Mar. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 917

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

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by Lieutenant-Colonel CHARLES JAMES COOPER, Canterbury Division of New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteers,

and to approve that his name be placed on the Active List (Unattached), with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and with effect from 24th February, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officer promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 137 (a), General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, 1906, of the promotion of the Reverend REGINALD HERMON (Honorary Chaplain, Fourth Class)

to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel (Honorary Chaplain, Second Class), and with effect from 1st March, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officer resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st March, 1910.

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

1st Battalion, Otago Rifles.

Honorary Chaplain the Reverend William Hewitson. Date of resignation, 2nd March, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to No. 395, Sergeant-Major ALFRED C. ROBINSON, 2nd Battalion, Otago Rifles,

he having a total service to 28th February, 1910, entitling him thereto of twenty years one hundred and four days.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to No. 32, Sergeant-Major GEORGE ROBERTSON, No. 4 Company (Nelson), Field Ambulance,

he having a total service to 28th February, 1910, entitling him thereto of twenty years and forty-one days.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to Quartermaster - Sergeant GEORGE HENRY JOHNSON, 1st Battalion, Nelson Infantry,

he having a total service to 28th February, 1910, entitling him thereto of twenty years and thirty-three days.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 19th March, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to No. 357, Private ARTHUR BURFORD, Port Guards Rifles (Timaru),

he having a total service to 28th February, 1910, entitling him thereto of twenty years two hundred and seventy-five days.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Scope of the Edward Medal extended.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th March, 1910.

THE following Warrant which His Majesty the King has been pleased to issue, extending the scope of the Edward Medal to persons in industrial employment, is published for general information. Applications for the award of the medal addressed to His Excellency the Governor will be forwarded for transmission to His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, by whom they will be submitted for His Majesty’s consideration in terms of the fourth paragraph of the Warrant instituting the medal, which was published in the New Zealand Gazette of 20th February, 1908, page 648.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Whitehall, December 2, 1909.

THE KING has been pleased to issue a Warrant under His Majesty’s Royal Sign Manual to the following effect :—

EDWARD, R. & I.

EDWARD THE SEVENTH, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, to all to whom these presents shall come: Greeting.

Whereas We, by a Warrant under Our Royal Sign Manual, bearing date the thirteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and seven, in the seventh year of Our reign, did institute and create a new medal to be entitled the Edward Medal, to be awarded for heroic acts performed by miners and quarrymen and others who endanger their own lives in saving or endeavouring to save the lives of others from perils in mines and quarries within Our dominions, and territories under Our protection and jurisdiction :

And whereas We are desirous of extending the scope of this decoration :

It is ordained that the Edward Medal of the First Class and the Edward Medal of the Second Class shall be awarded to those of Our faithful subjects who in course of industrial employment endanger their own lives in saving or endeavouring to save the lives of others from perils incurred in connection with such industrial employment in these Our dominions, and in territories under Our protection or jurisdiction, and such awards shall be made only on a recommendation to Us by Our Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department.

Where the said medal is granted otherwise than for acts performed in mines, the medal shall bear Our effigy on the