JUNE 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1887

Unattached List (b).

Captain William George Wray is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 19th May, 1913.

2nd Lieutenant George Henry Paltridge resigns his commission. Dated 25th March, 1913.

The undermentioned are appointed (on probation) for service with the Senior Cadets, under the provisions of paragraph 88 (b), General Regulations, 1911, with the rank specified. Dated 31st May, 1913:

Captains.

William Thomas.
John Smith Colhoun.

Lieutenants.

Eric Arthur Percy Cockroft.
Allan George Tait.

2nd Lieutenants.

Ewen Cameron.
James Sefton Hilson.
Oliver Sidney Ellis.
Frank Alwyn Taylor.
Herbert Frank Brock.
George Leonard Purchas Brookfield.
Alan Godfrey McGregor.
Frederick George Wilkinson.
Frank Lester Newall Tuck.
John Cruickshank Morrison.

New Zealand Army Motor Reserve of Officers.

(Canterbury Section.)

To be Major:-

Lieutenant Colonel William Nathaniel Carlon Bond, from Reserve of Officers, 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles. Dated 31st May, 1913.

To be Captains. Dated 31st May, 1913 :-

Norton Francis.
Edgar Studholme.
John Grigg.
Frederick Villebois Lysaght.
William Percival Evans.
James Arthur Frostick.
John Mattries Barker.
Ronald Macdonald.
Thomas Maude.
George Baynton Starky.

To be Lieutenants. Dated 31st May, 1913 :-

Norman Macleod Orbell.
Charles William Reid.
Captain Robert Macartney, from Retired List.
Smith Laughlin Patrick Free.
Bernard Tripp.
Guyon Alister Macintosh Macdonald.
Thomas Leonard Cowlishaw.
Richard Arthur Dixon.
John Black.
William Henry Hayman.
Percy Lewis Hallenstein.
Arthur James Manchester.
George Alfred Maxwell.
Maurice George Louisson.
Percy Ashton Elworthy.
William Thomas Ritchie.
Herbert Elworthy.
Andrew Todd.
Albert Victor Richards.
Captain David McMillan, from Reserve of Officers, 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry).
John Fletcher Best.

Memorandum.

James Harle Moore, Representative of the New Zealand Government in the Argentine, is granted the honorary rank of 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 31st May, 1913.

R. HEATON RHODES,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Arbor Day.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd June, 1913.

WEDNESDAY, the 16th day of July next, will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout the Dominion, for the celebration of Arbor Day.

In order that the movement may be made as successful as possible, the Government hopes that the Mayors of various municipalities and Chairmen of local bodies will place the matter prominently before the people of the Dominion, and do all they can to encourage the planting of public reserves and other available lands, both public and private, with trees suited to the locality.

A. L. HERDMAN,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 3rd June, 1913.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalization, under the Aliens Act, 1908, in favour of the undermentioned persons:

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Bay of Islands County Council.-Notice No. 1709.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 11th June, 1913.

It is hereby notified for public information that the Bay of Islands County Council has declared Bathurst Burr to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

Consent under Section 298 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

In pursuance of the power conferred upon the Native Minister by subsection (b) of section 298 of the Native Land Act, 1909, I, William Herbert Herries, Native Minister, acting on the recommendation of the Waikato District Maori Land Board, do hereby consent to a lease of Maungarangi B No. 3a Block, containing 10 acres and 16 perches, situated in the Provincial District of Auckland, subject to the same restrictions and to the same requirements as to confirmation and otherwise as if the land was not subject to Part XVI of the Native Land Act, 1909. As witness my hand, this 9th day of June, 1913.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

Consent under Section 298 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

In pursuance of the power conferred upon the Native Minister by subsection (b) of section 298 of the Native Land Act, 1909, I, William Herbert Herries, Native Minister, acting on the recommendation of the Waikato District Maori Land Board, do hereby consent to a lease of Maungarangi B No. 3r Block, containing 10 acres and 16 perches, situated in the Provincial District of Auckland, subject to the same restrictions and to the same requirements as to confirmation and otherwise as if the said land was not subject to Part XVI of the Native Land Act, 1909. As witness my hand, this 9th day of June, 1913.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.