Appointments of Rifle Range Trustees




1782
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

Captain DOUGLAS MCBEAN STEWART, Canterbury Highland Rifle Volunteers;
Captain FREDERICK CHARLES BRENCHLEY BISHOP, Christchurch City Guards Rifle Volunteers;
Captain WILLIAM SAMUEL KING, Linwood Rifle Volunteers; and
Lieutenant CHARLES ERIC ANDREWS, No. 1 Company (Canterbury Engineer Volunteers), New Zealand Engineer Volunteers,

to be Trustees of all that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District being portion of Section No. 24077, Block II, Sumner Survey District, containing 36 acres 3 roods 35 perches, more or less (as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 21078, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured green); parts of Rural Sections Nos. 158, 410, and 10323, Borough of Sumner, containing 62 acres 1 rood 20 perches or thereabouts, and being all the land included in certificate of title registered in Register-book, Vol. 238, folio 181, of the Lands Registry Office at Christchurch; and portion of Crown land (closed road in Rural Section 158), Borough of Sumner, containing 20·75 perches, more or less (as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 23350, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured red): together with all buildings erected thereon: to hold the said several premises for the purpose of maintaining a rifle range for Volunteer purposes, and generally for the purposes of and with the powers conferred by the said Acts. And it is hereby declared that the said Trustees shall be incorporated under the name of “The Trustees of the Sumner Rifle Range Reserve,” and that they shall take office as such Trustees on the twentieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
For Minister of Defence.


Appointment of Trustees, Thames Rifle Range Reserve.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” and the Defence Act Amendment Act, 1907 (hereinafter termed “the said Acts”), His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby constitute and appoint

Lieutenant-Colonel EDMUND WILLIAM PORRITT, 2nd Battalion, Auckland (Hauraki) Infantry Volunteers;
Captain HENRY JOSEPH PEARSE, No. 1 Company, Thames Rifle Volunteers; and
Captain WILLIAM SMEATON CLARK, Hauraki Rifle Volunteers,

to be Trustees of all that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District being portion of Section No. 77, Block V, Thames Survey District, containing 26 perches; portion of Sections Nos. 59, 58, and 63, Block VIII, Thames Survey District, containing 4 acres 2 roods 22 perches; portion of Mangakirikiri No. 3B, Blocks V and VIII, Thames Survey District, containing 13 acres; and portion of Mangakirikiri No. 3A, Block V, Thames Survey District, containing 45 acres 3 roods 5 perches: as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 21219, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured purple, purple, yellow, and red respectively: together with all buildings erected thereon: to hold the said several premises for the purpose of maintaining a rifle range for Volunteer purposes, and generally for the purposes of and with the powers conferred by the said Acts. And it is hereby declared that the said Trustees shall be incorporated under the name of “The Trustees of the Thames Rifle Range Reserve,” and that they shall take office as such Trustees on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
For Minister of Defence.


Appointment of Trustees, Penrose Rifle Range Reserve.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” and the Defence Act Amendment Act, 1907 (hereinafter termed “the said Acts”), His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby constitute and appoint

Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM DOUTHWAITE HOLGATE, 1st Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers;
Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN RANKEN REED, 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry Volunteers (“Countess of Ranfurly’s Own”); and
Major ROBERT GARDNER, Active List (Unattached),

to be Trustees of all that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District being portion of Allotments 5 and 6 of Section No. 17, Suburbs of Auckland, Blocks I, V, and VI, Otahuhu Survey District, containing 100 acres, more or less; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 19838, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon bordered green: together with all buildings erected thereon: to hold the said several premises for the purpose of maintaining a rifle range for Volunteer purposes, and generally for the purposes of and with the powers conferred by the said Acts. And it is hereby declared that the said Trustees shall be incorporated under the name of “The Trustees of the Penrose Rifle Range Reserve,” and that they shall take office as such Trustees on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
For Minister of Defence.


Appointment of Trustees, Hamilton Rifle Range Reserve.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” and the Defence Act Amendment Act, 1907 (hereinafter termed “the said Acts”), His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, doth hereby constitute and appoint

Major WILLIAM HAMILTON HUME, Active List (Unattached);
Acting-Major ALLEN BELL, 2nd Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers; and
Lieutenant JAMES EDGECUMBE BARTON, No. 1 Squadron, Waikato Mounted Rifle Volunteers,

to be Trustees of all that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District being Lots 7 and 9, Te Rapa, containing 90 acres, more or less; also of all that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District being Section No. 252A, Kirikiriroa, containing 41 acres 3 roods, more or less: together with all buildings erected thereon: to hold the said several premises for the purpose of maintaining a rifle range for Volunteer purposes, and generally for the purposes of and with the powers conferred by the said Acts. And it is hereby declared that the said Trustees shall be incorporated under the name of “The Trustees of the Hamilton Rifle Range Reserve,” and that they shall take office as such Trustees on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

ROBERT MCNAB,
For Minister of Defence.


Appointment of Trustees, Kaiapoi Drill-shed Reserve.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise and pursuance of the power and authority conferred by “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Act, 1888,” “The Volunteer Drill-sheds and Lands Trustees Validation Act, 1890,” and the Defence Act Amendment Act, 1907 (hereinafter termed “the said Acts”), His Excellency the Right Honourable William Lee, Baron Plunket,



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🛡️ Appointment of Trustees for Sumner Rifle Range Reserve

🛡️ Defence & Military
23 June 1908
Trustees, Rifle Range Reserve, Sumner, Volunteers
  • Douglas McBean Stewart (Captain), Appointed Trustee of Sumner Rifle Range
  • Frederick Charles Brenchley Bishop (Captain), Appointed Trustee of Sumner Rifle Range
  • William Samuel King (Captain), Appointed Trustee of Sumner Rifle Range
  • Charles Eric Andrews (Lieutenant), Appointed Trustee of Sumner Rifle Range

  • Robert McNab, For Minister of Defence

🛡️ Appointment of Trustees for Thames Rifle Range Reserve

🛡️ Defence & Military
25 June 1908
Trustees, Rifle Range Reserve, Thames, Volunteers
  • Edmund William Porritt (Lieutenant-Colonel), Appointed Trustee of Thames Rifle Range
  • Henry Joseph Pearse (Captain), Appointed Trustee of Thames Rifle Range
  • William Smeaton Clark (Captain), Appointed Trustee of Thames Rifle Range

  • Plunket, Governor
  • Robert McNab, For Minister of Defence

🛡️ Appointment of Trustees for Penrose Rifle Range Reserve

🛡️ Defence & Military
25 June 1908
Trustees, Rifle Range Reserve, Penrose, Volunteers
  • William Douthwaite Holgate (Lieutenant-Colonel), Appointed Trustee of Penrose Rifle Range
  • John Ranken Reed (Lieutenant-Colonel), Appointed Trustee of Penrose Rifle Range
  • Robert Gardner (Major), Appointed Trustee of Penrose Rifle Range

  • Plunket, Governor
  • Robert McNab, For Minister of Defence

🛡️ Appointment of Trustees for Hamilton Rifle Range Reserve

🛡️ Defence & Military
23 June 1908
Trustees, Rifle Range Reserve, Hamilton, Volunteers
  • William Hamilton Hume (Major), Appointed Trustee of Hamilton Rifle Range
  • Allen Bell (Acting-Major), Appointed Trustee of Hamilton Rifle Range
  • James Edgecumbe Barton (Lieutenant), Appointed Trustee of Hamilton Rifle Range

  • Plunket, Governor
  • Robert McNab, For Minister of Defence

🛡️ Appointment of Trustees for Kaiapoi Drill-shed Reserve

🛡️ Defence & Military
Trustees, Drill-shed Reserve, Kaiapoi, Volunteers
  • Plunket, Governor