5 MAY

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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Local Authority and Name of Loan

Amount
Consented to
£

Taranaki County Council: Rural Housing Loan 1966
24,000

Te Kuiti Borough Council: Centennial Park Redemption Loan 1966
4,000

Waipawa Borough Council: Fire Engine Loan 1966
1,000

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.
(T. 40/416/6)

Appointment of Deputy Member of Government Service Tribunal

BERNARD FERGUSSON, Governor-General

ORDER IN COUNCIL

At the Government Buildings at Wellington this 18th day of April 1966

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. KEITH HOLYOAKE, C.H., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL

PURSUANT to sections 3 and 4 of the Government Service Tribunal Act 1965, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, hereby appoints

Geoffrey Victor Wild, Esquire,

as a member of the Government Service Tribunal to act in the place of George Thomas Bolt, Esquire, C.M.G. in respect of the hearing, consideration, and determination by the Tribunal of the applications now before the Tribunal relating to the maximum salary payable to head teachers of full primary and contributory schools of grade IV, the said George Thomas Bolt being incapacitated from acting as a member of the Tribunal in respect of the hearing, consideration, and determination of those applications by reason of his having been a member of the Commission on Education in New Zealand constituted by the Minister of Education in 1960.

T. J. SHERRARD, Clerk of the Executive Council.

Appointing the Transport Licensing Appeal Authority Under the Transport Act 1962

BERNARD FERGUSSON, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 156 of the Transport Act 1962, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby appoints

John Hector Luxford, of Auckland, Esquire

to be the Transport Licensing Appeal Authority.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 22nd day of April 1966.

JOHN McALPINE, Minister of Transport.

Appointing the Transport Charges Appeal Authority Under the Transport Act 1962

BERNARD FERGUSSON, Governor-General

PURSUANT to section 157 of the Transport Act 1962, His Excellency the Governor-General hereby appoints

John Hector Luxford, of Auckland, Esquire

to be the Transport Charges Appeal Authority.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 22nd day of April 1966.

JOHN McALPINE, Minister of Transport.

Exempting Land in the Otago Land District From the Operation of Part III of the Coal Mines Act 1925

BERNARD FERGUSSON, 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 those parcels of land containing 4 acres and 3 roods, more or less, being Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 21, and 22, Block XIII, Town of Kaitangata, and Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22, Block XIV, Town of Kaitangata, and being the whole of the land in certificates of title, Volume 82, folio 150, and Volume 92, folio 224, and part of land in certificate of title, Volume 94, folio 134, in the Otago Land Registry.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 22nd day of April 1966.

T. P. SHAND, Minister of Mines.

(Mines 11/41/18)

Appointing a Non-elective Member of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council

BERNARD FERGUSSON, Governor-General

WHEREAS by Warrant dated 11 October 1963, and published in Gazette, 17 October 1963, No. 63, page 1604, Harry Lancelot Hume, Esquire, B.E., B.SC., M.I.C.E., was appointed as the officer of the Ministry of Works to be a member of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council:

And whereas the said Harry Lancelot Hume has retired from the Ministry of Works and consequently resigned from membership of the said Council:

And whereas it is desired to appoint Frank Richardson Askin to be a member of the said Council in place of Harry Lancelot Hume:

Now, therefore, pursuant to section 3 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941, I, Brigadier Sir Bernard Edward Fergusson, the Governor-General of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

Frank Richardson Askin, B.SC., M.I.C.E., D.I.C.

of Wellington, registered civil engineer, as the officer of the Ministry of Works, to be a member of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council to hold office until the 10th day of October 1968.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General this 28th day of April 1966.

PERCY B. ALLEN, Minister of Works.

(P.W. 74/3)

Appointment of High Commissioner for New Zealand in Singapore

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council has been pleased to appoint

James Harrison Weir

to be High Commissioner for New Zealand in Singapore under and for the purposes of the External Affairs Act 1943, to hold the said office as from the 14th day of February 1966 until the 13th day of February 1968.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of April 1966.

KEITH HOLYOAKE, Minister of External Affairs.

Appointment of Law Draftsman

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

John Graham Hamilton, Esquire, LL.M.

to be the Law Draftsman, vice Denzil Anthony Seaver Ward, Esquire, B.A., LL.B. (who has been appointed Counsel to the Law Drafting Office and Compiler of Statutes), in terms of the Statutes Drafting and Compilation Act 1920, on and from 22 April 1966.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of April 1966.

KEITH HOLYOAKE, Prime Minister.

Appointment of Counsel to the Law Drafting Office and Compiler of Statutes

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Denzil Anthony Seaver Ward, Esquire, B.A., LL.B.

to be Counsel to the Law Drafting Office and Compiler of Statutes, in terms of the Statutes Drafting and Compilation Act 1920, on and from 22 April 1966.

Dated at Wellington this 22nd day of April 1966.

KEITH HOLYOAKE, Prime Minister.

Appointment as a Member of the Timber Preservation Authority

PURSUANT to the Timber Preservation Regulations 1955, the Minister of Industries and Commerce hereby appoints

Kennedy Mayo Harrow

(an officer of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) to be a member of the Timber Preservation Authority, vice Leslie Walter Tiller (retired).

Dated at Wellington this 20th day of April 1966.

J. R. MARSHALL, Minister of Industries and Commerce.

(I. and C. 33/18/1)