Dec. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2167

Dress Regulations amended.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to expunge paragraph (c) of the Dress Regulations for the New Zealand Forces, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 69, of the 19th September, 1895, page 1463, and to substitute the following therefor: “(c.) Engineering: Cross flags with a star above for Signalling and Electricity Branch, and cross pick and shovel for Field Engineering; to be worn on right arm below the elbow.” And also, in paragraph (f), line 4, for “cross flags,” to substitute “badges.”

T. THOMPSON.

Designation of Volunteer Corps changed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the designation of the Nelson Naval Artillery Volunteers being changed to the “Nelson Coastguard Rifle Volunteers,” with its present seniority in the New Zealand Volunteer Force, and with effect from the 23rd November, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

Captain THOMAS JOHN CORY WARREN

of his commission as captain in the D Battery, New Zealand Regiment, Artillery Volunteers, and also as a member of the Local Board for the examination of candidates for commissions in the New Zealand Defence Forces. Resignation to date from the 19th November, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads in Omona Survey District, in the Taranaki Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were, on the 12th and 23rd March, 1897, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 23rd July, 1896.

SCHEDULE.

ROADS THROUGH MATEMATEAONGA BLOCK.

As the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at New Plymouth, in the Taranaki Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 7th day of December, 1897.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road through Piraunui No. 1 Block, in the Wellington Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of section 92 of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 13th January, 1897, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by a warrant dated the 13th October, 1896.

SCHEDULE.

ROAD IN PIRAUNUI NO. 1 BLOCK.

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 6th day of December, 1897.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to take Land for Road from Victoria Valley to Main Road.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road from Victoria Valley to Main Road, Parish of Maungataniwha, and for the purposes of such public work the lands described in the Schedule hereto are required to be taken. And notice is further given that the plan of the said road and of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office at Victoria Valley, and is there open for inspection. And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above stated, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

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