GREETERING:

WHEREAS by Our Warrant dated the 23rd day of June 1975*. We constituted you the said DUNCAN WALLACE McMULLIN, DENESE LETITIA HENARE, MAURICE ROY McCGREGOR, BARBARA JEANETTE THOMPSON, and DOROTHY GERTRUDE WINSTONE, together with one GEOFFREY LEONARD BRINKMAN, of Hamilton, medical practitioner, to be a Commission to receive representations upon, inquire into, investigate, and report upon the matters relating to contraception, sterilisation, and abortion referred to therein:

And Whereas by Our Warrant, dated the 12th day of September 1975f. We reconstituted the said Commission by appointing you, the said MAURICE DOMINIC MATICH, to be a member of the said Commission in the stead of the said GEOFFREY LEONARD BRINKMAN:

And Whereas you the said DUNCAN WALLACE McMULLIN, DENESE LETITIA HENARE, MAURICE ROY McCGREGOR, BARBARA JEANETTE THOMPSON, DOROTHY GERTRUDE WINSTONE, and MAURICE DOMINIC MATICH, the members of the said Commission as so reconstituted, were required by Our Warrant, dated the 23rd day of June 1975, to report, not later than the 30th day of June 1976, your findings and opinions on the matters aforesaid, together with such recommendations as you thought fit to make in respect thereof:

And Whereas by Our Warrant dated the 10th day of May 1976t the time within which you were so required to report was extended until the 30th day of September 1976:

And Whereas it is expedient that the time for so reporting should be further extended as hereinafter provided:

Now, therefore, We do hereby extend until the 31st day of December 1976 the time within which you are so required to report, without prejudice to the liberty conferred on you by Our Said Warrant, dated the 23rd day of June 1975, to report your proceedings and findings from time to time if you should judge it expedient so to do:

And We do hereby confirm Our Said Warrant, dated the 23rd day of June 1975, and the Commission thereby constituted, save as modified by Our Said Warrant dated the 12th day of September 1975 and by these presents:

And, lastly, it is hereby declared that these presents are issued under the authority of the Letters Patent of His Late Majesty King George the Fifth, dated the 11th day of May 1917, and under the authority of and subject to the provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1908, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand.

In Witness whereof We have caused this Our Commission to be issued and the Seal of New Zealand to be hereunto affixed at Wellington this 27th day of July 1976.

Witness our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Sir Edward Denis Blundell, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of Our Royal Victorian Order, Knight Commander of Our Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over New Zealand.

EDWARD DENIS BLUNDELL, Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command—

By his Deputy, RICHARD WILD.

FRANK GILL, Minister of Health.

Approved in Council—

P. G. MILLEN, Clerk of the Executive Council.

*New Zealand Gazette, 1975, p. 1406

†New Zealand Gazette, 1975, p. 2049

‡New Zealand Gazette, 1976, p. 1062

Reappointment of Temporary Judge of the Supreme Court

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen, has been pleased to appoint

The Honourable Alan Aylmer Coates, C.M.G.

to be a temporary Judge of the Supreme Court for a further period of 12 months, from the expiry of His Honour’s present term of office, namely, 17 August 1976.

Dated at Wellington this 2nd day of August 1976.

P. I. WILKINSON, Attorney-General.

Appointment of Director to the Development Finance Corporation of New Zealand

PURSUANT to section 10 and section 11 of the Development Finance Corporation Act of 1973, His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

William Michael Brinsley,

company director, of Dunedin,

to be a director of the Development Finance Corporation for a term of 3 years, commencing 4 August 1976.

Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of August 1976.

L. R. ADAMS-SCHNEIDER,

Minister of Trade and Industry.

Appointment of Member of the Otatara Pa Historic Reserve Board

PURSUANT to the Reserves and Domains Act 1953, the Minister of Lands hereby appoints Mary Munro Jeal to be a member of the Otatara Pa Historic Reserve Board, Hawkes Bay Land District, in place of James Royce McKinlay, resigned.

Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of August 1976.

VENN YOUNG, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. H.O. Res. 5/4/3; D.O. 8/4/3)

Members of Architects Education and Registration Board Appointed

PURSUANT to section 33 of the Architects Act 1963, the following persons have been appointed members of the Architects Education and Registration Board:

Professor Allan Arthur Wild, of Auckland; and

James Alexander Ross, of Wellington;

appointed by the Minister of Education; and

Derek Wilson, of Wellington;

appointed by the Minister of Internal Affairs.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of August 1976.

D. A. HIGHET, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Resignation of Justice of the Peace

It is noted for general information that

Barry Dale Herbert Hewitson

of 24 Mt Hobson Road, Remuera, Auckland 5, has resigned his appointment as a Justice of the Peace.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of July 1976.

G. S. ORR, Secretary for Justice.

(J.P. 73/135 (10); Adm. 3/17/5)

Appointment of Member and Chairman of Land Valuation Committees

PURSUANT to section 19 (2) and (2B) of the Land Valuation Proceedings Act 1948, His Excellency the Governor-General by his Deputy, has been pleased to appoint

Noel Liam Bradford, Esquire,

Stipendiary Magistrate, to be a member and Chairman of the North Canterbury Land Valuation Committee, and of the Westland Land Valuation Committee, vice Paul Loxton Molineaux, Esquire, S.M., on and from the date hereof.

Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of August 1976.

D. S. THOMSON, Minister of Justice.

(Adm. 3/18/2/18/19 (6))

Appointment of Honorary Launch Warden

PURSUANT to section 7 of the Harbours Act 1950, I, Owen John Conway, of the Ministry of Transport, in exercise of powers delegated by the Minister of Transport hereby appoint

Silvester Lionel Lobb, J.P.

as honorary launch warden for purposes of the Motor Launch Regulations 1962.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of August 1976.

O. J. CONWAY, for Secretary for Transport.

(M.O.T. 43/994/7)