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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

4th (Otago) Regiment.

Lieutenant Sydney Dermot Neill to be Captain, vice Doull,
transferred to Coast Defence Detachment. Dated 2nd
August, 1912.

5th (Wellington Regiment).

2nd Lieutenant Arthur Robert Ward Tate to be Lieutenant.
Dated 16th September, 1912.

7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.

Lieutenant George Fortescue Perston is transferred to the
11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). Dated 20th September,
1912.

8th (Southland) Regiment.

Lieutenant George Kelly resigns his commission. Dated 31st
August, 1912.
Arthur Ernest Alexander to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 30th
September, 1912.

9th (Wellington East Coast) Rifles.
(2nd Battalion.)

The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated
16th September, 1912 :—
Gavin William Wardrop.
Charles John Hollard, to complete establishment.

11th Regiment (Taranaki) Rifles.

Lieutenant Arthur George Whiting is transferred to the
Reserve of Officers. Dated 5th September, 1912.
Lieutenant George Fortescue Perston, from the 7th (Wel-
lington West Coast) Regiment, to be Lieutenant. Dated
20th September, 1912.

12th (Nelson) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Norman Jordan resigns his commission.
Dated 19th June, 1912.
Private Vincent Herbert Trask to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated
30th September, 1912.

14th (South Otago) Regiment.

Stanley Rice to be Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 1st
October, 1912.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 30th
September, 1912 :—
Sergeant John Thomas Moroney.
Sergeant Hales Walker.

16th (Waikato) Regiment.

Captain Samuel Lewis is transferred to the Reserve of Officers.
Dated 6th September, 1912.
Captain William Henderson Gibb, from the 3rd (Auckland)
Regiment (“Countess of Ranfurly’s Own”), to be Captain.
Dated 16th September, 1912.

New Zealand Signal Corps.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas Lawrence Ranstead to be Lieuten-
ant. Dated 3rd September, 1912.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

Lieutenant Harry Tudor Newling, M.D., resigns his commis-
sion. Dated 11th September, 1912.

Unattached List (b).
(Senior Cadets.)

The undermentioned officers resign their commissions :—
Captain Albert Bottom. Dated 28th August, 1912.
2nd Lieutenant Philip Carrington. Dated 10th April, 1912.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Lindsay Ward. Dated 2nd Septem-
ber, 1912.
Lieutenant Kenneth Macfarlane Gresson is transferred to the
1st (Canterbury) Regiment. Dated 16th September, 1912.
Lieutenant John Frederick Atkinson, from the 3rd (Auckland)
Mounted Rifles, to be Lieutenant. Dated 16th September,
1912.

The undermentioned are appointed for service with the
Senior Cadets, under the provisions of paragraph 88 (b),
General Regulations, 1911. Dated 30th September, 1912 :—
Lieutenant Eustice Frank Allen.
2nd Lieutenant Hylton Meikle.
" Frederick Arthur Airey.
" Edward Alexander Winchester.
" John Stewart.
" Alexander Elder Forsythe.
" Edmund Colin Nigel Robinson.
" Arthur Howard Boyes.
" George Harold Walter.

2nd Lieutenant Arthur Richard Bailey.
" Frederick Joseph Herring Ellisdon.
" Arthur Ernest Hoare.
" Malcolm McPherson Watt.
" Basil Arthur Woods.
" Ronald Heriot Lynch.
" Cecil Audley Lynch.
" Geoffrey Clifford Wilson Armstrong.

The commission granted 2nd Lieutenant Sidney Benjamin
Perrett is cancelled. Dated 30th September, 1912.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 16th October, 1912.

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

No. 464, Lance-Sergeant IVON ALPHONSO WATKINS,
Corps of New Zealand Engineers,

he having a total service to 31st July, 1912, entitling him
thereto of twenty years and six days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 16th October, 1912.

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

No. 330, Quartermaster-Sergeant EDGAR POTTER LISTER,
11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles),

he having a total service to 31st July, 1912, entitling thereto
of twenty years two hundred and six days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

By-law of Levels County Council confirmed under the By-Laws
Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th October, 1912.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed
copy of the by-law, “The Heavy Traffic and Traction-
engine By-law, 1912,” made by the Levels County Council
on the 7th August, 1912.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm
the above-written by-law, “The Heavy Traffic and Traction-
engine By-law, 1912,” and declare that the same came into
force on the 2nd September, 1912.

Dated this 16th day of October, 1912.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Date of Election to fill Extraordinary Vacancy in Masterton
and Petone Fire Boards by Insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 22nd October, 1912.

PURSUANT to the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, and the
rules made thereunder, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell,
Minister of Internal Affairs, being the Minister charged with
the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Friday,
the 1st day of November, 1912, to be the day for holding
an election of one member of the Masterton Fire Board and
of the Petone Fire Board by the insurance companies con-
cerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary
vacancy caused by the resignation of Reginald Joseph
White as a member of the said Fire Boards.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.