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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

Volunteer Officer’s Commission antedated.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the commission of Captain Charles Thomas Major, College Rifle Volunteers (Auckland), being antedated from the 13th December, 1898, to the 30th June, 1897.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment under paragraph 63, Volunteer Regulations, 1895:—

Geraldine Rifle Volunteers.

Kenneth Mackenzie to be Captain. Date of commission, 5th May, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned appointment under paragraph 72, Volunteer Regulations:—

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.

George Hodges to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of commission, 12th May, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Designation of Volunteer Corps changed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the designation of the “Star Boating Club Naval Artillery Volunteers” (Wellington) being changed to the “Star Boating Club Submarine Mining Volunteers,” with the seniority of the first-mentioned corps in the New Zealand Volunteer Force, and with effect from the 1st day of May, 1899.

T. THOMPSON.

Special Order made by the Hawera County Council altering Boundaries of Hawera and Eltham Ridings.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 9th June, 1899.

THE following special order, made by the Hawera County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

W. C. WALKER.

HAWERA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order altering Boundaries of Hawera and Eltham Ridings.

That the boundaries of the Hawera and Eltham Ridings be altered as follows: viz., that the dividing-line between such ridings shall be the Austin Road, from the Waingongoro River to the Mangapoua Stream; thence the Mangapoua Stream to block-line between Ngaiire and Hawera Survey Districts; thence said block-line to Ararata Stream; thence the Ararata Stream to junction of Rotokare and Makino Roads; thence the Makino Road to the eastern boundary of Section 25, Block 15, Ngaiire; thence the eastern boundary of said Section 25 to the confiscation-line; thence the north-western boundary of Subdivisions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 of Block 1, Tutaeariari, to the northern corner of said Subdivision 9; thence the north-eastern boundary of Subdivisions 8 and 9 of Block 1, Tutaeariari, to the dividing-line between Blocks Nos. I. and II., Tutaeariari; thence such dividing-line to the Patea River.

I hereby certify that the special order making alterations in the boundaries of the Hawera and Eltham Ridings of the Hawera County has been duly made.

C. A. BUDGE,
Clerk, Hawera County Council.

Hawera, 5th June, 1899.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 11th June, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

W. C. WALKER.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road through Block XIII., Belmont Survey District and Borough of Petone.

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 through Subdivision 11 of Section 3, Subdivision Q of Sections 2 and 3, 9A, 9B, 9C, Section G, and railway land, Block XIII., Belmont Survey District and Borough of Petone, 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 plans of the said road and of the lands so required to be taken are deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, and are 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 lands shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such lands, 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.

KOROKORO ROAD.

All in the Wellington 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 ninth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES.
For Minister of Lands.