Nov. 6.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

3363

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The Reverend John Laird to be Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class. Dated 7th October, 1913.

Unattached List (b).

(Senior Cadets.)

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 2nd April, 1913, relative to the appointment of Captain Finlay Bethune, is hereby cancelled.

Finlay Bethune (late Major, Junior Cadets) to be Major. Dated 27th March, 1913.

The date of the appointment of Captain Edward Weston Andrews is 11th March, 1903, and not 6th September, 1911, as shown in New Zealand Gazette of 15th August, 1912.

2nd Lieutenant Alexander Innes Milne resigns his commission. Dated 27th August, 1913.

Arthur James Papps to be Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 8th October, 1913.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Allan Stanley Muir is confirmed in his rank.

New Zealand Forces Motor Reserve of Officers.

(Wellington Section.)

The undermentioned to be Lieutenants :—

Frederick George Butler. Dated 8th October, 1913.

Allen Owen Bishop. Dated 17th October, 1913.

Memorandum.

Lieutenant John Finlayson Sutherland, Reserve of Officers (General List), is retired under the provisions of paragraph 119, General Regulations, 1911. Dated 3rd November, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 28th October, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to

Captain WILLIAM HENRY CLAPHAM, Retired List,

he having a total commissioned service to the 21st September, 1910, entitling him thereto of twenty-eight years two hundred and twenty-five days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Acceptance of Services of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 28th October, 1913.

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

Eketahuna Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Eketahuna, Wellington Military District. Date of acceptance, 28th October, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Disbandment of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 28th October, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under section 43 (1) and (2) of the Defence Act, 1909, of the disbandment of the undermentioned Defence rifle club :—

Kyle Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Kyle, Canterbury Military District. Date of disbandment, 28th October, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Disbandment of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 28th October, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under section 43 (1) and (2) of the Defence Act, 1909, of the disbandment of the undermentioned Defence rifle club :—

Mackenzie County Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Fairlie, Canterbury Military District. Date of disbandment, 28th October, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Date of Election to fill Extraordinary Vacancy in Gisborne Fire Board by Insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st October, 1913.

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 Wednesday, the 12th day of November, 1913, to be the day for holding an election of one member of the Gisborne Fire Board by the insurance companies concerned, such election being held to fill the extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of George Laurence Evans as a member of the said Fire Board.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Special Order made by the Waitemata County Council merging Hobsonville Town District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th November, 1913.

THE following special order, made by the Waitemata County Council, is published for general information.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

SPECIAL ORDER MERGING HOBSONVILLE TOWN DISTRICT.

THAT a petition having been presented to the Waitemata County Council on the 8th day of August, 1913, and signed by not less than a majority of the ratepayers of the Hobsonville Town District who possess in the aggregate not less than half the rateable property therein, praying that the Hobsonville Town Board be dissolved and the Hobsonville Town District be merged into the County of Waitemata, and such petition having been published in the County of Waitemata not less than one month before presentation, it is hereby declared and resolved, in pursuance of sections 31 and 32 of the Counties Act, 1908, that the Hobsonville Town Board be dissolved from the 1st day of November, 1913, and that the Hobsonville Town District is merged into the County of Waitemata; and, further, that this special resolution do operate as a special order.

I hereby certify that the above special order was made in accordance with law, and passed at a special meeting of the Waitemata County Council held on the 12th day of September, 1913, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 10th day of October, 1913.

C. A. CAWKWELL,
County Clerk.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 4th November, 1913.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the receipt of 10s. in postal notes forwarded to the Minister of Justice from an unknown person as conscience-money for articles pilfered from Railway Stores.

G. F. C. CAMPBELL,
Secretary to the Treasury.