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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

Now, therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, and of all other powers and authorities in anywise enabling me in this behalf, do hereby direct that, from and after the date of this Warrant, the portion of Boundary Road firstly described in the Schedule hereto shall be under the control of the Opotiki County Council, and that the portion of Boundary Road secondly described in the Schedule hereto shall be under the control of the Whakatane County Council; and, in further pursuance and exercise of the aforesaid powers and authorities, I do hereby fix and determine that the cost of the construction and maintenance of the portion of the said road firstly described in the Schedule hereto shall be borne by the Opotiki County Council, and that the cost of the construction and maintenance of the portion of the said road secondly described in the Schedule hereto shall be borne by the Whakatane County Council.

SCHEDULE.

BOUNDARY ROAD.

FIRSTLY, all that portion of Boundary Road, situated between the Counties of Opotiki and Whakatane, in the Auckland Land District, commencing at a point about 23 chains north-east of the crossing of Boundary Road over the Wainui Stream where a road to the south-east branches off the said Boundary Road in S.G.R. No. 5, and running in a south-easterly direction generally through or adjoining part of the said S.G.R. No. 5, Sections 141, 140, 142, 166, 167, 168, 7, 224A, 179, 182A, and 182, Waimana Parish, and terminating at the north bank of the Waingarara Stream.

Secondly, all that portion of Boundary Road, situated between the said counties in the said land district, commencing at the same point as the portion of Boundary Road hereinbefore described, and running in a north-westerly direction generally through or adjoining S.G.R. No. 5, portion of the Ohiwa Harbour, S.G.R. 6, S.G.R. 3, and portion of S.G.R. 2, to its junction with the Whakatane to Opotiki Road, all in the Waimana Parish.

As the said portions of road are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 35207, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District, and thereon marked D.F. and F.C. respectively.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this eleventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Regulations for the Military Forces of the Dominion of New Zealand amended.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand, made on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen; and I do hereby declare that the amendments hereby made shall take effect as from the date of the publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

1. PARAGRAPH 84 is hereby amended by omitting the word “three,” and substituting the word “two”; and by revoking subparagraph (3) thereof.

2. Paragraph 175 is hereby amended by adding, after the words “disallow the claim,” the following words: “A similar procedure will be adopted in the case of a member of the Territorial Force who wishes to claim exemption on account of medical unfitness.”

3. Paragraph 259 is hereby amended by omitting the words “are required,” and substituting the words “are not required”; and by adding, after the word “camp” at the end of the paragraph, the following sentence: “O.C. Districts will, however, afford such officers as may wish to carry out this training every opportunity of doing so by attaching them to Territorial units.”

4. Paragraph 332 is hereby amended by adding, after the word “holds,” the following: “No officer is eligible to sit for promotion until he has completed a year in his existing substantive rank, and has performed his obligatory training for the year.”

5. Paragraph 515 is hereby amended by altering the bracket including “Corporal,” “Bombardier,” and “Second Corporal” so as to exclude “Corporal.”

6. Paragraph 595 (Schedule) is hereby amended by omitting from the last column the words “Quarterly (1st January, April, July, and October),” and substituting the words “Half-yearly (1st January and 1st July).”

7. Paragraphs 603, 613, 629, 640, and 644 are hereby amended by omitting the word “active” wherever it occurs in those paragraphs, and substituting therefor the word “ordinary.”

8. Paragraph 621 is hereby amended by omitting the word “junior”; and by inserting, after the word “members,” the words “of the General Training Section attached.”

9. Paragraph 627 is hereby amended by omitting the words “per junior member”; and by inserting, after the words “Rifle Clubs,” the words “in respect of each member of the General Training Section attached.”

10. Paragraphs 615, 623, 628, 632, 638, 648, and 651 are hereby amended by omitting the word “Senior” wherever it occurs, and substituting therefor the word “ordinary.”

11. Paragraphs 633 and 634 are hereby amended by omitting in each case the word “senior.”

12. Paragraph 642 is hereby amended by omitting the words “Every senior and junior member of a Rifle Club,” and substituting the words “Every ordinary member of a Rifle Club, and every member of the General Training Section attached.”

13. Paragraph 652 is hereby amended by omitting the words “Senior and junior members of Rifle Clubs,” and substituting the words “ordinary members of Rifle Clubs and members of the General Training Section attached.”

14. Paragraph 653 is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “members of Rifle Clubs,” the words “and members of the General Training Section attached.”

15. Paragraph 656 (Model rules) is hereby amended by omitting from subparagraph (2) the words “a senior,” and substituting the words “an ordinary”; and by omitting from subparagraph (21) the word “senior,” and substituting the word “ordinary.”

16. Paragraph 673 is hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

“673. A limited number of Senior Cadet N.C.O.s, on attaining the age for transfer to the Territorial Force, may be allowed to continue serving in their companies in the Senior Cadets, subject to the following conditions:—

“(1.) In order that promotion in the Senior Cadets may not be blocked, the number of N.C.O.s so retained in any company shall not exceed a total of three, to consist of a Colour-Sergeant and two Sergeants, who will be specially selected and recommended by the Officer Commanding the Cadet Company concerned. Their retention will also be subject to the approval of the Officer Commanding the District, and to the consent of the N.C.O.s concerned.

“(2.) They may continue to serve with their company up to the age of twenty-five years, provided their duties are satisfactorily performed, and so long as they are not transferred from the Headquarters of their company; and such service will count as equivalent to service in the Territorial Force.

“(3.) Upon transfer, or upon the recommendation of the Officer Commanding the company, they may be posted to the Territorial Force.

“(4.) They will wear the uniform of the Territorial Force. In addition to their Cadet service, these N.C.O.s will attend the annual camp of the Territorial unit to which their companies are affiliated. They will at these times, and when attending camps or courses of instruction, be entitled to the same pay, &c., as Territorial N.C.O.s of the corresponding rank.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Vice-Consul of the Netherlands at Christchurch recognized provisionally.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that, in accordance with instructions from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has recognized provisionally, pending the receipt of the King’s Exequatur, the appointment of

G. VAN DER VELDEN, Esq.,

as Vice-Consul of the Netherlands at Christchurch.

H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.