Oct. 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3233

MEMORANDUM.

The commission granted Lieutenant Thomas Fitzpatrick,
attached to No. 2 Battalion, Otago Regiment, New Zealand
Expeditionary Force, is cancelled, under provisions of
Section 5(a) of the Defence Act, 1909. Dated 4th August,
1916.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Military Secretary to the Administrator, Samoa.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 11th October, 1916.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the appointment of Captain Henry Cumberland
Cotton, New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Samoa), as Military
Secretary to the Administrator, Samoa, with effect from 1st
April, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Appointments of Officers proceeding on Active Service, New
Zealand Military Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 11th October, 1916.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the appointments of the undermentioned officers
proceeding on active service, New Zealand Military Forces,
with the ranks specified, with effect from 14th October
1916:-

STAFF.

Captain Stephen Charles Phillips Nicholls, New Zealand
Staff Corps.

MOUNTED RIFLES.

2nd Lieutenant Charles Edward Mawer, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Eric Cherrington Gardiner, Unattached
List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Samuel Jewell Gooding, Unattached List (b),
General List.

NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS.

2nd Lieutenant Edgar Allman Marchant, Unattached List (b),
General List.

INFANTRY.

Captain Edward White, New Zealand Post and Telegraph
Corps.
Captain Leslie George O'Callaghan, Unattached List (b),
General List.
Lieutenant Owen Albert Taylor, Unattached List (b), General
List (late New South Wales Mounted Rifles).
2nd Lieutenant Frederick John Shaw, Unattached List (b).
2nd Lieutenant Eric Ainslie Porritt, 6th (Hauraki) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant William Paul Richards, Unattached List (b).
2nd Lieutenant William Edward Anderson, 4th (Waikato)
Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant Erdington Goodwin, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Norman McLeod Speer, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Peter McIntyre, Unattached List (b), General
List.
2nd Lieutenant Ashley Trevor Duncan, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Charles Frederick Atmore, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant George James Booklass, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Howard, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Charles Albert Sidney Hind, Unattached
List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Joseph Vivian Wilson, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Henry Havelock Hanna, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Reginald Blennerhassett, Unattached
List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Geoffrey William Insley, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Charles Robert Rawlings, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Clarence Howard Holmes, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Harvey Alexander Twining, Unattached
List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Charles Waterston, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Stanley James Davis, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Henry Samuel McDougall Sanson, Unattached
List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant John Murdock Campbell McLeod, Unattached
List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Norman Fenwick Little, Unattached List (b),
General List.

NEW ZEALAND ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

2nd Lieutenant Vivian Harold Potter, Unattached List (b),
General List.

NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS.

Captain Thomas Newlands Watt, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P.
Lond.
Captain Stuart Scoular, M.B., Ch.M., N.Z.
Captain Edwin Claude Hayes, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P.
Lond.

NEW ZEALAND CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Reverend Daniel Dutton, Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd
Class.
The Reverend John Francis Mary Barra, Chaplain to the
Forces, 4th Class.
The Reverend David Craig Herron, Chaplain to the Forces,
4th Class.
The Reverend Ronald Sinclair Watson, Chaplain to the
Forces, 4th Class.

NEW ZEALAND RIFLES.

Lieutenant Albert George Stanley, Unattached List (b).
2nd Lieutenant Arol George Murch, New Zealand Post and
Telegraph Corps.
2nd Lieutenant Ross Hepburne Dick, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Godfrey Chamberlain, Unattached
List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Frank Cook, Unattached List (b), General
List.
2nd Lieutenant Percy Robert Burton, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Randolph Gordan Ridling, Unattached
List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Victor Donnan, Unattached List (b),
General List.
2nd Lieutenant Harry Willis, Unattached List (b), General
List.
2nd Lieutenant Cyril Douglas Gilray Fowler, Unattached
List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Leslie Hunter Denniston, Unattached
List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Robert Tredenham Carlyon, Unattached
List (b), General List.

PIONEER UNIT.

2nd Lieutenant Harold Gilbert Hair, Unattached List (b),
General List.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 9th October, 1916.
THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Tuakau Town Board, is published in accordance
with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

A. M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

TUAKAU TOWN BOARD.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise Loan of £12,000.
I HEREBY give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of
the Town Board District of Tuakau taken on the 20th day
of September, 1916, on the proposal of the Town Board to
borrow the sum of £12,000 for public works in the Town
Board District (the said works having been fully set out in
the local newspaper notices required under the Act), the
result of the poll was as follows: The number of votes
recorded for the proposal was 118; the number of votes
recorded against the proposal was 27; informal votes, 4.
I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

D. FULTON,
Chairman, Tuakau Town Board.