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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

Unattached List (a).
Captain Alexander Fowler Roberts is transferred to the New Zealand Field Artillery. Dated 31st March, 1914.
Lieutenant Alexander Bowie Farmer, from the Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles, to be Lieutenant. Dated 31st March, 1914.

Unattached List (b).
(Senior Cadets).
The undermentioned officers resign their commissions:—
Captain Leslie George O’Callaghan. Dated 30th September, 1913.
Lieutenant Walter Paterson Anderson. Dated 23rd February, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant Harold Leslie Becroft. Dated 17th January, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Robert Hadley Biggar. Dated 10th March, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant (on probation) James McMurray Cole. Dated 13th March, 1914.
Captain John Wallace Brunt is transferred to the 11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). Dated 3rd March, 1914.
2nd Lieutenant Archibald James Hawke is transferred to the New Zealand Field Artillery. Dated 19th March, 1914.
Captain John Rogerson Montgomery, from the Reserve of Officers, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment, to be Captain. Dated 31st March, 1914.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants:—
Gordon James Rust. Dated 10th October, 1913.
Arthur James Webber. Dated 30th October, 1913.
Holloway Elliott Winder. Dated 12th February, 1914.
Francis William Roydhouse. Dated 26th February, 1914.
Henry Thomas William Vear. Dated 26th February, 1914.
Sergeant Major Hugh Montgomery to be Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 31st March, 1914.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on probation). Dated 31st March, 1914:—
Joseph Bibby Mawson.
Alexander Henry Fleming-Laurenson.
Robert Henry Espiner.
Colour-Sergeant Harry Mervyn Lepper.
Raymond Wallace Finch.
Roy Edward Champtaloup.
Frederick Bowler.
Lance Buchler.
James Philip Carlyle Walshe.
Rewi Melville Stephenson Jones.
Clinton Henry Wynyard.
The Reverend William Joshua Harvey.
Colour-Sergeant Harold Shaw Billcliff.
Colour-Sergeant Ernest Leonard Hammond.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th April, 1914.

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.

Conditions governing the Importation into the Commonwealth of Australia of New Zealand Potatoes for Food Purposes.—Notice No. 1735.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 27th April, 1914.

IT is hereby notified for general information that potatoes for food purposes may be imported into the Commonwealth of Australia from this Dominion on the following conditions, which remain in force until 31st December, 1914:—
(a.) That the potatoes are accompanied by an official certificate identifying the shipment and certifying that they were grown in New Zealand, and that they have been inspected and show no signs of the following diseases: Phytophthora infestans—potato blight; Synchytrium endobioticum—potato canker, black scab, warty disease, and cauliflower disease in potatoes; Lita solanella—potato moth; Oospora scabies (Thaxter)—potato scab; Anguillulidae—gall or eel worm.
(b.) That they are packed in clean new bags.
(c.) That the bags, crates, or other packages are marked with the name of the country of origin.
(d.) That upon inspection at the port of discharge in Australia the potatoes are found free from disease and are so certified by a Plant Quarantine Officer.
(e.) That no importation shall take place without the permission of the Minister given prior to the shipment of the potatoes from New Zealand.

Application for the Minister’s authority should be made to the Chief Quarantine Officer for Plants, Department of Agriculture, of the State into which it is desired to import the potatoes.

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

Consenting to the Assignment of a Lease under Section 311 of the Native Land Act, 1909.

WHEREAS by section 311 of the Native Land Act, 1909, it is enacted that,—

1. Except with the precedent consent of the Board, no lease or sublease of land leased by the Board under this Part of this Act, or under Part II of the Native Land Settlement Act, 1907, shall be capable of being assigned to any other person; nor, except with the precedent consent of the Board, shall any sublease of any land so demised, or any part thereof, be capable of being granted to any other person:
2. Except with the approval of the Native Minister, the consent of the Board shall not be so given to any assignment or sublease in favour of a European:
3. Nothing in this section applies to any disposition by will or by operation of law:

And whereas a parcel of land known as Nuhaka 2b 2c Block is leased to Mere Morera: And whereas the said Mere Morera is desirous of assigning her interest in the said lease to Frederick Lee Joblin, of Tarewa: And whereas the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board, after due inquiry, has recommended that the approval of the Native Minister be granted accordingly:

Now, therefore, I, William Herbert Herries, Native Minister, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the said section 311 of the Native Land Act, 1909, do hereby approve of the Tairawhiti District Maori Land Board granting precedent consent to Mere Morera to assign her interest in the lease of Nuhaka 2b 2c to Frederick Lee Joblin, of Tarewa.

As witness my hand this 24th day of April, 1914.

W. H. HERRIES,
Native Minister.

Revocation of Appointment of Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the authority in me for this purpose vested, I, the Minister of Customs, do, by this order under my hand, cancel the license of the undermentioned warehouse for the reception and security of goods entered to be warehoused without payment of duty upon the first entry thereof, as from the date on which the said warehouse ceases to be occupied by the licensee, namely,—

Port of Wanganui.

The warehouse known as

THE NEW ZEALAND EXPRESS COMPANY (LIMITED’S) WAREHOUSE,

as appointed and described in Minister’s Order No. 1052, of the 28th day of August, 1913.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this 24th day of April, 1914.

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs.

Minister’s Order No. 1080.]