11 NOVEMBER 2004 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 145

Interest payable quarterly

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of November 2004.

PAT WAITE, Chief Executive, Public Trust.

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The Treasury

Public Finance Act 1989

Notice of Publication of Financial Statements of the Crown

Pursuant to section 31B of the Public Finance Act 1989, the Minister of Finance gives notice of the publication of the financial statements of the Crown for:

• the three months ended 30 September 2004, on 5 November 2004.

Copies of these financial statements are available:

• for inspection free of charge at the National Library of New Zealand, Auckland City Library, Wellington Public Library and Canterbury Public Library;
• for purchase at branches of Bennetts bookshops; and
• through the internet at:
  http://www.treasury.govt.nz

Dated at Wellington this 5th day of November 2004.

DR MICHAEL CULLEN, Minister of Finance.

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Authorities and Other Agencies of State Notices

Antarctic New Zealand

British Settlements Act 1887

Officer of the Government of Ross Dependency Appointed

SILVIA CARTWRIGHT, Governor-General

Background:

A. An Order in Council dated 30 July 1923* (“the order”) made under the British Settlements Act 1887 (UK) appoints the Governor-General of New Zealand to be the Governor of the Ross Dependency (“the Governor”) and vests in the Governor certain powers:

B. The order empowers the Governor to make rules and regulations for the peace, order, and good government of the Dependency:

C. Regulations made by the Governor on 14 November 1923† provide that all persons appointed by the Governor may be empowered to do such things as may be necessary or desirable to ensure that the laws in force in the Dependency are duly observed and complied with in every respect, and to do all things necessary or expedient for the peace, order, and good government of the Dependency, and to safeguard and preserve Her Majesty’s rights and sovereignty over and in respect of the Dependency:

D. It is now expedient that Dean Bailey Peterson be appointed an officer of the Government of the Dependency:

Now therefore I, Dame Silvia Cartwright, the Governor-General of New Zealand, and as such the Governor of the Dependency, appoint

Dean Bailey Peterson

to be an officer of the Government of the Dependency while he acts as Senior New Zealand Representative at Scott Base during the period beginning with this appointment and ending with the close of 28 February 2007:

I confer on Dean Bailey Peterson, while he holds office as an officer of the Government of the Dependency, all the powers exercisable in New Zealand by a Justice of the Peace, and also the powers exercisable in New Zealand by a Coroner:

Dean Bailey Peterson is to exercise his functions at such places within the Dependency as may be directed by an officer of the Government of the Dependency who has the general executive and administrative authority in preserving Her Majesty’s rights and sovereignty and the laws in force in the Dependency.

As witness the hand of Her Excellency the Governor-General as the Governor of the Ross Dependency, this 18th day of October 2004.

PHIL GOFF, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

*New Zealand Gazette, 1923, Vol. II, page 2211

†New Zealand Gazette, 1923, Vol. III, page 2815

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