Number 71. 3035

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1914.

Reserve Naval Volunteers to be called into Actual Service.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section four of the Royal Naval Reserves (Volunteer) Act, 1859, it is enacted that it shall be lawful for His Majesty on such occasions as he shall think fit (the occasion being first communicated to Parliament if Parliament be sitting, or declared in Council and notified by Proclamation if Parliament be not sitting or in being) to order and direct that the Volunteers under that Act, or so many or such part of them as His Majesty may deem necessary, shall be called into actual service:

And whereas by the Royal Naval Reserve Volunteer Act, 1896, as amended by the Royal Naval Reserve Volunteer Act, 1902, it is enacted that the power under the said Act of 1859 to raise and pay Volunteers may be exercised outside the British Islands in respect of British subjects:

And whereas by the Naval Reserve Mobilization Act, 1900, it is enacted that when His Majesty, in pursuance of section four of the first-above-recited Act, orders and directs that Volunteers under that Act shall be called into actual service His Majesty may authorize the Admiralty to give and when given to revoke or vary such directions as may seem necessary or proper for calling out all or any of the said Volunteers as the occasion may require:

And whereas a force of Reserve Naval Volunteers has been raised outside the British Islands from British subjects in the Commonwealth of Australia and in the Dominion of New Zealand:

And whereas His Majesty has declared in Council and notified by Proclamation that owing to the state of public affairs and the demands upon His Naval Forces for the protection of the Empire an occasion has arisen for ordering and directing as in the said first-mentioned Act is provided:

It is hereby notified that His Majesty has been pleased to order and direct that the said Reserve Naval Volunteers shall be called into actual service, and to authorize the Admiralty to give and when given to revoke or vary such directions as may seem necessary or proper for calling out all or any of the said Reserve Naval Volunteers as the occasion may require.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

All Reserve Naval Volunteers are to report themselves forthwith to the Registrar of the Royal Naval Reserve at the Marine Department, Wellington.

Declaring H.M.S. “Philomel” and New Zealand Naval Forces to pass under Control of Government of Great Britain.

[L.S.] LIVERPOOL, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by section nineteen of the Naval Defence Act, 1913, it is enacted that when, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient in the interests of Great Britain so to do, the Governor may by Proclamation declare that the ships, vessels, or boats acquired under that Act for Naval