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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 5

Lieutenant JOHN MCNAB, Timaru Rifle Volunteers,
he having a total service up to 31st December, 1904, en-
titling him thereto of twenty years nine months and four
days.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces
Long-service Medal to

No. 73, Sergeant-Major PROSPER RAIN BERLAND, Can-
terbury Mounted Rifle Volunteers,

he having to 1st July, 1903, a total service entitling him
thereto of twenty years and two months.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces
Long-service Medal to

CHARLES STEWART, formerly No. 4, Sergeant-Major
Auckland Engineer Volunteers,

he having to 11th April, 1894, a total service entitling him
thereto of twenty years one month and twenty-nine days.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Mounted Rifle Volunteers.—Headquarters transferred.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the transfer of the headquarters of the
4th Battalion Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers from
Opotiki to Te Puke, and with effect from 10th January,
1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Additional Member, Local Board of Military
Examination.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to ap-
prove of the appointment of

Major HENRY SMART EDGAR HOBDAY, Active List, New
Zealand Volunteers,

as an additional member of the Canterbury Local Board of
Military Examination, and with effect from 6th January,
1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Nelson District Local Board of Military Examination.—
Appointment of Members cancelled and Appointments made
in lieu thereof.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the cancellation of the appointment of
the members constituting the Nelson District Local Board
of Military Examinations, as published in New Zealand
Gazette No. 35, 1903, and that the names of the under-
mentioned officers be substituted in lieu, namely:—

NELSON.

Officer Commanding District and District Adjutant (ex
officio), Major G. N. Johnston, R.A.; Major C. F. G. Morice,
Major G. A. Harkness, Major D’Arcy Chaytor, Captain T.
Carr, Captain J. C. Macfarlane, Captain W. S. Canavan,
Captain A. F. Trask, Captain C. H. J. Brown, Captain
E. V. Madigan, Captain W. S. Austin, Captain P. H. Wood,
Captain E. S. Parker, Captain E. Kenny, Captain H. O’B.
Deck, Captain S. Fittal, Captain C. Broad.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Public-school Cadet Companies recognised.

Education Department,
Wellington, 25th January, 1905.

THE undermentioned public-school cadet companies
are recognised under the regulations published in the
New Zealand Gazette of the 18th February, 1904:—

Hawke’s Bay Education District.
The Wairoa Public School Cadet Company.

Taranaki Education District.
The West End (New Plymouth) Public School Cadet Com-
pany.

North Canterbury Education District.
The New Brighton Public School Cadet Company.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Education.

Special Order made by the Riwaka Road Board, County of
Waimea.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1905.

THE following special order, made by the Riwaka Road
Board, is published in accordance with the provisions
of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

J. G. WARD.

RIWAKA ROAD BOARD.

Special Order.

THAT, under the provisions of “The Road Boards Act,
1882,” and “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” gorse (Ulex
europæus) and ragwort (Senecio jacobæus) are hereby de-
clared noxious weeds within the Riwaka Road District.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly
made in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

GEO. H. BUDDEN,
Clerk, Riwaka Road Board.

Motueka, 8th December, 1904.

Special Order made by the Council of the Borough of
Thames.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 25th January, 1905.

THE following special order, made by the Thames
Borough Council, is published in accordance with the
provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

THAMES BOROUGH COUNCIL.

It is hereby publicly notified that the Council of the Borough
of Thames, by way of special order, adopted the following
resolution at a special meeting of the Council held on the
10th day of November, 1904:—

Special Order making Special Rate.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in
that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” the
Thames Borough Council hereby resolves as follows: That,
for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges
on a loan of £1,200, authorised to be raised by the Thames
Borough Council under the above-mentioned Act, for the
construction of public swimming-baths, the said Thames
Borough Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of
1d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable pro-
perty within the boundaries of the Borough of Thames; and
that such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate
during the currency of such loan, and be payable half-yearly
on the 1st day of January and the 1st day of July in each
and every year during the currency of such loan, being a
period of twenty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

And it was further resolved that a special meeting of the
said Council be held on Monday, 12th December, 1904, to
confirm or otherwise deal with the aforesaid resolution.

ALBERT BRUCE,
Town Clerk.

I, Francis Trembath, Mayor of Thames, hereby certify
that at a special meeting of the Council of the Borough of
Thames held on the 12th December, 1904, the foregoing
resolution was adopted and confirmed.

FRANCIS TREMBATH,
Mayor.