3656 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 100

Appointment of Colonel-in-Chief to the Corps of New
Zealand Engineers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the following appointment:—

Corps of New Zealand Engineers.
Field-Marshal Viscount Horatio Herbert Kitchener of
Khartoum, K.P., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G.
G.C.I.E., to be Colonel-in-Chief. Dated 22nd Novem-
ber, 1911.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers'
Decoration.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 29th November, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary
Forces Officers' Decoration to

Lieutenant-Colonel FORSTER YELVERTON GORING (Re-
tired List),

he having a total commissioned service to 29th August,
1903, entitling him thereto of forty years and seven days.

D. BUDDO,
For Minister of Defence.

Notice appointing First Meeting of Wairoa Hospital and
Charitable Aid Board.

IN pursuance of the power conferred upon me by
section 28 of the Hospitals and Charitable Institu-
tions Act, 1909, I, David Buddo, the Minister in charge
of the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint
that the first meeting of the Wairoa Hospital and Chari-
table Aid Board shall be held at the office of the Wairoa
County Council at Wairoa on Wednesday, the 20th day
of December, 1911, at 2 p.m.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 4th day of
December, 1911.

D. BUDDO,
Minister for Hospitals and Charitable Aid.

By-law of Waimairi County Council confirmed under the
By-laws Act, 1910.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th November, 1911.
THE following certificate has been executed on the
sealed copy of by-law made by the Waimairi County
Council on the 2nd November, 1911.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

IN pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the above-written by-law, and declare that the same shall
come into force on the 1st day of December, 1911.

Dated this 28th day of November, 1911.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th November, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue
Letters of Naturalization, under the Aliens Act,
1908, in favour of the undermentioned persons:—

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Despatch.—Nobel Peace Prize, 1912.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 1st December, 1911.
THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, is published for general infor-
mation.

D. BUDDO,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.—No. 358.)
Downing Street, 17th October, 1911.
MY LORD,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for
the information of your Ministers, copies of a notice issued
by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament with
regard to the nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize of 1912.

2. I have to request that your Ministers will be so good
   as to cause the conditions of the prize to be made known
   to those bodies and persons who are qualified to nominate
   candidates.

3. It will be observed that the names of candidates
   should be received by the Nobel Committee before the 1st
   of February, 1912.

I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.

Governor the Right Honourable Lord Islington,
K.C.M.G., &c.

NOBEL COMMITTEE OF THE NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENT.
Nobel Peace Prize.

ALL proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize,
which is to be distributed December 10th, 1912, must, in
order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the
Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly
qualified person before the 1st of February of the same year.

Any one of the following persons is held to be duly quali-
fied: (a) Members and late members of the Nobel Com-
mittee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers
appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; (b) members
of Parliament and members of Government of the different
States, as well as members of the Interparliamentary Union;
(c) members of the International Arbitration Court at the
Hague; (d) members of the Commission of the Permanent
International Peace Bureau; (e) members and associates of
the Institute of International Law; (f) university professors
of political science and of law, of history, and of philosophy;
and (g) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions
or associations.

According to the Code of Statutes, § 8, the grounds upon
which any proposal is made must be stated, and handed in
along with such papers and other documents as may therein
be referred to.

According to § 3, every written work, to qualify for a
prize, must have appeared in print.

For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply
to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Par-
liament, Drammensvei 19, Kristiania.

[NOTE.—See page 1278 of New Zealand Gazette No. 57 of
1901 for first notice respecting this bequest.]

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration in Boundaries of
Borough of Hamilton.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th December, 1911.
PURSUANT to section 118 of the Municipal Corpora-
tions Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor directs
it to be notified that a petition, in accordance with regula-
tions, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of
the area described in the Schedule hereto, has been pre-
sented to him, praying that the said area may be included
in the Borough of Hamilton. All persons affected are
hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or
petitions against the proposed alteration within one month
from the first publication of this notice. Such objections
or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the
Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE BOROUGH OF
HAMILTON.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by
a line commencing at the junction of the northern side of
Boundary Road and the right bank of the Waikato River;
thence along the northern side of Boundary Road to
the north-eastern side of River Road; thence along
the north-eastern side of that road, 566·7 links; thence
along the eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Allot-
ment No. 3 on plan No. 4721, deposited in the office of the
District Land Registrar at Auckland, and along the south-