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Unattached List (b).

Lieutenant Gordon James Rust to command an Area Group, and is granted the temporary rank of Captain while so employed.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Notice warning Persons off Somes Island.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 4th September, 1914.

SOMES Island, Wellington, having been taken over by the Defence Department as a place for the internment of prisoners of war, notice is hereby given that no person is permitted to land on or approach the island without first obtaining permission from the Defence authorities.

Any persons disregarding this notice will be fired upon by the guard.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1914.

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

Captain HENRY KIERNAN, Retired List, New Zealand Forces,

he having a total commissioned service to the 21st September, 1910, entitling him thereto of twenty-three years one hundred and eighty-six days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Acceptance of Services of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1914.

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

Devonport Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Devonport, Auckland Military District. Date of acceptance, 2nd September, 1914.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Acceptance of Services of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1914.

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

Ohinemuri Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Paeroa, Auckland Military District. Date of acceptance, 2nd September, 1914.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Transfer of an Officer of the Territorial Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 5th September, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the transfer of the undermentioned officer of the Territorial Force :—

Unattached List (a).

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Roger Bridge Johnson, from the Unattached List (b), to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation).

Unattached List (b).

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Roger Bridge Johnson is transferred to the Unattached List (a).

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Special Order made by the Wanganui County Council altering Boundaries of Mangawhero Road District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th September, 1914.

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

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

SPECIAL ORDER ANNEXING PORTION OF THE MANGAWHERO ROAD DISTRICT TO THE ADJOINING OUTLYING DISTRICT.

In exercise of the powers conferred upon it by section 34 of the Counties Amendment Act, 1913, and all other powers (if any) thereby it enabling, the Wanganui County Council resolves by way of special order as follows :—

1. On and after the 1st day of April, 1915, the Mangawhero Road District shall be altered by excluding therefrom and annexing to the adjoining outlying district the lands described in the First Schedule hereto.

2. The boundaries of the said Mangawhero Road District as so altered shall be as described in the Second Schedule hereto.

First Schedule.

All that portion of the Mangawhero Road District bounded by the Mangamahu Riding from the north-eastern corner of Section 1, Block XII, Waipakura Survey District, to the Waimarino County; thence by the southern boundary of the Waimarino County to the western boundary of the Ngamatea Survey District; thence by the western boundary of the Ngamatea Survey District to the boundary of Section 1, Block XIII, Ngamatea Survey District; thence by the south-western and southern boundaries of the said Section 1 and the southern boundaries of Section 4, Block XIII, Ngamatea Survey District, and the Raupiu Road to the Mangawhero River; thence by the Mangawhero River to the Tauangatutu Block; thence by the northern and western boundaries of the Tauangatutu Block to the Mataihiwi Block; thence by the southern boundaries of the Otamoa 2B and the Otamoa 2A to the western boundary of the Mangawhero Survey District; thence by the western boundaries of the Pukohu Block and the Pikopiko No. 3 Block and the southern boundary of the Pikopiko No. 3 Block to the north-eastern corner of Section 1, Block XII, Waipakura Survey District, which is on the boundary of the Mangamahu Riding.

Second Schedule.

All that portion of the Wanganui County bounded on the west by the Wanganui River from the Paparoa Stream to the Kaimatira Road; on the south-west by the Kaimatira Road from the Wanganui River to the boundary of the Kaukatea Riding; on the south by the boundary of the Kaukatea Riding from the Kaimatira Road to the north-east corner of Section 304, Block I, Wangaehu Survey District; on the east by the boundary of the Mangamahu Riding from the north-east corner of Section 304 aforesaid to the north-east corner of Section 1, Block XII, Waipakura Survey District; thence on the north and east by the southern and western boundaries of the Pikopiko No. 3 Block and the Pukohu Block to the southern boundary of the Otamoa Block; thence on the south by the southern boundaries of the Otamoa 2A and 2B Blocks to the Tauangatutu Block, and by the north-western boundary of the Tauangatutu Block to the Mangawhero River; thence on the east by the Mangawhero River to the Raupiu Stream; thence on the north by the northern side of the Raupiu Road and the southern boundary of Section 4 and the southern and south-western boundaries of Section 1, both of Block XIII, Ngamatea Survey District, to the western boundary of the Ngamatea Survey District; thence on the east by the western boundary of the Ngamatea Survey District to the Waimarino County, and on the north by the Waimarino County from the western boundary of the Ngamatea Survey District aforesaid to the starting-point—viz., the Wanganui River at the mouth of the Paparoa Stream.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Wanganui is hereto affixed by and in the presence of—

W. POLSON,
Chairman.

JAMES HIGGIE,
Councillor.

I hereby certify that the above special order was made at a properly constituted special meeting of the Wanganui County Council held on the 3rd day of July, 1914, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 7th day of August,