JULY 8.]

To be Lieutenants.

2nd Lieutenant Owen Herbert Mead, Canterbury Infantry Battalion. Dated 1st September, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant Arthur Tahu Grosvenor Rhodes, Aide-de-Camp to General Officer Commanding. Dated 1st October, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant Francis Davison, 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry). Dated 4th October, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant Noel Steadman, 15th (North Auckland) Regiment (since killed in action). Dated 18th October, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant William Godfray Skelton, 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment (since killed in action). Dated 21st October, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant George Noel Taylor, 10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles. Dated 10th November, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant Alexander Bastin McColl, 11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). Dated 27th November, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant George Ross Mitchell, 12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles. Dated 30th November, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant Preston Logan, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles (since died of wounds). Dated 15th December, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant George Carlisle Bailey, 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles. Dated 22nd December, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant Lawrence Clervaux Chaytor, 10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles. Dated 24th December, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant Alan Standish Wilder, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles. Dated 28th December, 1914.

2nd Lieutenant Robert Nichol Morpeth, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment. Dated 4th January, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Douglas Playfair Fraser, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment. Dated 4th January, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Eric Arthur Scott, 12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles. Dated 8th January, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Francis Levenson Gower West, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment. Dated 27th January, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Dodson, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment (since killed in action). Dated 29th January, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Claude St. Clair Hamilton, 10th (North Otago) Regiment. 29th January, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Richard Ewen Egglestone, 4th (Otago) Regiment. Dated 15th February, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Eric Buckingham Alley, 7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles. Dated 26th February, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Herman Stuart Baddeley, 16th (Waikato) Regiment. Dated 19th March, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Alexander Cameron Monteith Finlayson, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles. Dated 19th March, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Charles Frederick Smedley, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles. Dated 19th March, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Arthur Edward Alexander, New Zealand Engineers. Dated 30th March, 1915.

To be 2nd Lieutenants (New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps).

Sergeant Norman Joseph Levien, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment. Dated 3rd April, 1915.

Sergeant Thomas Joseph King, 5th (Wellington) Regiment. Dated 3rd April, 1915.

To be 2nd Lieutenants (Maori Contingent).

Company Sergeant-major William Hutahi Walker. Dated 3rd April, 1915.

Sergeant John Charles Tikao. Dated 3rd April, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

THE following notice, received from the Rodney County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

RODNEY COUNTY COUNCIL.

Bridge Rate Poll.

A poll to establish a bridge fund rate of one farthing in the pound upon the rateable value of all the rateable property within the County of Rodney was taken, in accordance with section 23 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, on Friday, 21st May, 1915, when the following votes were recorded : For the proposal, 475 ; against the proposal, 127.

I therefore declare the proposal carried.

W. W. THOMSON,
Chairman, Rodney County Council.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

2285

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st July, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Buller County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.

BULLER COUNTY COUNCIL.

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

In accordance with section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I have to notify that at a poll of ratepayers of the County of Buller taken on the 18th day of June, 1915, on the proposal of the Buller County Council to borrow the sum of £2,000 for the purpose of quarrying, burning, and selling lime the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 590, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 27.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

DENIS O'BRIEN,
County Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st July, 1915.

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

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.

WAIPAWA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Result of Poll.

Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Waipawa taken on the 16th day of June, 1915, on the proposal to raise a special loan of £1,000 (one thousand pounds) for improvements, &c., to Coronation Park, the number of votes recorded for the proposal was 59, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 11.

I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 17th day of June, 1915.

W. I. LIMBRICK,
Mayor.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st July, 1915.

THE following notice, received from the Edendale Town District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.

EDENDALE TOWN DISTRICT.

Result of Poll for a Loan of £2,000.

Poll taken on the 20th May, 1915, on the proposal of the Edendale Town District Commissioners, by way of special order, to raise a loan under the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, for the sum of two thousand pounds sterling, for the following works: Street formation and drainage, £1,900; street lighting, £100—£2,000.

Security: Special rate. First year's interest and sinking fund to be a charge on the loan.

There was voted for the proposal, 36; there was voted against the proposal, 2; informal votes, 0; majority in favour of the proposal, 34.

I therefore declare the proposal carried.

GEORGE DEMPSTER,
Chairman.

HORACE E. NIVEN,
Town Clerk.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st July, 1915.

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

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Finance.