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tion or the absence of the Judge, or unless the Judge is engaged on other business.

Sittings in Chambers at other times and in vacation, in respect of urgent business, may be held at such times and places as may suit the convenience of the Judge.

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1908, will be held at the Courthouse, INVERCARGILL, to commence on the following days, at 11 a.m.:

Tuesday, 2nd March.
Tuesday, 1st June.
Tuesday, 31st August.
Tuesday, 30th November.

Such business in Banco and in Chambers as the Judge shall allow may be disposed of in the course of these sittings, at such days and hours as the Judge may appoint.

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1908, will be held at the Courthouse, OAMARU, to commence on the following days, at 10 a.m.:

Tuesday, 2nd February.
Tuesday, 14th September.

Such business in Banco and in Chambers as the Judge shall allow may be disposed of in the course of these sittings, at such days and hours as the Judge may appoint.

If any of the days above appointed for sittings should be a public holiday, the sitting will commence on the first day after the day so appointed which is not a holiday.

Given under our hands, at Wellington, this tenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
J. E. DENNISTON.
W. B. EDWARDS.
W. A. SIM.
J. H. HOSKING.

Approved in Council.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1914.

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

Major JAMES MCNAUGHT, 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment,

he having a total service to the 17th November, 1914, entitling him thereto of twenty years two hundred and fifty-six days.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Defence.

Acceptance of Services of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd December, 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

Carterton Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Carterton, Wellington Military District. Date of acceptance, 3rd December, 1914.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Defence.

Dismissal of a Member of the Royal New Zealand Artillery.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to dismiss Gunner LAURENCE GERARD HEALY, Royal New Zealand Artillery, from the New Zealand Defence Forces, under section 6 (b), Defence Act, 1909, he having been convicted by the Civil power of forgery. Dated 9th October, 1914.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Defence.

New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2nd Reinforcement).

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 8th December, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments of officers to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2nd Reinforcement) with the ranks set against their respective names, and, in cases in which an officer holds in his permanent unit of the Territorial Force a rank different from the rank here set against his name, to approve that he shall hold such latter rank temporarily during the period of his employment with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and with effect from 21st November, 1914:

STAFF.

Commander Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Robert Bowler, 7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles.

Staff Officer Captain Charles Eric Andrews, New Zealand Staff Corps.

MOUNTED RIFLES.

Auckland Mounted Rifle Regiment.

Captain Horace Saxon Whitehorn, late Honorary Captain, Commonwealth Military Forces.

2nd Lieutenant George Leonard Purchas Brookfield, Unattached List (b).

2nd Lieutenant William Titley Palmer, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Canterbury Mounted Rifle Regiment.

Captain George Searight Hardy, 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant John Coe, 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry).

Lieutenant Vincent Fosbery Nancarrow, 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.

Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment.

Lieutenant Edgar Seymour Perry, 7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Francis Twistleton (Officer Commanding Legion of Frontiersmen, New Zealand).

Lieutenant Joseph Donald Kay Strang, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.

Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment.

Major William Fitzgerald Levin, 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Francis Arthur Nelson, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Norman Chambers Harris, 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles.

INFANTRY.

Auckland Battalion.

Lieutenant Herbert George Richardson, Coast Defence Detachment, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

Lieutenant Lawrence Henry Gillett, 16th (Waikato) Regiment.

Lieutenant Geoffrey de Bohun Devereux, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

Lieutenant John William Peake, 16th (Waikato) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant James Robert Bodley, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment.

Canterbury Battalion.

Lieutenant Loftus Joseph Gibbs, 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment.

Lieutenant Frank Woolman Parker, 12th (Nelson) Regiment.

Lieutenant Newman Robert Wilson, Unattached List (b).

Lieutenant d’Auvergne Stanley Leigh Grut, Unattached List (b).

Otago Battalion.

Major George Mitchell, 8th (Southland) Regiment.

Captain Duncan Colquhoun, 14th (South Otago) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Ivan Hirschberg, 17th (Ruahine) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Henry Robert Ker, 4th (Otago) Regiment (Coast Defence Detachment).

Wellington Battalion.

Major Alexander Burnett Charters, 17th (Ruahine) Regiment.

Captain Ateo Frandi, Unattached List (b).

Lieutenant Robert Davies Hardie, 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.

Lieutenant Richard William Wrightson, Unattached List (b).

Signa Company.

Lieutenant Hector Campbell Mackenzie, Unattached List (b).

Divisional Train (One Company).

Lieutenant James Binnie Whyte, Retired List.

Army Pay Department (at Base).

Captain Samuel James Bolton, Post and Telegraph Corps. {[