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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 77

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointment :—
Ashhurst Rifle Volunteers.
George William Bowater to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 3rd June, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 63, Volunteer Regulations, of the promotion of the undermentioned officer :—
Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry Volunteers.
Lieutenant Robert Heaton Rhodes to be Captain. Date of commission, 7th August, 1902.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned, and posted on Promotion to Retired List.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by
Captain WILLIAM HENRY LUCAS, V.D., Hauraki Rifle Volunteers,
and to approve that he be posted to the Retired List, with rank of Major, and with effect from 29th August, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Honorary Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by
The Reverend ALAN STANLEY INNES-JONES as Honorary Chaplain to the Feilding Mounted Rifle Volunteers, and with effect from 5th June, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the undermentioned officer :—
Tuapeka Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Captain William Richard Pearson. Date of resignation, 29th July, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the undermentioned officer :—
Southland Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Captain George Charles Todd. Date of resignation, 14th August, 1903.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Public-school Cadet Companies, Detachments, and Battalions recognised.

Education Department,
Wellington, 30th September, 1903.

THE undermentioned public-school cadet companies, detachments, and battalions are recognised under the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 15th May, 1902 :—
Auckland Education District.
No. 1 Auckland Public School Cadet Battalion, with the following officers :— James Robb (commanding the Onehunga Public School Cadet Company) to command the battalion ; Colin R. Munro (commanding the Parnell Public School Cadet Company) to be Adjutant; and Norman D. McKay (commanding the Grafton Public School Cadet Company) to be Quartermaster.
No. 2 Auckland Public School Cadet Battalion, with the following officers :— David W. Dunlop (commanding the Northcote Public School Cadet Company) to command the battalion ; Robert Harry Patterson (commanding the Wellesley Street Public School Cadet Company) to be Adjutant; and Herbert Glanville Cousins (commanding the Beresford Street Public School Cadet Company) to be Quartermaster.
The Chapel Street Public School Cadet Company.
Wanganui Education District.
No. 2 Wanganui Public School Cadet Battalion, with the following officers :— James Aitken (Rector of the Wanganui District High School) to command the battalion ; Ritchings Grant (of the Wanganui District High School) to be Adjutant; and William L. Maule (of the Wanganui District High School) to be Quartermaster.
Wellington Education District.
No. 1 Wellington Public School Cadet Battalion, with the following officers :— William Foster (commanding the Mitchelltown Public School Cadet Detachment) to command the battalion ; Frederick A. Hempleman (commanding the Mount Cook Public School No. 2 Cadet Company) to be Adjutant; and Albert A. Wedde (pupil-teacher, Mount Cook School) to be Quartermaster.
No. 2 Wellington Public School Cadet Battalion, with the following officers :— Jabez A. Cowles (commanding the Clyde Quay Public School Cadet Company) to command the battalion ; Joseph H. Worboys (commanding the Kilbirnie Public School Cadet Company) to be Adjutant; and Alexander McKenzie (commanding the South Wellington Public School Cadet Company) to be Quartermaster.
Nelson Education District.
The Motueka Public School Cadet Detachment.
Grey Education District.
The Blackball Public School Cadet Detachment.
The Ahaura Public School Cadet Detachment.
Southland Education District.
The Lumsden Public School Cadet Detachment.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Education.

Notice to Mariners No. 71 of 1903.

PRELIMINARY NOTICE.—LIGHT ON KAHURANGI POINT, WEST COAST, SOUTH ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 28th September, 1903.
NOTICE is hereby given that about the end of November, 1903, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse now being erected on Kahurangi Point, West Coast, South Island, in lat. 40°46'3" S. and long. 172°13'7" E., as measured from the Admiralty Chart.
The light will be about 110ft. above the level of the sea at high water, and will be a dioptric fixed white light of the second order, visible to seaward over an arc of 212 degrees of the horizon for a distance of about 16½ miles from the deck of a vessel 15ft. above the sea, with a red sector of 20 degrees so adjusted as to show over the Stewart breaker,