2nd Lieutenant Shayle Gardner, Unattached List (b), General
List.
2nd Lieutenant John Gordon McGhie, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant John Blyth Austin, Unattached List (b),
General List.

Pioneer Unit.

2nd Lieutenant Edward Renata Muhunga Broughton, Un-
attached List (b), General List.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 10th September, 1916.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces'
Long-service Medal to

Captain ERNEST EDWARD WILLOUGHBY, Unattached
List (b),
he having a total service to the 12th July, 1916, entitling
him thereto of twenty-one years one hundred and eleven
days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 13th September, 1916.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-
service Medal to

Captain JAMES HENDERSON CRAWFORD, New Zealand
Garrison Artillery,
he having a total service to the 23rd August, 1916, entitling
him thereto of twenty-two years and twenty-seven days.

J. A. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

War Regulations Act, 1914. — Appointment of Military
Authorities.

Office of the Minister of Defence,
Wellington, 18th September, 1916.

I, JAMES ALLEN, Minister of Defence for the Dominion
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority con-
ferred upon me by the Order in Council made on the 10th
day of November, 1914, and published in the New Zealand
Gazette on the same day, do hereby appoint the following
military officers as Military Authorities for the purpose of
the regulations made by the said Order in Council; and I
declare that each of the Military Authorities so appointed
shall exercise jurisdiction and authority as such throughout
New Zealand:-

Brigadier-General Sir ALFRED WILLIAM ROBIN, K.C.M.G.,
C.B., T.D., New Zealand Staff Corps, Commandant,
New Zealand Military Forces.

Colonel CHARLES MONK GIBBON, Imperial General Staff,
Chief of the General Staff, New Zealand Military
Forces.

Colonel ROBERT WARD TATE, Adjutant-General to the
New Zealand Military Forces (temp.).

Colonel JOSEPH COWIE NICHOLS, V.D., A.D.C., Com-
mending Otago Military District (temp.).

Colonel RALPH ANDERSON CHAFFEY, V.D., Commanding
Canterbury Military District (temp.).

Colonel GEORGE WARREN SHAW PATTERSON, Command-
ing Auckland Military District (temp.).

Lieutenant-Colonel (temp. Colonel) JOHN EDWARD
HUME, Royal New Zealand Artillery, Commanding
Wellington Military District (temp.).

J. ALLEN.
Minister of Defence.

War Regulations Act, 1914.—Cancellation of Notice appointing
Military Authorities.

Office of the Minister of Defence,
Wellington, 18th September, 1916.

I, JAMES ALLEN, Minister of Defence for the Dominion
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the authority con-
ferred upon me by the Order in Council made on the 10th
day of November, 1914, under the War Regulations Act,

1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on the same
day, do hereby cancel the notice published in the New Zealand
Gazette of the 26th November, 1914, appointing certain
military officers as Military Authorities for the purpose of
the regulations made by the said Order in Council.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Hautapu
Drainage District, County of Waikato.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th September, 1916.

It is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to
His Excellency the Governor, under the Land Drainage
Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule
hereto may be included in the Hautapu Drainage District.
All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any
written objections to or petitions against the proposed inclu-
sion which they desire to lodge, within one month from the
first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to
be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA TO BE INCLUDED IN THE HAUTAPU DRAINAGE
DISTRICT.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by
admeasurement 592 acres, more or less, and being bounded
towards the north-west by a public road forming the north-
west boundary of Section No. 65, Parish of Tamahere, and
the continuation of same to the road forming the north-
eastern boundary of Section No. 67 of the said parish ; to-
wards the north-east and south-east respectively by the last-
mentioned road and by its continuation to the road which
forms the south-western boundary of Section No. 65 afore-
said; and towards the south-west by the last-mentioned road.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries of City
of Christchurch.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th September, 1916.

Pursuant to section 14 of the Municipal Corporations
Amendment Act, 1913, it is hereby notified that a
petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less
than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the
Schedule hereto, being part of the County of Heathcote, has
been presented to His Excellency the Governor, praying that
the said area may be excluded from the said county and
included in the City of Christchurch. All persons affected
are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or
petitions against the proposed alteration within one month
from the first publication of the notice. Such objections or
petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister
of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CITY OF
CHRISTCHURCH.

All that area in the Canterbury Land District commencing
at a point on the City of Christchurch boundary situated on
the left bank of the River Avon at its confluence with Dudley
Creek, and being bounded thence towards the north generally
by a line across Dudley Creek and by the left bank of the
River Avon to a point in line with the western side of the
road forming the western boundary of Section No. 273,
Block XII, Christchurch Survey District ; towards the east
by a right line to and along the said side of that road to the
southern side of Woodham Road, and thence towards the
south and north-west by the City of Christchurch to the
point of commencement.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Funds approved under Section 40 of the War Legislation
Amendment Act, 1916.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th August, 1916.

Pursuant to section 40 of the War Legislation Amend-
ment Act, 1916, I hereby notify, for public information,
that I have this day approved, for the purposes of the said
section, the war funds controlled by the societies named in
the Schedule hereto.