21 APRIL
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
685

Member of National Amenities Committee Appointed

PURSUANT to the Waterfront Industry Act 1953, the Minister of Labour hereby appoints

Frank Russell Murray (nominated by the General Manager of Railways)

to be a member of the National Amenities Committee for a term expiring on the 30th day of April 1956, vice William Theodore Langbein.

Dated at Wellington this 13th day of April 1955.

W. SULLIVAN, Minister of Labour.

Board Appointed to Have Control of Spotswood Domain

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

Cecil Frank Barnes,
Prince Albert Barnes,
David Henry Milne,
John Boyd Stevenson, and
Irvine Frederick Henry Wilkinson

to be the Spotswood 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—SPOTSWOOD DOMAIN

PART Section 70, Spotswood Village: Area, 21·9 perches, more or less. All certificate of title, Volume 275, folio 150. Also Reserves 3157, 3714, and 3851, situated in Spotswood Village: Area, 14 acres 2 roods 27 perches, more or less.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of April 1955.

F. R. CORBETT, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. 1/202; D.O. 8/3/83)

Revocation of Appointment of Certain Garage Proprietors for Issue of Warrants of Fitness

PURSUANT to regulation 11 of the Traffic Regulations 1936, the Minister of Transport hereby revokes the approval of the firm described in the Schedule hereto for the purpose of the issue of warrants of fitness for motor vehicles.

SCHEDULE

W. P. Edmonds Ltd., Mosgiel. (Approval No. 2866.)

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of April 1955.

W. S. GOOSMAN, Minister of Transport.

Appointment of Acting Deputy High Commissioner of Western Samoa

PURSUANT to the Samoa Act 1921, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Leicester Mitchell Cook, Esquire,

to be Acting Deputy High Commissioner of Western Samoa on and from the 16th day of May 1955, during the absence on furlough from Western Samoa of Guy Richardson Powles, Esquire, C.M.G., the High Commissioner of Western Samoa.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of April 1955.

T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Island Territories.

Appointment of Acting Deputy High Commissioner of Western Samoa

PURSUANT to the Samoa Act 1921, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Thomas Christie Lonie, Esquire,

to be Acting Deputy High Commissioner of Western Samoa for the period commencing on the 10th day of April 1955, and expiring with the 15th day of May 1955.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of April 1955.

T. L. MACDONALD, Minister of Island Territories.

Revocation of Appointment of Honorary Officer

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

Bernard Mischewski

as an honorary officer for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act 1908 for the Rotorua Acclimatization District as from the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of April 1955.

JOHN MCALPINE, Minister of Marine.

Appointment of Honorary Officer

PURSUANT to section 29 of the Statutes Amendment Act 1946, the Minister of Marine hereby appoints the person named in the Schedule to this Warrant to be an Honorary Officer for the acclimatization district shown in such Schedule for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act 1908, such person to hold office until the 31st day of March 1956.

SCHEDULE

NORTH CANTERBURY ACCLIMATIZATION DISTRICT

Alastair Inglis Carey.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of April 1955.

JOHN MCALPINE, Minister of Marine.

Officiating Ministers for 1955 (Notice No. 10)

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

The Church of the Province of New Zealand Commonly Called the Church of England

The Rev. Arthur Alan Western Gray, M.A.
The Venerable Archdeacon Samuel Edward Woods.

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand

The Rev. Arton Everts.
The Rev. Ronald William Simpson.

The Roman Catholic Church

The Rev. Raymond Joseph Ferris.
The Rev. Michael John Morris.
The Rev. John Blair Stone.

The Salvation Army

Lieutenant Richard Prattley.

Brethren

Mr Donald Gillies.
Mr John McAlpine.

The Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Conference of New Zealand

The Rev. Noel Clifford Schultz.

Seventh Day Adventists

Pastor Wynstan George Dowling.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of April 1955.

S. T. BARNETT, Registrar-General.

The Rabbit Skins Levy Fixation Order 1955 (Notice No. Ag. 5873)

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act 1947, and having regard to the recommendations of the Rabbit Destruction Council, the Minister of Agriculture hereby makes the following order.

ORDER

1. This order may be cited as the Rabbit Skins Levy Fixation Order 1955.

2. For the purposes of this order “the said regulations” means the Rabbit Skins Levy Regulations 1948.

3. The rate of the levy to be charged for the purposes of the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act 1947, in accordance with that Act and the said regulations, on rabbit skins of whatever class produced and sold in New Zealand, shall be 200 per centum of the price paid or payable by the purchaser of the skins in respect of every sale made or effected during the period commencing on the 1st day of June 1955 and ending on the 31st day of May 1956, both days inclusive, by a broker by auction or by a rural vendor directly to a wholesale trader as respectively defined in the said regulations.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of April 1955.

K. J. HOLYOAKE, Minister of Agriculture.

(Ag. 64/9/1647)

N.B.—The rate of the levy fixed by the above order is equivalent to a rate of 66⅔ per centum on the full market value.