3780
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 128

Unattached List (b).

Major James Aitken retires under the provisions of paragraph 126, General Regulations, 1913, with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 7th July, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas Milliken is transferred to the 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own). Dated 2nd July, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Bernard Harry Howes is transferred to the 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own). Dated 6th September, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Alfred Butt resigns his commission. Dated 26th August, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Arthur Stanley Judd to be Lieutenant. Dated 27th May, 1914.

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

Robert Witheford. Dated 14th August, 1915.

John Coull. Dated 27th August, 1915.

Frederick Maurice Spurdle. Dated 7th September, 1915.

Robert Edward Jamieson. Dated 16th September, 1915.

Leonard James Bancroft Chapple. Dated 17th September, 1915.

John Page. Dated 23rd September, 1915.

Ernest John Amos. Dated 23rd September, 1915.

Owen Farquhar Baker. Dated 23rd September, 1915.

Sergeant-major John Scott. Dated 8th October, 1915.

Sergeant-major Georgia Francisco Almond Sargeant is granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant while employed at Trentham Camp as Sanitary Officer. Dated 23rd September, 1915.

New Zealand Motor Service Corps (Motor-car Section).

The undermentioned to be District Senior Officers. Dated 29th July, 1915:

Major Charles Rhodes (Auckland Section).

Major John Mounsey (Wellington Section).

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

Wellington Section.

Robert Worden Wills. Dated 30th May, 1915.

Canterbury Section.

William Milne Hamilton. Dated 11th September, 1915.

Otago Section.

Maurice Thompson. Dated 13th September, 1915.

Memorandum.

John Hadfield Westby Sheppard, Esquire, to be Paymaster at Tauherenikau Camp, and is granted the temporary rank of Honorary Lieutenant while employed in New Zealand with the Expeditionary Force. Dated 21st September, 1915.

Frank Edwin Ford, Esquire, District Storekeeper, Wellington Military District, is granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant. Dated 24th September, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 6th November, 1915.

THE following notices, received from the Council of the County of Heathcote, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

HEATHCOTE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on a Proposal to raise a Special Loan of £4,300 for Public Works in the Opawa Riding of the County of Heathcote.

In pursuance of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Opawa Riding of the County of Heathcote taken on the 26th day of October, 1915, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £4,300 for public works in the Opawa Riding, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 48, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 92.

I therefore declare the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 30th day of October, 1915.

GEO. SCOTT,
Chairman of the County.

HEATHCOTE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on a Proposal to raise a Special Loan of £4,000 to install Electric Light in the Avonside Riding of the County of Heathcote.

In pursuance of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Avonside Riding of the County of Heathcote taken on the 28th day of October, 1915, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £4,000 to install electric light in the Avonside Riding, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 31, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 93.

I therefore declare the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 30th day of October, 1915.

GEO. SCOTT,
Chairman of the County.

HEATHCOTE COUNTY COUNCIL.

Result of Poll on a Proposal to raise a Special Loan of £2,300 to install Electric Light in the Opawa Riding of the County of Heathcote.

In pursuance of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Opawa Riding of the County of Heathcote taken on the 26th day of October, 1915, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £2,300 to install electric light in the Opawa Riding, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 48, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 92.

I therefore declare the proposal was rejected.

Dated this 30th day of October, 1915.

GEO. SCOTT,
Chairman of the County.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 6th November, 1915.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

MANUREWA ROAD BOARD.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

In pursuance of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the special-rating area of the Manurewa Road District was taken on the 16th day of October, 1915, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £400 for the purpose of forming and metalling Coxhead’s Road.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 19. The number of votes recorded against the proposal was 6.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

G. F. DRUCE,
Chairman.

18th October, 1915.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 9th November, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Council of the Borough of Eltham, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

ELTHAM BOROUGH COUNCIL.

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

Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Borough of Eltham taken on the 29th day of October, 1915, on the proposal of the Eltham Borough Council to borrow the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds (£1,500) for the following purposes—namely, to provide and install at Eltham Borough Gasworks a foul main, retort-house governor, tower-scrubber, coke-cutter, exhauster, tar-tank, and additional retorts; to purchase additional gas-fittings, to renovate showroom for gas-fittings, and to provide any other plant or fittings necessary or incidental to the generation of and supply of coal-gas—the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 86, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 27; informal votes, 2.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 29th day of October, 1915.

B. DIVE,
Mayor.