3296
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 112

Captain Wilfred Courtnay Sinel to be Major, vice Major Walter William Alderman, invalided. Dated 26th April, 1915.

The following 2nd Lieutenants, having served the prescribed period in that rank, to be Lieutenants :—
William Evelyn Francise di Delle-Flower, since killed in action. Dated 14th March, 1915.
Roy Waldo Fry Wood. Dated 4th July, 1915.

Wellington Battalion.

Lieutenant Ernest Sirdefield Harston to be a temporary Captain while in command of a company, vice Captain Leslie Somers McLernon, killed in action. Dated 15th May, 1915.

The following 2nd Lieutenants, having served the prescribed period in that rank, to be Lieutenants :—
Hugh Edgar McKinnon. Dated 4th May, 1915.
Murray Urquhart. Dated 28th May, 1915.
Richard William Wrightson. Dated 28th May, 1915.

Canterbury Battalion.

Captain Kennedy Macfarlane Greeson to be Major, vice Major Cyprian Bridge Brereton, invalided. Dated 8th May, 1915.
Captain George Cruickshank Griffiths to be Major, vice Major Kennedy Macfarlane Greeson, invalided. Dated 9th May, 1915.

The following 2nd Lieutenants, having served the prescribed period in that rank, to be Lieutenants :—
Edward Harvey Stagpoole Batchelor. Dated 15th March, 1915.
Donald Dobson. Dated 18th March, 1915.
Dugald McDonald Robertson. Dated 12th May, 1915.

Otago Battalion.

Captain Frank Hadfield Statham to be Major, vice Major Geoffrey Samuel Smith, invalided. Dated 4th May, 1915.
Lieutenant Claude St. Clair Hamilton to be Adjutant, vice Captain John Llewellyn Saunders, invalided. Dated 12th June, 1915.

The following 2nd Lieutenants, having served the prescribed period in that rank, to be Lieutenants :—
John Thomas Moroney. Dated 16th February, 1915.
Andrew Colquhoun Boyes. Dated 4th May, 1915.

New Zealand Army Service Corps.

The following Lieutenants to be Captains, to complete establishment. Dated 6th July, 1915 :—
Leopold George Dykes Acland.
Frank Woolman Parker.

The following 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants, to complete establishment. Dated 6th July, 1915 :—
C. B. Dick Cleland.
George Eliot Elliott.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

Major Matthew Holmes to be Assistant Director of Medical Services, New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Egypt, with temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel while so employed, vice Colonel William Johnston Will, returned to New Zealand. Dated 8th June, 1915.

The undermentioned Captains to be Majors. Dated 1st September, 1914 :—
George Craig.
Henry John McLean.
George Home.

Dental Surgeons.

The undermentioned to be Lieutenants. Dated 9th May, 1915 :—
Richard J. King.
Leonard Henry Potton.

Maori Contingent.

Sergeant A. Raymond Curtis, from Canterbury Infantry Battalion, to be 2nd Lieutenant, and to command Machine-gun Section of the Contingent. Dated 7th July, 1915.

Memorandum.

The date of Captain (temporary Major while on voyage) Kington Tyffe’s appointment as Captain to the New Zealand Medical Corps is antedated to 8th June, 1914, for purpose of seniority, but without pay until 15th September, 1914, the date on which he took up his duties.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

By-laws of the Springs County Council confirmed under the By-laws Act, 1910.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 17th September, 1915.

THE following certificate has been executed on the sealed copy of by-laws made by the Springs County Council on the 29th April, 1913.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

CERTIFICATE OF CONFIRMATION.

In pursuance of the By-laws Act, 1910, I hereby confirm the above-written by-laws, and declare that the same came into force on the 20th day of May, 1913.

Dated this 17th day of September, 1915.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 17th September, 1915.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid :—

WILLIAM GEE, Chief Postmaster, Nelson.
WILLIAM CALLAGHAN, Postmaster, Hawera.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Telegraphs.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 21st September, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Epsom Road District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

EPSOM ROAD BOARD.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

In pursuance of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the special-rating area of the Epsom Road District in the County of Eden, Auckland, taken on the 15th day of September, 1915, on the proposal of the Epsom Road Board to borrow the sum of £3,500 for the purpose of providing a water-supply to a portion of the district, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 32, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 8.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 16th day of September, 1915.

F. H. WOOD,
Chairman of the Epsom Road District.

Adhesion of Uruguay to the International Conventions of Brussels for the Unification of the Regulations for Collisions, &c.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 20th September, 1915.

IT is hereby notified that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has advised that the adhesion of Uruguay to the International Conventions of Brussels for the unification of the regulations for collisions, assistance, and salvage at sea was notified to the Belgian Government on the 24th July, and would come into force one month after that date.

ROBERT McNAB,
Minister of Marine.