9 Dec.]

Officer Authorized to Take Statutory Declarations
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
PURSUANT to section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1927, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby authorizes George Phillip Bray, being Chief Clerk, Education Department, Wellington, to take and receive statutory declarations under that section.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of November 1954.
T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

Officer Authorized to Take Statutory Declarations
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
PURSUANT to section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1927, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby authorizes Joseph Thomas Wallingford Moss, being Clerk, Department of Maori Affairs, Christchurch, to take and receive statutory declarations under that section.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of November 1954.
T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

Officer Authorized to Take Statutory Declarations
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
PURSUANT to section 301 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1927, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby authorizes Captain Terrence Desmond Herrick, D.S.C. and Bar, being Naval Officer in Charge, Auckland. to take and receive statutory declarations under that section.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 17th day of November 1954.
T. CLIFTON WEBB, Minister of Justice.

Reappointing Commission to Inquire into the Tuberculin Testing of Town Milk Supply Herds
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
To all to whom these presents shall come, and to:
Alfred Coleman, of Feilding, Retired Stipendiary Magistrate; Peter Tait Jamieson, of Palmerston North, Dairy Farmer; and Andrew Linton, C.B.E., of Greymouth, Dairy Farmer;
Greeting:

WHEREAS by Warrant issued on the 10th day of March 1954 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 the tuberculin testing of town milk supply herds as carried out under the provisions of section 84 of the Statutes Amendment Act 1945:

And whereas by the said Warrant you were required to report not later than the 31st day of May 1954 your findings and opinions on the matters thereby referred to you:

And whereas by a further Warrant issued on the 19th day of May 1954 under the hand of the Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, the time within which you were so required to report was extended to the 31st day of August 1954:

And whereas your report was delivered to the Governor-General on the 27th day of August 1954, and the said Commission was thereupon dissolved:

And whereas as a result of subsequent discussions amongst yourselves you have formed the opinion that the said report does not represent in a completely satisfactory manner your findings and opinions, and you have asked leave to withdraw the said report and to submit an amended report, and you have also asked that the said Commission should be reconstituted for that purpose:

Now, therefore, I, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie, the Governor-General of New Zealand, in exercise of the powers conferred upon 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 re-appoint you, the said Alfred Coleman, Peter Tait Jamieson, and Andrew Linton, to be a Commission under the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908 for the purposes set out in the said Warrant of date the 10th day of March 1954, with the powers and authorities and subject to the directions set out in the said Warrant, save as modified by these presents:

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And in pursuance of such powers and authorities as aforesaid, and with the like advice and consent, I do hereby re-appoint you, the said Alfred Coleman, to be Chairman of the said Commission: And, using all due diligence, you are required to report to me not later than the 31st day of December 1954 your findings and opinions on the matters set out in the said Warrant, together with such recommendations as you think fit to make in respect thereof:

And in further pursuance of such powers and authorities as aforesaid, and with the like advice and consent, I do hereby confirm, re-publish, and re-enact the said Warrant and re-constitute the Commission thereby constituted, subject only to the modifications appearing in and by these presents.

Given in Executive Council under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 7th day of December 1954.
T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Exempting Land in the Auckland Land District from the Operation of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925
C. W. M. NORRIE, Governor-General
PURSUANT to the Coal Mines Act 1925, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby gives the following notice.

NOTICE
THE land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby exempted from the operation of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925.

SCHEDULE
ALL that area of land in the Auckland Land District containing 1 rood, more or less, being Lot 63, D.P. No. 17389 (Town of Rotowaro), being portion of Allotment 79, Parish of Pepepe, excepting thereout all veins, seams, and beds of coal, fireclay, and all minerals in, upon, or under the said land, and being part of the land comprised in certificate of title, Volume 810, folio 6, Auckland Registry.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 30th day of November 1954.
W. SULLIVAN, Minister of Mines.
(Mines 11/28/3)

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. ARMY SERVICE CORPS
Major L. W. Roberts, M.B.E. (N.Z. Regular Force). Dated 15 November 1954.

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
John Robertson, M.B., Ch.B., to be Captain. Dated 10 November 1954.

PROMOTIONS
THE ROYAL N.Z. ARTILLERY
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) F. F. Eastgate to be Captain. Dated 1 October 1954.

THE ROYAL N.Z. INFANTRY CORPS
2nd Lieutenant P. H. Osborne to be temp. Lieutenant. Dated 26 October 1954.

Dated at Wellington this 29th day of November 1954.
T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Resignations, and Retirements of Officers of the New Zealand Army
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, promotions, transfers, resignations, and retirements of officers of the New Zealand Army:

THE ROYAL N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS
Regular Force
Major Russell Endean Rawle, M.C., E.D., from the Reserve of Officers, Regimental List, The Royal N.Z. Army Service Corps, is granted a short service commission for a period of eighteen months as from 3 November 1954 in the rank of Major, and is appointed United Nations Military Observer in Kashmir. Dated 3 November 1954.

Lieutenant G. B. Elton to be temp. Captain. Dated 13 September 1954.