May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2115

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The undermentioned to be Chaplains to the Forces, 4th class :—

The Reverend William Edward Connolly. Dated 21st March, 1914.

The Very Reverend Dean James Coffey. Dated 25th March, 1914.

The Reverend Daniel Patrick Buckley. Dated 26th March, 1914.

Unattached List (a).

Lieutenant-Colonel William Johnston Will, M.B., v.d., from the New Zealand Medical Corps, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 15th April, 1914.

Captain Albert Charles Buist, from the Corps of New Zealand Engineers, to be Captain. Dated 20th March, 1914.

Lieutenant Fergus Cumming, from the 9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment, to be Lieutenant. Dated 26th March, 1914.

Unattached List (b).

(Senior Cadets.)

The notice published in New Zealand Gazette, dated 4th April, 1912, relative to the transfer of 2nd Lieutenant Thomas Morton from the 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry) is hereby cancelled.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas Morton, on transfer from the 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry), to be Lieutenant. Dated 19th November, 1910.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants :—

Edward Harold Sharpe. Dated 12th February, 1914.

Charles Laurence Wardrop. Dated 12th February, 1914.

Newman Robert Wilson. Dated 12th February, 1914.

John William Andrews. Dated 26th February, 1914.

Francis Dennison Maurice. Dated 25th March, 1914.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on probation) :—

Sergeant Clarence Leslie Meredith-Kaye. Dated 30th March, 1914.

Arthur Penfold Castle. Dated 31st March, 1914.

Harold Vivian Ramsay. Dated 6th April, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Robert Fife Tait, from the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps, to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 2nd March, 1914.

The commission of Lieutenant Lawrence Charles Brown is cancelled under section 5 (a), Defence Act, 1909. Dated 23rd March, 1914.

New Zealand Forces Motor Reserve of Officers.

(Canterbury Section.)

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 31st March, 1914 :—

Frederick Hubbard.

Henry William Piper.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Long-service and Good-conduct Medal.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 14 (1), Appendix IX, of the Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand, 1913, of the award of a Long-service and Good-conduct Medal to

No. 712, Sergeant WILLIAM DUFF, Royal New Zealand Artillery.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 15th May, 1914.

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

No. 85, Quartermaster-Sergeant CHARLES GREENHEAD, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles,

he having a total service to the 31st March, 1914, entitling him thereto of twenty-two years three hundred and forty-nine days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 13th May, 1914.

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

Major DAVID MURRAY, Unattached List (b),

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 26th March, 1914, entitling him thereto of twenty years and twenty-seven days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Long-service and Good-conduct Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 17th May, 1914.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 14 (1), Appendix IX, General Regulations, 1913, of the award of a Long-service and Good-conduct Medal to

Staff Sergeant-major (W.O.) JOHN THOMSON, New Zealand Permanent Staff.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Letters of Naturalization issued.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th May, 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.

Special Order made by the Waipawa County Council redviding Ridings.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 19th May, 1914.

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

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

RESOLUTION.

In exercise of the powers conferred on it by the Counties Act, 1908, and the respective amendments thereof, the Waipawa County Council resolves by way of special order as follows :—

The boundaries of the Clinton and Takapau Ridings of the County of Waipawa shall be altered as from the 6th day of October, 1914, and from that date the boundaries of the said ridings shall be as described in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Clinton Riding.

Bounded towards the north generally by the Onga Riding as described in the New Zealand Gazette No. 30, of the 16th April, 1908, from the summit of the Ruahine Range to the south-western corner of the Ruataniwha Riding as described in the said New Zealand Gazette No. 30 ; thence towards the south-east generally by a line across the Tukituki River and by the road intersecting Blocks Nos. 198, 46, 263, 62, and