Promotions

Special Duties Division

Flight Lieutenant Henry Richard DEAN, D.F.C. (72867), is granted the temporary rank of Squadron Leader. Dated 1 July 1954.

Flight Lieutenant Thomas DAMERELL (133747) is granted the temporary rank of Squadron Leader. Dated 1 July 1954.

Transfers

Flight Lieutenant Raymond Henry John MYHILL (74549) is transferred from the General Duties Branch of the Regular Air Force to the Reserve of Air Force Officers for a period of four years. Dated 9 July 1954.

Flying Officer Harry Foster Joy (72337) is transferred from the Active List to the Reserve of Air Force Officers for a period of four years. Dated 16 January 1954.

Flying Officer (temp.) Ronald Wilfred ATKINSON (326544) is transferred from the General Duties Branch, Territorial Air Force, to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, for a period of four years. Dated 1 July 1954.

Transfer and Relinquishment

Flying Officer (temp.) Charles Gordon JACKSON (133732) is transferred from the General Duties Branch, Territorial Air Force, to the Reserve of Air Force Officers for a period of four years and relinquishes temporary rank of Flying Officer. Dated 14 July 1954.

Terminations of Commissions

The commissions of the undermentioned Flying Officers are terminated with effect from the date shown after each name:

Ridgwell CULLUM, D.F.C. (132379), 1 May 1954.
Harry Foster Joy (72337), 26 May 1954.
Jack Howard FAULKNER (72280), 20 June 1954.

Transfer to Retired List

Group Captain George Alfred NICHOLLS (130901) is transferred to Retired List 'B'. Dated 1 August 1954.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of August 1954.

T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Honorary Child Welfare Officers Under the Child Welfare Act 1925

Pursuant to section 2 of the Child Welfare Act 1925, the Minister of Education hereby appoints

To be Honorary Child Welfare Officers for the purposes of the said Act for the period ending 31 March 1955.

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of August 1954.

HILDA ROSS, for the Minister of Education.

Member of New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board Appointed

Pursuant to the provisions of the Patriotic and Canteen Funds Act 1947, the Minister of Internal Affairs hereby appoints

William Leslie McKinnon, Esquire, of Whangarei, on the nomination of the Northland Provincial Patriotic Council, to be a member of the New Zealand Patriotic Fund Board, vice Horace William James, Esquire, deceased.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of August 1954.

W. A. BODKIN, Minister of Internal Affairs.
(L.A. 182/21)

Port Conciliation Committee for Port of Oamaru Appointed

Pursuant to the Waterfront Industry Act 1953, the Minister of Labour hereby appoints the following persons to be the Port Conciliation Committee for the Port of Oamaru for a term expiring on the 31st day of July 1955:

Michael Francis Edward Cooney, Chairman; and Alexander Gray McHardy, Deputy Chairman; and Henry Hay, Allan Hunter Main, Archibald Walker (nominated by the New Zealand Port Employers' Association Incorporated), and Thomas Vincent Harris (nominated by General Manager of Railways); and Hugh Finlay Hamilton, Alan George McKay, Neil McLeod, and Francis George Stuart (nominated by the Oamaru Waterfront Industrial Union).

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of August 1954.

W. SULLIVAN, Minister of Labour.

Board Appointed to Have Control of Upper Waitohi Domain

Pursuant to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, the Minister of Lands hereby appoints

Kenneth Pringle Chapman,
Leonard John Draffin,
Dudley Burns Gardiner,
William James Hart,
John Telford Munro,
Richard Warne Pearse, and
Alexander MacInnes Watson

to be the Upper Waitohi Domain Board to have control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto, subject to the provisions of the said Act, as a public domain.

SCHEDULE

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT—UPPER WAITOHI DOMAIN

RESERVE 4722, situated in Block XV, Opihi Survey District: Area, 5 acres, more or less. Subject to the reservations and conditions imposed by section 59 of the Land Act 1948. (S.O. Plan 8663.)

Dated at Wellington, this 10th day of August 1954.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. H.O. 6/6/1156; D.O. 13/162)

Gazette, 11 March 1954, page 384.

Board Appointed to Have Control of Aongatete Domain

Pursuant to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, the Minister of Lands hereby appoints

Alan Walter Earl,
Douglas James Earl,
Henry Berners Knyvett,
Thomas John Morton,
Kenneth Leslie Prestidge,
Henry George Spence, and
Geoffrey Trevor Walford

to be the Aongatete Domain Board to have control of the reserve described in the Schedule hereto, subject to the provisions of the said Act, as a public domain.

SCHEDULE

SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—AONGATETE DOMAIN

ALLOTMENT 239, Apata Parish, situated in Block VI, Aongatete Survey District: Area, 3 roods 2 perches, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 631, folio 196. (S.O. Plan 26210.)

Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of August 1954.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. H.O. 1/929; D.O. 8/777)

Members of Domain Boards Appointed

Pursuant to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, the Minister of Lands hereby appoints

John Walter Gordon Caldwell

to be a member of the Te Teko Domain Board, South Auckland Land District, in place of Thomas Herbert Macken, resigned.

Lyndon Harrison Marcroft,
Alfred Edward Penn, and
Herbert John Wahlers

to be members of the Ngongotaha Domain Board, South Auckland Land District, in place of Allan John Mitchell Brown, Clarence Walter Bott, and Hubert Clyde McCready, resigned.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of August 1954.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. H.O. 1/329)

Declaring Land to be the Okere Falls Domain and Appointing Domain Board

Pursuant to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, the Minister of Lands hereby declares the reserve described in the Schedule hereto to be a public domain subject to the provisions of Part III of the said Act, to be known as the Okere Falls Domain, and, further, appoints the Rotorua County Council to be the Okere Falls Domain Board having control of the said domain.

SCHEDULE

SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT—OKERE FALLS DOMAIN

SECTION 9, Block VI, Rotoiti Survey District: Area, 5 acres 1 rood 20 perches, more or less. (S.O. Plan 32298.)

Dated at Wellington, this 9th day of August 1954.

E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. H.O. 1/1362; D.O. 3/268)

Gazette, 3 June 1954, page 953.