Sept. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2449

3rd Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Major Horace Dorset Eccles to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Date of commission, 27th August, 1908.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointment :—

New Zealand Medical Corps.

George Herbert Brown to be Captain. Date of commission, 17th June, 1908.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Honorary Volunteer Officer resigned, and appointed to Battalion.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1908.

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

Honorary Chaplain-Major the Reverend WILLIAM SHIRER, Civil Service Rifle Volunteers (Wellington),

and to approve of his appointment to the Battalion Staff of the 1st Wellington Rifle Volunteers as Honorary Chaplain-Major, and with effect from 10th August, 1908.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned officer :—

Queen’s Rifle Volunteers.

Captain John Meggott Forrester. Date of resignation, 24th June, 1908.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Honorary Volunteer Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by the under-mentioned officer :—

Wellington Highland Rifle Volunteers.

Honorary Chaplain-Major the Reverend William Shirer. Date of resignation, 10th August, 1908.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned, and posted to Active List (Unattached).

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1908.

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

Lieutenant-Colonel KENNETH MACKENZIE, South Canterbury Battalion of Infantry Volunteers,

and to approve that his name be placed on the Active List (Unattached), with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and with effect from 18th August, 1908.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned, and posted to Active List (Unattached).

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1908.

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

Major CHARLES THOMAS TATUM, 3rd Regiment, Wellington (Manawatu) Mounted Rifle Volunteers,

and to approve that his name be placed on the Active List (Unattached), with rank of Major, and with effect from 17th August, 1908.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Award of Imperial Long-service and Good-conduct Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th September, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 470, General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, 1906, of the award of the Imperial Long-service and Good-conduct Medal to

No. 443, Corporal WILLIAM EYRE POWELL, Royal New Zealand Artillery.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 11th September, 1908.

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

No. 119, Sergeant-major LEONARD PARRANT, No. 2 Company, Wellington Division, New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteers,

he having a total service to 29th February, 1908, entitling him thereto of twenty-one years one hundred and forty-five days.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Royal New Zealand Engineer Officer transferred to New Zealand Militia.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th September, 1908.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, as from the 31st August, 1908, of the transfer of

Lieutenant JOHN EVELYN DUIGAN

from the Royal New Zealand Engineers to the New Zealand Militia, with the rank of Lieutenant. Commission to date from the 27th September, 1905.

ROBERT McNAB,
For Minister of Defence.

Result of Election of Member of Milton Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th September, 1908.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Milton Fire Board by fire-insurance companies having been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs is hereby notified in accordance with the rules made under “The Fire Brigades Act, 1908.”

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Milton Fire Board,—

Henry Robert Law, vice Gordon J. Reid, resigned.