29 APRIL] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 651

Import Control Exemption Notice (No. 4) 1954

PURSUANT to regulation 15 of the Import Control Regulations 1938,* the Minister of Customs hereby gives notice as follows:

1. (1) This notice may be cited as the Import Control Exemption Notice (No. 4) 1954.
   (2) This notice shall come into force on the 30th day of April 1954.
2. Goods of the class specified in the First Schedule hereto, imported from and being the produce or manufacture of any country other than the countries specified in the Second Schedule hereto, are hereby exempted from the requirement of a licence under the said regulations.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Tariff Item No.: Ex 214.
Class of Goods: Chinaware, earthenware and porcelainware, viz.: Breakfast, dinner, and tea sets; cups, saucers, plates, dishes, and such similar articles suited for table use as may be approved by the Minister; the net export price of which is not less than the price in the export trade list dated 1 January 1953, issued by the United Kingdom Export Earthenware Manufacturers’ Association, less 15 per cent, 5 per cent, and 5 per cent discounts and plus any surcharge in force at the time of shipment.

(Revokes decision in Gazette No. 69 of 9 November 1950)

SECOND SCHEDULE

ALBANIA, Argentina, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Somaliland, Germany (Russian Zone), Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iran, Japan, Korea, Liberia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Roumania, Tangier, United States of America, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Venezuela.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of April 1954.

JACK T. WATTS,
For the Minister of Customs.

Statutory Regulations 1938, Serial number 1938/161, page 695.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand

PURSUANT to section 45 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1933 (as amended by section 23 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Act 1936) the Governor of the Reserve Bank, acting with the authority of the Minister of Finance, hereby gives notice that as from 31 May 1954 the balance to be maintained in the Reserve Bank by each other bank for the time being carrying on business in New Zealand in accordance with the said section 45 shall be not less than the aggregate of 25 per centum of its demand liabilities in New Zealand and 12½ per centum of its time liabilities in New Zealand, as shown in the last preceding monthly return furnished by that bank in accordance with section 46 of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act 1933.

E. C. FUSSELL,
Governor of the Reserve Bank.

26 April 1954.

Board of Trade Notice No. 84—Public Inquiry into Import Duties on Frames for Ladies’ Handbags

NOTICE is hereby given that the Board of Trade has decided to defer its consideration of the tariff inquiry regarding frames for ladies’ handbags until after the holding of the tariff inquiry notified to commence on Tuesday, 18 May 1954, in regard to various leather goods, including ladies’ handbags.

Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of April 1954.

R. F. WILSON, Secretary, Board of Trade.
C.P.O. Box 2424, Wellington C. 1.

Officiating Ministers for 1954—Notice No. 11

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act 1908 the following names of officiating ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand

The Reverend Gysbertus Denee.

Brethren

Mr Noel Ashton Garratt.

Christian Unity Fellowship

Mr Collett Francis Lionel Saunders.

The Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Conference of New Zealand

The Reverend George August Doecke.

Dated at Wellington, this 26th day of April 1954.

S. T. BARNETT, Registrar-General.

Plants Declared Noxious Weeds in the Wanganui County (Notice No. Ag. 5619)

PURSUANT to the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, the Director-General of Agriculture, acting under a delegation from the Minister of Agriculture for the purposes of the said Act, hereby publishes the following special order made by the Wanganui County Council on the 9th day of April 1954.

SPECIAL ORDER

THAT in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it by section 3 (1) of the Noxious Weeds Act 1950, the Wanganui County Council hereby, by way of special order, declares the plants named in the Schedule hereto to be noxious weeds within the whole of the County of Wanganui as from the 1st day of May 1954.

SCHEDULE

Cape tulip (Homeria collina).
Goat’s rue (Galega officinalis).
Tutsan (Hypericum androsaemum).
Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes).

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

R. B. TENNENT,
Acting Director-General of Agriculture.

(Ag. 70/10/197)

Declaring Land to be Subject to Part XXIV of the Maori Affairs Act 1953 (Hokianga Development Scheme)

PURSUANT to section 330 of the Maori Affairs Act 1953, the Board of Maori Affairs hereby declares the land described in the Schedule hereto to be subject to Part XXIV of the said Act.

SCHEDULE

THE following land situated in the Tokerau Maori Land Court District, North Auckland Land District:

Land Block and Survey Area
District A. R. P.
Waima C. 20 VII, Waoku 58 1 25

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of April 1954.

For and on behalf of the Board of Maori Affairs—

W. SULLIVAN,
Assistant Secretary for Maori Affairs.

(M.A. 61/3; D.O. 19/A/23)

New Zealand Notice to Mariners No. 32 of 1954

CORRECTION TO NEW ZEALAND NOTICE TO MARINERS NO. 2 OF 1954

(Repeating part of Admiralty Notice to Mariners No. 14 of 1954, Weekly Complete Edition)

Page 2: TRANSMISSION SCHEDULES. SHORE-TO-SHIP TRAFFIC. Schedule A

Area 3 (Ceylon). Column 5, lines 1 to 6. Delete 8795, and substitute 8726.
Area 6 (Vancouver). Column 7, lines 1 to 6. Delete 6600, and substitute 6446.
Area 8 (Singapore). Column 9, lines 1 to 4. Delete 15370, and substitute 17266.4.

Authority: Admiralty.

Wellington, N.Z., 21 April 1954.

W. C. SMITH, Secretary for Marine.

(M. 10/145)

The Education Board of the District of Southland—Result of Election

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act 1914, it is hereby notified that for the election of a member to fill the extraordinary vacancy in the West Ward of the Southland Education District caused by the death of Mr H. E. Philp, the result of the poll held on the 7th day of April 1954 was as follows:

Cloughley, George 92
Paterson, George William 47

Total number of valid votes recorded 139
Number of votes rejected as informal 1

I hereby declare the said George Cloughley duly elected as a member of the Board.

T. J. GOSLING, Returning Officer.

Invercargill, 14 April 1954.