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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

Volunteer Officer appointed.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned appointment:—

New Zealand Volunteer Medical Staff.

Harold Guthrie McAllum to be Surgeon-Captain. Date of commission, 12th October, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Cadet Corps accepted.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 39, (1), “The Defence Act, 1886,” and amended paragraph 264, Volunteer Regulations, the services of the undermentioned corps:—

Brunnerton Rifle Cadet Volunteers,

with headquarters at Brunnerton. Acceptance to date from 7th March, 1902.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officer appointed.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned appointment:—

Murihiku Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Robert McNab to be Captain. Appointment to date from 4th December, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officer appointed.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned appointment:—

Murihiku Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Richard Wilson to be Lieutenant. Appointment to date from 4th December, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officer appointed.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned appointment:—

Colac Bay Rifle Volunteers.

William Jones to be Lieutenant. Appointment to date from 4th December, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officer appointed.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned appointment:—

Petone Naval Artillery Volunteers.

Charles Ernest Archibald to be Lieutenant. Appointment to date from 4th December, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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Award of Imperial Volunteer Officers’ Decoration.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under the Royal Warrant of the 25th July, 1892, of the award of the Imperial Volunteer Officers’ Decoration to

Major John Edward Hawkins, 2nd Battalion, Otago Mounted Rifle Volunteers,

he having a total efficient rank and commissioned service counting towards the decoration to the 31st January, 1902, of twenty years and five days.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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Institution of Volunteer Service Medal.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 9th April, 1902.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the issue of the New Zealand Volunteer Service Medal, as laid down in attached regulations.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

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NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEER SERVICE MEDAL.

Officers of Volunteer Force and Volunteers who have earned capitation and served efficiently in New Zealand Volunteer Force for twelve consecutive years will be entitled to the New Zealand Volunteer Service Medal, as also will be officers now on Honorary Unattached List and Volunteers now on District Reserve who have had the above service before being transferred to that list or reserve. Officers of Volunteer Force and Volunteers who have served on active service are entitled to count the period of each year or part of a year of such service as double towards a medal:

Provided that in the event of any corps being returned non-efficient for capitation for any year by reason of failing to capitulate three-fourths of its minimum strength, the individual members of such corps who have done all the duties required by the regulations shall, notwithstanding that they have not received capitation, nevertheless count any such year as efficient service towards the New Zealand Volunteer Service Medal: Provided also that for any year or portion of a year for which any such officer or Volunteer shall have been on active service, they shall be deemed for purpose hereof to have been efficient, and earned capitation for that year.

The New Zealand Volunteer Service Medal will not be issued to officers or Volunteers who are already in possession of the New Zealand Long-service Medal, or of any medal issued for long or efficient service by the Imperial authorities. Officers and Volunteers in possession of New Zealand Service Medal, and who subsequently receive New Zealand Long-service Medal, or any Imperial medal for long or efficient service, must return the New Zealand Volunteer Service Medal.

Approved.

RANFURLY,
Governor.

9th April, 1902.

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Justice of the Peace resigned.
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Department of Justice,
Wellington, 16th April, 1902.

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

WILLIAM AGATE ELLIS, Esq.,

of Taihape, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for the colony.

JAMES McGOWAN.

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Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in Clutha County.—Notice No. 696.
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Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 16th April, 1902.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Clutha County Council has, by special order, declared gorse and ragwort to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under its jurisdiction.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

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Notice to Mariners No. 25 of 1902.
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BUOY MARKING ROCKS IN POVERTY BAY, OFF GISBORNE.
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Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 11th April, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that on Thursday, the 24th April, 1902, the red buoy which at present marks the 23 ft. rock, S. 18° W., eight cables from the breakwater-end, Gisborne, will be shifted to the southward of the rocks recently found in Poverty Bay. The following are the magnetic bearings from the new position of buoy:—

Pah Hill .. .. .. N. 65° E.
Flagstaff .. .. .. N. 4° E.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2527; “New Zealand Pilot,” 7th edition, Chap. iv., page 150.

WM. HALL-JONES.