No. 71

1411

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

Published by Authority

WELLINGTON: THURSDAY, 26 JULY 1973

Land Taken for Sanitary Works in Block III and VI,
Whakatane Survey District, Whakatane County

DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General

A PROCLAMATION

PURSUANT to the Public Works Act 1928, I, Sir Edward Denis Blundell, the Governor-General of New Zealand, hereby proclaim and declare that the land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for sanitary works and shall vest in the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Whakatane as from the date hereinafter mentioned; and I also declare that this Proclamation shall take effect on and after the 30th day of July 1973.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT

ALL those pieces of land situated in Blocks III and VI, Whakatane Survey District, described as follows:

A. R. P.
Being
7 2 8.3 Part Allotment 247, Waimana Parish; coloured yellow on plan.
1 3 10 Part Allotment 246B2C2B2, Waimana Parish; coloured sepia on plan.
3 0 19.5 Part Allotment 246B4, Waimana Parish; coloured blue on plan.

As the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked M.O.W. 27176 (S.O. 46653) deposited in the office of the Minister of Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, this 13th day of July 1973.

[L.S.] HUGH WATT, Minister of Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

(P.W. 53/71/1; Hn. D.O. 25/0/81)

Royal Commission to Inquire Into and Report Upon the Sale of Liquor in New Zealand

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith:

To Our Trusty and Well-beloved ALAN AYLMER COATES, Esquire, of Auckland, Stipendiary Magistrate, ELISABETH JOAN HARPER, of Lower Hutt, married woman, the Honourable JOHN MATHISON, of Christchurch, former Minister of the Crown, and MARGARET RITA NOLAN, of Wellington, widow:

GREETING:

WHEREAS We have deemed it expedient that a Commission shall issue for the purpose of assisting the Government in a review of the Sale of Liquor Act 1962, the Licensing Act 1908, and the Licensing Trusts Act 1949 and of assisting Parliament to enact a body of law relating to the sale of alcoholic liquor in New Zealand that will be in harmony with the current social and cultural needs of the community:

Now KNOW YE that We, reposing trust and confidence in your integrity, knowledge, and ability, do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint you, the said

ALAN AYLMER COATES,

ELISABETH JOAN HARPER,

The Honourable JOHN MATHISON, and

MARGARET RITA NOLAN

to be a Commission to receive representations upon, inquire into, and report upon the law relating to the sale, supply, and consumption of alcoholic liquor in New Zealand (including the provisions of the said Acts relating to the taking of polls and to the administrative regulation of the liquor industry) having regard to—

1. Anomalies, anachronisms, and deficiencies in the present law:

2. Changes in New Zealand society and in public attitudes towards alcoholic liquor and the manner, circumstances, and times of its sale, supply, and consumption, since the appointment of the Royal Commission on Licensing in 1945, and to present trends in public opinion relating thereto:

3. The habits, requirements, and wishes of the people of New Zealand with respect to the purchase and consumption of alcoholic liquor:

4. The desirability of discouraging the abuse of alcoholic liquor while facilitating its temperate use by persons who wish to consume it.

And We do hereby appoint you the said

ALAN AYLMER COATES

to be Chairman of the said Commission:

And for the better enabling you to carry these presents into effect you are hereby authorised and empowered to make and conduct any inquiry under these presents in such manner and at such time and place as you think expedient, with power to adjourn from time to time and place to place as you think fit, and so that these presents shall continue in force and any such inquiry may at any time and place be resumed although not regularly adjourned from time to time or from place to place:

And you are hereby strictly charged and directed that you shall not at any time publish or otherwise disclose, save to His Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance of these presents or by His Excellency’s direction, the contents of any report so made or to be made by you, or any evidence or information obtained by you in the exercise of the powers hereby conferred on you, except such evidence or information as is received in the course of a sitting open to the public: