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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

Greytown Rifle Volunteers,
with headquarters at Greytown North;
Cromwell Rifle Volunteers,
with headquarters at Cromwell, Otago;
Clyde Rifle Volunteers,
with headquarters at Clyde, Otago.
Acceptance to date from the 22nd October, 1900.
R. J. SEDDON.

Services of a Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 39, (1), “The Defence Act, 1886,” the services of the
Ellesmere Guards Rifle Volunteers,
with headquarters at Doyleston. Acceptance to date from the 31st October, 1900.
C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Defence.

Award of the Imperial Volunteer Officers’ Decoration.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under the Royal Warrant dated the 25th July, 1892, of the award of the Imperial Volunteer Officers’ Decoration to
Captain ROBERT HUGHES, Wanganui Rifle Volunteers,
he having a total efficient commissioned and rank service counting towards the Decoration, to the 30th June, 1900, of 20 years 99 days.
R. J. SEDDON.

Designation of Volunteer Corps changed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the designation of the “Thames Naval Artillery Volunteers” being changed to the “No. 1 Company, Thames Rifle Volunteers,” with the seniority of the first-mentioned corps in the New Zealand Volunteer Force, with headquarters at the Thames, and with effect from the 16th October, 1900.
R. J. SEDDON.

Volunteer Officers retired.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned officers being retired under the provisions of paragraph 260, Volunteer Regulations, they being over sixty years of age:—
Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers.
Major William Jenkins.
Quartermaster Robert Peattie.
R. J. SEDDON.

Member of Local Examination Board resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by
Lieut.-Colonel JAMES EWART HANNAH, Honorary Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteers,
of his appointment as a member of the Local Military Examination Board for the Southland Sub-district. Date of resignation, 3rd September, 1900.
C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the disbandment of the
Totara Rifle Volunteers (Ross).
Disbandment to date from the 15th August, 1900.
C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Defence.

Census Enumerators appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 6th November, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned gentlemen to be Enumerators for the census of 1901, under “The Census Act, 1877,” and to define that the district for which each shall act shall be that portion of the colony comprised in the counties specified opposite his name, including the boroughs within their recognised boundaries, and certain adjacent islands.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

Special Order made by the Hunua Road Board, County of Manukau.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th November, 1900.

THE following special order, made by the Hunua Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
W. C. WALKER,
For Colonial Secretary.

Copy of Special Order made by the Hunua Road Board on the 6th day of October, 1900, and confirmed on the 3rd day of November, 1900.

THAT this Board make a special order to borrow from the Government, under the provisions of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and its amendments,