APRIL 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1277

Appointment of Registrar of Electors, Wairau Electoral District.

Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR FREDERICK BENT

to be the Registrar of Electors, under the Legislature Act, 1908, for the Electoral District of Wairau, vice Mr. F. W. Hart, resigned.

A. L. HERDMAN,
For Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

Appointment of Registrar and Returning Officer for Auckland West Electoral District, and Returning Officer for Auckland Licensing District.

Chief Electoral Office,
Wellington, 31st March, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ARTHUR BARTON

to be the Registrar of Electors and Returning Officer, under the Legislature Act, 1908, for the Electoral District of Auckland West, and Returning Officer, under the Licensing Act, 1908, for the Auckland Licensing District, vice Mr. H. H. G. Ralfe, resigned.

A. L. HERDMAN.
For Minister in Charge of Electoral Department.

Appointment of Members of the Egmont National Park Board.

Department of Tourist and Health Resorts,
Wellington, 4th April, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to reappoint

STEPHENSON PERCY SMITH, Esq., and
RICHARD DINGLE, Esq.,

to be members of the Egmont National Park Board, in pursuance of subsection (2) of section 2 of the Egmont National Park Act, 1900. Reappointment to date from the 1st February, 1913.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Minister of Tourist and Health Resorts.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, and Resignations of Territorial Force Officers.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, transfers, and resignations of the undermentioned Territorial Force Officers:—

8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.
Lieutenant Harold Ernest Blunden is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 28th February, 1913.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery.
2nd Lieutenant William Howard Johnson to be Lieutenant. Dated 8th March, 1913.

1st (Canterbury) Regiment (Coast Defence Detachment).
William Henry Carson Robson to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 19th March, 1913.

6th (Hauraki) Regiment.
Captain Frederick Charles Ring Horne is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 10th March, 1913.

9th (Wellington East Coast) Regiment.
The commission granted 2nd Lieutenant John Inglis Chrystall is cancelled. Dated 28th February, 1913.

11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles).
Captain Robert William Holden Hamerton is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 31st January, 1913.
2nd Lieutenant Bernard Callcott Kirk to be Lieutenant. Dated 8th March, 1913.
Colour-Sergeant Leonard George Mercer to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 25th March, 1913.

12th (Nelson) Regiment.
The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated 8th March, 1913:—
Cyprian Bridge Brereton.
Arthur Thomas Johnson, to complete establishment.
Colour-Sergeant George Robert Jamieson to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 8th March, 1913.

New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps.
(South Island Battalion.)
The undermentioned to be Captains (on probation). Dated 18th March, 1913:—
Louis James Carmine.
Frederick William Mathews.

The undermentioned to be Lieutenants (on probation). Dated 18th March, 1913:—
Bertram Eustace Silke Brodie.
Maurice Hyland.
Arthur Gifford Williams.

Dugald Macdonald Robertson to be Quartermaster, with the honorary rank of Lieutenant. Dated 18th March, 1913.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on probation). Dated 18th March, 1913:—
Stephen William Bone Brooker.
William Albert Gundy.
James Wallace Logan.
Joseph Patrick O’Reilly.
John Patrick O’Sullivan.
Charles Edward Reid.
Harold John Drummond Sheldon.
Robert Fife Tait.

New Zealand Medical Corps.
Captain James Robert Loughnan, M.B., is granted the temporary rank of Major. Dated 24th February, 1913.

New Zealand Chaplains Department.
The Reverend James Pattison to be Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class. Dated 13th March, 1913.

Unattached List (b).
(Senior Cadets.)

The undermentioned officers resign their commissions:—
Lieutenant Phelan Hansen. Dated 7th March, 1913.
2nd Lieutenant Henry Arthur Greentree. Dated 1st March, 1913.

Lieutenant Robert William Thompson is dismissed from the Defence Forces under Section V (a), Part I, of the Defence Act, 1909, for absence without leave. Dated 11th March, 1913.

The undermentioned are appointed 2nd Lieutenants (on probation), for service with the Senior Cadets, under the provisions of paragraph 88 (b), General Regulations, 1911:—
Richard William Wrightson. Dated 21st February, 1913.
David Yuill Gemmell. Dated 24th February, 1913.
Walter Moore. Dated 24th February, 1913.
John Mainer Corbett. Dated 24th February, 1913.
Alexander Charles Clayton. Dated 24th February, 1913.
Carl August Berendsen. Dated 27th February, 1913.
Frank Mitchell. Dated 28th February, 1913.
Louis Grenville Whitehead. Dated 4th March, 1913.
Robert Hedley Biggar. Dated 4th March, 1913.
Samuel Bertram Wanless Strain. Dated 4th March, 1913.
Alfred Edward Caddick. Dated 5th March, 1913.
Hugh Edgar McKinnon. Dated 10th March, 1913.
Claude McCarthy. Dated 11th March, 1913.
Alexander Innes Milne. Dated 11th March, 1913.
William Robert Dearsley Suckling. Dated 12th March, 1913.
Charles Alexander Stewart. Dated 13th March, 1913.
Clifton Stewart Geddis. Dated 15th March, 1913.
Vivian Porter Nettleford. Dated 20th March, 1913.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Special Order made by the Waimarino County Council altering Boundaries of Ridings.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th April, 1913.

THE following special order, made by the Waimarino County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1908.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.