale to be approved from time to time by the Minister.

9. The Board shall prepare and submit at an annual meeting to be held in the month of April in each year a report of the proceedings of the Board for the previous year ending on the 31st day of March, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Board for such year. A copy of every such report and statement, certified by the Chairman to be correct, shall be sent to the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation as soon as possible after each annual meeting.

10. The Board shall control the said reserves in accordance with the provisions of the said Act and of the regulations made thereunder.

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SCHEDULE

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT—HUNDALEE SCENIC AND HISTORIC RESERVES

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 23rd day of February 1954.

E. B. CORBETT,
Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation.

(L. and S. H.O. 4/971; D.O. 13/4)

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Appointments and Promotions of Officers of the Emergency Force

PURSUANT to section 16 of the New Zealand Army Act 1950, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments and promotions of officers of the Emergency Force:

APPOINTMENTS

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY

Major J. F. Spring (N.Z. Regular Force), with seniority from 6 July 1953. Dated 3 February 1954.

THE ROYAL N.Z. INFANTRY CORPS

Lieutenant T. I. D. McLennan (N.Z. Regular Force). Dated 26 January 1954.

PROMOTIONS

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY

Captain (temp. Major) J. S. G. McLanachan to be Major. Dated 16 September 1953.

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) T. M. Loftus to be Captain. Dated 17 January 1954.

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of February 1954.

T. I. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.

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Member of the New Plymouth Milk Board Appointed
(Notice No. Ag. 5592)

PURSUANT to subsection (5) of section 2 of the Milk Amendment Act 1951, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint on the 24th day of February 1954,

Barclay Charles Kurth, Esquire,

to be a member of the New Plymouth Milk Board, vice Hugh Andrews, deceased.

Dated at Wellington, this 1st day of March 1954.

K. J. HOLYOAKE, Minister of Agriculture.

(Ag. 87/12/39)

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Justices of the Peace Appointed

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned persons to be Justices of the Peace for New Zealand and its dependencies:

Frederick William Allan, Esquire, of Michael Street, Rakaia.

Jacob Allen, Esquire, of Michael Street, Rakaia.

Walter Bright Ashford, Esquire, of ‘‘Avalon’’, West Town Belt, Rakaia.

Willie Green, Esquire, of 13 Stratford Street, Greymouth.

Charles Augustus Reilly, Esquire, of Park Road, Te Awamutu.

Dated at Wellington, this 20th day of February 1954.

T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

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Appointment of Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Services of Notices by Telegraph

PURSUANT to section 183 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1928, the Minister of Telegraphs hereby declares that the officers whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto are authorized to sign certificates of the service of telegraphic copies of notices for the purposes of sections 179 to 184 of that Act, and hereby appoints those officers to be transmitting officers and receiving officers, at the addresses specified after their names in the Schedule hereto, for the purposes of those sections and of the regulations for the time being in force under that Act relating to the service of notices by telegraph.*

SCHEDULE

Hugh Robert Pascoe, Postmaster, Cambridge.

Carlyle Pearson Smith, Postmaster, Hokitika.

John David King, Chief Postmaster, Napier.

William Lionel Cranfield, Postmaster, Waimate.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of February 1954.

W. J. BROADFOOT, Minister of Telegraphs.

• Gazette, 21 May 1914, Vol. I, page 2105.

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Appointment of Honorary Fishery Officer

PURSUANT to section 29 of the Statutes Amendment Act 1946, the Minister of Marine hereby appoints

Fernley Clifton Monteith, of Port Nelson,

to be an Honorary Fishery Officer for the purposes of Part I of the Fisheries Act 1908, such person to hold office until the 31st day of March 1956.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of February 1954.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Marine.