MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1059

Volunteer Officer resigned, and posted to Active List, New Zealand Volunteers.

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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by

Captain (Pay- and Quarter-master) EDWARD CUTTEN,
South Canterbury Battalion of Infantry Volunteers,

and to approve that he be placed on the Active List, New Zealand Volunteers, with rank of Captain, and with effect from 13th March, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officer resigned, and posted to Active List, New Zealand Volunteers.

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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by

Lieutenant EDWARD DUGARD HARLAND, Wellington Highland Rifle Volunteers,

and to approve that he be placed on the Active List, New Zealand Volunteers, with rank of Lieutenant, and with effect from 18th March, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Name of Volunteer Officer removed from Active List, New Zealand Volunteers, and placed on Retired List.

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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve that the name of

Captain CORNELIUS LITTLE

be deleted from the Active List, New Zealand Volunteers, and that he be posted, under paragraph 255, Amended Volunteer Regulations, as published in New Zealand Gazette No. 22, dated 12th March, 1903, to the Retired List, with rank of Captain, and with effect from 4th April, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Services of Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps accepted.

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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 1, “The Defence Act, 1886,” the services of the undermentioned corps:—

Matata Mounted Rifle Volunteers,
with headquarters at Matata. Date of acceptance, 21st January, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps attached to Battalion.

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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve that the Matata Mounted Rifle Volunteers be attached to the No. 4 Battalion, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers, and designated “E” Company.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Appointment of Additional Member of the Central Military Examination Board.

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Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th April, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointment of

Lieutenant THOMAS WILLIAM MCDONALD, New Zealand Militia,

as an additional member of the Central Board of Military Examination, and with effect from 3rd April, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 28th April, 1905.

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

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

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Use of Explosives for Fishing in Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate prohibited.

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Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 26th April, 1905.

THE following letter and its enclosure, received from the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, are published for general information.

ALBERT PITT,
For Colonial Secretary.

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Western Pacific High Commission,
Suva, Fiji, 22nd March, 1905.

MY LORD, — I have the honour to forward herewith ten copies of a regulation which I have issued to prohibit the use of explosives for the destruction of fish in the waters of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate.

I have, &c.,

EVERARD IM THURN.

His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand.

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No. 1 of 1905.

In the name of His Majesty, EDWARD VII., of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Emperor of India, &c., &c., &c.

King’s Regulation (made by His Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, in accordance with the provisions of the Pacific Order in Council, 1893) to prohibit the Use of Explosives for Fishing in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate.

[L.S.] EVERARD IM THURN.

Interpretation.

In this regulation the term—

“Explosives” shall mean and include dynamite gun-cotton nitro-glycerine gunpowder fulminate of mercury and every adaptation and preparation thereof as an explosive.

“Public fishery” shall mean any salt or fresh water in the Protectorate or on the coasts or bays thereof within the three miles coastal limit but shall not include waters the property of any private person.

Date of coming into operation.

1. On and after the first day of July one thousand nine hundred and five the use of explosives for the purpose of catching or destroying fish in any public fishery within the limits of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate shall be prohibited.

Penalty. £5 fine. 14 days’ imprisonment.

2. Any person guilty of a breach of this Regulation shall on conviction be liable to a money penalty not exceeding five pounds or in the discretion of the Court to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding fourteen days.