Appointing the Royal New Zealand Society for the Health
of Women and Children (Upper Hutt Branch) Incorporated
to Control and Manage a Reserve

P
URSUANT to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, the
Minister of Lands hereby appoints the Royal New Zealand
Society for the Health of Women and Children (Upper Hutt
Branch) Incorporated to control and manage the reserve
described in the Schedule hereto, subject to the provisions
of the said Act, as a site for a Plunket room.

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT
SECTION 62, Mawaihakona Township, situated in Block I,
Rimutaka Survey District: Area, 11·98 perches, more or less.
(S.O. Plan 23176.)
Dated at Wellington this 17th day of December 1954.
E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. H.O. 6/3/14; D.O. 14/20)

Appointing the Upper Hutt District Free Kindergarten
Association Incorporated to Control and Manage a Reserve

P
URSUANT to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, the
Minister of Lands hereby appoints the Upper Hutt District
Free Kindergarten Association Incorporated to control and
manage the reserve described in the Schedule hereto, subject
to the provisions of the said Act, as a site for a kindergarten.

SCHEDULE

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT
SECTION 61, Mawaihakona Township, situated in Block I,
Rimutaka Survey District: Area, 1 rood 16·05 perches, more
or less. (S.O. Plan 23176.)
Dated at Wellington this 17th day of December 1954.
E. B. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.
(L. and S. H.O. 6/3/14; D.O. 14/20)

Appointing a Commission to Inquire Into the Constitution of
the Heathcote Underground Water Area (Lyttelton Borough
Council)

P
URSUANT to section 4 of the Underground Water Act
1953, the Minister of Works hereby appoints
Frank Felix Reid, Esquire, of Wellington, Stipendiary
Magistrate,
Horace Edwin Eyfe, of Wellington, Chief Geologist,
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and
Harry Lancelot Hume, of Wellington, Civil Engineer,
Ministry of Works,
to be a Commission of which the said Frank Felix Reid shall
be Chairman—
(a) To inquire into the proposals of the Lyttelton Borough
Council relating to the constitution of portion of
the Heathcote County as an underground water area
and the constitution of the Lyttelton Borough Council
as the Underground Water Authority for that area;
(b) To consider all objections and appeals lodged in respect
of those proposals; and
(c) To report to me not later than the 31st day of March
1955 in accordance with subsection (6) of the said
section 4 of the Underground Water Act.
Dated at Wellington this 20th day of December 1954.
W. SULLIVAN, for the Minister of Works.
(P.W. 74/30/4/2)

Appointing a Commission to Inquire Into the Constitution of
the Onehunga Underground Water Area

P
URSUANT to section 4 of the Underground Water Act
1953, the Minister of Works hereby appoints
Frank Felix Reid, Esquire, of Wellington, Stipendiary
Magistrate,
Horace Edwin Eyfe, of Wellington, Chief Geologist,
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and
Harry Lancelot Hume, of Wellington, Civil Engineer,
Ministry of Works,
to be a Commission of which the said Frank Felix Reid shall
be Chairman—
(a) To inquire into the proposals of the Onehunga Borough
Council relating to the constitution of the Borough
of Onehunga as an underground water area, and the
constitution of the Onehunga Borough Council as the
Underground Water Authority for that area;
(b) To consider all objections and appeals lodged in respect
of those proposals; and
(c) To report to me not later than the 31st day of March
1955 in accordance with subsection (6) of the said
section 4 of the Underground Water Act.
Dated at Wellington this 20th day of December 1954.
W. SULLIVAN, for the Minister of Works.
(P.W. 74/30/4/1)

Official Ministers for 1954—Notice No. 34

P
URSUANT 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 Charles Thomas Styles, M.A.
The Reverend John Lewis Wilson, M.A.

The Methodist Church of New Zealand
The Reverend Arthur Henry Voyce.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Elder Whakahe Matenga.
Dated at Wellington this 20th day of December 1954.
S. T. BARNETT, Registrar-General.

Government Railways Appeal Board—Appointment of
Member

N
OTICE is hereby given that pursuant to subsection (4) (b)
of section 91 of the Government Railways Act 1949, the
New Zealand Railways Commission has appointed Mr Allan
Hartley, Industrial and Safety Officer, Railways Department,
Wellington, to act as a member of the Government Railways
Appeal Board from 1 January 1955 until and including
31 December 1956, in all appeals by or against members in
the New Zealand Government Railways.
Dated at Wellington this 14th day of December 1954.
H. C. LUSTY, General Manager,
New Zealand Government Railways.

Appointment of Member of Standards Council

P
URSUANT to section 3 of the Standards Act 1941, the
Minister of Industries and Commerce has appointed
Eric Eugene McCarthy, of Whiteman's Valley, Farmer,
representing Federated Farmers of New Zealand, Incorporated,
to be a member of the Standards Council until 31 March
1955, vice William Walter Mulholland, resigned.
Dated at Wellington this 19th day of November 1954.
L. J. McDONALD,
Executive Officer, Standards Council.

Members of the Clifton Rabbit Board Elected
(Notice No. Ag. 5801)

P
URSUANT to section 57 of the Rabbit Nuisance Act 1928,
notice has been received from the Returning Officer
appointed to hold the first election of members of the Clifton
Rabbit Board that the following have been duly elected as
members of the said Board:
John Eric Bisset,
Russell Cockburn,
Howard Winston Cross,
Alan Counsell Stephens, and
Benjamin Harrison Throp.
Dated at Wellington this 14th day of December 1954.
K. J. HOLYOAKE, Minister of Agriculture.
(Ag. 64/1/254)

Specifying Rate of Levy under the Orchard Levy Act 1953
(Notice No. Ag. 5804)

P
URSUANT to the Orchard Levy Act 1953, the Minister of
Agriculture hereby specifies that the rate of the levy
payable under section 3 of the said Act by every person who
on the 31st day of January in the year 1955 or in any year
thereafter is the occupier of an orchard shall be one pound
ten shillings (£1 10s.).
Dated at Wellington this 15th day of December 1954.
K. J. HOLYOAKE, Minister of Agriculture.
(Ag. 74/16/2)