Oct. 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3727

Wellington Military District.

Major Norman Lionel D’Arcy Smith.
Captain Henry Donald Coutts.
„ George Hector Rolleston.
„ Henry Phelps Tuckey.
Lieutenant Norman FitzHerbert.
„ Robert Walter Collins.
„ Guy Featherston Johnston.
„ James Watson McMillan.
„ Duncan Blair.
„ Charles Blenkhorn.
„ Reginald McDowell Williams.
„ Joseph Cashmere Freeth.
„ Edgar Warren Nelson.
„ James Lewis Taylor.
„ Harry Riddick.
„ George Gilbert Bullock.
„ George Robert Cotterill.
„ William Eustace Langford.
„ Walter James Parker.
„ William Pitt.
„ Alexander Mitchell Wighton.
„ Leslie George O’Callaghan.
„ Sydney Robert Palmer.
„ Edward Saunders.
„ Charles John Smith.
„ James Baird Vallance.
„ Maurice Ralph Smith.
„ John Francis Butler.
„ Edward Henry Taylor.
„ Martin Paget.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Officers transferred from Active List to Reserve of Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the transfer of the undermentioned officers from the Active List to the Reserve of Officers, with their present rank, and with effect from 21st September, 1910 :—

Wellington Military District.

Lieutenant-Colonel John Drummond.
Major Samuel Bolton.
„ Charles Thomas Tatum.
„ William Harold Moorhouse.
Captain William Scott Kinsey.
„ William Hobbs.
„ Henry Parkinson.
„ William Jesse Reeve.
„ John Ernest Hall.
„ Charles James Stanton Harcourt.
„ John Lewis Freeman.
„ Francis Strachan Goldingham.
„ Harry Norman Liardet.
„ John Tombleson.
„ Walter Henry Nelson.
„ John George Swan.
„ Frederick Freeman.
„ Augustus Samuel Biss.
Lieutenant John Caughley.
„ Robert Higgie.
„ Alfred Covin Perry.
„ Edward Whitehead.
„ Arthur Stubbs.
„ James Riddell, jun.
„ James Palmer.
„ James Clark Lewis.
„ William C. Christie.
„ Cecil Francis Lewis.
„ John Smith.
„ John Wood.
„ Frank Messenger.
„ John Lambert.
„ Thomas Hellier.
„ William V. Smith.
„ Fred S. Parkes.
„ Albert J. Glasson.
„ Robert Joseph Carter.
„ Edward Battersby Toomath.
„ John Finlaison Sutherland.
„ Charles Bendall Lever.
„ William Rollo Gillespie.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Higher Rank conferred on an Officer on the Retired List.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 15th October, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to confer upon

Major SAMUEL CHARLES SCHOFIELD, Retired List,

the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, with effect from 11th May, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Services of a Senior Cadet Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, in accordance with section 5 (a) of the Defence Act, 1909, the services of the undermentioned senior cadet corps :—

No. 2 Company, Technical College Rifle Cadets (Christchurch),

with headquarters at Christchurch. Date of acceptance, 29th September, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Services of a Defence Rifle Club accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under section 43 (1) and (2) of the Defence Act, 1909, the services of

The Porangahau Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Porangahau, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington Military District. Date of acceptance, 12th October, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Appointments of Rifle Range Reserve Trustees cancelled.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th October, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to cancel, under Part V of the Defence Act, 1908, the appointments of Trustees to the Reefton Rifle Range Reserve, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 60, of the 29th June, 1905, as from the 11th day of October, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by By-law, Whangarei County Council.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 14th October, 1910.

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 107 of the Counties Act, 1908, that so much of the by-laws made by the Whangarei County Council, and sealed on 28th September, 1910, as appoint the several sums to be paid to the Whangarei County funds for the licensing of vehicles has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Special Order made by the Mangorei Road Board, County of Taranaki.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th October, 1910.

THE following special order, made by the Mangorei Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Road Boards Act, 1908.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.