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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

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

Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1910.

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

Lieutenant LOUIS WILLIAM MEIKLEJOHN, Rodney Mounted Rifles,

and to approve that his name be placed on the Active List (Unattached), with rank of Lieutenant, and with effect from 30th April, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Ex-officer placed on the Active List (Unattached).

Defence Office,
Wellington, 17th June, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 140, Amended General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, as published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 52, of the 24th June, 1909, of the appointment of

JAMES HOULKER (formerly Captain, Timaru City Rifle Volunteers)

as Captain on the Active List (Unattached), and with effect from 15th April, 1908.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Club disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 20th June, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government has been pleased to approve of the disbandment, under section 42 (1) and (2) and section 44 of the Defence Act, 1909, of the undermentioned Defence rifle club :—

Rongomai Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Rongomai, Wellington Military District. Date of disbandment, 17th June, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 18th June, 1910.

THE following notice, received from the Makara County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

MAKARA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Makara Riding.

Under the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1908, and its Amendments.

I HEREBY give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Makara Riding of the Makara County, taken on the 8th day of June, 1910, on a proposal to raise a special loan of £6,000 for the purpose of constructing a new road over the Makara Hill, as shown on the plan thereof prepared by Mr. A. P. Mason, licensed surveyor, 33 votes were cast in favour of the proposal, and 41 votes were cast against it.

The proposal was therefore lost.

Dated this 16th day of June, 1910.

F. T. MOORE,
Chairman, Makara County Council.

Notice to Mariners No. 64 of 1910.

GREYMOUTH HARBOUR BOARD.—NIGHT SIGNALLING BY THE MORSE SYSTEM.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th June, 1910.

THE Greymouth Harbour Board have notified that the Morse system of night signalling has been installed at the signal-station at Greymouth, on the South Breakwater, and vessels may now communicate with the shore at night-time.

Charts, &c., affected : Admiralty Plan No. 2591 ; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chap. x, page 323 ; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1910, page 219.

J. A. MILLAR.

Varied Notice fixing Closing-hours of certain Shops in the Borough of Picton under the Shops and Offices Act.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the following trades in the Borough of Picton, has been forwarded to me, desiring that all such shops in the borough shall be closed on Saturdays at the hour of 9 p.m., instead of 10 p.m. : And whereas the Picton Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops mentioned within the borough :

Now, therefore, I, John Andrew Millar, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, do hereby direct that, from and after the 27th day of June, 1910, all shops in the following trades in the Borough of Picton shall be closed in accordance with such requisition :—

Trades.—Drapers, storekeepers, boot-merchants, crockery-merchants, ironmongers, and saddlers.

The notice gazetted the 10th November, 1905, fixing the closing-hours of all such shops in the borough is hereby varied accordingly.

Dated at Wellington, this 22nd day of June, 1910.

J. A. MILLAR,
Minister of Labour.

Notice of the Taking and Laying-off of Road through Te Kuiti No. 2b, Section 13, Block IV, Otanake Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority of section 93 of the Public Works Act, 1908, that the road described in the Schedule hereto was, on the 31st day of March, 1908, duly taken and laid off through the land specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said Dominion, by Warrant dated the 6th day of March, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District ; as the said area is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

Dated this 16th day of June, 1910.

R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.