Num. 17. 357

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1887.

As to Recruiting for the Permanent Forces.

(L.S.) Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

UNDER “THE DEFENCE ACT, 1886.”

THE Proclamation published in Gazette No. 47, of the 9th September, 1886, relative to recruiting for the Police and Permanent Forces, is hereby cancelled, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

The Artillery, Engineers, and Torpedo Corps, with the exception of special artificers, engineers, or electricians, shall be selected from the Rifle Branch of the Permanent Militia.

Appointments to the Permanent Militia, Rifle Branch, are to be exclusively given to efficient Volunteers of not less than one year’s efficient service, nor over twenty-five years of age, at the date of their application.

The following regulations are published for the guidance of Volunteers desirous of entering the Rifle Branch of the Permanent Militia:—

Applicants for appointments to the Permanent Militia, Rifle Branch, will send in their applications to and wait, if possible, on the Officer Commanding Permanent Militia at Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, or Auckland, with their addresses, ages, medical certificates of fitness, and certificates of character, one of which must be from the Commanding Officer of the corps in which they are serving.

As vacancies arise, appointments will be made from the list of applicants from each part of the colony in turn. On his being informed that he has been so appointed, the candidate will report himself for enrolment at Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington, within one month, otherwise the vacancy will be offered to the next on the list, and he will be held to have forfeited his appointment, unless in case of certified sickness, when he may be replaced at the head of the list within three months, if then fit for service.

The minimum height for the Artillery is 5ft. 8in.
" " Engineers is 5ft. 8in.
" " Torpedo is 5ft. 4in.
" " Rifles is 5ft. 7in.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Dunedin, this third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

J. BALLANCE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Setting apart Land in the Otago Land District for Perpetual Leasing under “The Land Act, 1885.”

(L.S.) Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

BY virtue and in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the one hundred and thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1885,” and of every other power and authority enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the area of land enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be set apart for lease, with right of renewal, under the provisions of Part IV. of “The Land Act, 1885.”

SCHEDULE.

WOODLANDS SURVEY DISTRICT.

ALL that area of land containing about 150 acres, more or less, adjoining Section No. 9, Block I., Woodlands Survey District.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at Dunedin, this ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

J. BALLANCE,
Minister of Lands.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!