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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 76

Studholme Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
George Alfred Manchester to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th June, 1905.

College Rifle Volunteers (Wellington).
Aubrey Arthur Mee to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th June, 1905.

Dunedin Rifle Volunteers.
Cyril William Birch to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th June, 1905.

Waikari Rifle Volunteers.
William Mackenzie to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th June, 1905.

Reefton Rifle Volunteers.
Robert Tudehope to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th June, 1905.

Gisborne Rifle Volunteers.
Alexander Gerald Beere to be Captain. Date of commission, 5th June, 1905.

Duntroon Rifle Volunteers.
David Stewart to be Captain.
James Everest Tallentire to be Lieutenant.
Date of commissions, 7th June, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commissions held by the undermentioned officers:—

Wallace Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Alfred Henry Newton. Date of resignation, 7th July, 1905.

Christ’s College Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Sydney George Styche. Date of resignation, 30th June, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned and appointed to Battalion.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1905.

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

Lieutenant FRANK CHAPMAN, Opotiki Mounted Rifle Volunteers,

and to approve of his appointment as Adjutant, with rank of Lieutenant, to No. 4 Battalion, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers, and with effect from 27th June, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteer Officer resigned, and appointed to Rifle Volunteers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1905.

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

Lieutenant THOMAS BENJAMIN SALMON, No. 1 Company, New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteers,

and to approve of his appointment to the Bluff Guards Rifle Volunteers, with rank of Lieutenant, and with effect from 30th November, 1904.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1905.

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

Captain (Pay- and Quarter-master) JAMES WILLIAM HENDERSON,

1st Battalion, Wellington Rifle Volunteers, and to approve that he be posted to the Retired List, with rank of Captain, and with effect from 28th February, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Change of Designation of Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th August, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under clause 6, (1), of “The Defence Act, 1886,” of the designation of the “Kawakawa Mounted Rifle Volunteers” being changed to that of the “Bay of Islands Mounted Rifle Volunteers,” with headquarters at Ohaeawai, and with effect from 31st July, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

Special Order made by the Council of the County of Manawatu.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 12th August, 1905.

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

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

MANAWATU COUNTY COUNCIL.

THAT, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” the Manawatu County Council hereby resolves as follows: That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £400, authorised to be raised by the Manawatu County Council, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of providing half-cost of construction of Milner’s Line, and cost of construction of Taikorea, Kellow’s, and a portion of Pyke’s Roads, in the Kawakawa Riding, such loan to be at 4 per centum per annum for forty-one years, and such loan being 10 per centum additional on the loan of £4,000 raised under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” and amendments, the said Manawatu County Council hereby makes and levies a special rate of 1/10d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all the rateable property of the Kawakawa Special-rating District, comprising Sections 60, 66 to 74 inclusive, 142, and 365, Block XI., Te Kawai Survey District; Sections 139, 140, 141, 143, 146, Block VI., Te Kawai Survey District; Sections 147 to 151 inclusive, 154, 155, 157, 366, 367, 368, Block X., Te Kawai Survey District; Sections 94, 96 to 100 inclusive, 114, 115, of subdivision Section 384, Blocks XI., XV., XVI., Te Kawai Survey District; Section 95 of subdivision Sections 318, 384, Blocks XI., XV., Te Kawai Survey District; Sections 120, 121, of subdivision Sections 317, 318, Block XI., Te Kawai Survey District; Section 123 of subdivision Section 317, Block XI., Te Kawai Survey District; and the northern portions (750 acres) of Sections 313, 314, Block X., Te Kawai Survey District (500 acres in the occupation of William Taylor, and 250 acres in the occupation of J. H. Gibbs, formerly J. R. McLennan); excepting from the above area that portion (2 acres) of Section 73 in the occupation of the Wanganui Education Board for the purposes of a public school: and that such special rate shall be an annual-recurring rate during the currency of such loan, and be payable yearly in one sum at the county offices, Sanson, on the 1st day of July in each and every year during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Manawatu was affixed in the presence of—

JAMES G. WILSON,
Chairman.
THOMAS MASTERS,
Councillor.
FRED PURNELL,
Clerk.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a special order passed by the Manawatu County Council at a special meeting held on the 12th day of July, 1905, and confirmed at a special meeting held on the 9th day of August, 1905.

FRED PURNELL,
County Clerk.